Principal EPC Project Manager - NorthStar Clean Energy

North Star Clean Energy decarbonizes the economy by providing clean energy and carbon management solutions to utility, municipal, commercial, and industrial customers, enabling them to meet their sustainability and business goals. Additionally, we own and operate natural gas assets throughout the United States. To learn more about North Star Clean Energy, please visit

This position is with North Star Clean Energy, a CMS Energy company, and is not a position of employment with Consumers Energy.

The Project Manager (PM) is responsible for leading project teams in the planning, design, execution and commissioning of the company’s utility-scale renewable energy facilities. The PM will oversee, coordinate, perform, and track the planning, implementing, quality control, and status reporting on a given project. The role manages a project team that typically includes matrixed roles from all organizational areas, heavy reliance on outside consultants, engineering firms, and construction firms.

The PM is responsible for working with stakeholders to define the project scope, preparing the project schedule and updating it as it evolves, proposing the project budget, and managing the project cost and schedule. The PM ensures that project team members have the necessary supplies and human resources to complete projects on time and on budget, identifies and minimizes potential risks to the project timeline and budget, communicates project progress to management, and ensures the quality of the team’s work and any supplies or materials used.

• Plan and manage utility-scale renewable energy projects (and other projects as necessary) of high complexity, multi-year projects valued at over $100 million.
• Prepare Project Charter documents, Project Management Plans, Scoping Documents, Risk Registers, and other project management deliverables through the project lifecycle.
• Organize, lead, and document project team meetings to coordinate, update, and hold team members accountable for project responsibilities.
• Manage projects to achieve overall financial and commercial success in meeting the company’s business goals.
• Meet agreed upon scope, cost, schedule and quality objectives.
• Develop project schedules, including schedule concepts, constraints, and items in appropriate level of detail, track schedule process, update items with the project scheduler, and communicate schedule to the project team. The Project Manager will utilize Microsoft Project individually as well as with a scheduler depending on the stage of the project lifecycle.
• Provide clear and accurate communications to project stakeholders.
• Develop and maintain project plans that provide timely deliverables to achieve project objectives.
• Identify initial risks, issues and constraints impacting project execution.
• Work collaboratively with other functional areas in the development of project tasks and deliverables ensuring the successful execution of projects.
• Manage multiple projects at various stages of development concurrently.
• Act as liaison to coordinate effective communications, discussions, and negotiations between NSCE and third parties (both private and governmental and host landowners).
• Develop project execution plans for various complex project types and business arrangements, including Engineering‑Procure‑Construct, Build‑Own‑Operate, etc.
• Develop and perform presentations for the NSCE leadership team.
• Validate financial forecasts and provide ongoing reconciliation of resources and other related project expenditures.
• Provide ethical leadership within NSCE Code of Conduct.
• Assist in the development of performance metrics and track performance of each project.
• Identify and recommend new processes, techniques and standards that drive performance and process improvement.

• Bachelor of Science degree from an accredited college or university is required.
• 7+ years of experience in applied engineering or equivalent working experience, including project management, is required.
• Project Management Professional (PMP) certification is preferred.

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