Project Manager, Senior Staff

Entergy•The Woodlands, TX

10d•Hybrid

About The Position

The Senior Staff Project Manager supports and manages projects and portfolios exceeding $100 million within the New Generation PMO. The role works with supervisors, contractors, project teams, and business unit stakeholders to deliver projects while meeting cost and schedule objectives and maintaining strong safety, quality, and risk management. It works directly with Project Controls to align processes and manage controls, changes, and contingencies, and coordinates execution activities performed by contractors, vendors, and employees. Responsibilities may include heavy-haul logistics and transportation planning, commercial contract management and change control, or developing and implementing PMO standards, processes, and governance. The role supports project team members throughout the project lifecycle, ensures compliance with approved policies and project-management best practices, and contributes to continuous improvement of capital project execution. The position leads the Commercial / Contract Management function, overseeing regional Contract/Commercial Managers responsible for EPC contract administration. This includes validating and negotiating change orders, managing commercial issues and risks, preparing and responding to commercial letters, ensuring contract compliance, and advising leadership on commercial, legal, and regulatory strategy. The role also collaborates with project leadership and enterprise stakeholders to strengthen commercial governance, standardize processes, and apply consistent commercial project-management expectations.

Requirements

A bachelor's degree or relevant experience in lieu of a degree.
Eight years of professional experience.
Excellent written and verbal communication skills, including presentation skills.
Strong collaboration and consensus-building abilities.
Technical understanding of project and risk-management processes, mitigations, and principles.
Authorization to work in the United States; the employer will not sponsor work visas for this position.

Nice To Haves

PMP certification preferred.

Responsibilities

Promote and enable a strong safety culture across projects through established processes, procedures, and systems.
Define project organization structures and identify the technical skills needed to achieve project goals.
Support the acquisition of skills and resources needed for project execution.
Lead project teams in developing and executing projects in accordance with corporate standards and guidelines.
Ensure projects follow Entergy project-management and project-controls standards.
Enable project-management leaders to use Project Execution Planning and related tools.
Ensure project documentation, schedule management, and cost management practices are understood.
Ensure project-controls systems and procedures are implemented and understood.
Support project managers across the enterprise with reporting and presentations that update stakeholders on key project pillars.
Lead the Commercial / Contract Management function and oversee regional Contract/Commercial Managers responsible for EPC contract administration.
Validate and negotiate change orders; manage commercial issues and risks; prepare and respond to commercial letters; ensure contract compliance; and advise leadership on commercial, legal, and regulatory strategy.
Collaborate with project leadership and enterprise stakeholders to strengthen commercial governance, standardize processes, and ensure consistent application of commercial project-management expectations.
Monitor and coordinate execution activities performed by contractors, vendors, and employees.
Support project team members throughout the project lifecycle and ensure compliance with approved policies, procedures, and project-management best practices.
Contribute to continuous improvement of capital project execution within the New Generation PMO.