Senior Project Manager (Remote)

Responsibilities

• Lead the successful execution of electrical utility technology projects related to ADMS, OMS, EMS and DERMS operational control systems.
• Act as a client interface, from initial assessment and qualification of project opportunities to handling correspondence, inquiries, and submittals.
• Ensure project success through detailed planning and compliance, which involves reviewing and briefing stakeholders on all project specifications, instructions, and contractual requirements, as well as organizing bids.
• Project Governance & Delivery Management:
  • Own the project plan, schedule, budget, and milestones.
  • Establish and enforce project governance.
  • Cook up dependencies across multiple programs.
  • Ensure alignment with internal and utility PMO standards.
• Scope, Schedule & Cost Control:
  • Drive project execution and resource coordination by maintaining and overseeing schedules.
  • Ensure delivery team and customer align with project scope.
  • Tightly track and forecast operating budgets.
  • Manage not-to-exceed (NTE) and time-and-materials (T&M) contracts.
  • Provide accurate and timely resource demand forecasts and financial variance reporting.
• Risk, Issue & Dependency Management:
  • Identify and manage project, technical, and operational risks.
  • Maintain risk and issue logs with mitigation plans.
  • Manage cross-system and cross-program dependencies.
• Testing & Quality Assurance Oversight:
  • Oversee SIT, UAT, performance, and security testing.
  • Track defects and readiness criteria.
  • Enforce go-live readiness gates.
  • Manage change control and scope creep.
• Stakeholder & Communication Management:
  • Manage a wide range of stakeholders.
  • Participate in regular Production/Client Meetings to ensure alignment and address ongoing project needs.
  • Lead status meetings, steering committees, and executive updates.
  • Translate technical issues into business impacts.
  • Manage expectations across competing priorities.

Qualifications

• Mastery of scope, schedule, cost, and risk management.
• Strong change control and dependency management experience.
• Ability to accurately manage project budgets.
• PMP Certification.
• Understanding of electric utility operations (Transmission, Distribution, Generation, Customer Operations).
• Familiarity with IT/OT convergence Power Control Systems Software & Integration.
• In depth understanding of project delivery methodologies (Waterfall, Agile, Hybrid) as it relates to power control systems.
• Experience with APIs, message queues, batch interfaces.
• Experience coordinating system integration, user acceptance and other key testing stage gates.
• Leadership & Behavioral Competencies:
  • Leads without direct authority.
  • Communicates effectively with internal teams and customers.
  • High accountability and ownership mindset.
  • Strong conflict resolution and negotiation skills.
  • Decisive but collaborative.
  • Resilient in bureaucratic environments.
  • Customer Account Management & Relationship Development.
• Demonstrated experience managing multi-vendor, multi-workstream initiatives.
• Experience working directly with electric utilities or similar asset-intensive organizations.
• Experience coordinating projects involving OMS, ADMS, SCADA, AMI or equivalent enterprise platforms.
• Licensure/Certification: Project Management Professional or equivalent project management certification.

Benefits & Compensation

• Medical, Dental, Vision, Life Insurance, Short and Long-Term Disability, 401(k) match, Flexible Spending Accounts, EAP, Parental Leave, Paid time off, and Holidays.

Company Overview

Qualus is a leading pure-play power solutions firm and innovator at the forefront of power infrastructure transformation, with differentiated capabilities across grid modernization, resiliency, security, and sustainability. The firm partners with utilities, commercial, industrial, data center, and government clients, and renewable and energy storage developers, offering comprehensive solutions through boutique and integrated advisory, planning, engineering, digital solutions, program management, and specialized field services. Qualus also provides software and technology enabled services and develops breakthrough solutions for critical power industry challenges such as distributed and variable resource integration, emergency management, and secure data exchange. The firm has over 1,800 professionals, with offices throughout the U.S. and Canada.