Engineering Project Manager

Status: 6-Month Contract (possibly extended)

Job Title: Project Manager – Engineering / Operations

Location: Onsite in Omaha, Nebraska

Salary: $50-53/hr

# of Open Positions: 2

About the company:

From our roots in renewable energy, we consist of locally managed businesses that share a vision for a secure and sustainable energy future. These businesses deliver low-cost, safe, and reliable service each day to more than 12 million customers and end-users throughout the U.S., Great Britain, and Alberta, Canada.

Through year-end 2022, we invested approximately $7.3 billion in solar projects, two of which are among the largest projects in the U.S. Our vision to be the best energy company in serving our customers, while delivering sustainable energy solutions helps us deliver affordable, safe, and reliable service each day.

We are responsibly managing and mitigating the impact of our operations on the environment and are striving to achieve net zero greenhouse gas emissions by 2050 in a manner our customers can afford, our regulators will allow and technology advances support. Our journey centers around increasing noncarbon generation and energy storage, investing in transmission infrastructure and reducing utilization of coal units.

We will continue to explore innovative ways to use existing fossil-fueled resources to maintain system reliability and provide service to our customers in a more carbon-friendly way. We provide enriching career experiences and are committed to equipping our employees with progressive technology, ongoing training, and advancement opportunities. As a global energy provider, we offer a wide range of careers across many businesses in various locations.

Project Manager Responsibilities:

• Ensure that business, technical, environmental, operational, financial, and scheduling objectives are met for assigned projects.
• Manage project workflow by identifying and executing interfaces between facility planning, regulatory, right-of-way, environmental, engineering, design, construction, operations, and marketing functions.
• Responsible for project meetings, planned budget, and schedule.
• Manage resources, considering team member expertise and workload in optimization, right-of-way, environmental, regulatory, tech services, and construction and keeping within budget considerations.
• Assist in identifying and implementing best practices. Ensure communication links are maintained with the project team, project sponsors, project control, facility owners, and operators.
• Serve as a functional member of the project management team.
• Facilitate the project budget development process.
• Conduct and facilitate the project review process for the team.

Project Manager Qualifications:

• BS in Engineering, Construction Management, or the equivalent combination of education and experience.
• Three years of related professional experience.
• Experience in project scheduling, cost controls, tracking, and reporting methodologies.
• Knowledge of financial principles to quantify costs and benefits of projects, and to track, and maintain project budgets.
• Experience in the application of PMI project management.