Assistant Project Manager

Spencer Ogden; Englewood (CO); On-site; USD 120,000 - 170,000; Full time

Job summary

Spencer Ogden seeks a Program Project Manager to lead cross-functional teams from inception to closeout on substation, transmission line, and telecom projects. You will manage 5–20 projects concurrently, ensuring schedule and budget adherence while coordinating with clients and vendors.

You will navigate client gate approvals, forecast costs to EAC, and present at senior management levels. Strong organizational, communication, and problem-solving skills are essential.

Qualifications

• Bachelor Degree in Engineering, Construction Management or related degree from an accredited program.
• 5+ years of experience in utility transmission projects (either T-Line or substation) or related industries.
• Familiarity or proficiency in ProjectWise, SharePoint, SAP, and cost/schedule management.

Responsibilities

• Lead a cross-functional team to execute substation, transmission line, and telecommunication projects from inception through design and construction to closeout.
• Oversee 5-20 projects concurrently of varying sizes ($100k-$50M+) and voltages (4kV-765kV).
• Manage projects for schedule adherence, identifying risks and requirements to achieve in-service dates.
• Coordinate with client gate approvals and present to senior management as required.
• Maintain financials with accurate cost forecasts for estimate-at-completion.
• Coordinate craft labor resources with vendors for construction, testing and field activities.
• Provide regular status updates and reporting for clients.

Skills

Project management

Cross-functional teamwork

Communication skills

Problem-solving

Organizational skills

Education

Bachelor degree in engineering or construction management

Tools

ProjectWise

SharePoint

SAP

Job description

Project managers in program management will pursue job responsibilities in the following areas:

Project Management:

• Lead a cross-functional team to execute substation, transmission line, and telecommunication projects from inception through design and construction to closeout.

• Oversee 5-20 projects concurrently of varying sizes ($100k-$50M+) and voltages (4kV-765kV).

• Manage projects for schedule adherence, identifying risks and requirements to successfully achieve a project’s in-service date.

• Navigate projects through client gate approval processes, including presentations to senior and executive management as required by each client.

• Manage projects for financial adherence, maintaining an accurate cost forecast reflecting committed and uncommitted costs for an estimate-at-completion.

• Coordinate craft labor resources with client-approved vendors for construction, testing and other field activities.

• Provide regular status updates on projects by maintaining project data and routine reporting as well as meeting updates for clients.

• Lead project meetings with cost, schedule, real estate, environmental, construction, public engagement, and engineering resources to facilitate project execution.

• Develop a multi-year capital expenditure plan to support the client’s replacement and betterment of electric transmission and distribution assets.

• Regular interface and coordination with project sponsor organizations to determine details of proposed plans and business justification.

• Ensure synergies across projects are incorporated into the portfolio of work to prevent scope from being duplicated or performed inefficiently.

• Monitor composition of client’s capital investment allocation to align with stated subsidiary investment targets for optimal rate of return.

• Engage with project sponsors to evaluate need-by date for realistic schedules and budgets.

• Assist with creation and compilation of rate filing support for federal and state filings.

• Review tabletop engineering estimates for accuracy and scope.

• Review project change requests (scope, In-service date, etc.) and reconcile with the existing and long-range portfolio of work.

• Interface with client’s accounting group to establish financial setup for projects.

• Create analyses & reports to assist the client in tracking, coordination, and execution of projects.

• Build baseline scopes, schedules, and budgets to be released to multiple client’s stakeholders.

• Responsible for developing substation and transmission project construction lifecycles, with a focus on outage efficiency and constructability.

• Manage multiple projects simultaneously while meeting specified deliverable dates and expectations.

• Analyze scoping and project documents to determine boundaries of required construction within the substation and within electric grid.

• Conduct site walkdowns and project calls with the project team as necessary to establish an achievable construction sequence with attainable outages.

• Analyze needed outages against adjacent outages scheduled in the area.

• Create initial outage sequence to communicate proposed construction lifecycle to project team.

• Coordinate with drafting resources to create engineering-caliber drawings that document the evolution of a project from present conditions to final state and all needed incremental steps.

• Requirements:
• Bachelor Degree in Engineering, Construction Management or related degree from accredited program
• 5+ years of experience in utility transmission projects (either T-Line or substation) or other related industries
• Preferred: relevant T&D (gas or electrical) engineering that are open to pivoting as a program PM for a utility client.
• Familiarity or proficiency in ProjectWise, SharePoint, SAP, and cost/schedule management, preferred.
• Strong organizational, communication, and problem-solving skills.