Senior Transmission Project Lead - Onsite Columbus

Computer Task; Columbus (OH); On-site; USD 83,000 - 103,000; Full time

Job summary

CTG is seeking a Complex Project Manager - Transmission in Columbus, OH, onsite 5 days a week for an 8‑month engagement. You will lead multi‑discipline teams to deliver substations, lines, and grid modernization projects with tight budgets and schedules.

You will coordinate with engineering, planning, field operations, protection and controls, compliance, and IT while managing risks, vendor relations, and executive communications to ensure safety, reliability, and regulatory compliance.

Qualifications

• Demonstrated experience leading complex electric transmission projects with substations, lines, and grid reliability.
• Experience coordinating multidisciplinary engineering, operations, planning, and IT teams.
• Proven ability to manage scope, budgets, schedules, risks, and vendor relations.
• Familiarity with regulatory compliance and executive project reporting is preferred.

Responsibilities

• Lead complex electric transmission projects involving substations, transmission lines, grid reliability, outage coordination, and asset modernization.
• Manage end-to-end project delivery including scope, schedules, budgets, milestones, risks, issues, and cross-functional dependencies.
• Coordinate with transmission engineering, planning, field operations, protection and controls, compliance, and IT teams.
• Support transmission asset management, facility ratings, outage planning, inspection programs, and system data quality initiatives.
• Align business and technical stakeholders to deliver projects that improve grid reliability, safety, regulatory compliance, and operational performance.
• Oversee vendor coordination, resource planning, project governance, change control, and executive stakeholder communications.
• Monitor project progress, identify risks and obstacles, implement mitigation strategies, and communicate status, decisions, and escalations to leadership.
• Ensure project deliverables meet established quality standards, business objectives, schedules, and compliance requirements.

Skills

Complex project management

Electric transmission

Budgeting scheduling

Risk management

Executive communication

Vendor management

Cross-functional teams

Education

Bachelor's degree in Engineering or related field

PM Certification (PMP)

Job description

CTG is seeking a Complex Project Manager - Transmission in Columbus, OH, onsite 5 days a week for an 8‑month engagement. You will lead multi‑discipline teams to deliver substations, lines, and grid modernization projects with tight budgets and schedules.

You will coordinate with engineering, planning, field operations, protection and controls, compliance, and IT while managing risks, vendor relations, and executive communications to ensure safety, reliability, and regulatory compliance.