Manager, PMO

Pickett, an ESP Associates company, is a highly innovative surveying and engineering company with over 60 years of industry experience serving clients throughout the US and Caribbean.

At Pickett, we use the acronym S.O.L.V.E. to define our core values that include: Safety first, Outstanding service, Lasting relationships, Valued teamwork and Engaged culture.

“We solve the problems that matter”and we are always looking to add passionate, motivated, and qualified individuals to our rapidly expanding team.

Pickett, an ESP Associates company, is a highly innovative surveying and engineering company with over 60 years of industry experience serving clients throughout the US and Caribbean.

At Pickett, we use the acronym S.O.L.V.E. to define our core values that include: Safety first, Outstanding service, Lasting relationships, Valued teamwork and Engaged culture.

“We solve the problems that matter”and we are always looking to add passionate, motivated, and qualified individuals to our rapidly expanding team.

As a Manager within the PMO, you will lead a team of project managers and project controllers to build the processes, standards and tools that bring consistency and predictability to how our team delivers projects to our clients. You will also provide strategic leadership for the delivery of complex engineering programs and major projects for public-owned and investor-owned electric utilities. This role is responsible for overseeing large project portfolios, ensuring successful execution and financial performance, and maintaining strong client partnerships.

You will track and report project performance across portfolios – scope, schedule, budget, and quality – while developing people, metrics, and systems that provide leading indicators and improve how we run projects.

This role blends hands‑on people management with process ownership; you’ll mentor and develop project managers while also shaping the PMO framework – templates, reporting tools, training and controls – that the broader team relies on.

You will serve as a leader within the organization, guiding multidisciplinary teams, mentoring project managers and engineering staff, and supporting business development efforts to expand services with existing and new clients. The PMO plays a key role in shaping project delivery strategy, strengthening client relationships, and contributing to the continued growth of the company.

• Manage and mentor a team of project managers, providing day-to-day guidance, workload balancing, and professional development.
• Provide leadership and guidance to project managers, project controllers, surveyors and multidisciplinary engineering teams

• Support the development and improvement of project management processes, standards, and tools across the organization
• Develop and track meaningful project metrics and reporting to give leadership visibility into performance and trends
• Support project setup, change order development, and documentation and configuration controls
  
  Coordinate with engineering leadership, Accounting, and Project Controls to maintain accurate financial reporting, invoicing, and forecasting
• Ensure effective coordination with Accounting and Project Controls to maintain accurate project financial reporting, invoicing, and forecasting

• Provide strategic oversight into project portfolios, ensuring successful delivery of scope, schedule, budget, quality, and safety performance
• Provide executive-level reporting on program performance, risks, financials, and strategic opportunities to both clients and company leadership
• Oversee financial performance and profitability across assigned programs and project portfolios, including risk management and recovery strategies when necessary
• Conduct project reviews and audits to ensure consistency and quality across the team
• Lead complex project negotiations, contract discussions, and major program planning efforts

• Lead the execution of large-scale engineering programs and major projects for public-owned and investor-owned electric utilities
• Coordi…