Senior Power Project Manager

Wood; Tucker (GA); Hybrid; USD 120,000 - 180,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Meaningful projects

Hybrid work

Diversity & Inclusion

Competitive salary

Flexible benefits

Professional development

Global connections

Job summary

Wood is seeking a Senior Project Manager for its Thermal Power unit in a hybrid role based in Tucker, GA (with support across Greenville, SC and Charlotte, NC). Ideal candidates have 15–35 years in engineering design firms within power generation and have led major projects, including studies and detailed engineering.

The role covers budgets, schedules, risk mitigation, multi-disciplinary team leadership, and stakeholder engagement, with potential to act as Project Director, Project Manager, or

Qualifications

• 15–35 years of experience in engineering design or project management in the power generation sector.
• Experience leading major power generation projects is required.
• Experience with studies and detailed engineering is expected.

Responsibilities

• Manage budgets, schedules, and risk mitigation for large projects.
• Lead multi-disciplinary teams and engage stakeholders to meet client expectations.
• Possess the ability to act as Project Director, Project Manager, or Project Engineer on complex assignments.

Skills

Power generation projects

Project management

Engineering design

Job description

Wood is currently looking Senior Project Manager candidates for a role in Wood’s Thermal Power business unit. This role is hybrid, and would be located at either our Tucker,Georgia, Greenville, South Carolina, or Charlotte, North Carolina offices. We are seeking candidates with between 15 and 35 years of experience, having worked at an Engineering design firm as a design engineer in the power generation sector and/or project manager or project engineer. Candidates should have experience leading major power generation projects.Project experience should include both studies and detailed engineering.

Applicants must be authorized to work lawfully in the US without sponsorship from Wood, now or in the future. No agencies please.

The ideal candidate would have the ability to act in several roles, including Project Director, Project Manager, or Project Engineer on large or complex projects. Field experience is highly desirable. The role will have responsibility for budgets, schedule, risk mitigation, multi-disciplinary team management, stakeholder engagement (internal and external), and meeting clients’ expectations.

We are seeking a highly motivated individual with good interpersonal skills and with good communication and computer skills. Wood seeks a candidate that will take ownership of the work of the entire project team.

Our Clients and Projects

Designing the future. Transforming the world.

Wood’s Thermal Power business unit provides engineering services to the Power Generation industry (grid-tied), as well as power generation projects for industrial facilities, process plants, and pulp and paper mills. Recently, many of Wood’s projects are focused on behind-the-meter generation for datacenter customers. The Wood Thermal Power group has a legacy of industrial, pulp and paper, and utility power projects that goes back over 50 years. Projects have included studies, cycle analysis, and detailed design of power plants with technologies ranging from chemical recovery and biomass boilers in the pulp and paper industry, gas turbines as part of simple and combined cycle power plants, and thermal utility and industrial plants consisting of boilers of a wide variety of types and fuels. Projects have also included power plant air pollution control systems including FGD and SCR systems. Project sizes range from $50,000 study efforts to multi-million dollar engineering efforts for projects exceeding a billion dollars of total installed cost.

Wood’s Thermal Power projects over the years have included some of the leading-edge technologies, such as solar thermal, geothermal, wind, renewable fuels, the latest gas turbines and steam turbines, bubbling fluidized bed boilers, and circulating fluidized bed boilers.

The Thermal Power team works in close collaboration with Specialty Chemicals and Forest Industry teams, sharing discipline resources. This multi-industry environment provides opportunities during market shifts for motivated project managers to lead projects in other markets.

What we can offer

• Meaningful and interesting projectsdelivered to leaders of industry across our Power Generation sector.
• Flexible working arrangementsthat balance client, team and individual needs offering hybrid working.
• Commitment to Diversity and Inclusion;we are an organization actively committed to diversity and inclusion across our business with employee networks committed to giving all employees a voice.
• Competitivesalary with regular salary reviews to ensure we are rewarding at the right level in line with the market.
• Flexible benefits packagethat can be adapted to suit your lifestyle.
• Commitment to continued professional development;development plans that are tailored to your individual needs and interests.
• Global connections:join experts around the world who are at the leading edge of our industry, shaping the standards of our profession.