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Senior Project Manager
Location: Berlin, CT
Work Type: Contract-To-Hire (6 months conversion)
Experience Required:
10 years of electric utility project management experience across overhead transmission, substation, and underground systems, including schedule, budget, and EPC oversight.
Role and Scope of Position
The Project Manager leads the development of transmission asset capital projects with a strong focus on early scoping, asset‑condition identification, capital‑planning alignment, and proactively advancing projects to construction‑ready status. The role is a key contributor to the Shovel-Ready Initiative, supporting identification and prioritization of transmission asset‑condition projects and advancing their design and development to maintain a steady shelf of construction‑ready work that mitigates future financial gaps in the capital plan.
Essential Functions
1. Lead early project scoping, feasibility reviews, and constructability assessments
2. Collaborate with Engineering and Asset Strategy to identify transmission asset‑condition
needs
3. Advance projects through design, permitting, environmental review, and development
milestones
4. Develop and maintain schedules focused on construction‑readiness milestones
5. Track scope, cost, schedule, and risk during the project‑development phase
6. Support bid‑package development and procurement preparation
7. Coordinate construction‑readiness requirements including access, outages, and material planning
Typical Job Duties:
• Coordinating internal and external resources to support project scope. These resources
include the following, which are included but not limited to:
o Engineering
o Outage Planning
o Siting and Permitting
o Stakeholder Engagement
o Scheduling
o Safety
o Cost Analysis
o Project Closeout
o Procurement
o Contract Administration
o Field operations/inspections
• Driving project schedule, managing scope, and controlling project costs
• Assisting with the execution and development of project siting requirements, which may
involve siting applications, petitions, development and management plans, and other
applicable siting documents
• Administering/reviewing/developing the following items:
o RFIs
o Submittals
o Desktop requisitions
o Invoice review & approval
o Change orders/Change Management
Salary : $50 - $70