Senior Project Development Manager

Schneider Electric•Pittsburgh, PA

6d•Remote

About The Position

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. 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.

Requirements

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
4-year college degree or technical degree, and/or relative experience required.
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.

Nice To Haves

Professional Engineering license, or ability to obtain is preferred
PMP certification is recommended
CEM certification and LEED accreditation are pluses.

Responsibilities

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
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
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