Senior Power Project Manager - Data Centers (Remote)

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Job Summary:

VEIR is enabling innovative power delivery solutions for data centers and is preparing for rapid growth. The Power Project Manager will oversee construction projects from inception to completion, ensuring they meet quality standards, budgets, and timelines while leveraging their engineering and project management expertise.

Responsibilities:

• Get fully integrated with VEIR’s organizational structure, key stakeholders, and company culture. Understand VEIRs competitive positioning across solutions within our client market sectors.

• You’ll leverage your previous project management experience to quickly begin drafting detailed project plans, including schedules, budgets, resources, and risk management strategies for assigned projects; utilizing both historical case studies and estimates.

• Referencing your past success in managing project teams, you’ll bring recommendations on best practices for establishing communication channels and collaboration frameworks between the project teams, contractors, and key stakeholders as you begin leading your own projects and pursuits.

• In partnership with the Vice President- Project Delivery & Commercial Operations you’ll leverage your previous project management and/or engineering experience to quickly begin managing the execution of multiple pursuits and or projects, ensuring they are progressing according to plan, on schedule, and within budget, addressing and resolving any project challenges as they arise.

• Using your expertise, you’ll begin owning the leadership of project teams, to ensure effective communication and collaboration between engineers, contractors, vendors, and subcontractors.

• You’ll leverage your past project management and/or engineering experience to implement quality control measures to ensure all work complies with industry standards, project specifications, and safety regulations, while driving projects in execution.

• You’ll begin to own the responsibilities of monitoring project budgets, driving the design and procurement processes, controlling costs, and ensuring that projects are completed within a financial schedule and against quality metrics.

• Using your expertise in project management and the knowledge you’ll have gained about VEIR and our solutions, you’ll have successfully led at least two major projects to completion, ensuring it meets all time, financial and quality goals.

• Prepare post-project evaluations and lessons learned for continuous improvement in future projects. While using your knowledge of best practices to lead continuous improvement initiatives within the project management framework to help VEIR scale effectively.

• Actively contribute to scaling VEIR’s Commercial Operations organization by refining project management and estimating processes, supporting ERP implementation, introducing improvements, and driving operational efficiencies.

Qualifications:

Required:

• 8 years of experience in project management, estimating and/or construction management with an emphasis on power systems projects for data centers (substations, distribution, underground transmission)

• An Engineering or a Construction Management degree (or industry equivalent)

• Experience in leading engineering design across multiple projects with utility and/or data center clients

• Experienced in schedule methodologies and software

• Experienced in managing pursuits, bid strategy, vendors and subcontractors, leading cost estimation and schedule development

• Experience in influencing clients and internal teams to drive to goals and achieve deadlines/best outcomes

• Strong knowledge of business systems and ERP/EVM/construction software (Microsoft Office, Oracle, NetSuite, Ecosys, InEight, Primavera and Timberline)

• Ability to communicate complex projects clearly in presentations

• Willing and able to travel regularly, meeting customers where they are, both domestically and internationally

Preferred:

• Experience in the energy industry and underground transmission, particularly with hyperscaler clients on power projects

Company:

VEIR develops superconducting wires for electrical transmission that are used in data centers and renewable energy sectors. Founded in 2019, the company is headquartered in Woburn, Massachusetts, USA, with a team of 11-50 employees. The company is currently Growth Stage.