Summary

The Lead Project Manager is directly responsible for executing high-value, high-visibility, multi-year and/or schedule-constrained electric utility substation and transmission line infrastructure portfolios and projects. These facilities include voltages up to 500kV, with portfolio and project budgets often exceeding $100 million. This individual will serve as a subject matter expert in managing interconnection of large customer loads and/or generators as assigned including solar and battery resources. The successful candidate will utilize cross-functional teams and alternative delivery methods—such as EPC—to permit, design, engineer, procure, construct, and test and commission portfolios and projects. This role will oversee the implementation and monitoring of technical work plans, schedules, cost estimates, resource plans, status reports, and risk assessments. The Lead Project Manager will prepare and deliver portfolio and project updates to teams, senior leadership, external stakeholders, and other relevant parties to ensure objectives and milestones are met.

What You'll Do

• Prepare major power delivery infrastructure portfolios and projects for execution by SRP’s Project Management Implementation Team. Facilities include air-insulated substations (AIS), gas-insulated substations (GIS) and transmission lines—both overhead and underground.
• Develop and present comprehensive project plans to project team, leadership, external entities, and other stakeholders as required. Obtain all necessary stakeholder support and executive leadership approvals.
• Organize, oversee, and lead project planning, resourcing, staffing, progress reporting, people management, vendor relationships and troubleshooting.
• Manage, oversee, and coordinate all aspects of project activities supported by a multidisciplinary, matrix team of internal and external resources planning, permitting, designing/engineering, procuring, constructing, and testing and commissioning project facilities. On some projects, the work may include integrating vendor tasks into the project plans and tracking and reviewing vendor deliverables.
• Analyze, recommend, and utilize alternative contracting strategies to ensure the success of the Project Management Development Team.
• Develop and maintain relationships with contract entities including partnerships/term agreements for project implementation for project management staff to utilize.
• Represent SRP to outside agencies impacted by project assignments/activities. Serve as the single point of contact to external customers when applicable.
• Lead development of study reports, scoping, cost estimates, schedules, material lists, constructability plans, electrical outage requirements, request for proposals, specifications, contract documents, and customer and municipality agreements.
• Manage the procurement of materials and contracted services—including long lead-time equipment, and contracts for scoping, estimating and pre-design services —with responsibility for high-level negotiations and direct award recommendations. Develops and negotiates agreements with external entities, including municipalities and customers.
• Monitor and report schedule, budget, and resourcing performance. Identify and resolve risks/obstacles to completing projects on time and within budget. Ensures deliverables adhere to SRP’s quality criteria and safety values.
• Communicate status updates and results as work is completed to teams, leadership, external entities, and other stakeholders as required.
• Collaborate with project management personnel, business partners and peers to develop Project Management Office (PMO) tools, templates, processes, workflows, procedures and policies.
• Identify and deploy innovative project management strategies and solutions to achieve organizational objectives.
• Mentor, train and advise less senior project management staff including contracted personnel, to enhance skills and help execute projects.

What It Takes To Succeed

• Project Management Professional (PMP) certification highly preferred.
• Strong understanding of project management processes, principles, and methodologies.
• Strong technical understanding of utility substation and transmission line facilities, and electric and civil design and construction processes.
• Experience project managing design, procurement and/or construction activities for electrical utility facilities including implementation of contracting methods such as EPC.
• Excellent people management, collaboration, and oral and written communication skills, including presentation skills.
• Analyze the needs of the audience in real time and seamlessly adjust both content and communication to achieve objectives.
• Drive customer satisfaction while safeguarding SRP’s strategic priorities and long-term value.

Experience

A minimum of 10 years of related experience is required (if no degree, 14 years of relevant experience or an equivalent combination of education and related experience totaling 14 years).

Education