Assistant Project Manager General

Immediate need for a talented Assistant Project Manager General. This is a 12+ months contract opportunity with long-term potential and is located in Englewood, CO(Onsite). Please review the job description below and contact me ASAP if you are interested.

Job ID: 26-30533

Pay Range: $60/hr - $65/hour. Employee benefits include, but are not limited to, health insurance (medical, dental, vision), 401(k) plan, and paid sick leave (depending on work location).

Key Responsibilities:

• Our client is seeking to hire for a Project Manager, who will lead and manage multiple substations, transmission line, and telecommunications projects from planning and design through construction and closeout.
• Responsibilities include overseeing project scope, schedules, budgets, risks, and resources; coordinating cross-functional teams and client stakeholders; and ensuring projects meet required in-service dates.
• The role also involves managing capital project portfolios, developing long-term investment plans, reviewing cost estimates, and coordinating construction sequencing and outages to ensure efficient project execution.
• Project Management:
• Lead a cross-functional team to execute substation, transmission line, and telecommunication projects from inception through design and construction to closeout.
• Oversee 5-20 projects concurrently of varying sizes ($100k-$50M+) and voltages (4kV-765kV).
• Manage projects for schedule adherence, identifying risks and requirements to successfully achieve a project’s in-service date.
• Navigate projects through client gate approval processes, including presentations to senior and executive management as required by each client.
• Manage projects for financial adherence, maintaining an accurate cost forecast reflecting committed and uncommitted costs for an estimate-at-completion.
• Coordinate craft labor resources with client-approved vendors for construction, testing, and other field activities.
• Provide regular status updates on projects by maintaining project data and routine reporting as well as meeting updates for clients.
• Lead project meetings with cost, schedule, real estate, environmental, construction, public engagement, and engineering resources to facilitate project execution.
• Portfolio Management:
• Develop a multi-year capital expenditure plan to support the client’s replacement and betterment of electric transmission and distribution assets.
• Regular interface and coordination with project sponsor organizations to determine details of proposed plans and business justification.
• Ensure synergies across projects are incorporated into the portfolio of work to prevent scope from being duplicated or performed inefficiently.
• Monitor composition of client’s capital investment allocation to align with stated subsidiary investment targets for optimal rate of return.
• Engage with project sponsors to evaluate need-by date for realistic schedules and budgets.
• Assist with creation and compilation of rate filing support for federal and state filings.
• Review tabletop engineering estimates for accuracy and scope.
• Review project change requests (scope, In-service date, etc.) and reconcile with the existing and long-range portfolio of work.
• Interface with client’s accounting group to establish financial setup for projects.
• Create analyses & reports to assist the client in tracking, coordination, and execution of projects.
• Build baseline scopes, schedules, and budgets to be released to multiple client’s stakeholders.
• Outage/Construction Sequencing:
• Responsible for developing substation and transmission project construction lifecycles, with a focus on outage efficiency and constructability.
• Manage multiple projects simultaneously while meeting specified deliverable dates and expectations.
• Analyze scoping and project documents to determine boundaries of required construction within the substation and within electric grid.
• Conduct site walkdowns and project calls with the project team as necessary to establish an achievable construction sequence with attainable outages.
• Analyze needed outages against adjacent outages scheduled in the area.
• Create initial outage sequence to communicate proposed construction lifecycle to project team.
• Coordinate with drafting resources to create engineering-caliber drawings that document the evolution of a project from present conditions to final state, and all needed incremental steps.

Key Requirements and Technology Experience:

• Must have a minimum 5+ years of experience either in direct utility or consulting side managing Transmission lines or Power Distribution, and Substation or Similar Grid Infrastructure Type of projects.
• Candidate should have experience in project management phases, construction support, leadership experience, managing client relations, portfolio & program support.
• Bachelor’s degree in engineering, Construction Management or related degree from accredited program and min 5+ years of experience in utility transmission projects (either T-Line or substation) or other related industries is required.
• 5+ years of experience in utility transmission projects (either T-Line or substation) or other related industries.
• Preferred: relevant T&D (gas or electrical) engineering that are open to pivoting as a program PM for a utility client.
• Familiarity or proficiency in ProjectWise, SharePoint, SAP, and cost/schedule management, preferred.
• Strong organizational, communication, and problem-solving skills.
• PE or PMP certification preferred.

Our client is a leading Construction Industry, and we are currently interviewing to fill this and other similar contract positions. If you are interested in this position, please apply online for immediate consideration.

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