Program Manager, Pre-Construction EPC Projects (Power Delivery)
HOOPER
Get more replies from employers
Send a job-specific resume in minutes.
Benefits offered by this job
Job summary
HOOPER is seeking a Program Manager, Pre-Construction EPC Projects, to lead pre-construction activities for multiple electrical substation and transmission-line projects. The role requires coordinating engineering, procurement, environmental, permitting, and client stakeholders to ensure readiness before construction.
The candidate will maintain schedules, budgets, and risk visibility while aligning with strategic business objectives and client expectations across a portfolio of projects.
Qualifications
- Experience leading pre-construction EPC projects in the electric power industry.
- Ability to coordinate across engineering, procurement, environmental, permitting, and construction teams.
- Strong scheduling, budgeting, risk management, and governance process skills.
Responsibilities
- Lead the pre-construction phase for multiple EPC projects, primarily substations and transmission lines.
- Establish and maintain program-level schedules, milestones, and deliverables across projects.
- Provide portfolio status updates, metrics, forecasts, and risk assessments to leadership.
- Coordinate with clients, utilities, and regulators to ensure alignment and readiness.
- Oversee permitting, environmental compliance, land access, and regulatory approvals.
- Support budgets, cash flow projections, and change management during development.
Skills
Job description
Since 1913, Hooper has grown to become a well-respected electric power and mechanical contractor with headquarters in Wisconsin and regional offices in the states of Colorado, Florida, and Ohio. Hooper provides a wide range of services to support commercial and residential clients. Hooper provides competitive compensation and many supportive benefits including:
- Health, Dental, and Vision Insurance
- Matching 401(k) plan
- Paid Time Off (PTO)
- 9 paid holidays
- Identity Theft Protection
- Life Insurance
- Short-Term Disability coverage
- Long-Term Disability coverage
Since 1913, Hooper has grown to become a well-respected electric power and mechanical contractor with headquarters in Wisconsin and regional offices in the states of Colorado, Florida, and Ohio. Hooper provides a wide range of services to support commercial and residential clients. Hooper provides competitive compensation and many supportive benefits including:
- Health, Dental, and Vision Insurance
- Matching 401(k) plan
- Paid Time Off (PTO)
- 9 paid holidays
- Identity Theft Protection
- Life Insurance
- Short-Term Disability coverage
- Long-Term Disability coverage
The Program Manager, Pre-Construction EPC Projects is responsible for leading and coordinating the pre-construction activities of multiple Engineering, Procurement, and Construction (EPC) projects within the electric power industry. This role provides program-level oversight across a portfolio of electrical substation and transmission line projects, ensuring successful planning, engineering coordination, permitting, commercial alignment, risk management, and project readiness prior to construction execution.
The Program Manager serves as the primary point of coordination between engineering, estimating, procurement, environmental, permitting, construction, client representatives, utilities, and external stakeholders to ensure projects advance efficiently through development and into construction. This position is responsible for maintaining schedule, budget, scope, and risk visibility across the program portfolio while supporting strategic business objectives and client expectations.
- Manage the pre-construction phase of multiple concurrent EPC projects, primarily consisting of electrical substations and associated transmission line projects.
- Establish and maintain program-level schedules, milestones, and deliverables across assigned projects.
- Monitor project progress and provide leadership with portfolio status updates, metrics, forecasts, and risk assessments.
- Ensure consistency in project planning, execution methodologies, documentation, and governance processes.
- Facilitate stage-gate reviews and ensure projects meet readiness requirements before transitioning into construction.
- Coordinate with engineering teams to support timely development of conceptual, preliminary, and detailed designs.
- Review engineering deliverables for alignment with project scope, budget, constructability, and schedule objectives.
- Identify design risks, scope gaps, and potential impacts to project execution.
- Support value engineering initiatives and constructability reviews.
- Serve as a key interface between clients, utilities, engineering teams, construction management, procurement, and regulatory agencies.
- Lead project meetings and ensure alignment among internal and external stakeholders.
- Develop and maintain strong client relationships throughout project development.
- Communicate project objectives, challenges, and recommendations clearly to executive leadership and project stakeholders.
- Coordinate activities associated with permitting, environmental compliance, land acquisition, easements, and regulatory approvals.
- Monitor permit application status and proactively address potential schedule impacts.
- Ensure project development activities comply with applicable utility, environmental, local, state, and federal requirements.
- Collaborate with estimating and commercial teams during project development and proposal execution.
- Support the development and maintenance of project budgets, cash flow projections, and forecasts.
- Monitor pre-construction expenditures and identify opportunities to improve project financial performance.
- Assist with contract reviews, scope definition, and change management activities.
- Coordinate with procurement and supply chain teams to identify long-lead equipment requirements.
- Support procurement strategies for major electrical equipment.
- Monitor equipment lead times and assess schedule risks associated with material availability.
- Identify, assess, and mitigate project risks throughout the pre-construction lifecycle.
- Develop and maintain project risk registers and mitigation plans.
- Lead cross-functional risk review sessions and elevate critical issues as needed.
- Ensure lessons learned and best practices are incorporated across the project portfolio.
- Coordinate turnover of projects from pre-construction to construction execution teams.
'/%3e%3cpath%20d='M101.744%2012.4726L102.894%2016.1947L99.0021%2013.2201L101.744%2012.4726ZM105.3%208.40937H100.488L99.0026%203.59473L97.5116%208.41047L92.7%208.40385L96.5965%2011.3834L95.1055%2016.1942L99.0021%2013.2196L101.408%2011.3834L105.3%208.40992V8.40937Z'%20fill='white'/%3e%3cdefs%3e%3clinearGradient%20id='paint0_linear_5593_1381'%20x1='90'%20y1='9.44471'%20x2='99'%20y2='9.44471'%20gradientUnits='userSpaceOnUse'%3e%3cstop%20stop-color='%2300AD70'/%3e%3cstop%20offset='0.998594'%20stop-color='%2300B67A'/%3e%3cstop%20offset='1'%20stop-color='%23DCDCE6'/%3e%3c/linearGradient%3e%3c/defs%3e%3c/svg%3e){kind=small}
