Job Description
A Technical Project Manager in the Power Energy group responsible for leading multidisciplinary utility-scale renewable energy projects, including wind, solar, battery storage, and transmission, overseeing the entire project lifecycle from scope definition to construction support and closeout.
Key Responsibilities
- Own the project lifecycle from scope definition, proposals, schedules, risk management, and cost control to project turnover.
- Drive technical delivery by coordinating and reviewing civil, structural, electrical, HV, collection, interconnection, and studies work to ensure compliance with standards and constructability.
- Manage quality compliance through QA/QC plans, submittals, RFIs, and document control, and ensure environmental permitting and interconnection requirements are integrated.
- Perform construction support activities including site visits, reviewing shop drawings and test reports, supporting FAT/SAT, energization, punch-list closure, and lessons learned.
- Coordinate internal engineers, designers, external partners, EPCs, subs, and vendors to align deliverables and mitigate risks.
Requirements
- Eight (8) years of experience delivering power energy projects in consulting, owner’s engineer, or EPCM roles spanning utility-scale wind, solar, Battery Energy Storage Systems (BESS), high-voltage substations, and transmission.
- Bachelor’s degree in Electrical, Civil, or Structural Engineering or a related field.
- Professional Engineer (PE) license is preferred; multi-state licensure is a plus.
- Project management skills including owning scope, schedule, and budget, and driving engineering from early studies and permits through construction support and closeout.
- Experience in leading scope definition, proposals Level of Effort (LOE), scheduling, risk registers, change management, and cost control from feasibility to project turnover.
- Ability to coordinate and review civil, structural, electrical, power control (PC), high-voltage (HV), collection, interconnection, and studies work to ensure designs meet NEC, NESC, IEEE, ASCE, client standards, and constructability requirements.
- Experience managing quality compliance including QA/QC plans, submittals, RFIs, and document control.
- Experience ensuring environmental permitting and interconnection requirements are integrated into project planning.
- Experience performing site visits, reviewing shop drawings and test reports, supporting Factory Acceptance Testing (FAT), Site Acceptance Testing (SAT), energization, punch-list closure, and lessons learned.
- Experience coordinating internal engineers, designers, external partners such as EPCs, specialty subcontractors, and equipment vendors to align deliverables and mitigate risk.
- Working knowledge of interconnection studies and design coordination, including familiarity with ETAP, SKM, PSSE, PSCAD, PLS-CADD, POLE, Civil 3D, AutoCAD, and Bluebeam.
- Experience with owner’s-rep or owner’s engineer roles and utility interfaces, ISO RTO processes, constructability reviews, commissioning plans, and startup energization procedures.
- Knowledge of procurement workflows and major equipment modules such as trackers, inverters, transformers, breakers, and relays.
- Ability to perform site visits, review shop drawings and test reports, and support FAT, SAT, energization, punch-list closure, and lessons learned.
- Familiarity with project cost control, risk management, and change management processes.
- Ability to coordinate multidisciplinary work across civil, structural, electrical, and other engineering disciplines.
- Excellent communication and team management skills to coordinate internal and external project stakeholders.
Benefits & Perks
Compensation packages including annual bonuses, spot bonuses, and peer recognition awards
Work schedule flexibility for some positions
Generous Paid Time Off
Paid Parental Leave
Travel Vouchers
401K match up to 4% of compensation
Tuition Assistance
Student Loan Repayment up to $25,000
Paid Licensing Certification Fees and Renewals
Employee Referrals bonus up to $5,000
Annual Wellness Reimbursement up to $500
Gym memberships, fitness tracker, home gym equipment
Dependent Care Match
Medical, Dental, and Vision insurance
Pet Insurance
Health Savings Account and Flexible Spending Account options
Employer paid LTD, STD, and life insurance
Metlife Supplemental Benefits (accident, hospitalization, critical illness)
Member Assistance Program with counseling, legal, financial, and work-life services
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