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Job Description:

EPC Project Manager - REMOTE

Leidos Engineering has an opportunity for an EPC Project Manager with generation interconnection project management experience who will work alongside engineering managers, senior leaders and executives supporting various clients within the Power Delivery Solutions (PDS) division.  The position will be client facing and responsible for driving scope execution, maximizing schedule and financial performance, contracts management and risk mitigation. 

The EPC Project Manager will be part of an established Project Management Office (PMO) within the PDS 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.

EPC Project Manager Responsibilities

• Act as an Engineering, Procurement and Construction (EPC) Project Manager and manage the overall execution and performance of large-scaled interconnection projects for several investor-owned electric utilities throughout the United States

• Independently manage utility interconnection 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

• Ensures project costs, schedule and scope are managed, including the development of recovery plans, to stay within stakeholder approve project parameters.  Ensures prompt communication in changes to capital expenditure forecasts and targeted equipment in service dates

• 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

• Creation and maintenance of comprehensive project dashboard reports and KPI tracking

• Oversee various and specific proposal development efforts that accurately defines the project scope, schedule, and budgets

• Manages the development of required outage and construction execution plans

• Ensures a good working relationship between the project team, line managers, and interfacing organizations

• Write comprehensive and technical and project reports

• Responsible for coordinating client billing and invoice resolution

EPC Project Manager Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in the following disciplines: Engineering, Construction, Business or Finance required with an additional 15+ years of relevant experience as a Large-Scale Project Manager or Program Manager or a master’s with 13+ years of relevant experience

• Experience as an EPC Manager with expertise capital utility and distribution projects

• Demonstrated experience and in-depth expertise in electric power infrastructure projects within the power delivery industry

• Must be able to interact with customer representatives in an effective manner in briefings meetings

• Strong analytical and problem-solving skills, with the ability to work independently as well as collaboratively in a team environment

• Proactive, superior attention to detail and good organizational skills

• Business acumen, strong analytical and problem-solving skills, reliability, and sound judgment

• Excellent written and oral communication skills are required.

• Strong leadership and communications skills

• Periodic travel is required

EPC Project Manager Highly Desired Qualifications

• PMP Certification

Leidos Engineering is a trusted and future-focused solutions provider. Utilities consistently come to Leidos for reliable power expertise, as reflected through our work with more than 50 investor-owned utilities and more than 160 municipals/cooperatives across the country as well as a growing number of local utility providers and private developers. Our project portfolio includes large energy projects for electric utilities, power generation owners, and industrial clients. In addition, Leidos works with an established group of industry-leading construction partners delivering meaningful energy delivery solutions. Our recognition as an industry leader is confirmed by the latest national rankings by Engineering News-Record (ENR) ranking Leidos within the Top 10 T&D Firms, Top 10 Program Management Firms, and Top 20 Power Firms

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About Leidos

Leidos is a Fortune 500® technology, engineering, and science solutions and services leader working to solve the world’s toughest challenges in the defense, intelligence, civil, and health markets. The company’s 43,000 employees support vital missions for government and commercial customers. Headquartered in Reston, Virginia, Leidos reported annual revenues of approximately $13.7 billion for the fiscal year ended December 31, 2021. For more information, visit www.Leidos.com.

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