Senior Project Manager - Oahu

Senior Project Manager - Oahu

Date:

Nov 26, 2025

Location:

Honolulu, Hawaii (HI), US, 96813

Company: hawaiianel

We recognize our competitive advantage -- our people. We believe in our people, who share our vision of meeting the needs of our employees, customers, and communities and who carry out the continued success of the company.

Our employees are committed to the company's foundational values: integrity, excellence, teamwork, environmental stewardship, and community commitment. In turn, we invest in our employees, providing opportunities for challenge and advancement and offering a competitive compensation package.

Posting End Date:
This position will remain open until filled. Early applications are highly encouraged.

The P PF PROJECT INITIALIZATION Department of the P INVESTMENT PLANNING & STRATEGY Division at Hawaiian Electric Company has 1 management vacancy available. (Role: Professional )

Ensures achievement of critical annual and long-term (5-10 years) investment objectives for projects and programs that drive performance of reliability, resiliency and service for Oahu, Maui County and Hawaii Island. Establishes projects and programs to ensure achievement of performance-based investments.

Coordinates across multiple divisions as part of the asset strategy investment planning process to input projects and programs into the company portfolio for review and approval at an executive level. Ensures that budgeted goals and performance outcomes are achieved for the investments made and are consistent with the established strategies through the use of Key Performance Indicators (KPIs). Participates in the project/program initialization process, through the use of advanced project management expertise to:

• Develops, plans, organizes, and manages scope, schedule, costs and risks of capital projects requiring extremely complex upfront collaboration with cross-functional/multi-level management resources to initialize projects into the budget to meet Company strategic goals and objectives;
• Initiates projects and programs in alignment with the corporate governance process;
• Drives efficiency through the use of standardized T&D engineering design and materials; and
• Serves as a focal point for all project initialization matters and is responsible for meeting all project-related objectives.

• Project Initialization:
  Provides advanced project management expertise required to develop the scope for T&D projects and programs in sufficient detail to develop a schedule and cost Class Level estimates that can be used for initialization. Anticipates potential challenges, provides project management expertise, and develops appropriate strategies to address these challenges. Works with Planning Department and other internal Departments to finalize project scopes, evaluates and selects the best solution amongst alternatives, to develop schedule, costs and risks for projects.
  
  Initiates projects and programs in alignment with the corporate budget process.
• Project Planning:
  Confirms/clarifies project initiation scope, stakeholders, requirements, expectations, goals, objectives, deliverables, constraints, risks, and milestones. Develops and maintains project initiation schedule, scope and costs. Plans, organizes, and manages all project initiation tasks including but not limited to organizing project team, role and responsibilities, resources, schedule, costs and controls, risk and contingency measures, performance criteria/measurement for communications, budgeting, and that support project initialization activities.
  
  Develops necessary strategies required to meet project goals. Makes early identification of potential problem areas.
• Alternatives Evaluation:
  Evaluates alternative scenarios to achieve a functional project scope at a level that allows for the development of a project initiation plan; through the coordination of various internal and external stakeholders to identify schedule and cost implications and potential risks.
• Drives Efficiency:
  Drives efficiency through the utilization of standardized T&D engineering design and materials. Works with Conceptual Engineering Department and other internal departments to ensure that work initiated is supported by purchasers and suppliers that provide materials and equipment consistent with design specifications and technical requirements. Develops, monitors, analyzes metrics to track project progress and performance, including performance-based metrics and KPIs for the division and process areas as needed.
• Project Team Management:
  Provides project leadership and work direction and secures commitment from all levels within the Company, to ensure that project team members meet all project initialization milestones. Ensures team members have all resources, information, and direction necessary to successfully perform their jobs. Assesses progress and performance of project team members and makes recommendations regarding performance actions necessary…