Senior Manager, Project Delivery

The Senior Manager, Project Delivery will oversee the delivery of capital projects, including project management, construction management, Engineering, Procurement and Construction (EPC) coordination, project controls, cost estimation, budget oversight, Request for Proposals (RFPs)/contracts, project closeout, and coordination with internal support functions. Additionally, this role ensures that projects are justified by system needs and aligned with reliability, safety, cost-effectiveness, board scrutiny, community expectations, and approved capital priorities.

Serves as the lead for capital project execution and strengthens internal governance to reduce over reliance on consultants and contractors while improving capital utilization, project accountability, and delivery performance.

Capital Project Delivery Leadership

• Lead the planning, execution, monitoring, and closeout of utility capital projects.
• Provide governance for project scope, schedule, cost, risk, quality, safety, and stakeholder communication.
• Ensure each capital project has a clear business case tied to system need, reliability, safety, compliance, customer service, cost-effectiveness, or asset condition.
• Establish disciplined project delivery processes from intake through final closeout.
• Improve capital utilization by strengthening project readiness, execution cadence, and accountability.
• Ensure projects are prepared for internal governance, executive review, board scrutiny, and community visibility.

Project Management

• Manage the capital project portfolio across multiple utility asset classes.
• Oversee project planning, scheduling, governance, status reporting, and risk management.
• Coordinate resources across Engineering, Planning, Operations, Procurement, Finance, Legal, Safety, Environmental / Permitting, Customer Solutions, and other stakeholders.
• Ensure projects are delivered safely, on schedule, within approved budget, and to required quality standards.
• Establish project performance metrics, dashboards, meeting cadence, and reporting processes.
• Provide clear ownership for project scope, assumptions, milestones, risks, issues, and decisions.

Construction Management

• Provide owner-side construction oversight for utility infrastructure projects.
• Manage contractor performance, field coordination, schedule adherence, safety compliance, quality control, and construction progress.
• Ensure construction activities are properly coordinated with operations, outages, customers, permitting, materials, commissioning, and restoration requirements.
• Support field issue resolution, change management, punch-list completion, and turnover to Operations.
• Strengthen internal construction management capability to reduce dependency on outside field resources where practical.
• Ensure contracted construction work is governed with strong owner representation and accountability.

Project Controls, Cost Estimation, and Budget Oversight

• Ensure project cost estimates, budgets, schedules, forecasts, and variance reports are developed and maintained.
• Coordinate with Finance and Project Controls for capital budget tracking, cost reporting, accruals, forecasts, and financial governance.
• Establish project controls for scope, schedule, budget, risk, contingency, change orders, and contractor performance.
• Support capital budget planning and capital expenditure oversight.
• Improve visibility of project cost, schedule, commitments, risks, and forecast-to-complete.
• Ensure project group costs are appropriately charged to capital projects where allowed.
• Identify cost savings through improved planning, scope definition, estimating, procurement, and contract controls.

RFPs, Contracts, and Procurement Support

• Lead or support RFP development for capital projects, engineering services, materials, equipment, EPC work, and construction services.
• Improve bid package quality, scope clarity, technical specifications, commercial requirements, evaluation criteria, and award recommendations.
• Coordinate with Procurement, Legal, Engineering, Finance, Operations, Safety, and Environmental / Permitting on contract strategy and execution.
• Support contract negotiation, contract administration, contractor performance management, compliance tracking, and claims avoidance.
• Strengthen internal governance for services, EPC, material, equipment, and construction contracts.
• Reduce change orders, claims, delays, and rework through better front-end planning and contract discipline.

Project Closeout and Documentation

• Establish consistent…