Senior Project Manager — High Voltage Execution

Senior Project Manager

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The Senior Project Manager will report to and support the Head of Project Management in delivering utility-scale wind, solar, and battery storage projects safely, on schedule, within budget, and in alignment with commercial and contractual commitments. This role will have a dedicated focus on high-voltage execution, including owner-side management of substations, switchyards, transmission lines, interconnection facilities, gen-tie facilities, protection and control systems, utility interfaces, energization, synchronization, and COD readiness.

The Senior Project Manager will lead cross-functional execution from late-stage development through construction, commissioning, COD, and handover, with accountability for safety leadership, contractor performance, utility coordination, schedule and cost control, risk mitigation, contract administration, change management, claims avoidance, and executive-level reporting. This role requires strong commercial judgment, technical fluency, disciplined governance, and the ability to drive timely decisions across internal teams, contractors, utilities, and external stakeholders.

The position is based in Downtown Houston with a hybrid work model of 3 days in the office and 2 days from home.

Key Responsibilities:

• Provide visible safety leadership across development-to-construction project execution, reinforcing that successful delivery includes protecting people, communities, assets, and the environment.
• Lead cross-functional project teams with accountability for safety, quality, schedule, cost, risk, commercial commitments, contractor performance, and timely resolution of execution issues.
• Manage project schedules, including baseline management, critical path analysis, progress measurement, forecasting, and early identification of threats to COD and major milestones.
• Coordinate with Finance, project controls, analysts, and internal support teams to manage monthly budget reforecasts, cost trends, contingency tracking, and updates to project economics.
• Prepare executive-level project reporting that clearly communicates status, risks, decisions required, commercial exposure, mitigation plans, and confidence in COD and budget outcomes.
• Manage EPC contractor performance against contractual obligations, including milestone achievement, deliverables, notices, reporting requirements, recovery plans, change control, and compliance with project execution requirements.
• Lead commercial and contractual review of change order requests and claims, coordinating with technical, Legal, Procurement, and project controls teams to assess entitlement, cost and schedule impact, contractual merit, and recommended negotiation or settlement strategy.
• Manage unbundled high-voltage scope execution, including substations, switchyards, transmission lines, gen-tie facilities, interconnection facilities, protection and control systems, SCADA interfaces, metering, relay settings, testing, commissioning, energization, and turnover.
• Own commercial and execution interfaces between the BOP contractor, HV contractor, OEMs, independent engineer, utility, ISO/RTO, transmission owner, and internal engineering, development, asset management, and operations teams.
• Drive HV design, procurement, construction, and commissioning readiness, including design reviews, constructability, long-lead equipment tracking, outage planning, utility witness testing, backfeed strategy, energization sequencing, punch list closure, and COD-critical milestone protection.
• Engage utility counterparts, interconnection stakeholders, consultants, and internal technical teams to support HV facility acceptance, backfeed, relay and protection coordination, energization, synchronization, and COD readiness.
• Maintain an integrated project risk register covering safety, permitting, interconnection, engineering, procurement, construction, schedule, commercial, and financial risks, with clear mitigation owners, due dates, escalation triggers, and quantified impacts where appropriate.
• Lead disciplined project governance, including decision logs, action registers, change logs, correspondence records, approval records, lessons learned, and handover documentation.
• Support EPC procurement and project financing activities, including RFP development, bid evaluation, contractor due diligence, technical and commercial clarifications, contract negotiation support, investor or lender diligence, and open item tracking.
• Lead structured turnover of completed projects to Asset Management, including closeout documentation, outstanding obligations, warranty items,…