Manifest Solutions is partnered with a regional energy partner with ongoing needs for Senior Project Manager professionals.
- Manage one or more intermediate or complex projects within a matrix team environment. Provide leadership, direction, coordination, and e?ective communication to initiate, plan, execute, monitor, control, and close projects in a safe, e?cient, economical, and risk-balanced manner.
- Communicate with stakeholders, team members, suppliers, contractors, vendors, and industry peers to support sound project decisions and continuous improvement.
- Plan, organize, direct, coordinate and supervise assigned project activities becoming pro?cient in all aspects.
- Utilize various project management principles and techniques (Waterfall, Agile) and successfully implement these techniques in project management for the organization.
- Manage, develop, review and coordinate the project/outage plan, schedule, and budget becoming pro?cient in all aspects.
- Manage cost and timely reallocation of funding.
- E?ectively communicate project details and status updates.
- Lead planning meetings and project updates including typical stakeholder presentations.
- Provide clear and concise written and oral reports and other communications.
- Develop and actively manage working relationships with the project team, plant and operating company sta?, internal and external customers or partners, contractors, vendors, and suppliers.
- Foster teamwork and actively pursue customer satisfaction.
- Provide speci?c guidance, instruction, and training to improve design, systems, procedures, processes, schedules, and costs.
- Con?dently challenge others at a level of informed understanding in all project work.
- Ensure maximum customer satisfaction and demonstrate e?ective and e?cient performance of project work activities at an intermediate project level at a minimum.
- Mentor other project managers.
- Direct and supervise sub-team project managers as assigned.
- Develop and manage procurement plans for necessary outside resources.
- Manage contracts for outside services, including developing requests for proposals, evaluating competitive bids, selecting vendors, participating in contract negotiations, overseeing vendor performance/quality, ensuring work is performed in accordance with the contract, etc.
- Conduct and supervise closeout processes, including an analysis of the success of the project with respect to accomplishing the project objectives and realizing project bene?ts.
- Apply applicable project management standards and governance requirements.
Minimum Requirements:
- Bachelor's degree in construction management, engineering, business, project management, computer science, or related ?eld of study dependent upon business unit requirements with ?ve (5) years quali?ed experience, two-year associate's degree in the same required disciplines with seven (7) years of quali?ed experience, or High School Diploma/GED with nine (9) years quali?ed experience (see below).
- Two (2) years of experience or demonstrated competencies, knowledge and skillset through achieved results in a shorter timeline.
- Quali?ed experience includes work in project management, major construction ?eld experience, project estimating, project controls, project engineering, and/or comparable internal or external experience in a competitive production environment.
- Experience must exhibit progressively increasing project management and business acumen and responsibility for most of the certifying body knowledge areas.
- Demonstrated preparedness for journey level PM knowledge capability in areas of construction safety, negotiations, scope development and control, cost estimating, construction contracting, project controls and reporting, quality control, risk management, etc.
- Experience in utilities, commercial nuclear power, and/or IT systems is favorable.
- PMP certi?cation is preferred but not required.
- Valid state driver's license is required.
Other Requirements:
- Provide e?ective leadership, team building and meeting management skills as outlined by the certifying body and the leadership competencies and values.
- Develop a high level of con?dence in the ability, and demonstrate the motivation and attitude, to lead a team and a project to successful conclusions.
- Lead with e?ective and compelling communication, including the use of e?ective listening, with all stakeholders including team members, sponsors, management and senior management.
- Apply economic analysis techniques and an acumen for the business and profession in project decision making and ensure alignment of project and company ?nancial goals.
- In?uence the engineering and design, Procurement, Contracting, Estimating, and Construction procedures and processes to optimize project execution.
- Ensure the project team utilizes the latest business unit guidelines and requirements. Identify opportunities for process improvement within project scope.
- Apply working knowledge of the certifying body Project Management tools and techniques.
- Provide strategic thinking, planning, risk assessment and prioritization of project activities. View the project from all angles such as safety, constructability, sequence, changing conditions, contingencies, contractual, predictability, level of priority, sense of direction and sense of productivity to quickly identify and to avoid or to mitigate project risks. Also, demonstrates sound decision-making practices.
- Provide organization of project activities, delegate project task assignments, con?dently set team requirements and expectations to manage deliverables and hold team members accountable. Provide constructive feedback to team members.
- E?ectively prioritize and manage con?ict to provide solutions to issues that maximize synergies with an overriding goal to do the "right thing" for the company. Take timely independent action and know when to elevate an issue.
- Pro?cient in scope management, evolution of technical options, and project risk factors and mitigation methods.
- Pro?cient in contract development and management with acceptable allocation of risks within the terms of the contract.
- Act with integrity by demonstrating accountability for project assignments.
- Promote continuous improvement and maintain a strong questioning attitude. Ask intrusive questions and challenge assumptions.
- Seek input from Subject Matter Experts by asking questions for understanding and comparing them with one's own knowledge base.
- Lead the evaluation and determination of the skill sets and capabilities of team members and then make recommendations to ensure project success.
- Safely and e?ectively Perform light physical duties. Duties can involve construction site walkdown on unstable surfaces, climbing ladders, and awareness of hazardous site conditions
