Project Manager - IS International Services : Job Details

This position will manager Long Term Service Agreements(LTSA) of utility scale energy storage plants

SUMMARY

Responsible for managing, coordinating, and administering primarily service projects from the conceptual stages through planning, engineering, procurement, and contract close-out. Projects include utility scale and battery storage and substation systems. Responsible for assisting Business Development in expanding current work scope, developing proposal technical, pricing, and execution strategies. Also supports communications and presentations to customers. Supervises the development of budgets and schedules, manages performance, reports progress, and initiates action to assure program/project objectives and schedules are met and work is performed within budget and according to specifications. Identifies, qualifies, and builds strong relationships with sub-contractors. Resolves problems and coordinates the final turnover of the project to the customer. Provide leadership for the development and maintenance of a high-performance project team. Has overall responsibility for Program/Project execution, ensuring that Program/Projects are delivered within contract requirements, standards of quality and safety, and to customer s and corporate s performance expectations.

DUTIES & RESPONSIBILITIES

Responsible for the managing of large-scale grid connected electrical projects, including battery/substation projects.

• Manages all aspects of sub-contracts.
• Facilitates communication of project health and status with project teams, stakeholders and sponsors, and senior level management as agreed and identified in individual Project Management Plans. Prepares and participates in risk, issue and opportunity identification and mitigation or capture sessions and escalates to project or program leadership when assistance is required to remove roadblocks.
• Leads others and directs all phases of assigned projects by utilizing program and project methodologies, systems, tools and quality standards as defined by corporate in developing project plans and deliverables that meet identified requirements.
• Develops an integrated project schedule including critical path for the end-to-end tasks and activities necessary to successfully implement the product or service of the project and ensures resources and dependencies are identified. Ensures assigned resources are executing as planned.
• Monitors, tracks, and controls change to the projects through formal change control management of requirements, configuration, performance measures, cost, schedule, project organization structure, and technology environment.
• Provides feedback and performance assessments to appropriate management in a timely manner and addresses and helps resolve conflict among project team members.
• Facilitates project status meetings with owner, owners rep, suppliers, subcontractors and others connected with the project.
• Review subcontractor and vendor invoices throughout the lifecycle of the project and approve for payment or negotiate appropriate changes with subcontractor.
• Follow up with the client as needed to ensure timely payment of fees and other payment. Provide timely and accurate information to accounting to ensure proper invoice preparation to client. Prepare and submit change orders for approval of client and Director of Projects.

KNOWLEDGE, SKILLS & EDUCATION

The requirements listed below are representative of the knowledge, skill, and/or ability required. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.

Education and/or Experience: Bachelor's degree (BS) in Engineering; and ten (5) plus years related experience in managing substation projects. Experience managing multi-MW scale battery storage projects preferred. PMP certification is desired, but not mandatory.

Language Skills: Ability to read, analyze, and interpret general business periodicals, professional journals, technical procedures, or governmental regulations. Ability to write reports, business correspondence, and procedure manuals. Ability to effectively present information and respond to questions from groups of managers, clients, customers, and the general public.

Mathematical Skills: Ability to work with mathematical concepts such as probability and statistical inference, and fundamentals of plane and solid geometry and trigonometry. Ability to apply concepts such as fractions, percentages, ratios, and proportions to practical situations.

Reasoning Ability: Ability to define problems, collect data, establish facts, and draw valid conclusions. Ability to interpret an extensive variety of technical instructions in mathematical or diagram form and deal with several abstract and concrete variables.

Computer Skills: Knowledge of project management tools, scheduling tools, computer-aided design, database, spreadsheet, presentation, and word processing software

PHYSICAL DEMANDS & WORK ENVIRONMENT

Up to 30% travel. Regularly required to stand and walk. Frequently lift and/or move up to 25 pounds. Occasionally lift and/or move up to 50 pounds. The noise level in the work environment is usually moderate to loud. Hearing protection may be recommended and/or required in some areas.