Power Generation Senior Project Manager
Listed on 2026-07-01
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Management
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Engineering
Operations Management
Power Generation Senior Project Manager
HDR is seeking an experienced Senior Project Manager to join our West Region Power Generation team. As a Senior Project Manager, you will be joining a highly capable, multi-discipline team that supports power and energy projects within the industrial, institutional, municipal, IPP and utility power and energy industry. The Senior Project Manager will be a seller-doer who helps maintain client relationships, brings in projects, develops strategies and plans for performing the work, monitors and communicates status of the project, and leads multi-discipline project teams to successful completion of the work.
This role requires significant client interaction (from pre-positioning for the work through project completion) and strong verbal and written communication skills as needed for regular interaction with internal staff such as project team members, marketing staff, and operations leadership. The ideal candidate will have significant experience with both utility scale power generation systems and equipment as well as exposure with emerging market trends, including distributed generation and combined heat and power technologies and projects, as well as proven ability to plan, schedule, and lead complex design and consulting assignments.
Responsibilities include:
- Develop and maintain positive and proactive client relationships.
- Achieve project schedule, quality, and profitability goals.
- Serve as proposal champion/manager and assist with proposal preparation, review of contract terms and conditions, and evaluate risks associated with the services being offered.
- Provide daily leadership to the project team and technical staff in completion of project activities.
- Provide regular communication and coordination within the project team and with the client such that the project work plan and the client's expectations on deliverables are understood and aligned.
- Monitor project deliverables for quality, completeness and conformance to the client's expectations.
- Proactively monitor and maintain the project budget and schedule.
- Develop appropriate recovery plans in the event of potential shortfalls.
- Monitor the contracted scope of work and identify scope changes.
- Provide training and mentoring to project team staff on project management and project consulting issues.
- Perform design or consulting work in the manager's area of engineering expertise.
- Routinely report project progress to the local and regional accounting and operations team.
- Have the ability to handle multiple concurrent projects
Demonstrated business development and strategic planning skills
Excellent organizational, project management and communication (both written and verbal) skills
All other duties as assigned
Required Qualifications:
- Bachelor's degree in Engineering
- 10 years related experience
- A minimum 5 years project management experience
- Professional Engineer (PE or P.Eng) license
- MS Office and MS Project experience (Access experience would be plus)
- Demonstrated leadership, business development and strategic planning skills
- An attitude and commitment to being an active participant of our employee-owned culture is a must
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