Assistant Project Manager

the Client•Englewood, CO

7d•Onsite

About The Position

The Assistant Project Manager will be responsible for leading cross-functional teams to execute substation, transmission line, and telecommunication projects from inception through design and construction to closeout. This role involves overseeing multiple projects concurrently, managing them for schedule and financial adherence, and coordinating craft labor resources. The position also includes developing multi-year capital expenditure plans, ensuring synergies across projects, and assisting with rate filing support. Additionally, the Assistant Project Manager will be responsible for developing construction lifecycles with a focus on outage efficiency and constructability, analyzing project documents, conducting site walkdowns, and creating initial outage sequences. Regular reporting and client presentations are key aspects of this role.

Requirements

Strong organizational, communication, and problem-solving skills.
5+ years of experience in utility transmission projects (either T-Line or substation) or other related industries.
Bachelor's degree in Engineering, Construction Management, or related degree from an accredited program required.
Applicants must be authorized to work for ANY employer in the U.S.

Nice To Haves

Relevant T&D (gas or electrical) engineering background with openness to pivoting as a program PM for a utility client.
Familiarity or proficiency in ProjectWise, SharePoint, SAP, and cost/schedule management.
PE or PMP certification.

Responsibilities

Lead a cross-functional team to execute substation, transmission line, and telecommunication projects from inception through design and construction to closeout.
Oversee 5–20 projects concurrently of varying sizes and voltages (4kV–765kV).
Manage projects for schedule adherence, identifying risks and requirements to successfully achieve a project's in-service date.
Navigate projects through client gate approval processes, including presentations to senior and executive management as required by each client.
Manage projects for financial adherence, maintaining an accurate cost forecast reflecting committed and uncommitted costs for an estimate-at-completion.
Coordinate craft labor resources with client-approved vendors for construction, testing and other field activities.
Provide regular status updates on projects by maintaining project data and routine reporting as well as meeting updates for clients.
Lead project meetings with cost, schedule, real estate, environmental, construction, public engagement, and engineering resources to facilitate project execution.
Develop a multi-year capital expenditure plan to support the client's replacement and betterment of electric transmission and distribution assets.
Regular interface and coordination with project sponsor organizations to determine details of proposed plans and business justification.
Ensure synergies across projects are incorporated into the portfolio of work to prevent scope from being duplicated or performed inefficiently.
Monitor composition of client's capital investment allocation to align with stated subsidiary investment targets for optimal rate of return.
Engage with project sponsors to evaluate need-by date for realistic schedules and budgets.
Assist with creation and compilation of rate filing support for federal and state filings.
Review tabletop engineering estimates for accuracy and scope.
Review project change requests (scope, in-service date, etc.) and reconcile with the existing and long-range portfolio of work.
Interface with client's accounting group to establish financial setup for projects.
Create analyses & reports to assist the client in tracking, coordination, and execution of projects.
Build baseline scopes, schedules, and budgets to be released to multiple client's stakeholders.
Responsible for developing substation and transmission project construction lifecycles, with a focus on outage efficiency and constructability.
Manage multiple projects simultaneously while meeting specified deliverable dates and expectations.
Analyze scoping and project documents to determine boundaries of required construction within the substation and within electric grid.
Conduct site walkdowns and project calls with the project team as necessary to establish an achievable construction sequence with attainable outages.
Analyze needed outages against adjacent outages scheduled in the area.
Create initial outage sequence to communicate proposed construction lifecycle to project team.
Coordinate with drafting resources to create engineering-caliber drawings that document the evolution of a project from present conditions to final state and all needed incremental steps.