Senior Project Manager, Renewable Generation

Serves as a technical or functional expert or consultant providing expertise and/or direction in one or more areas of a professional discipline and assumes responsibility for resolving complex problems and overseeing complex projects. May also serve in a Lead role and assist in planning, coordinating, prioritizing, monitoring, and evaluating the work results in assigned area and in selecting, training, motivating, evaluating, and developing lower-level personnel.

This role typically oversees or leads one or more large, complex projects. Or supervise PMs and a team supporting portfolios. Substations, Data Co-Lo, Large Overhauls Power Generations. Manages enterprise/OAT projects with budgets in excess of $10,000,000.

• Manages activities and projects in assigned area; develops necessary project plans, cost estimates, project budgets, work breakdowns and schedules, and project summary descriptions and justifications for department, SMUD, and/or multi-utility or agency review.
• Ensures integrated planning and cooperation by internal/external partners or stakeholders to support successful completion of assigned projects; coordinates project planning with other departments and entities through meetings and shared written and oral reporting and communications; provides leadership and coordination with other utilities and agencies as required.
• Ensures the availability of timely and accurate project planning information on SMUD projects; collects, verifies, organizes, and maintains data; prepares and provides written summaries, reports, and recommendations for SMUD projects; responds verbally or in writing to routine and time-critical inquiries on projects from SMUD Board, regulatory bodies, other utilities, public agencies, and other SMUD departments.
• Ensures assigned work activities successfully contribute to the overall completion of department projects; plans, coordinates, prioritizes, monitors, guides, reviews, and conducts work activities associated with department internal/external projects in accordance with established task objectives and schedule as outlined in the project plans.
• Ensures that project team members and contractors work methods, technical methodologies, and problem-solving methods meet SMUD policies and quality standards and contract terms; provides project guidance to project team members and contractors to develop unique solutions that address new or difficult problems on projects; directs preparation of verbal and written reports on technical problems.
• Represents SMUD's positions, priorities, and interests on multi-agency projects and to various industry, government, interest groups, and regulatory bodies.
• Provides leadership and direction for assigned tasks in order to meet defined unit goals and schedules and comply with SMUD schedule, quality, quantity, safety, and performance standards; plans, coordinates, prioritizes, monitors, and guides work activities of project team members to meet established task objectives and deadlines by following established policies and precedents; communicates with team members and incorporates their input to processes and techniques; promotes safety and a safe work environment; assists in evaluating work performance results; participates as a team member in accomplishing objectives; refers problems to supervisory staff when solutions are not readily achievable.
• Performs related duties as required.

• A Bachelor's degree from an accredited college or university with major course work in a field directly related to area of assignment or equivalent experience.If no degree, eleven (11) years of relevant work experience is required.

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  Seven or more (7+) years of progressively responsible relevant project management work experience in the power industry that includes significant experience in project leadership, management and outside agency interface or inter-utility project involvement.

  
  

Project Management Institute PMP Certification

Acceptable alternative education or certification include:

• Project Management Institute - ACP Agile Certified Practitioner
• Engineering Degree, and requisite experience
• Construction Mgmt Degree, and requisite experience
• Professional Engineer Certification, and requisite experience
• Construction Mgmt Certification, and requisite experience

• Experience managing complex project schedules in Microsoft Project.
• Experience with budget management for projects exceeding $100M
• Experience with development of strategies for and execution of land use and environmental permitting in California.
• Developing scope of work for contracts and for task orders, administering and managing external permitting and engineering contractors in support of wind, solar, and battery projects.
• Managing a design review process where contractor submittals are evaluated for compliance with project technical requirements.
• Experience preparing and delivering presentations to share and influence project stakeholders.