Senior Project Manager

The Senior Project Manager is responsible to effectively manage multiple or large complex projects through design development, procurement, fabrication, construction and start-up & commissioning. Provide direction and oversight to a project team including engineering, quality assurance, productions planning, purchasing and cost accounting; secure and coordinate the services of support organizations including legal, finance, manufacturing, sales and field service. Project scope will be large capital new construction and retrofit projects in the energy generation industry.

Essential Responsibilities:

• Define project scope, goals and deliverables that support project requirements and business goals in collaboration with senior management and stakeholders.
• Develop full-scale project plans and associated communications documents.
• Internal Management of core project team and assigned engineering and third-party resources to accomplish stated project objectives on-time and within budget.
• Effectively communicate project expectations to team members and stakeholders in a timely and clear fashion.
• Plan and schedule project timelines and milestones using appropriate tools.
• Identify and manage project dependencies and critical path.
• Represent business as single-point contact for the project’s customer, with respect to technical, commercial, schedule, and develop and negotiate proposals for supplemental work and changes of project scope.
• Continuously monitor the project for signs of existing or potential problems and take the lead role to solve or preclude the problem from developing. This may take the form of adding resources, negotiating a change with the customer, revising the plan, development of contingency plans, etc. as deemed appropriate.
• Determine and assess need for additional staff and/or consultants and make the appropriate recruitments as necessary during project cycle.
• Coach, mentor, motivate and supervise project team members, and influence them to take positive action and accountability for their assigned work.
• Manage any contractual claims through to a speedy conclusion that is satisfactory to all parties.

Desired Characteristics:

• Proven leadership skills, well organized, assertive and self-confident.
• Strong analytical, negotiation, commercial acumen and contractual awareness.
• Customer intimacy – works well with customers – able to understand needs and drive project strategy to meet these needs.
• Ability to think in both strategic and tactical terms.
• Ability to work across organizational boundaries and to work in cross-functional cross-regional teams – need to influence as well as direct others.
• Ability to drive change in a challenging business environment.

Education:

• Bachelor's Degree in Engineering, Construction, Business discipline preferred or equivalent
• Master’s in Business Management, Construction, or Project Management; or Advanced Engineering Degree preferred.

Experience:

• Between 5 and 10 years minimum of Project Management experience in an engineering or construction environment.
• Power Industry experience is preferred.

Computer Skills:

• MS Office Applications (Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Outlook)
• Scheduling Software (such as MS Projects or Oracle Primavera P6)

Certificates & Licenses:

• Professional Engineer (PE) certification is preferred.
• Project Management Professional (PMP) is preferred.