Senior Project Manager – Power Generation

Fashion Institute of Design & Merchandising; Tucson (AZ); On-site; USD 120,000 - 190,000; Full time

Job summary

HDR is seeking a Senior Project Manager to lead power generation projects across the United States, including natural gas and potential renewables. You will act as Owner’s Engineer/Advisor, drive client relationships, and manage multi-disciplinary teams to deliver scope on time and within budget.

The ideal candidate has 10+ years of power generation project experience, PE license, and PMP certification, with strong communication and business development skills.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in Engineering or related field.
• Minimum 10 years of relevant power generation project experience.
• Registered Professional Engineer and PMP Certification.
• Experience designing or managing simple cycle and combined cycle EPC projects.
• Ability to manage multiple concurrent projects and lead teams.

Responsibilities

• Develop and maintain positive client relationships and ensure delivery per plan.
• Achieve project schedule, quality, and profitability goals.
• Lead proposal development, review contracts, and assess risks.
• Provide daily leadership to project teams and coordinate with clients and staff.
• Monitor budgets, schedules, and scope changes; implement recovery plans when needed.
• Provide training and mentoring on project management topics.
• Guide engineering and design work within your area of expertise.
• Report project progress to local and regional teams and stakeholders.

Skills

Project management

Business development

Leadership

Client relations

Education

Bachelor's degree in Engineering

PMP Certification

PE License

Tools

MS Office

Adobe

Job description

At HDR, our employee-owners are fully engaged in creating a welcoming environment where each of us is valued and respected, a place where everyone is empowered to bring their authentic selves and novel ideas to work every day.
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The power generation market continues to grow and evolve given strong capacity demand signals that haven’t existed for over a decade. As a result, our national Power Generation team is poised for monumental growth. We are seeking a qualified Senior Project Manager to help our clients develop, contract, and implement natural gas and potentially renewable energy generation projects while serving as Owner’s Engineer and/or Advisor.

As a Senior Project Manager, you will be joining a highly capable, multi-discipline national team that supports power and energy projects within the industrial, IPP, developer, and utility power and energy industry. The Senior Project Manager will be a seller-doer who helps maintain client relationships, brings in projects, develops strategies and plans for performing the work, monitors and communicates status of the project, and leads multi-discipline project teams to successful completion of the work.

This role requires significant client interaction (from pre-positioning for the work through project completion) and strong verbal and written communication skills as needed for regular interaction with internal staff such as project team members, marketing staff, and operations leadership. The ideal candidate will have significant experience with utility scale power generation systems including simple cycle and combined cycle plants.

Responsibilities of the Senior Project Manager include:

• Develop and maintain positive and proactive client relationships.
• Achieve project schedule, quality, and profitability goals.
• Serve as proposal champion/manager and assist with proposal preparation, review of contract terms and conditions, and evaluate risks associated with the services being offered.
• Provide daily leadership to the project team and technical staff in completion of project activities.
• Provide regular communication and coordination within the project team and with the client such that the project work plan and the client’s expectations on deliverables are understood and aligned. Monitor project deliverables for quality, completeness and conformance to the client’s expectations.
• Proactively monitor and maintain the project budget and schedule. Develop appropriate recovery plans in the event of potential shortfalls.
• Monitor the contracted scope of work and identify scope changes.
• Provide training and mentoring to project team staff on project management and project consulting issues.
• Guide design or consulting work in the manager’s area of engineering expertise.
• Routinely report project progress to the local and regional accounting and operations team.
• All other duties as assigned.

Preferred Qualifications

• Bachelor ’s degree in Engineering; or combination of Degree and Relevant Project Experience.
• Minimum 10 years of relevant powergeneration project experience.
• Registered Professional Engineer
• PMP Certification
• Experience designing or managing simple cycle and combined cycle EPC projects as owner, owner’s engineer, OEM, or EPC contractor.
• Have the ability to handle multiple concurrent projects.
• Demonstrated business development skills.
• Good communication, leadership, planning, and mentoring skills.
• MS Office, Adobe, and other relevant software experience.

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Required Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in related field
• 10 years related experience
• A minimum of 5 years of project management experience
• Familiar with Microsoft Office, estimating and scheduling software, project management software
• Must have the ability to interact with various design teams, have excellent organizational, project management and communication (both written and verbal) skills
• An attitude and commitment to being an active participant of our employee-owned culture is a must

What We Believe

HDR is our company. Together, we build on each other's life experiences and perspectives to make great things possible every day. This shapes our collaborative culture, encourages organizational trust and connects us closer to the clients and communities we serve.
Our Commitment As employee owners, we all have a role in creating an inclusive environment where each of us is welcomed, valued, respected and empowered to bring our authentic selves to work every day.
Our eight Employee Network Groups (Asian Pacific, Black, Hispanic/Latino(a), LGBTQ+, People with Disabilities, Veterans, Women, Young Professionals) help create a sense of belonging and foster a supportive environment where everyone is empowered to engage and contribute. Each group has an executive sponsor and is open to all employees.

Primary Location

United States-Arizona-Tucson

Industry

: Power

Schedule

: Full-time

Employee Status

: Regular

BusinessClass : Power Generation

Job Posting

: May 21, 2026

At HDR, we are committed to the principles of employment equity.

We are an Aff i n a Quali, Equal Opportunity Employe r.
We consider all qualified applicants, regardless of criminal histories, arrest and conviction records.

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