Staff Electrical Commissioning Project Manager - Power

As a Staff Electrical Commissioning Project Manager role focused on Power, you will bring the same commissioning leadership to power generation and electrical systems, taking generation units, substations, and electrical distribution equipment safely from mechanical completion through energization, synchronization, performance testing, and turnover to Operations.

Responsibilities/Expectations

• Assists and works closely with the team by providing on-site leadership to Operations, contractors, engineering, and support staff throughout the commissioning efforts
• Directs the implementation of the Asset Commissioning Process with team members and coordinates commissioning activities
• Develops the electrical commissioning strategy, system/subsystem boundaries, and integrated commissioning schedule for power projects, including energization milestones, outage windows, utility witness tests, and OEM startup activities
• Works with the project team and leader to schedule pre-commissioning meetings, staff commissioning teams, and help mobilize teams to site
• Confirms that the staffing requirements within the commissioning process (ACP) are adequate to meet the proposed in-service date
• Continuously monitors the commissioning process against the site plan in order to make any resource adjustments as necessary
• Reviews electrical design deliverables (one-lines, protection and control drawings, relay settings, and arc flash/coordination studies) for commissioning readiness
• Assists with development and execution of FAT testing, software testing, commissioning work plans (ACP), gas handling plans, and vendor checklists
• Assists with the scheduling and coordination of all vendor representatives required for commissioning effort
• Verifies mechanical completion and construction turnover packages for electrical systems before energization
• Leads electrical commissioning and startup of power generation assets, including gas turbine generators, reciprocating engine-generator sets, generator step-up (GSU) transformers, and associated balance-of-plant electrical systems
• Directs pre-functional and functional testing of electrical equipment, including medium- and high-voltage switchgear, power and distribution transformers, motor control centers (MCCs), breakers, cables, bus duct, grounding systems, battery/DC systems, and UPS
• Oversees protective relay testing and verification, including relay settings validation, CT/PT testing, trip checks, and protection and coordination scheme verification against approved studies
• Develops and executes energization and switching plans, including first-energization procedures, switching orders, lockout/tagout (LOTO), and backfeed sequences, in compliance with NFPA 70E and company electrical safety standards
• Coordinates generator synchronization, load testing, and performance testing, including load bank testing, governor and excitation system tuning, black start capability (where applicable), and capacity/heat rate verification with OEMs
• Manages integration and testing of power control systems, including PLC/DCS, generator control panels, SCADA, power management systems, and communications with utility and plant control systems
• Coordinates work with Operations and other functional groups within the company to schedule all activities, outages and approvals necessary for the team to perform commissioning tasks
• Coordinates with utilities, transmission owners, and ISOs/RTOs on interconnection commissioning, witness testing, metering verification, and in-service/commercial operation date requirements
• Identifies electrical commissioning risks (equipment delivery, testing delays, utility coordination, and safety) early and develops mitigation plans
• Communicates status of all commissioning activities to Project Leaders and other partners
• Ensures electrical acceptance testing aligns with NETA ATS standards and manufacturer requirements, and delivers complete turnover to Operations, including test records, relay settings, punch list closure, as-built drawings, O&M manuals, spare parts, and training
• Leads lessons-learned reviews and contributes to continuous improvement of electrical commissioning standards, checklists, and procedures for power projects
• Other duties as assigned
  
  

Education/Years of Experience

• Required: Bachelor's degree in an engineering discipline from an ABET accredited school and a minimum of fifteen (15) years related experience in operations, construction, or commissioning for oil/gas pipelines, meter stations, power plants, or facilities
• Preferred: Bachelor's degree in Electrical Engineering from an ABET accredited school and a minimum of twenty (20) years related experience in operations, construction, or commissioning for oil/gas pipelines, meter stations, power plants, or facilities
• Additionally preferred: Direct experience commissioning power generation facilities, substations, or utility-scale electrical infrastructure
  
  

Other Requirements

• Demonstrates outstanding organizational/interpersonal skills and safety as the utmost priority
• Proficiency in Microsoft Office Applications, specifically Excel, Word, PowerPoint, and other scheduling/supporting software programs
• Experience with constructing and commissioning new oil/gas assets
• Experience commissioning gas-fired power generation (simple-cycle, combined-cycle, or reciprocating engine plants), behind-the-meter generation, or substation/interconnection projects
• Excellent teamwork, communications skills and shared ownership practices
• Outstanding skills in reading of engineering prints and other technical schematics
• Strong ability to read and interpret electrical drawings, including single-line/one-line diagrams, three-line diagrams, schematics, wiring/interconnect diagrams, relay logic, and protection and control drawings
• Working knowledge of power system fundamentals, including generator and transformer theory, protective relaying, grounding, arc flash studies, and short-circuit/coordination studies
• Familiarity with electrical test equipment and methods, such as insulation resistance (megger), hipot/VLF cable testing, transformer turns ratio (TTR), winding resistance, power factor/Doble testing, breaker timing, and relay test sets
• Preferred: Prior leadership experience
• Preferred: Experience with major power generation OEMs (gas turbine and reciprocating engine-generator manufacturers) and switchgear/transformer vendors during startup
• Preferred: Experience working with utilities and transmission operators on interconnection commissioning, and familiarity with NERC reliability standards and documentation needed to achieve commercial operation
• Preferred: Experience with battery energy storage systems (BESS), renewable-integrated generation, or microgrid controls
  
  

Shift/Work Hours/Travel Requirements

• Ability to travel up to 75%
  
  

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