Capital Construction Project Leader

NV Energy; Reno (NV); On-site; USD 120,000 - 150,000; Full time

Job summary

NV Energy seeks a seasoned project leader to manage complex capital construction initiatives across offices and facilities in Nevada. You will drive scope, schedule, budget, and procurement strategies, coordinating architects, engineers, and contractors while ensuring safety and regulatory compliance.

You’ll direct change control, risk management, and closeout activities, delivering executive-ready updates and ensuring seamless turnover to facilities operations.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in construction management, engineering, architecture, project management, or related field.
• Minimum five years of progressively responsible construction project management experience; nine years if no bachelor’s degree.

Responsibilities

• Leads the development and execution of comprehensive project plans, including scope, budget, cost estimates, schedule, cash flow, procurement strategy, resource requirements, risk assessments, communication plans, and required approvals.
• Manages capital construction projects through planning, design, procurement, construction, commissioning, turnover, occupancy, and final closeout.
• Works with internal customers and stakeholders to identify business and operational requirements, translates requirements into an actionable scope of work, evaluate alternatives, and develop recommendations for approval.
• Establishes project objectives, deliverables, milestones, success criteria, roles, responsibilities, and decision-making processes.
• Coordinates the development of architectural, civil, structural, mechanical, electrical, plumbing, telecommunications, security, audiovisual, furniture, fixtures, equipment, and other project requirements.
• Leads or supports requests for qualifications, requests for proposals, bid evaluations, contractor selections, procurement activities, contract negotiations, and recommendations for contract award.
• Administers professional services agreements, construction contracts, purchase orders, and other project agreements.
• Coordinates the acquisition of necessary resources, equipment, materials, permits, inspections, regulatory approvals, and site access.
• Manages project budgets, commitments, contracts, forecasts, payment applications, changes, approvals, documentation, reporting, and other project-control processes.
• Establishes and administers formal change-control processes. Evaluates proposed changes for scope, cost, schedule, operational, quality, and risk impacts before obtaining required approvals.
• Identifies, evaluates, documents, and manages project risks and issues. Develops mitigation, contingency, corrective-action, and recovery plans as appropriate.
• Identifies emerging cost, schedule, design, procurement, regulatory, contractor-performance, and operational risks and escalates significant concerns in a timely manner.
• Measures and communicates project performance through project status reports, dashboards, forecasts, executive summaries, presentations, and project review meetings.
• Provides clear, concise, and timely information to project sponsors, customers, stakeholders, and company leadership.
• Facilitates project meetings, documents decisions and action items, assigns responsibilities, and follows through to ensure commitments are completed.
• Manages construction activities in occupied and operational facilities while minimizing impacts to employees, customers, utility operations, security, safety, business continuity, and other ongoing activities.
• Coordinates construction phasing, scheduled outages, utility interruptions, temporary facilities, site logistics, employee communications, and operational transitions.
• Ensures that project work complies with applicable company policies, building codes, safety requirements, accessibility standards, environmental requirements, permit conditions, contractual requirements, and local, state, and federal regulations.
• Coordinates inspections, testing, commissioning, training, building-system demonstrations, deficiency resolution, operational readiness, and turnover to Facilities Operations.
• Leads project closeout, including final acceptance of deliverables, completion of outstanding work, financial reconciliation, project accounting audit and true-up, record-document turnover, warranty documentation, lessons learned, and final project reporting.
• Monitors and enforces all compliance requirements for area of responsibility.
• Ensures all compliance aspects of position are known and followed; understands and complies with all policies, codes, and regulations applicable to position and company.
• Performs related duties as assigned.

Skills

Project management

Budgeting

Scheduling

Contract administration

Risk management

Stakeholder communication

Vendor management

Safety compliance

Education

Bachelor’s degree in construction management, engineering, architecture, project management, or related field

Tools

MS Office

Job description

NV Energy seeks a seasoned project leader to manage complex capital construction initiatives across offices and facilities in Nevada. You will drive scope, schedule, budget, and procurement strategies, coordinating architects, engineers, and contractors while ensuring safety and regulatory compliance.

You’ll direct change control, risk management, and closeout activities, delivering executive-ready updates and ensuring seamless turnover to facilities operations.