Sr. Project Manager

• Lead complex, high-impact utility projects with top-tier stakeholders
• Build influence across teams while driving safety, quality, and outcomes

About Our Client

A veteran-owned consulting firm specializing in utility projects across electric, gas, and water sectors. With 30+ years of experience, it delivers program management, project management, and project controls services. The organization is known for its client-focused approach, emphasizing safety, communication, and proactive risk management to complete projects efficiently, on time, and within budget.

Job Description

• Analyzing and understanding all project documents including scopes of work, purchase orders, material requests, and engineering drawings
• Analyzing and understanding all project and contract budgets for verification, validation, and completeness
• Ensuring financial feasibility analyses, engineering/design, project legal review, permitting activities, and financial negotiations progress throughout the project lifecycle
• Managing multiple complex projects simultaneously
• Ensuring all change management is included in the project plan and providing oversight to ensure all planned tasks are completed
• Working with accounting to prepare capital expenditure authorizations and budget revisions
• Managing project budget, revenue recognition, invoicing, receivables, forecasting, cash flows, final project cost, variances, and corrective actions
• Providing leadership with project status updates (scope, budget, schedule) and identifying issues requiring management involvement
• Securing agreement from associated departments to support proposed schedules and resource requirements; reviewing and approving project plans
• Verifying and validating project estimates and contingency
• Ensuring tactical and strategic plans align with the project
• Overseeing and/or reporting contractor resource levels
• Verifying adequacy of project team membership and participation; overseeing consultants and contractors
• Understanding contract terms and documentation; reviewing contractor orientation/evaluation topics upon site mobilization
• Managing the quality assurance and control program, including identification of quality requirements and review/approval of contractor procedures
• Proactively identifying risks and mitigation plans; monitoring project status, recognizing negative trends, and coordinating corrective actions
• Developing and managing the project communication plan
• Communicating project goals, priorities, and decisions to leadership
• Leading coaching and mentoring of team members; supporting organizational change
• Ensuring project challenge meetings, peer reviews, and assessments are performed
• Working with project schedulers to develop and update project schedules
• Identifying and notifying the team of additional resources or requirements needed to meet project scope or schedule
• Ensuring documentation, scheduling, and disposition of open items
• Overseeing all close‑out activities and lessons‑learned reviews
• Traveling typically 25% or less (may increase based on assignment)
• Maintaining a strong commitment to safety across all business activities

The Successful Applicant

A successful Sr. Project Manager (Transmission & Distribution) should have:

• Bachelor of Science degree in Business, Engineering, Finance, Project Management, Construction Management, or related field
• Minimum of 8 years' related utility project management experience
• PMP certification required
• Strong project management skills with the ability to develop, manage, and control multiple tasks
• Clear understanding of PMI project management methodology
• Strong budgeting, cost control, scheduling, reporting, and writing skills
• Experience with project management tools such as Primavera or MS Project; scheduling/resource planning expertise is a plus
• Detailed Project Controls experience is a definite plus
• Excellent interpersonal, written, and verbal communication skills
• Strong analytical ability

What's on Offer

• Competitive compensation with full benefits in a stable utility sector
• Lead complex, high-impact projects across electric, gas, and water
• Join a veteran-owned firm known for professionalism and integrity
• Gain exposure to diverse stakeholders and large-scale infrastructure work
• Opportunity to grow your leadership in a collaborative, matrix environment