Job DescriptionProject Manager III - Facilities serves as a senior-level leader responsible for delivering complex facility planning, design, and construction projects that support PSE's operational continuity and long-term asset strategy. This role drives projects from concept through completion with minimal oversight-providing architectural and engineering expertise, overseeing construction management and procurement, ensuring regulatory compliance, and safeguarding quality, cost, and schedule performance. Acting as a technical advisor and cross-functional partner, the PM III interprets standards, develops project budgets, leads feasibility studies, and mentors other project managers while ensuring that facilities investments align with organizational goals and operational needs.
Upholds the safety compliance standards inherent in PSE's operating and/or field procedures related to work responsibilities. Promotes and supports a culture of total safety.
Demonstrates commitment to conduct business honestly, ethically and consistent with our core values and Code of Conduct. Ensures duties are performed in accordance with all regulatory compliance obligations.
Job Responsibilities- Assembles and leads multi-disciplinary project teams. Identifies the scope of an assigned project and decides logical action to meet project requirements and deadlines.
- Communicate and manage the customer relationship as the primary point of contact.
- Accurately identify customer needs, set reasonable expectations, identify potential issues and share alternatives.
- Perform effective upfront project planning and advocacy of PSE's operational objectives to minimize costs and change orders, identify risks, and maximize efficiency through negotiation and conflict resolution.
- Validate and refine the scope of an assigned project and decides logical action to meet project requirements and deadlines.
- Recognizes technical issues that impact the projects under their leadership, and obtains resources to mitigate project risks.
- Ensure compliance with codes, standards, and design, operation, and maintenance requirements.
- Applies general rules, standards and guidelines to specific technical problems.
- Communicate technical information clearly and concisely to non-technical audiences, sometimes in public settings.
- Gathers, consolidates and analyzes facts in relation to project requirements.
- Responsible for schedule and budget development, management and forecasting.
- Supports emergency response work as requested.
- Performs other duties as assigned.
Minimum Qualifications- Bachelor's Degree or equivalent combination of education and/or work experience.
- At least six years relevant work experience, including managing simple to medium complexity projects.
- Strong communication and presentation skills and techniques to bring about agreement between divergent points of view. Ability to write clear, concise and direct narrative and reports.
- General knowledge and experience in scheduling, estimating, accounting and finance principles.
- Experience with methods, techniques and procedures involved in budgeting, procurement and contract administration.
- Strong knowledge in project management discipline to effectively arrange resources and manage multiple simple to medium complexity projects in a cross-functional environment.
- Strong analytical, problem-solving and conceptual skills for single or multiple technical areas.
- Strong negotiating and critical thinking skills.
- Customer-oriented, a positive, team-oriented attitude, flexibility, an understanding of the business issues driving the need for the project, and solid work ethic are expected.
- Leadership skills that can energize a multidisciplinary work team to respond to business needs.
Desired Qualifications- General knowledge of project management principles, processes and techniques, applied in a utility setting.
- Experience with utility methods, techniques and procedures involved in budgeting, procurement and contract administration.
- Advanced Project Management Training and Project Management or Construction Management Certification from an accredited institution (PMI or College).
- Excellent verbal and written communications skills, with an ability to express complex technical concepts in business terms.
- Bachelor's Degree in Project Management, Construction Management, Electrical, Mechanical or Civil Engineering.
- General knowledge of techniques used to involve community members in development of project affecting their community.
The pay range for this position is $94,300.00 - $156,900.00, and this position is eligible for annual goals based incentive bonuses.
PSE offers a suite of benefits to our employees. Employees are eligible for medical, dental, vision, basic life, and short- and long-term disability insurance. There are additional voluntary options of supplemental life insurance, accidental death and dismemberment insurance, flexible spending accounts for health care and dependent daycare, and an Employee assistance program (EAP). For long term savings, PSE offers a 401(k) investment option and a cash balance retirement plan. Employees will also receive Paid Time Off (PTO) and Paid Holidays throughout the calendar year. Detailed benefit overviews can be found on our Career page - Why Work For Us (pse.com).
