Senior Project Manager - Transmission Routing and Siting

About the role

We are seeking transmission routing and siting professionals to support HDR’s expanding power practice. This is a great opportunity to join one of the top employee-owned companies in the US and work on exciting regional and national projects while developing skills, growing your career and playing a key role in a growing practice in a growing company and nationally ranked team of Environmental and Power Delivery professionals in our North Central Region.

Responsibilities

• Develop buildable routing and siting solutions to support utility and developer infrastructure
• Work with project teams including utility and developer staff and consultants
• Work with stakeholders including government agencies, regulators, communities and landowners
• Prepare testimony and technical documentation including studies to present defensible line route and facility site selection
• Prepare and monitor project scope, schedule, and budget
• Build key relationships with HDR and utility staff
• Strategic thinking, networking, client relations and lead development
• Travel on average 10-20% of the time expected

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in environmental planning, environmental science, community planning, engineering, landscape architecture or related field
• Minimum 10 years of experience in linear projects involving land acquisition, routing or environmental planning
• Minimum 8 years experience writing proposals, developing scopes of work, budget, and schedules for complex environmental projects with multi-disciplinary teams and multi-agency efforts with a strong focus on siting and routing studies
• Experience preparing applications for submittal to state utility regulatory agencies and system operators
• Experience preparing and providing expert witness testimony
• Experience and understanding of permit requirements
• Strong conceptual, organizational, analytical, problem-solving, and research abilities
• Able to support multiple complex and time sensitive projects effectively
• Identify and resolve issues effectively and efficiently
• Able to interact with design and construction teams in a positive and proactive manner

Preferred Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in related field
• Minimum 10 years related experience
• Minimum 5 years of project management experience
• Familiar with Microsoft Office, estimating and scheduling software, project management software
• Ability to interact with various design teams, have excellent organizational, project management and communication (both written and verbal) skills
• An attitude and commitment to being an active participant of our employee-owned culture is a must