Note: The job is a remote job and is open to candidates in USA. Qualus is a leading pure-play power solutions firm specializing in power infrastructure transformation. They are seeking a Senior Project Manager to lead complex software and integration projects for utility customers, ensuring projects are delivered efficiently and to high standards while managing various stakeholders and governance processes.
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
- 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
- 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
- Identify and manage project, technical, and operational risks
- Maintain risk and issue logs with mitigation plans
- Manage cross-system and cross-program dependencies
- Oversee SIT, UAT, performance, and security testing
- Track defects and readiness criteria
- Enforce go-live readiness gates
- 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
Skills
- Bachelor's degree in business, computer science or engineering from an accredited university
- 5+ years of overall project management experience
- 2+ years managing enterprise software implementation and system integration projects
- 1+ years supporting projects in a regulated utility, energy, or critical infrastructure environment
- Demonstrated experience managing multi-vendor, multi-workstream initiatives
- Experience working directly with electric utilities or similar asset-intensive organizations
- Experience coordinating projects involving OMS, ADMS, SCADA, AMI or equivalent enterprise platforms
- PMP Certification
- 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
- 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
- Understanding of electric utility operations (Transmission, Distribution, Generation, Customer Operations)
- Familiarity with IT/OT convergence
- 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
- 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
- Ability to build and sustain trusted, long-term relationships with utility stakeholders
- Acts as an accountable point of contact across delivery, governance, and issue resolution
- Demonstrates a strong understanding of the utility's business drivers, constraints, and strategic priorities
- Positions self and organization as a solution provider, not just a delivery resource
- Proactively identifies additional needs, risks, or improvement opportunities during delivery
- Recognizes and communicates new sales opportunities
- Partners with business development and sales teams to shape opportunities
- Provides delivery-informed input for proposals and statements of work
Benefits
- Medical
- Dental
- Vision
- Life Insurance
- Short and Long-Term Disability
- 401(k) match
- Flexible Spending Accounts
- EAP
- Parental Leave
- Paid time off
- Holidays
- For those who qualify
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