Project Manager, Facilities Construction

NV Energy; Reno (NV); On-site; USD 110,000 - 170,000; Full time

Job summary

NV Energy in Nevada seeks a seasoned project leader to plan and deliver complex capital construction projects across offices and facilities. You will guide scope, budget, schedule, procurement, and risk management while coordinating architects, engineers, and contractors.

You will manage projects through design, construction, commissioning, turnover, and closeout, ensuring safety, regulatory compliance, and minimal disruption to operations.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree from an accredited school in construction management, engineering, architecture, project management, or a related field and a minimum of five years of progressively responsible construction project management experience.
• Candidates who do not possess a bachelor’s degree must have a minimum of 9 years of progressively responsible construction project management experience.
• Construction and project management practice including project scope development and scope control.
• Commercial and industrial construction methods and sequencing.
• Critical Path Method scheduling.
• Work breakdown structures, milestones, dependencies, and schedule forecasting.
• Capital budgeting, estimating, forecasting, cash-flow planning, contingency management, and cost control.
• Construction procurement and contracting methods.
• Contract administration, contractor performance management, change orders, claims, and dispute resolution.
• Local, state, and federal permitting requirements.
• Applicable building codes, life-safety requirements, accessibility standards, and construction requirements.
• Construction safety and contractor safety oversight.
• Quality assurance, quality control, inspections, commissioning, and project closeout.
• General building and office systems.
• Physical security and access-control systems
• Construction activities in occupied and operational facilities.
• Project governance, financial controls, document control, and executive reporting.

Responsibilities

• Leads development and execution of project plans including scope, budget, schedule, and procurement.
• Manages capital construction projects through planning, design, procurement, construction, and turnover.
• Translates business requirements into actionable scope of work and recommends approvals.
• Establishes project objectives, milestones, and decision-making processes.
• Coordinates architectural, civil, structural, mechanical, electrical, and other project needs.
• Leads procurement activities, contract negotiations, and vendor selections.
• Administers contracts, purchase orders, and project agreements.
• Ensures compliance with policies, codes, and regulatory requirements.
• Monitors project performance and reports to stakeholders.
• Facilitates meetings, documents decisions, and tracks action items.
• Coordinates construction phasing, site logistics, safety, and operational transitions.
• Manages construction activities in occupied facilities with minimal disruption.

Skills

Leading teams

Stakeholder management

Cost control

Schedule planning

Contract administration

Regulatory compliance

Quality assurance

Safety oversight

Communication

Executive reporting

Education

Bachelor’s degree in CM/Engineering/Architecture/PM

9+ years experience without degree

Job description

Basic Purpose

Leads the planning and delivery of complex, multidisciplinary capital construction projects supporting NV Energy’s general office, operations center, service center, and other company facilities.

Job Description

Basic Purpose

Leads the planning and delivery of complex, multidisciplinary capital construction projects supporting NV Energy’s general office, operations center, service center, and other company facilities.

Responsibilities

Essential Duties and 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.

Qualifications

Essential Education, Skills, and Environment

Education And Work Experience

Bachelor’s degree from an accredited school in construction management, engineering, architecture, project management, or a related field and a minimum of five years of progressively responsible construction project management experience.

Candidates who do not possess a bachelor’s degree must have a minimum of 9 years of progressively responsible construction project management experience.

Specialized Knowledge And Skills

Demonstrated knowledge of:

• Construction and project management practice including project scope development and scope control.
• Commercial and industrial construction methods and sequencing.
• Critical Path Method scheduling.
• Work breakdown structures, milestones, dependencies, and schedule forecasting.
• Capital budgeting, estimating, forecasting, cash-flow planning, contingency management, and cost control.
• Construction procurement and contracting methods.
• Contract administration, contractor performance management, change orders, claims, and dispute resolution.
• Local, state, and federal permitting requirements.
• Applicable building codes, life-safety requirements, accessibility standards, and construction requirements.
• Construction safety and contractor safety oversight.
• Quality assurance, quality control, inspections, commissioning, and project closeout.
• General building and office systems.
• Physical security and access-control systems
• Construction activities in occupied and operational facilities.
• Project governance, financial controls, document control, and executive reporting.

Demonstrated skills such as:

• Leading and directing multidisciplinary project teams.
• Managing architects, engineers, contractors, consultants, vendors, and internal stakeholders.
• Identifying scope gaps, design conflicts, schedule delays, cost pressures, procurement risks, operational impacts, and contractor-performance concerns.
• Developing and implementing corrective-action and recovery plans.
• Managing and documenting project decisions, changes, approvals, risks, and commitments.
• Balancing customer requirements, operational needs, project costs, time constraints, risk, safety, quality, and company standards.
• Building consensus among stakeholders with differing priorities.
• Effectively negotiating project issues and resolving conflicts.
• Communicating technical construction issues clearly to technical and nontechnical audiences.
• Preparing concise executive summaries, project updates, dashboards, presentations, recommendations, and decision documents.
• Working independently while recognizing when significant risks, decisions, or changes require escalation.
• Managing multiple priorities, deadlines, stakeholders, and project assignments.
• Maintaining accurate, complete, and audit-ready project documentation.

Equipment and Applications

PCs, word processing, spreadsheet and database software.

Work Environment and Physical Demands

General office environment, outdoor utility yard and greenfield land environments. Will require project site visits and out of town travel. No special physical demands required

Note: Immigration Sponsorship

At this time, we're not considering applicants that need any type of immigration sponsorship (additional work authorization or permanent work authorization) now or in the future to work in the United States. This includes, but is NOT LIMITED TO: F1-OPT, F1-CPT, H-1B, TN, L-1, J-1, etc. For more information regarding work visas, please visit www.uscis.gov.

About Us

NV Energy is looking for qualified people to join us in one of the premier energy companies in the West. Located in the fastest growing state in the United States, NV Energy provides electricity to 1.3 million customers throughout Nevada as well as a state tourist population exceeding 40 million annually. Among the many communities we serve are Las Vegas, Reno-Sparks, Henderson, Elko and South Lake Tahoe. We also provide natural gas to more than 155,000 citizens in the Reno-Sparks area.

About The Team

NV Energy is proud to be an equal opportunity employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion or religious creed, age, national origin, ancestry, citizenship status (except as required by law), gender (including gender identity and expression), sex (including pregnancy), sexual orientation, genetic information, physical or mental disability, veteran or military status, familial or parental status, marital status or any other category protected by applicable local, state or U.S. federal law. Employees must be able to perform the essential functions of the position, with or without an accommodation.