Senior Mechanical Project Manager – Hydropower

Senior Mechanical Project Manager – Hydropower

McMillen, Inc. is looking for a Senior Mechanical Project Manager – Hydropower with 10+ years of experience focused on hydropower and water resource–related work. The Senior PM will work in a variety of water‑related projects in fields including but not limited to hydropower, pump stations, dams, flood control, hydraulic modeling, and fish passage.

• Develop, manage, and maintain client relationships. Actively participate in developing relationships with key clients, professional service organizations, and conferences/events, conducting or participating in workshops and meetings with clients.
• Identify project opportunities, actively pursue them, and prepare proposals. Consult with clients to plan and develop strategies for their water resource needs and collaborate with Market Leads, Discipline Leads, and Operations Managers on local and national marketing efforts.
• Conduct a kick‑off meeting with all key stakeholders to announce the project start, review the overall project plan, and gain consensus.
• Document high‑level risks, assumptions, and constraints using historical data and expert judgment to understand project limitations.
• Manage changes to project scope, schedule, and costs using appropriate verification techniques, keeping the plan accurate and facilitating customer acceptance.
• Ensure a common understanding by setting expectations in accordance with the Project Plan to align stakeholders and team members.
• Effectively manage multidisciplinary teams for a wide range of water resources projects and tasks.
• Measure project performance using appropriate tools and techniques to monitor progress, identify variances, perform corrective actions, and communicate to stakeholders.
• Execute tasks as defined in the project plan to achieve project goals.
• Identify key project team members by defining roles and responsibilities, creating a project organization structure, and developing the communication plan.
• Implement approved actions and workarounds to mitigate project risk events, minimizing their impact.
• Record detailed customer requirements, constraints, and assumptions with stakeholders to establish project deliverables, using requirement‑gathering techniques such as planning sessions, brainstorming, and focus groups, and the project charter.
• Improve team performance by building cohesiveness, leading, mentoring, training, and motivating to facilitate cooperation, ensure efficiency, and boost morale.
• Develop and maintain relationships with operations managers company‑wide to facilitate work sharing.
• Evaluate and design water resource projects and other mechanical engineering support tasks. Experience should include familiarity with hydropower generating units, penstocks, turbine shut‑off valves, mechanical balance of plant systems, cranes, hoists, machine design, pump stations, and process piping systems.
• Develop detailed designs, plans, and specifications for hydropower, dams, or fisheries related projects, including hydropower unit rehabilitations, powerhouse crane rehabilitation or replacement projects, intake gate hoisting systems, trash rakes, spillway gate hoists, pump station design, fish hatchery or fish passage facilities.
• Conduct analysis and condition assessments of hydropower, pumping, or other water‑resource mechanical systems, including uprate studies and coordination with equipment suppliers/vendors to develop recommendations for rehabilitation or replacement projects.
• Prepare or oversee preparation of planning reports, plans and specifications, and cost estimates for various hydropower, pumping, or other water‑resource infrastructure projects.
• Manage planning, design and construction support services for hydropower and other water‑resource infrastructure projects (Design Project Manager).
• Collect and analyze field data, as‑built plans and engineering reports to establish existing conditions and identify critical areas for design criteria.

• Bachelor’s degree in Mechanical Engineering from an ABET‑accredited university.
• Master’s degree preferred.
• 10+ years of experience in mechanical engineering.
• 5+ years of experience as a Project…