Power Generation Project Manager

Fashion Institute of Design & Merchandising; Phoenix (AZ); On-site; USD 80,000 - 120,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading engineering consultancy is seeking an experienced Project Manager to join their Power Generation team in Arizona. In this role, you will lead multidisciplinary project teams on power and energy projects, ensuring client satisfaction and project success. Ideal candidates will possess a Bachelor’s in Engineering, 7 years of related experience, and a Professional Engineer license. Strong leadership, organizational, and communication skills are essential for managing multiple projects effectively.

Qualifications

• 7 years related experience in project management.
• 2 years project management experience minimum.
• Professional Engineer (PE or P.Eng) license required.

Responsibilities

• Develop and maintain client relationships.
• Achieve project schedule, quality, and profitability goals.
• Lead project teams and monitor project deliverables.

Skills

Project management

Client relationship management

Communication skills

Leadership

Education

Bachelor’s degree in Engineering

Tools

MS Office

MS Project

Job description

Power Generation Project Manager – 191453

HDR is seeking an experienced Project Manager to join our West Region Power Generation team. As a Project Manager, you will join a highly capable, multi‑discipline team that supports power and energy projects across the industrial, institutional, municipal, IPP and utility power and energy industry. The 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 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 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

• 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.
• Excellent organizational, project management and communication (both written and verbal) skills.
• All other duties as assigned.

Required Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in Engineering.
• 7 years related experience.
• Minimum 2 years project management experience.
• Professional Engineer (PE or P.Eng) license.
• MS Office and MS Project experience required (Access experience would be a plus).
• Demonstrated leadership skills.
• Commitment to being an active participant of our employee‑owned culture.

Location

United States – Arizona (Phoenix) and United States – Montana (Billings)

At HDR, we are committed to the principles of employment equity. We are an affirmative action and equal opportunity employer. We consider all qualified applicants, regardless of criminal histories, arrest and conviction records.

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