Transmission Project Manager/ Team Lead

About the role

HDR Engineering is seeking a Transmission Project Manager/Team Lead to join our growing and nationally ranked team of Power Delivery Professionals in Billings, MT. This role involves managing high voltage electric transmission line projects of all sizes and complexity, leading a local team, and engaging in business development.

Responsibilities

• Manage and lead transmission projects throughout an entire project life cycle
• Understand and apply project management tools and techniques such as project life cycle, client goals, contract terms, project risk, work breakdown structures, financial management, earned value, communication, team management, change management, and project closeout
• Coordinate with marketing and technical leadership for business development
• Leverage and/or develop client relationships to develop new transmission opportunities
• Build, develop, and supervise a local transmission team and provide oversight over workload, quality, utilization, team morale, training, and performing annual performance reviews of team members
• Lead the QA/QC process on projects and ensure delivery of world-class quality
• Direct, mentor, train, and/or supervise one or more PM's, Project Engineers, EIT’s, CADD/Designers, and administrative staff

Requirements

• Bachelor's degree in related field
• 7 years related experience
• A minimum of 2 years project management experience
• The ability to interact with various design teams, excellent organizational, project management, and communication skills (both written and verbal)
• An attitude and commitment to being an active participant of our employee-owned culture

Preferred Qualifications

• FE license required, PE license strongly preferred
• 4 years of transmission line design experience required, distribution line design experience an added benefit
• 7 years of overall experience including prior project management and staff management experience preferred
• Strong client management, marketing, and business development skills in addition to contacts/relationships with transmission clients preferred
• Previous experience managing staff, clients, contracts and hiring staff for an engineering consulting firm desired
• Track record of working cooperatively with diverse teams, regional, department, technical managers and project staff preferred

Benefits

Our comprehensive benefits package includes medical, dental, vision, short and long-term disability, life insurance, an employee assistance program, paid time away, parental leave, paid holidays, a retirement savings plan with employer match, employee referral bonus and tuition reimbursement. HDR is committed to the principles of employment equity and is an Equal Opportunity Employer.