Sr Project Manager - Utility Power Generation
Location: Des Moines, IA, United States
Date Posted: Oct 30, 2026
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Sr Project Manager - Utility Power Generation
The Waldinger Corporation | Des Moines, Iowa Office
For more than a century, The Waldinger Corporation has designed, built, and maintained the building systems that keep communities and businesses running. Now we're looking for a Sr Project Manager - Utility Power Generation to lead our utility power generation projects from first plans through construction, commissioning, and final closeout.
This is a senior leadership role with real ownership. You'll set the direction for complex, high-stakes projects, build lasting relationships with key client decision-makers, and develop the project leaders who deliver the work. It's ideal for a seasoned power generation leader who enjoys driving results, mentoring people, and helping shape the growth of a business.
What You'll Own:
- Financial Performance: Lead financial planning for your projects, reviewing estimates, forecasts, and results with your teams so risks and opportunities are caught early and acted on fast.
- Operational Excellence: Hold accountability for safety, quality, schedule, operational readiness, and client satisfaction, giving teams the direction and resources they need to succeed.
- Project Oversight: Guide complex projects and the leaders running them by setting clear expectations, monitoring project health, and clearing the barriers that stand in the way.
- Client Relationships: Serve as the trusted link between client and company leadership, coach project leaders on relationship building, and help grow a strong pipeline of future work.
- Risk and Contracts: Oversee contract review and risk mitigation, and lead the negotiation and resolution of complex contractual matters.
- Team Development: Grow the next generation of project leaders through mentoring, accountability, and support for training, staffing, and succession planning.
- Business Growth: Take an active, hands-on role in strategic initiatives, process improvement, and building new capabilities that drive results.
What You Bring:
- 10+ years of project management experience, including 5-7 years in utility power generation project management or senior construction leadership
- Bachelor's degree in construction management, engineering, building construction, business, or a related field preferred, or equivalent experience
- Ability to travel extensively
- Comfort with a moderate level of physical demand
What You'll Get:
- Paid holidays and paid vacation
- Health, dental, and vision insurance, plus a 401(k) with company match and profit-sharing
- Health club reimbursement and a wellness plan with lifestyle spending account
- Tuition reimbursement, continuing education, and clear advancement opportunities
- Term, AD&D, and dependent life insurance, plus prepaid legal services
- Real growth potential with a stable, century-strong company
Ready to lead the projects that power the region? Apply today.
The Waldinger Corporation is an EOE, including disability/vets.
The Waldinger Corporation participates in E-Verify.
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