Project Manager - Energy Group

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Woolpert is an award-winning, global leader in architecture, engineering, and geospatial services. We blend design excellence with cutting-edge technology to deliver exceptional client value. Our team is passionate about their work and committed to building the next generation of industry leaders, and as a certified Great Place to Work®, Woolpert embraces progress and innovation to create limitless opportunities for career growth.

Position Overview

Woolpert is hiring a Project Manager to join our dynamic Infrastructure & Geospatial Energy team.  This role may accommodate full-time in-person, hybrid, or primarily remote working arrangements and does require some business travel to regional field sites and client offices. Ideal candidates will have both strong managerial and relevant technical skills. Initially, this position will support both a mature project and developing service lines, all related to the natural gas pipeline industry in the Appalachian region.

 We are unable to provide visa sponsorship for this position.  Applicants must already possess work authorization in the country the job is located.

What You Will Do:

• Build and maintain strong client relationships, ensuring excellent service and a client-first approach in all interactions.
• Act as the primary point of contact between clients and internal project teams, ensuring clear communication and expectations; managing schedule and project financials and deliverables; and anticipating and resolving project issues and variances.

• Collaborate across teams to innovate and optimize service delivery, balancing attention to details against the big picture.
• Set projects and programs up for success by applying a structured, step-by-step mindset to create, document, and refine workflows for consistency and quality.
• Drive continuous program and project improvement by collecting and analyzing feedback, identifying inefficiencies and lessons learned, and working with all collaborators to implement process corrections.
• Provide technical guidance and quality control for regional energy transmission and distribution projects. Areas of particular interest may include: route selection, pipeline integrity, slope stability analysis, environmental and regulatory impacts, and data collection, analysis, and presentation.

What You Will Bring:

We are seeking an experienced client- and project manager with a strong foundation in pipelines and geology/soils science/or geotechnical engineering, and experience using geospatial data and GIS technologies.  

• Minimum of 5 years relevant Geoscience, Geotechnical Engineering, or Industry experience required. This includes a solid understanding of:
• Geologic/geotechnical, environmental, and hydrologic conditions, particularly in the PA/WV/VA region;
• Energy transmission and distribution infrastructure, regulatory, and technical challenges, particularly regarding pipelines; and
• Viewing and analyzing geospatial data through a GIS platform.
• A professional registration and PMP Certification is preferred.
• The ability to facilitate technical discussion, prepare technical reports, QA/QC data and analyses, and drive continuous improvements to project deliverables.
• Strong project management fundamentals.
• A proactive, client-focused approach with the ability to build trust and collaboration, and to communicate effectively both internally and externally.
• Comfort using standard Office software and ability to quickly learn GIS-based software packages.
• Ability to travel occasionally for local and regional client and project needs.

Benefits You Will Love

Certified as a Great Place to Work, Woolpert is one of the fastest-growing architecture, engineering, and geospatial companies in the world. With over 75 offices and countless projects around the globe, you’ll work on meaningful assignments that improve quality of life around the world. In addition to offering competitive pay, we provide employees with a robust set of unique benefits, including:

• Freedom to Work program: Set your own schedule and location (as appropriate).
• Principal program: Earn the opportunity to become an owner of the firm.
• Flexible paid time off/vacation: Take time off when it makes sense for you and your team.
• Career development: Explore a wide range of learning and growth opportunities within and across industries.
• Health, life, vision, and dental insurance: Cover all your medical bases.
• Paid sick time, retirement plan, fitness reimbursement, pet insurance, identity protection, technology stipend, employee assistance program, and more!

Find out more about what Woolpert has to offer here:  http://woolpert.com/about-us/

Woolpert is an equal-opportunity employer. Woolpert is committed to the full inclusion of all individuals. We recruit, train, compensate, and promote regardless of race, religion, color, national origin, sex, disability, age, veteran status, and other protected status as required by applicable law.  You may view more about EEO on our website: Equal-Employment-Opportunity-The-Law.pdf and EEO is the Law Poster Supplement.

Applicants who require an accommodation throughout the application and interview process should request this in advance by contacting askhr@woolpert.com 

To all agencies: Please, no phone calls or emails to any employee of Woolpert or any of our subsidiaries about this requisition. All resumes submitted by search firms/employment agencies to any employee at Woolpert via email, the internet, or in any form and/or method will be deemed the sole property of Woolpert, unless such search firms/employment agencies were engaged by Woolpert's Talent Acquisition Team for this requisition and a valid agreement is in place. In the event a candidate who was submitted outside of Woolpert's applicant process is hired, no fee or payment of any kind will be paid.