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- United States
- Contract
- Full-time
- Posted
- 8 November 2026
- Apply by
- 7 January 2027
We are seeking a Manager - Project Management to lead the day-to-day execution of complex, engineered electrical-equipment projects supporting a strategic hyperscale customer. As the Manager - Project Management, you will manage and direct the work of a project team. You will be responsible for managing scope, cost, schedule, internal staffing and outside vendors.
This is a highly visible, hands-on individual contributor role for a project leader who thrives in a fast-moving, technical environment and knows how to bring structure, accountability, and momentum to complex programs. You will also ensure project team milestones/goals are met and adhere to approved budgets. You will oversee subordinate staff in the day-to-day performance of their job and has authority for personnel actions.
Responsibilities
- Direct and manage project development from beginning to end.
- Take day-to-day ownership of schedules, milestones, equipment packages, risks, issues, changes, dependencies, and deliverables. Keep scope, open items, and required decisions visible and drive execution through closure.
- Define project scope, goals and deliverables to support business goals in collaboration with senior management and stakeholders.
- Coordinate drawing reviews, submittals, comments, revisions, approvals, and clarifications with engineering providing technical expertise and design authority.
- Track technical questions, recognize dependencies or missing information, and engage engineering for interpretation and decisions.
- Develop full-scale project plans and associated communications documents.
- Connect customer, manufacturer, engineering, quality, supply chain, commercial, logistics, and field-service teams.
- Align owners, share information clearly, and coordinate handoffs to prevent delays and missed requirements.
- Communicate project expectations to team members and stakeholders.
- Lead focused meetings, assign owners and due dates, maintain action logs, decision records, and approval records, and drive open items to closure.
- Create structure when work is complex, fast-moving, or ambiguous.
- Liaise with project stakeholders on an on-going basis.
- Explain technical, schedule, commercial, and execution issues in terms of business impacts, required decisions, next steps, and escalation paths.
- Escalate risks early to protect milestones and customer commitments, and track resolution through closure.
- Estimate resources and participants needed to achieve project goals.
- Draft and submit budget proposals, and recommend subsequent budget changes.
- Determine and assess need for additional staff or consultants and make appropriate staffing adjustments during project cycle.
- Set and manage project expectations with team members and other stakeholders.
- Adopt approved digital tools, automation, and AI-assisted workflows to improve coordination, action tracking, document-review support, and project visibility. Apply sound judgment and verify outputs before relying on them.
- Delegate tasks and responsibilities to personnel.
- Identify and resolve issues and conflicts within project team.
- Identify and manage project dependencies and critical path.
- Plan and schedule project timelines and milestones using appropriate tools.
- Track project milestones and deliverables.
- Develop and deliver progress reports, proposals, requirements documentation, and presentations.
- Manage changes in project scope, identifies potential concerns, and devise contingency plans.
Requirements
- Bachelor’s Degree required
- PM Certification preferred
- Electrical-equipment, substation, and transformer experience is preferred
- 5-7 years experience of relevant project-management or project-execution experience, including complex or large-scale projects.
- 3 years experience direct work, with a team, in a large-scale project management capacity, including all aspects of process development and execution
- Project-management or project-execution experience in a technical industry such as industrial manufacturing, energy, infrastructure, EPC, oil and gas, or data centers.
- Ability to build strong business relationships with other functional areas to best support mutual objectives
- Strong problem-solving skills and ability to analyze workflow and processes to provide excellent service to internal and external customers
- Ability to spot key risks upfront and mitigate
- Ability to bring quick focus to key issues and priorities
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