Assistant Project Manager – Electric Transmission

Burns & McDonnell; Vancouver (WA); On-site; USD 110,000 - 240,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

ESOP

401(k) retirement plan

Comprehensive benefits

Job summary

Burns & McDonnell seeks an experienced Assistant Project Manager to support managers across substation, transmission, and telecom projects, coordinating clients, vendors, and internal teams. You will track schedules, costs, and scope while advancing project milestones and budgets.

The role emphasizes cross-functional collaboration and strong communication within a fast-paced environment. The position requires a Bachelor’s degree in engineering or related field, 5 years of utility transmission

Qualifications

• Bachelor Degree in Engineering, Construction Management or related degree from accredited program and 5 years of applicable experience required.
• 5 years of experience in utility transmission projects (either T-Line or substation) or other related industries.
• Familiarity or proficiency in ProjectWise, SharePoint, SAP, and cost/schedule management, preferred.
• Strong organizational, communication, and problem-solving skills.
• PE or PMP certification preferred.
• Excellent written & verbal communication skills.
• Strong analytical and problem solving skills.
• Ability to thrive in a fast paced, demanding work environment, ability to work overtime on short notice.
• High proficiency using Microsoft Office.
• Ability to work collaboratively with others (Owner's, Contractors, Project Managers, Engineers and Designers) in a multi-discipline project team environment to resolve design or drawing issues as appropriate and to accomplish objectives.

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 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.

Skills

Organizational skills

Communication skills

Problem solving

Analytical skills

MS Office

Team collaboration

Flexibility for overtime

Education

Bachelor's degree in Engineering/Construction Management

Tools

ProjectWise

SharePoint

SAP

Job description

Burns & McDonnell seeks an experienced Assistant Project Manager to support managers across substation, transmission, and telecom projects, coordinating clients, vendors, and internal teams. You will track schedules, costs, and scope while advancing project milestones and budgets.

The role emphasizes cross-functional collaboration and strong communication within a fast-paced environment. The position requires a Bachelor’s degree in engineering or related field, 5 years of utility transmission