Senior Project Manager

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Power Your Future with Qualus as a Senior Project Manager in our Program Management organization. We are seeking a Senior Project Manager to provide planning, management, and overall execution of a portfolio of power projects. This includes managing all activities related to project scope, schedule, cost/budget, quality, communications, resources, procurement, and risk elements to optimize client service, quality and financial performance on large, complex and challenging projects.

• Provide oversight, management and leadership of all client projects from conception to completion with focus on safety, customer service, project execution, commissioning, financial and operational excellence.
• Lead development of scope of work documents for EPC contracts as well as sub‑contracts including in‑depth project scopes, schedule deliverables, cost estimates, project execution plan and baselines. Lead review and approval of contract documents for technical, engineering and construction requirements and provide support for technical contract negotiations.
• Ensure projects awarded are successfully executed within the project scope, requested lead time, with the highest safety and quality standards, and within the assigned budget.
• Provide technical, field engineering, construction and contractor oversight, management and leadership during project execution phase, whether performed by EPC, sub‑contractor, suppliers or the client.
• Provide leadership, management and oversight of field construction and labor to ensure safe, quality, on‑time, and within‑budget delivery of projects that meets customer and company expectations. Ensure inspection and oversight of all projects to monitor compliance with all applicable safety, environmental codes, and regulations.
• Ensure projects are constructed to customer and client standards, specifications and expectations.
• Serve as customer‑facing representative of the client’s team for both business development and project execution activities.
• Ensure effective and professional communications between internal and external customer and project teams.
• Elevate issues that arise throughout the project life cycle to which resolution cannot be accomplished by the project team to leadership.
• Lead on‑time delivery in accordance with contract and safety requirements using detailed schedule management process and tools.
• Follow‑up, coordinate and expedite with customers, contractors, operations, engineering and purchasing personnel.
• Manage costs and contracts by working closely with Finance, Sr Staff Analyst, Sr Lead Engineer and Sr Projects and Technical Services Manager for accurate estimating, forecasting and monitoring cost, contingencies and profit.
• Identify, manage and mitigate risks to ensure the success of the projects. Lead resolution of technical, specification, and contract issues with EPC, suppliers and stakeholders. Promote a focus on value engineering and champion the development of cost‑effective designs and project solutions.
• Manage and eliminate increases in scope not required by customer or contract.
• Negotiate with vendors, subcontractors and customers scope changes, cost adders, and any variance to the original project scope.
• Negotiate terms of agreements, draft and issue contracts and change requests.
• Ensure review and approval of conceptual designs and basic engineering for greenfield and brownfield engineering, procurement and construction (EPC) projects including generators, transfer switches, transformers, relays, controls, electric distribution, utility interconnection, communication and control systems.
• Ensure review and approval of engineering and design work of EPC and third‑party engineers.
• Ensure review and approval of technical plans and documentation for technical assessment of electrical designs and systems, proper for load calculations, power flow models, short circuit analysis, relay and protective coordination.
• Ensure review and approval of design, drawings, diagrams, documents, generator utility interconnection, equipment and material sizing, commissioning and controls during design, construction…