Project Manager
About the role
The Project Manager leads the end-to-end delivery of mobile, truck-mounted gas turbine generator deployments from notice-to-proceed through installation, commissioning, Ready-for-Service (RFS), and handover. This role ensures performance, safety, schedule, cost, and contractual compliance by integrating logistics, site works, turbine package installation, balance-of-plant (BOP), and grid/customer interfaces.
Responsibilities
- Owns execution of the Statement of Work (SOW), including capacity, voltage, fuel quality, operating modes, and any emissions or noise limits.
- Manages contractual deliverables, acceptance criteria, and customer sign-offs for RFS and provisional/final acceptance.
- Controls scope changes through formal change order processes to protect margin and schedule.
- Develops and maintains the integrated project plan and schedule covering site readiness, package delivery, BOP completion, and commissioning windows.
- Drives critical path management with weekly look-aheads and proactive constraint removal.
- Ensures robust HSE planning for high-risk work including lifts, hot work, energized testing, and fuel handling.
- Ensures all permitting and compliance requirements are identified and met (air/emissions, noise, transport permits, AHJ inspections).
- Implements construction quality processes to ensure commissioning readiness and minimize rework.
- Coordinates heavy haul logistics, delivery sequencing, crane plans, rigging, and set activities.
- Ensures installation readiness for tools, spares, OEM specialists, and site utilities.
- Manages subcontractors for civil, electrical, mechanical, fuel systems, and security works.
- Establishes commissioning readiness gates and confirms prerequisites such as mechanical completion and protection settings approvals.
- Coordinates customer/utility energization approvals and outage windows.
- Escalates and resolves technical and supply chain issues with OEM and engineering stakeholders.
- Owns deployment P&L including labor, subcontractors, rentals, and schedule delay risks.
- Manages forecasting and cost-to-complete while aligning invoice milestones to acceptance events.
- Serves as the primary commercial interface to customer leadership for status, risk, and decisions.
- Leads governance cadence, including weekly customer calls and commissioning readiness reviews.
- Ensures complete turnover packages to Operations, including as-builts, settings baselines, O&M manuals, and warranty documentation.
- Conducts lessons learned and closes all commercial and contractual obligations.
Requirements
- Must be at least 18 years of age or older.
- Must be legally authorized to work in the United States without the need for sponsorship.
- Successfully passes all applicable general pre-employment testing including but not limited to: background check, pre-employment drug screening, pre-employment fit tests, pre-employment aptitude and/or competency assessment(s).
- Driver’s License required.
- Daily in-person, predictable attendance.
- Proficiency in spoken English language.
Qualifications
Required: 7+ years project management experience in power generation deployments. 3+ years of experience involving turbine, large genset, or packaged power installation/commissioning. Bachelor’s degree in relevant field required. An equivalent combination of education, specialized training, and relevant professional experience will be considered in lieu of formal degree. Demonstrated experience managing multi-discipline field execution (civil, mechanical, electrical, controls). Strong contract/change order management and schedule control (Primavera P6, Microsoft Project, or equivalent). Experience coordinating OEM commissioning/start-up activities and managing warranty compliance.
Preferred: Experience with mobile/temporary power and fast-track deployments. Familiarity with grid-parallel requirements (protection, metering, synchronization, interconnection). PMP (or equivalent) and formal safety training.
Skills
End-to-end delivery of mobile power deployments from notice-to-proceed through contractual handover. Mastery of integrated project planning, critical path management, and schedule control. Technical oversight of heavy haul logistics, crane plans, and rigging activities for turbine packages. Financial management of deployment P&Ls, including margin protection and cost-to-complete forecasting. Leadership of multi-discipline field teams and subcontractors within high-risk work environments. Commercial management of Statement of Work (SOW) compliance and formal change order processes. Coordination of commissioning readiness gates, utility energization approvals, and customer acceptance.
Work Environment
Employees are frequently required to walk, sit, climb, bend, reach, and squat or kneel. The employee works primarily indoors and will be sitting for prolonged periods at a desk while typing on a computer, whether in a home office, corporate office, client office, or jobsite. The employee must be able to access and navigate each department at the organization's facilities, and must be able to lift 25 lbs. independently. When employees work and/or visit a warehouse or shop environment, they may be exposed to common hazards such as physical strain, moving machinery, loading and unloading activities, falling objects, and slip, trip, and fall risks. When employees are required to visit a pad site, the work environment may include exposure to hazardous materials, operating conditions, audio levels up to 85 dB, inclement weather, and extreme temperatures (both hot and cold).