Project Leader 2 – Energy & Utility

Responsibilities

• Accountable for the overall administration, organization, and implementation of large scale energy and utility construction projects associated with mission critical data centers and industrial facilities.
• Manage the full project lifecycle, including proposal, estimating, design, solutioning, installation, commissioning, and close-out.
• Accountable for project documentation, including project requirements, manpower requirements, project layout, project schedules, detailed equipment plans and field office support.
• Deliver projects aligned with hyperscale data center requirements, including aggressive schedules, phased energization, and high-availability architectures (N+1, 2N).
• Manage procurement and delivery of major generation equipment, including coordination with OEMs, long-lead equipment tracking, and oversight of factory and site acceptance testing.
• Manage procurement and delivery of major generation equipment, including coordination with OEMs, long-lead equipment tracking, and oversight of factory and site acceptance testing.
• Own and manage utility and ISO/RTO interconnection processes, including application timelines, study milestones, and coordination with utilities to ensure alignment with project schedule and commercial operation targets.
• Lead coordination of natural gas utility scope, including pipeline interconnections, metering, and pressure regulation, ensuring alignment of fuel availability with project schedule and commissioning milestones.
• Own and manage utility and ISO/RTO interconnection processes, including application timelines, study milestones, and coordination with utilities to ensure alignment with project schedule and commercial operation targets.
• Lead commissioning and startup execution, including coordination of system turnover, functional testing, grid synchronization, and performance validation to achieve commercial operation.
• Identify and manage risks unique to energy infrastructure projects, including interconnection delays, fuel supply constraints, long-lead equipment, and commissioning performance.
• Coordinate and lead the project kick-off meeting.
• Develop a Work Breakdown Structure for the project with properly named work packages and resources assigned to tasks (resource loaded) to establish a baseline resource plan.
• Accountable for the scheduling of resources on the project to maintain the baseline project schedule.
• Create baseline vs actual reporting of resources, as required.
• Provide and execute site surveys, site cost studies, projected costs, forecasts, cost codes and progress reports, as required.
• Assist with the collection of progress data of both self-perform and contractor perform work.
• Observe and measure project scope and performance against the project plan to ensure that the project is within acceptable variances of cost, budget, schedule and scope.
• Drive the development and maintenance of project artifacts, including engineering and design documents that are required to ensure effective short-term and long-term staffing success for the project.
• Coordinate the acquisition of major equipment and materials.
• Accountable for the acquisition of required permits and licenses for projects and ensuring inspections are handled correctly and in a timely manner.
• Estimating, scheduling, or conferring with estimators, schedulers, and other resources that are assigned to the project to identify matters, such as work procedures, complaints, and other related problems.
• Review the project schedule with the General Contractor and/or Customer.
• Work directly with the Customer on a schedule.
• Manage the integration of data from multiple company systems and analyzing the data to draw insights on project progress.
• Assure timely completion of project punch-list items, the submittal of accurate as-built drawings, operation and maintenance manuals, and the completion of training materials.
• Identify opportunities for cost-saving measures, quality improvements and best practices.
• Maintain a positive, assertive relationship with other project leadership, including supervisors, superintendents, foremen, crew leaders and/or other project personnel, to achieve project milestones and overall project success.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s Degree in Electrical Engineering, Mechanical Engineering, Industrial Engineering, Computer Science, Computer Engineering, Math or Physics preferably from an ABET accredited program.
• 10+ years of experience in leading construction projects in the energy and utility sector.
• Strong technical understanding of distributed energy systems, including natural gas RICE and Combustion turbines, and combined cycle generation.
• Strong technical understanding of balance of plant systems, including electrical substations, HRSG, steam, fuel gas, cooling, and piping systems.
• Strong knowledge of a project management / project scheduling system (MS Project or Primavera P6).
• Ability to create project schedules and scheduling of resources (work items and tasks by hours).
• Ability to estimate project work and prepare proposals for Customers.
• Understanding of critical path analysis of project and resource data to identify potential project issues.
• Ability to discuss project and resource schedules, costs, and budgets with project leadership
• Strong knowledge of procurement processes, including evaluating suppliers and purchasing technical goods and services.
• Ability to create technical documentation, including design documents and reference libraries.
• Executive-level communications and presentation skills.
• Team building and team leadership skills.

Preferred Qualifications:

• Strong knowledge of finance systems as it relates to project budgets and cost codes.
• Understanding of earned value analysis as it relates to project management.
• Proficiency in the use of automated cost/schedule management systems.

Abilities:

• Exposure to computer screens for an extended period of time.
• Sitting for extended periods of time.
• Reach by extending hands or arms in any direction.
• Have finger dexterity in order to manipulate objects with fingers rather than whole hands or arms, for example, using a keyboard.
• Listen to and understand information and ideas presented through spoken words and sentences.
• Communicate information and ideas in speaking so others will understand.
• Read and understand information and ideas presented in writing.
• Apply general rules to specific problems to produce answers that make sense.
• Identify and understand the speech of another person.