Project Manager - Transmission & Distribution (Richmond)

About the role

Burns & McDonnell is seeking a Project Manager to join our growing Program Management team. The ideal candidate will bring a safety-first mindset, dedication to client success, and an entrepreneurial spirit to our dynamic projects.

Responsibilities

• Lead a cross-functional team to execute substation, transmission line, and telecommunication projects from inception through design and construction to closeout.
• Oversee 5-20 projects concurrently of varying sizes ($100k-$50M) and voltages (4kV-765kV).
• Manage projects for schedule adherence identifying risks and requirements to successfully achieve a project’s in-service date.
• Navigate projects through client gate approval processes including presentations to senior and executive management as required by each client.
• Manage projects for financial adherence maintaining an accurate cost forecast reflecting committed and uncommitted costs for an estimate-at-completion.
• Cook up projects with client approved vendors for construction, testing and other field activities.
• Provide regular status updates on projects by maintaining project data and routine reporting as well as meeting updates for clients.
• Lead project meetings with cost, schedule, real estate, environmental, construction and engineering resources to facilitate project execution.
• Aid in developing a multi-year capital expenditure plan to support client's replacement and betterment of electric transmission and distribution assets.
• Interface with client's accounting group to establish financial setup for projects.
• Create analyses & reports to assist the client in tracking, coordination, and execution of projects.
• Build baseline scopes, schedules, and budgets to be released to multiple client's stakeholders.
• Responsible for development of substation and transmission project construction lifecycles with focus on outage efficiency and constructability.
• Analyze scoping and project documents to determine boundaries of required construction within substation and within electric grid.
• Conduct site walkdowns and project calls with project team as necessary to establish an achievable construction sequence with attainable outages.
• Analyze needed outages against adjacent outages scheduled in the area.
• Create initial outage sequence to communicate proposed construction lifecycle to project team.
• Coordinate with drafting resources to create engineering-caliber drawings that document the evolution of a project from present conditions to final state and all needed incremental steps.

Qualifications

• Bachelor Degree in engineering, construction management or related degree from accredited program and 7 years applicable experience required.
• Prior experience on construction project sites or executing program management in the industries of aviation, commercial, energy, government, manufacturing, oil & gas, process, transmission & distribution, or water is preferred.
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills.
• Strong analytical and problem-solving skills, and attention to detail.
• Ability to thrive in a fast-paced, demanding work environment, ability to work overtime on short notice.
• Excellent computer skills and proficiency using Microsoft Office.
• Strong experience with document control, scheduling, cost control and project management software.