Power Systems Engineer Project Manager [Electrical Engineer]

ProSidian Consulting, LLC•Phoenix, AZ

17h•$180,000 - $195,000•Hybrid

About The Position

ProSidian seeks a Power Systems Engineer Project Manager [Electrical Engineer] for Baseline Project Support, focusing on Project Initiation, Scope, Schedule, and Budget Management. This role is for a Program Support Exempt 1099 Contract with a hybrid work arrangement (on/off client site and virtual) in the CONUS - Phoenix, AZ Area. The position supports a high-voltage electric transmission capital project management and owner’s engineer support for a Federal power marketing administration. The role is aligned with the GSA Labor Category: Project Manager | Electrical Engineer / Power Systems Engineer and focuses on Project Management Engineering Support Services. Candidates with relevant Energy Industry experience (Oil, Gas/Power, Utilities) are sought. This is a Contract Contingent or Contract W-2 (IRS-1099) position, with the possibility of conversion to a Full-Time ProSidian employed W-2 Position. The role is located in the South West Area Region, at or near CONUS - Phoenix, AZ, with an initial Work Site Address of 615 S. 43rd Ave, Phoenix, AZ 85009. The position involves providing services and support as a Power Systems Engineer Project Manager [Electrical Engineer] [Project Management Engineering Support Services] aligned with Baseline Project Support | 01. Project Initiation, Scope, Schedule, and Budget Management in the Energy Industry Sector. The focus is on Engineering Solutions for clients like the Department of Energy, Western Area Power Administration, Desert Southwest Region. The role provides Project Management Support Services for WAPA Project Management and Owner’s Engineer Support, delivering integrated project management, owner’s engineer, technical coordination, construction-phase support, financial oversight, regulatory and stakeholder compliance coordination, and project closeout services for Western Area Power Administration electric transmission capital projects. The Power Systems Engineer Project Manager, serving as the lead Electrical Engineer, will plan, engineer, control, and coordinate project execution to support the safe, efficient, transparent, reliable, and successful delivery of high-voltage transmission infrastructure.

Requirements

Bachelor of Science degree from an accredited university in engineering or construction management.
Minimum fifteen (15) years of professional experience in engineering, construction, or utility infrastructure.
Minimum ten (10) years as a Project Manager, Senior Project Manager, or Deputy Project Manager with direct accountability for scope, schedule, and cost control.
A minimum of five (5) years of project-management experience must be specifically associated with high-voltage transmission projects.
Minimum of ten (10) years' experience managing Bulk Electric System transmission-line construction projects at 115 kV or above.
Demonstrated experience managing transmission construction projects with individual total construction values exceeding $100 million.
Demonstrated experience in transmission-line rebuilds; candidate must provide relevant project examples.
Demonstrated design-bid-build experience coordinating the designer of record and construction contractor; at least one project example is required.
Demonstrated leadership of cross-functional teams in complex federal, utility, or Power Marketing Administration environments; project examples must demonstrate stakeholder alignment, conflict resolution, and measurable progress in scope, schedule, and cost.
Demonstrated Owner’s Engineer lifecycle experience, including primary liaison responsibilities representing a transmission owner to external customers, private partnerships, and stakeholders; project examples and references are required.
Demonstrated experience supporting projects governed by power-marketing, transmission-service, network-credit, or similar utility contractual arrangements; examples of projects are required.
Transmission project planning, project controls, cost estimating, forecasting, scheduling, risk management, change control, issue resolution, and closeout.
Owner’s Engineer technical oversight for high-voltage transmission lines, substations, structures,
FAR-based construction contract-administration experience, including invoice/pay-application review, change-order evaluation, negotiation support, independent estimate-style analysis, claims avoidance, issue documentation, and contemporaneous recordkeeping; provide a responsibility narrative and at least two FAR-governed project examples.
Environmental and cultural-resource coordination experience covering NEPA commitments, Section 106 constraints, SHPO impacts, vegetation management within transmission ROW corridors, monitoring, and inadvertent-discovery procedures; provide at least one project example showing how requirements were tracked, communicated, and enforced.
Tribal coordination experience on at least two projects involving tribal entities, culturally sensitive construction, or work near tribal lands or resources; provide two project examples, reference contacts, coordination interfaces, protocols followed, and construction controls implemented.
Project Leadership and Accountability — owns outcomes and drives disciplined delivery across the full project lifecycle.
Owner’s Engineer Judgment — balances technical integrity, constructability, operability, safety, cost, schedule, customer obligations, and lifecycle value.
Matrixed Team Leadership — gains alignment and performance through influence, credibility, collaboration, and clear decision governance.
Commercial and Contract Acumen — understands FAR-based construction administration, contractual entitlement, progress measurement, change management, and defensible documentation.
Risk and Controls Discipline — identifies emerging risk, quantifies impacts, develops mitigation, escalates appropriately, and maintains reliable project-control data.
Regulatory and Compliance Integration — converts environmental, cultural, tribal, reliability, safety, and acquisition requirements into executable construction controls.
Stakeholder and Customer Coordination — communicates effectively with government leaders, utility customers, contractors, designers, private partners, tribal entities, regulators, and landowners.
Conflict Resolution and Decision Facilitation — frames issues, evaluates alternatives, documents decisions, and resolves technical or organizational impasses.
Written Record Quality — produces accurate, timely, traceable, and dispute-ready records, correspondence, reports, meeting minutes, and action documentation.
Cost-Effectiveness and Customer Satisfaction — delivers practical solutions that protect public resources, project commitments, and service quality.
Business Tools – Understanding and proficiency with business tools and technology, including Microsoft Office. The ideal candidate is advanced with Excel, Access, Outlook, PowerPoint, and Word; proficient with Adobe Acrobat, data analytics tools, and Visio; and able to quickly learn other tools as needed.
Business Tools – Strong understanding and proficiency in business tools and technology, especially Microsoft Office. The ideal candidate should be advanced in Excel, Access, Outlook, PowerPoint, and Word, proficient in Adobe Acrobat, data analytics tools, and Visio, and capable of rapidly learning new tools as required.
Commitment - to work with intelligent, interesting people with diverse backgrounds to solve the most significant challenges across private, public, and social sectors.
Curiosity – the ideal candidate exhibits an inquisitive nature and the ability to question the status quo among a community of people they enjoy and teams that work well together.
Humility – exhibits grace in success and failure while doing meaningful work where skills have an impact and make a difference.
Willingness - to constantly learn, share, and grow, and to view the world as their classroom.

Nice To Haves

Electrical Engineer or Power Systems Engineer with high-voltage transmission, substation, power experience.
Active Professional Engineer licensure is not required; demonstrated depth of relevant project delivery and Owner’s Engineer experience is the controlling qualification factor.

Responsibilities

Develop, maintain, and update the project scope in coordination with the Federal Project Manager and relevant subject matter experts.
Develop, maintain, and update integrated project schedules that reflect approved scope, milestones, dependencies, constraints, and task-order priorities.
Develop, maintain, and update project budgets aligned to approved scope, work breakdown structure, resource needs, and execution timelines.
Establish and maintain cost-loaded schedules and performance baselines to support project tracking, forecasting, and reporting.
Define project milestones, deliverable dates, critical path activities, and performance measurement points.
Estimate labor hours, staffing requirements, equipment needs, and resource requirements for assigned project activities.
Compare estimated resource requirements against available resources and identify gaps, conflicts, or constraints.
Recommend schedule, staffing, sequencing, or resource adjustments necessary to meet project objectives and schedule commitments.
Serve as the senior Project Manager and Owner’s Engineer representative supporting WAPA DSW Transmission Asset Planning daily operations and the lifecycle delivery of complex high-voltage transmission capital projects.
Plan, organize, lead, and control assigned projects from development and design through procurement, construction, commissioning, turnover, and closeout, maintaining accountability for scope, schedule, cost, technical quality, safety, regulatory commitments, and customer obligations.
Develop and maintain integrated project plans, work breakdown structures, schedules, cost forecasts, risk registers, action logs, decision records, progress metrics, and executive-level status reports.
Coordinate design-bid-build interfaces between WAPA, the designer of record, construction contractors, customers, private partners, utilities, environmental specialists, cultural-resource personnel, operations, maintenance, procurement, legal, finance, and other stakeholders.
Provide Owner’s Engineer technical oversight of transmission line, substation, right-of-way, foundation, structure, access-road, outage, energization, and utility-construction activities; identify technical conflicts and drive timely resolution.
Represent the transmission owner as the primary liaison to external customers, private partnerships, tribal entities, landowners, agencies, and other stakeholders, including projects governed by power-marketing, transmission-service, network-credit, or comparable utility contractual arrangements.
Support FAR-based construction contract administration, including review of pay applications and invoices against contract line items, schedules of values, progress measurements, approved work, and supporting documentation.
Evaluate contractor changes, requests for equitable adjustment, schedule and cost impacts, entitlement support, negotiation documentation, and independent estimate-style analyses; maintain contemporaneous records that support claims avoidance and dispute resolution.
Integrate NEPA commitments, mitigation measures, Section 106 and cultural-resource constraints, SHPO coordination requirements, tribal protocols, inadvertent-discovery procedures, vegetation-management controls, and environmental permits into construction planning and field execution.
Coordinate outages, access restrictions, right-of-way constraints, long-lead material and equipment procurement, customer interfaces, and construction sequencing for MV, HV, and EHV transmission line and substation projects.
Apply applicable NESC requirements, FERC regulations, NERC reliability standards, WAPA/DOE procedures, Federal and State requirements, and standard utility practices to project decisions and deliverables.
Use Microsoft Project, Excel, SharePoint, Teams, Maximo, SAP BusinessObjects Enterprise, GIS, and related systems to gather and analyze data, manage budgets, forecast expenditures, track milestones, document decisions, and report performance.
Lead cross-functional teams through influence rather than direct authority, resolve competing priorities, facilitate decisions, escalate material risks, and consistently drive measurable scope, schedule, cost, quality, compliance, and customer-satisfaction outcomes.
Support project closeout, including punch-list resolution, final invoice and change reconciliation, as-built and turnover documentation, lessons learned, records completion, and confirmation that contractual and environmental commitments are satisfied.
Act as WAPA’s senior technical and project-delivery representative throughout the transmission-project lifecycle, protecting the transmission owner’s technical, operational, commercial, financial, regulatory, and schedule interests.
Independently review engineering designs, specifications, calculations, construction submittals, schedules, cost information, work plans, and field conditions to identify risks, validate compliance, and support informed owner decisions.
Coordinate project interfaces among WAPA personnel, utility customers, private partners, landowners, regulatory agencies, tribal entities, operations and maintenance personnel, designers, contractors, environmental specialists, and other affected stakeholders.
Apply experience with power-marketing and transmission-service arrangements, customer-funded projects, public-private or utility partnerships, network-credit concepts where applicable, outage and access commitments, and the documentation of owner, customer, and partner obligations.
Facilitate timely owner decisions, reconcile competing stakeholder interests, resolve technical and commercial issues, maintain decision and action records, and preserve measurable progress in scope, schedule, cost, quality, safety, compliance, and customer satisfaction.
Integrate engineering project management and field execution with applicable Federal Acquisition Regulation requirements, contract terms, task order provisions, and federal construction administration practices.
Review and validate contractor progress, quantities, payment applications, invoices, schedule updates, deliverable status, and supporting documentation before recommending acceptance or payment.
Evaluate requests for information, site-specific conditions, change proposals, schedule and cost impacts, and entitlement considerations. Develop negotiation-support materials, technical evaluations, cost analyses, and independent government estimate-style documentation.
Maintain contemporaneous records of field conditions, decisions, correspondence, delays, access constraints, contractor performance, and issue resolution. Support claims avoidance, negotiations, dispute resolution, and the development of defensible contract files.
Demonstrate knowledge of federal procurement requirements affecting the planning, acquisition, inspection, delivery, storage, and installation of long-lead materials and equipment for medium-voltage, high-voltage, and extra-high-voltage transmission-line and substation projects.
Translate National Environmental Policy Act commitments, mitigation measures, permit conditions, and other environmental requirements into project schedules, work packages, access plans, contractor instructions, inspection criteria, field controls, and project records.
Coordinate Section 106 requirements, cultural-resource surveys, archaeological or cultural monitoring, avoidance areas, stop-work requirements, and inadvertent-discovery procedures during planning and construction.
Incorporate the State Historic Preservation Office's requirements and commitments into construction sequencing, site access planning, contractor communications, monitoring activities, compliance tracking, and field enforcement.
Coordinate vegetation management activities within high-voltage transmission line rights-of-way, considering environmental restrictions, access limitations, easement conditions, landowner requirements, clearance standards, sensitive resources, and construction sequencing.
Establish mechanisms to track, communicate, inspect, document, and enforce environmental and cultural resource requirements throughout construction.
Demonstrate experience coordinating with tribal governments, tribal historic preservation representatives, cultural-resource specialists, or other tribal stakeholders on projects involving tribal lands, culturally sensitive areas, traditional cultural properties, or resources of tribal interest.
Apply established consultation and communication protocols, access restrictions, monitoring requirements, notification procedures, inadvertent-discovery protocols, stop-work provisions, confidentiality protections, and other culturally sensitive construction controls.
Demonstrate the ability to interpret and apply the National Electrical Safety Code to medium-voltage, high-voltage, and extra-high-voltage transmission-line and substation planning, design, construction, operation, and compliance activities.
Demonstrate working knowledge of applicable Federal Energy Regulatory Commission requirements affecting transmission planning, transmission service, interconnection, cost allocation, reliability coordination, and customer or partner obligations.
Demonstrate experience applying relevant North American Electric Reliability Corporation reliability standards to transmission planning, project development, construction coordination, operational readiness, documentation, and compliance.
Demonstrate proficiency with Microsoft Word, PowerPoint, Excel, Outlook, Project, SharePoint, and Teams for project planning, scheduling, reporting, document control, stakeholder communication, collaboration, and records management.
Demonstrate experience using systems such as IBM Maximo, SAP BusinessObjects Enterprise, or comparable enterprise applications to support data collection, asset and work-order tracking, budget monitoring, forecasting, expenditure analysis, performance reporting, and project-management decision support.
Demonstrate sufficient working familiarity with GIS applications to interpret transmission-system maps, right-of-way exhibits, parcel information, environmental constraints, cultural-resource avoidance areas, access routes, construction limits, and other geospatial project information.
Fulfill roles by setting, managing, pursuing, and achieving annual goals and objectives, with documented goals for each of ProSidian's eight core competencies: Personal Effectiveness, Continuous Learning, Leadership, Client Service, Business Management, Business Development, Technical Expertise, and Innovation & Knowledge Sharing (Thought Leadership).
Support all business development and related activities on behalf of ProSidian.