Project Management - Power & Energy

Lakeshore Talent; United States; On-site; USD 150,000 - 230,000; Full time

Job summary

Lakeshore Talent seeks an experienced Project Manager for an owner-side role overseeing a large power-generation project from handoff through commissioning and closeout. You will be the primary interface with the EPC contractor, major equipment suppliers, and the Owner’s Engineer, protecting the company's technical, schedule, and commercial interests.

You will drive the project through governance, manage cost and schedule, lead risk mitigation, and ensure safe, reliable startup and turnover.

Qualifications

• 12+ years of experience in major industrial, energy, infrastructure, or power-generation projects, with at least 5 years in project-management or leadership roles.
• Experience managing EPC contractors on complex capital projects and interfacing with equipment suppliers or OEMs.
• Strong understanding of engineering, procurement, construction, commissioning, startup, turnover, scope, schedule, cost, risk, change management, claims, and contractor performance.
• Ability to read EPC contracts, equipment purchase agreements, technical specifications, schedules, cost reports, and engineering documents.
• Ability to travel regularly and maintain site presence during critical project phases.
• Bachelor’s degree in engineering, construction management, business, or related field, or equivalent relevant project-execution experience.

Responsibilities

• Coordinate the company, EPC, OEM/vendor, and Owner’s Engineer activities to align scope, interfaces, cost, and schedule.
• Maintain project execution plans and governance with clear decision authorities and escalation procedures.
• Lead regular EPC progress reviews and ensure milestone achievement and issue resolution.
• Manage cost, schedule, change and risk with timely forecasts and recovery plans.
• Oversee testing, commissioning, turnover, and final contract closeout.

Skills

Project management

Contract management

EPC coordination

Vendor management

Risk management

Reading contracts

Leadership

Communication

Decision making

Education

Bachelor’s degree in engineering or related field

Tools

Primavera P6

Cost-control systems

Document-management systems

Job description

• Typically 12+ years of experience executing major industrial, energy, infrastructure, or power-generation projects, including at least 5 years in project-management or major-package leadership roles.


• Demonstrated experience managing EPC contractors on complex capital projects and interfacing directly with major equipment suppliers or OEMs.


• Strong understanding of engineering, procurement, construction, commissioning, startup, turnover, scope, schedule, cost, risk, change management, claims, and contractor performance.


• Ability to read and understand EPC contracts, equipment purchase agreements, technical specifications, schedules, cost reports, and engineering documents.


• Ability to travel regularly and maintain significant site presence during critical project phases.


• Bachelor’s degree in engineering, construction management, business, or a related field, or equivalent relevant project-execution experience.

Preferred Experience:

• Experience with combined-cycle gas turbine, simple-cycle, reciprocating-engine, modular-generation, or other utility-scale power projects.


• Experience with gas turbines, steam turbines, generators, reciprocating engines, transformers, switchgear, emissions systems, or other major power-generation equipment.


• Experience managing projects with significant owner-furnished equipment and multiple parallel equipment packages.


• Experience with fast-track project delivery, Primavera P6, project cost-control systems, document-management systems, and EPC progress-measurement practices.


• Prior experience working for an owner, developer, EPC contractor, major equipment supplier, or power-generation engineering firm.


• Owner's mindset: Protects the company's long-term commercial, technical, operational, and reliability interests.


• Leadership: Establishes direction, drives accountability, and coordinates organizations that may not report directly to the position.


• Commercial judgment: Understands contractual obligations, change management, claims, schedule exposure, and cost consequences.


• Technical fluency: Understands multidisciplinary engineering and major equipment interfaces sufficiently to identify risks and support sound decisions.


• Execution discipline: Converts plans and commitments into measurable actions, accountable owners, and firm completion dates.


• Decision quality: Distinguishes between issues requiring additional analysis and issues requiring timely action.


• Communication: Communicates complex project matters clearly to executives, engineers, contractors, suppliers, and field personnel.


• Constructive challenge: Challenges contractors, suppliers, and consultants while maintaining productive working relationships.


• Integrity and accountability: Provides transparent reporting and promptly elevates unfavorable information.

Measures of Success

• Safe execution of the project and achievement of business-critical contractual milestones.


• Delivery within the approved budget and forecast, with disciplined change and claims management.


• Timely identification and mitigation of project risks, including OEM/EPC interface risks.


• Effective management of the EPC contractor, major equipment suppliers, and Owner’s Engineer.


• Timely closure of engineering, supplier, and construction interfaces.


• Clear, accurate, decision-oriented project reporting and management recommendations.


• Successful commissioning, performance testing, turnover, commercial operation, warranty transition, and final contract closeout.

Position Summary

The Project Manager is an owner-side position responsible for the safe, timely, and cost-effective execution of an assigned power-generation project from project handoff through engineering, procurement, construction, commissioning, commercial operation, and final closeout.

The role serves as the company’s primary day-to-day interface with the EPC contractor, major equipment suppliers, and the Owner’s Engineer, integrating their work while protecting the company’s technical, commercial, schedule, and operational interests.

Primary accountability: Coordinate the company, EPC, OEM/vendor, and Owner’s Engineer activities so that scope, interfaces, decisions, cost, schedule, quality, commissioning, and turnover remain aligned.

Key Responsibilities

Project Leadership and Accountability

• Serve as the company’s primary point of accountability for execution of the assigned project and manage performance against approved safety, scope, cost, schedule, quality, performance, and reliability objectives.


• Develop and maintain the project execution plan, including governance, decision authorities, communication protocols, reporting requirements, escalation procedures, and integration of internal and external stakeholders.


• Identify issues requiring executive decisions and provide timely, fact-based recommendations to the Director of Execution.


• Maintain an owner-focused view of the project and ensure contractor and supplier activities remain aligned with the company’s business and operating objectives.

EPC Contractor Management

• Act as the company’s primary day-to-day interface with the EPC contractor and hold the contractor accountable for contractual scope, deliverables, milestones, cost commitments, quality, safety, and performance guarantees.


• Lead regular EPC progress, engineering, procurement, construction, commercial, and executive review meetings.


• Review execution plans, staffing plans, schedules, progress measurement, forecasts, recovery plans, payment applications, and milestone achievement.


• Monitor engineering, procurement, construction, commissioning, and turnover activities to identify emerging issues before they affect project objectives.


• Coordinate with Legal, Procurement, Project Controls, Engineering, and other the company functions on contract changes, claims, schedule impacts, disputes, and corrective actions.


• Challenge unsupported cost or schedule impacts and require adequate documentation, mitigation plans, and accountability for recovery.


• Serve as the project-level interface with major equipment suppliers and OEMs and coordinate closely with the Procurement Manager on owner-furnished equipment.


• Ensure supplier technical requirements, design information, installation requirements, delivery dates, and commissioning obligations are fully incorporated into the EPC contractor’s design and integrated schedule.


• Manage key interfaces covering technical data, foundations and buildings, electrical/mechanical/controls connections, utilities, delivery, storage and preservation, installation, field services, startup, testing, warranties, and performance obligations.


• Monitor supplier engineering, manufacturing, factory testing, shipment, delivery, field service, and issue resolution; drive mitigation of supplier delays or technical issues that could affect the project.


• Coordinate the company and Owner’s Engineer participation in design reviews, inspections, factory acceptance tests, and major manufacturing milestones.

Owner's Engineer and the company Engineering Coordination

• Coordinate closely with the Director of Engineering and the the company Engineering team, who direct the Owner’s Engineer’s technical work and issue its work orders.


• Identify project needs for Owner’s Engineer support and work with the Director of Engineering to scope, prioritize, and sequence work orders so that deliverables, review schedules, and decision deadlines align with the project schedule.


• Use the Owner’s Engineer for independent technical review and oversight while preserving the EPC contractor’s responsibility for design and execution.


• Coordinate the company Engineering and Owner’s Engineer support for design criteria, specifications, engineering reviews, constructability, vendor submittals, RFIs, site inspections, quality surveillance, commissioning, performance testing, and turnover documentation.


• Ensure Owner’s Engineer reviews are risk-based, timely, consistent, and focused on protecting the company’s interests rather than creating unnecessary rework or transferring EPC design responsibility to the owner; elevate priority or resourcing conflicts to the Director of Engineering.


• Resolve conflicting positions among the company Engineering, the EPC contractor, equipment suppliers, and the Owner’s Engineer in coordination with the Director of Engineering.

Scope and Interface Management

• Maintain clear definition of scope boundaries among EPC, owner-furnished equipment, Owner’s Engineer, utility/interconnection, fuel supply, site development, and other third-party work.


• Develop and maintain an interface matrix identifying responsibilities, required information, due dates, and accountable parties.


• Identify scope gaps, overlaps, exclusions, and unclear responsibilities before they result in change orders, claims, or schedule delay.


• Ensure changes in one contract or equipment package are evaluated for impacts across all affected parties.

Cost, Schedule, Change and Risk Management

• Own overall project cost and schedule performance in coordination with the Project Controls Manager and support establishment of the integrated project baseline.


• Review forecasts, trends, commitments, cash flow, contingency usage, estimate-at-­completion, critical path, near-critical activities, float erosion, long-lead equipment, and owner decision dates.


• Lead mitigation and recovery planning for cost or schedule variances and ensure material changes receive appropriate the company review and authorization before proceeding.


• Support evaluation of contractor claims, extension-of-time requests, and potential back charges.


• Maintain the project risk and opportunity register, assign risk owners, and drive measurable mitigation actions with emphasis on long-lead equipment, interfaces, permitting, interconnection, construction productivity, commissioning, plant performance, and contractual exposure.

Construction, Commissioning and Turnover

• Provide owner-level oversight of construction while maintaining the EPC contractor’s responsibility for means, methods, supervision, safety, quality, and contractual performance


• Direct the the company site representative (employee or contract) responsible for day-to-day construction monitoring, including surveillance priorities, inspection focus areas, reporting requirements, and escalation protocols.


• Use site representative observations to verify reported progress, quality, and safety performance and to identify field issues before they affect project objectives.


• Maintain an appropriate personal site presence during critical phases of construction, commissioning, startup, reliability testing, and performance testing, supplemented by the site representative’s continuous coverage.


• Coordinate with the company Operations to incorporate operability, maintainability, access, training, spares, documentation, and turnover requirements.


• Track deficiencies, punch-list items, nonconformances, incomplete work, and supplier issues through resolution.


• Ensure required training, manuals, spare parts, warranties, as‑built drawings, test records, and turnover documentation are complete before final acceptance and support warranty/contract closeout.

Safety, Quality and Reporting

• Reinforce the company safety expectations and monitor contractor safety performance, field observations, incidents, corrective actions, and quality program implementation.


• Ensure quality issues are identified and resolved before they become embedded in completed work or affect commissioning and long-term reliability.


• Prepare concise, decision-oriented reports covering safety, engineering, procurement, construction, cost, schedule, risk, commercial issues, and required management actions.


• Maintain decision logs, action registers, change logs, risk registers, and other project governance records; provide accurate forecasts and explain variance from the approved baseline.

Background:

• Drug Screening


• Medical PPO & HDHP available (preventative care covered at 100%)


• Vision: VSP network; $15 eye exam copay


• 401(k) 6 % match


• Employee Stock Purchase Plan (15% discount)


• HSA, FSA, Short and long term disability, basic life / AD&D, and voluntary life


• Wellbeing support: EAP, Caregiver, Financial wellness, free virtual classes on wellness, discounts on travel/fitness/childcare/groceries + more


• PTO - based on a candidates TOTAL years of experience (MAJOR PERK!)

Other Benefits:

• Cell Phone Reimbursement: Up to $100/month for eligible business-related cell phone expenses


• Fitness Reimbursement: Up to $600/year for eligible fitness and wellness related expenses


• Education Reimbursement: Up to $6,750/year for eligible/approved coursework


• Adoption Reimbursement: Up to $5,000 per qualified adoption for eligible adoption-related expenses