Associate Project Manager

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Leidos Engineering is seeking a Project Manager to oversee and coordinate projects for a large electric utility client in Seattle, WA. Ideal Candidates will have a strong background in managing complex projects and programs related to the planning, design and construction of electrical grid infrastructure.  This role will have client facing responsibilities and requires expertise in navigating the regulatory landscape and ensuring projects are delivered on time and within budget.

The Project Manager will be part of an established Project Management Office (PMO) within Leidos' Power Delivery Solutions Division that provides consulting services to both public-owned and investor-owned electric utilities. These consulting services provide clients with overall project management tasks in the areas of comprehensive engineering design of electrical transmission and distribution, substation and transmission line projects nationwide.

As an Associate Project Manager, you can expect to:

• Manage utility programs and projects, ensuring all phases of approved project assignments are completed efficiently and within scope, schedule and budget.
• Interface with utility management personnel groups including planning, asset management, engineering, construction, siting, public outreach, and regulatory relations, legal and administrative departments.
• Manage various sized utility projects for public-owned and investor-owned electric utilities
• Ensure project costs, schedule and scope are managed, including the development of recovery plans, to stay within stakeholder approve project parameters.
• Client stakeholder engagement will involve progress reporting, capital expenditure forecasting, earned value financial management, schedule adherence and risk mitigation across a portfolio of substation, transmission and distribution projects.
• Lead a team of assistant project managers, project schedulers, project controllers, siting and public outreach personnel, environmental and permitting personnel and multi-discipline engineering departments that are assigned to project work.
• Consistently communicate and work with ease across multiple program and function support areas including: client, project teams, functional leadership, subcontractors, and support personnel.
• Assist client procurement and estimating departments with the preparation of bid documents, development of requests for proposal responses and cost estimates.
• Create and maintain comprehensive project dashboard reports and KPI tracking.
• Oversee various and specific proposal development efforts that accurately defines the project scope, schedule and budgets.
• Manage the development of required outage and construction execution plans.
• Ensure a good working relationship between the project team, line managers, and interfacing organizations.
• Write comprehensive and technical and project reports. 
• Coordinate client billing and invoice resolution.
• Plan and prepare budgets.
• Support/enforce Quality Control and Quality Assurance.
• Develop, maintain, and coordinate project schedules.
• Perform field activities and attend site visits as necessary to support project execution.
• Support and oversee construction through Construction Management activities.

What you will bring to the table (Background Qualifications):

• Bachelor’s degree is required
• A minimum of 2 years of relevant Project Management experience
• Experience with MS Project, Primavera P6, or related scheduling platforms
• Strong Written and verbal communication skills are required

Preferred Qualifications:

• Previous work experience within the electric power industry and knowledge of business issues associated with power delivery service
• Familiarity with industry regulatory environment for electric utilities.
• Ability to demonstrate recent and in-depth expertise in electric power infrastructure projects within distribution, substation or transmission.
• PMP Certification is preferred but not required; Ideal Candidates will have a desire to obtain PMP Certification within two years<