Project Manager

Position Overview

Power your future with Qualus The Project Manager is a highly skilled, hands-on technical leader who will lead complex software and integration projects for leading utility customers across the United States and Canada. Project Managers at Qualus blend traditional PM discipline with utility-specific regulatory, operational, and vendor complexity. This role leads the day-to-day execution of projects ensuring they're delivered efficiently and to the highest standards. The incumbent must possess a strong technical background and extensive experience in both project leadership and utility operations to help guide projects to successful completion. The Project Manager is accountable for delivery governance and execution, while coordinating internal utility teams, system integrators, and third-party vendors.

 

Responsibilities

• Lead the successful execution of electrical utility technology projects related to ADMS, OMS, EMS and DERMS operational control systems.  
• Act as a client interface, from initial assessment and qualification of project opportunities to handling correspondence, inquiries, and submittals.
• Ensure project success through detailed planning and compliance, which involves reviewing and briefing stakeholders on all project specifications, instructions, and contractual requirements, as well as organizing bids. 
• Project Governance & Delivery Management
  • Own the project plan, schedule, budget, and milestones
  • Establish and enforce project governance
  • Coordinate across IT, OT, cybersecurity, operations, and compliance
  • Manage dependencies across multiple programs
  • Ensure alignment with internal and utility PMO standards
• Scope, Schedule & Cost Control
  • Drive project execution and resource coordination by maintaining and overseeing schedules
  • Ensure delivery team and customer align with project scope
  • Tightly track and forecast operating budgets
  • Manage not-to-exceed (NTE) and time-and-materials (T&M) contracts
  • Provide accurate and timely resource demand forecasts and financial variance reporting
  • Manage change control and scope creep
• Risk, Issue & Dependency Management
  • Identify and manage project, technical, and operational risks
  • Maintain risk and issue logs with mitigation plans
  • Manage cross-system and cross-program dependencies
• Testing & Quality Assurance Oversight
  • Oversee SIT, UAT, performance, and security testing
  • Track defects and readiness criteria
  • Enforce go-live readiness gates
• Stakeholder & Communication Management
  • Manage a wide range of stakeholders
  • Participate in regular Production/Client Meetings to ensure alignment and address ongoing project needs. 
  • Lead status meetings, steering committees, and executive updates
  • Translate technical issues into business impacts
  • Manage expectations across competing priorities

Qualifications

Core Project Management Competencies

• Mastery of scope, schedule, cost, and risk management
• Strong change control and dependency management
• Experience with large, multi-year, multi-vendor programs
• Ability to accurately manage project budgets

Project Management Tools & Certifications

• Capable of accurately managing project schedules, resource allocations and project dependencies using Microsoft Project
• Above average ability to perform advanced project financial analysis using Microsoft Excel and other internal tools
• PMP Certification

Utility & Industry Knowledge

• Understanding of electric utility operations (Transmission, Distribution, Generation, Customer Operations)
• Familiarity with IT/OT convergence

Power Control Systems Software & Integration Literacy

• In depth understanding of project delivery methodologies (Waterfall, Agile, Hybrid) as it relates to power control systems
• Ability to manage/oversee complex integrations through coordination with technical delivery leads and customer architects
• Understanding of APIs, message queues, batch interfaces
• Experience coordinating system integration, user acceptance and other key testing stage gates

Leadership & Behavioral Competencies

• Leads without direct authority
• Ability to communicate effectively with internal teams and customers   
• High accountability and ownership mindset
• Strong conflict resolution and negotiation skills
• Decisive but collaborative
• Resilient in bureaucratic environments

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