Substation Project Manager

Irby Construction Company has been building infrastructure for the power industry for more than 75 years. Our business values and performance-driven mindset guide our actions. Our approach to work starts with safety, puts people first, seeks to innovate, and promises to perform.

Irby is proud of its inclusive work environment, family-oriented culture, excellent benefits, and clear pathways for career growth. We strive to provide every employee with clear expectations and opportunities for advancement. What’s more, Irby has long long-valued tenure. In fact, many of our executive leaders started with Irby early in their careers and in the field.

When you join our team, you join an established firm, with a culture centered around its people. Teamwork is how we work. There is no other way. Pride is ever-present inside our offices and the bond of brotherhood runs strong among our crews.

Irby Construction is a wholly-owned subsidiary of Quanta Services. That means team Irby gets the benefits of the company culture we’re known for along with the stability and resources of a Fortune 500 organization. (NYSE: PWR).

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The Substation Project Manager is responsible for the safe, timely, and financially successful execution of electrical substation construction, expansion, modernization, and upgrade projects. This position provides overall leadership for project planning, scheduling, cost control, contract administration, resource allocation, quality, and client coordination across greenfield and brownfield utility substations.

Working closely with Superintendents, General Foremen, Engineering, Estimating, Procurement, Safety, and corporate support teams, the Project Manager directs project delivery from turnover and mobilization through construction, testing, energization, closeout, and final acceptance. The role maintains accountability for project performance, technical specifications, customer requirements, and Irby Construction safety expectations.

• Lead assigned substation projects from preconstruction handoff through commissioning, energization, closeout, and turnover, ensuring compliance with contract scope, safety, quality, schedule, and budget requirements.
• Review contracts, bid assumptions, drawings, specifications, one-line diagrams, equipment schedules, and bills of material; identify scope gaps, risks, and execution requirements.
• Develop and manage project execution plans, baseline and look-ahead schedules, milestones, labor forecasts, equipment plans, subcontractor scopes, and site logistics.
• Partner with Superintendents and General Foremen to sequence civil, structural, electrical, protection and control, and testing activities while monitoring productivity and crew resources.
• Manage project budgets, job cost coding, commitments, revenue and margin forecasts, cost-to-complete projections, cash flow, billings, and monthly financial reporting for contracted vendors and equipment suppliers, tracking the consumption weekly.
• Track those actual costs against budgets; investigate variances and implement corrective actions to protect project profitability and contractual performance daily to roll-up to a weekly, then to monthly.
• Coordinate procurement, delivery, storage, inspection, and installation of major equipment and materials, including transformers, breakers, switch gear, steel, buswork, grounding, conduit, and control cable.
• Maintain RFI, submittal, drawing revision, change order, correspondence, and action-item logs; ensure timely approvals and complete project records.
• Identify and document changed conditions, scope modifications, delays, and additional work; prepare pricing and negotiate change orders in accordance…