Join us as a Senior Project Development Manager, where you'll lead complex customer projects from start to finish. This role offers the chance to drive efficiency, manage diverse teams, and deliver exceptional results in a dynamic, global environment.
What will you do?- Responsible for the project site safety during project development/audit phase
- Develop safety strategy for the project and communicate safety requirements to all project team members and subcontractors
- Ensure safety strategy, safety audits and required job hazard analysis and risk assessments are performed
- Ensure all personnel and subcontractors are familiar and adhere to Schneider Electric safe work practices and alignment with customer safety requirements
- Responsible for Customer Satisfaction
- Collaborate with customer to identify and understand the customer's mission and vision
- Develop a project strategy that aligns with the customer's mission and vision and operational needs
- Ensure customer satisfaction by identifying and exceeding project expectations
- Facilitate the technical communication and presentation in customer project
- Project Leadership
- Demonstrate servant leadership with project team to provide team with direction and tools to be successful
- Innovation leader driving creative solutions and new ideas to exceed customers' expectations and deliver on project goals
- Develop project charter and communication cadence for collaboration of project efforts
- Provide technical leadership on the review of scopes of work, review of project deliverables and customer stakeholder management
- Develop the Project Plan, Schedule and Budget for the Development Phase of the Project
- Collaborate with sales lead to develop a close plan strategy and build a project plan to meet the strategy
- Identify and coordinate internal and external resources required to achieve project objectives
- Identify schedule and budget constraints and opportunities to achieve project strategy
- Collaborate with internal and external teams on budget, phasing and scope of work deliverables to meet the project plan
- Lead, Plan, Organize and Participate in Investment Grade Audits (IGA), Requests for Proposal Audits (RFP) and Business Case (BC) Audits
- Coordinate internal and external teams for facility audits and site access on customer sites
- Lead with Sales Lead, customer kickoff meetings and scope debriefs
- Responsible for developing scope, coordinating technical strategy, project financials, customer reports and final contract
- Lead the effort in defining project scope and acquiring scope of work estimates that meet or exceed the customer and regional goals and objectives
- Review and ensure project estimates are accurate and the project scope is executable within the budget.
- Direct the methodologies of performing energy savings calculations and identify any risk associated with the projections
- Review savings projections to ensure plausibility and identify any financial risk
- Prepare final project costs in financial tools for turnkey construction of scope of work
- Collaborate with Sales, Construction and Performance Assurance for alignment of project goals, strategy, scope, costs and project requirements
- Coordinate technical and management reviews
- Prepare technical audit reports
- Organize, develop and negotiate Design Professional Agreements (DPA)
- Responsible for the coordination of efforts, quality control and completion construction contract
- Complete the RITE Review documents and facilitate Signature level authority as indicated by the Authorization Level Document.
- Manage the timely resolution of issues, including the escalation of issues that are outside the project team's scope of responsibility. Track risks and ensure execution of corrective action plans until project closure.
- Management of the risks, assumptions, action items and issues log
- Monitor the project and report the project status to the management team on a regular basis.
- Prepare and update project schedule and cost re-estimates on a routine basis.
- Complete all project status reporting at a regular cadence
- Scope: Large sized projects with complex scope, multiple project portfolio of complexity, large need for internal and external coordination, large project team. Can lead the project and complex stakeholders of all vertical markets: K-12 education, post-secondary and higher education, federal, municipal and county government and healthcare
- Manage and develop direct and indirect reports
- Provide leadership, management and performance goals for direct and indirect reports
- Manage utilization and resource allocation to achieve success on projects
- Develop plans and goals to meet and exceed business goals
- Coordinate with other functional and regional leaders
- Responsible for capturing and sharing best practices and lessons learned throughout business
What are the key skills we are looking for?- Prioritization - managing competing demands across multiple projects and stakeholders
- Project Management - leading end-to-end delivery of mono-technology and multi-system integration projects
- Customer Orientation - fostering relationships and ensuring exceptional customer experiences
- Risk Management - conducting assessments and implementing mitigation strategies
- Operational Efficiency - driving cost reduction while maintaining or improving delivery quality
- Communication - coordinating effectively with local and global teams and stakeholders
- Critical Thinking - making sound decisions in ambiguous situations with minimal supervision
- Budgeting - overseeing project financials and ensuring alignment with business objectives
What qualifications will make you successful?- 4-year college degree or technical degree, and/or relative experience required.
- Professional Engineering license, or ability to obtain is preferred;
- PMP certification is recommended, CEM certification and LEED accreditation are pluses.
Relative engineering and project management experience (10+ years related work experience preferred) - Demonstrate a thorough knowledge of performance contracting, project development process and energy use in building systems.
- Understanding of energy performance contracts or energy focused design-build projects in lower and higher education or municipal facilities is highly beneficial.
What's in it for me?- High-visibility role where your work directly impacts customer success and business outcomes
- Opportunity to lead diverse, global teams across cutting-edge projects and technologies
- Collaborative culture that values autonomy, professional judgment, and career development
- Dynamic environment with exposure to both Capex and Opex initiatives
Ready to make your mark? Apply today and lead projects that matter!
