Senior HV Energy Project Lead – Renewables & Grid

Repsol SA; Houston (TX); Hybrid; USD 140,000 - 190,000; Full time

Job summary

Repsol is seeking a Senior Project Manager to lead HV‑heavy utility‑scale wind, solar, and storage projects in Houston. You will oversee late‑stage development through construction, commissioning, COD, and handover, driving safety, schedule, cost control, and contractor performance.

Strong commercial judgment and governance are essential. The role demands expert coordination with utilities, EPCs, OEMs, and internal teams, with a hybrid in‑office/remote work model in Downtown Houston.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in an Engineering discipline.
• 12+ years of project management experience for major capital projects in energy, infrastructure, construction, or related industry.
• 7+ years of direct HV scope delivery experience involving substations, switchyards, transmission lines, gen‑tie, interconnection, or grid integration scopes.
• Proven track record of managing full life‑cycle EPC projects in the renewable energy sector at utility scale.
• Strong commercial acumen with ability to connect technical and construction issues to cost, schedule, risk, contractual entitlement, and project economics.

Responsibilities

• Provide visible safety leadership across development‑to‑construction project execution.
• Lead cross‑functional project teams with accountability for safety, quality, schedule, cost, risk, and commercial commitments.
• Manage project schedules, including baseline management, critical path analysis, progress measurement, forecasting, and early identification of threats to COD and major milestones.
• Coordinate with Finance, project controls, analysts, and internal support teams to manage monthly budget reforecasts, cost trends, contingency tracking, and updates to project economics.
• Prepare executive‑level project reporting that clearly communicates status, risks, decisions required, commercial exposure, mitigation plans, and confidence in COD and budget outcomes.
• Manage EPC contractor performance against contractual obligations, including milestone achievement, deliverables, notices, reporting requirements, recovery plans, change control, and compliance with project execution requirements.
• Lead commercial and contractual review of change order requests and claims, coordinating with technical, Legal, Procurement, and project controls teams to assess entitlement, cost and schedule impact, contractual merit, and recommended negotiation or settlement strategy.
• Manage unbundled high‑voltage scope execution, including substations, switchyards, transmission lines, gen‑tie facilities, interconnection facilities, protection and control systems, SCADA interfaces, metering, relay settings, testing, commissioning, energization, and turnover.
• Own commercial and execution interfaces between the BOP contractor, HV contractor, OEMs, independent engineer, utility, ISO/RTO, transmission owner, and internal engineering, development, asset management, and operations teams.
• Drive HV design, procurement, construction, and commissioning readiness, including design reviews, constructability, long‑lead equipment tracking, outage planning, utility witness testing, backfeed strategy, energization sequencing, punch list closure, and COD‑critical milestone protection.
• Engage utility counterparts, interconnection stakeholders, consultants, and internal technical teams to support HV facility acceptance, backfeed, relay and protection coordination, energization, synchronization, and COD readiness.
• Maintain an integrated project risk register covering safety, permitting, interconnection, engineering, procurement, construction, schedule, commercial, and financial risks, with clear mitigation owners, due dates, escalation triggers, and quantified impacts where appropriate.
• Lead disciplined project governance, including decision logs, action registers, change logs, correspondence records, approval records, lessons learned, and handover documentation.
• Support EPC procurement and project financing activities, including RFP development, bid evaluation, contractor due diligence, technical and commercial clarifications, contract negotiation support, investor or lender diligence, and open item tracking.
• Lead structured turnover of completed projects to Asset Management, including closeout documentation, outstanding obligations, warranty items, lessons learned, operational readiness inputs, and transition of project knowledge.

Skills

Project management

HV scope

Contract management

Cross-functional leadership

Budget control

Executive reporting

Change management

EPC procurement

Stakeholder management

Risk management

Education

Bachelor’s degree in Engineering

Electrical Engineering degree preferred

Tools

MS Project

Primavera P6

Power BI

Procore

Oracle

SAP

Job description

Repsol is seeking a Senior Project Manager to lead HV‑heavy utility‑scale wind, solar, and storage projects in Houston. You will oversee late‑stage development through construction, commissioning, COD, and handover, driving safety, schedule, cost control, and contractor performance.

Strong commercial judgment and governance are essential. The role demands expert coordination with utilities, EPCs, OEMs, and internal teams, with a hybrid in‑office/remote work model in Downtown Houston.