Senior Project Manager (Remote)

Qualus is a leading pure-play power solutions firm at the forefront of power infrastructure transformation. They are seeking a Senior Project Manager to lead complex software and integration projects for utility customers, ensuring efficient delivery and adherence to high standards.

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
• Project Governance & Delivery Management
• 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
• Scope, Schedule & Cost Control
• 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
• Risk, Issue & Dependency Management
• Identify and manage project, technical, and operational risks
• Maintain risk and issue logs with mitigation plans
• Manage cross-system and cross-program dependencies
• Testing & Quality Assurance Oversight
• Oversee SIT, UAT, performance, and security testing
• Track defects and readiness criteria
• Enforce go-live readiness gates
• Stakeholder & Communication Management
• 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

Requirements:

• 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
• PMP Certification
• 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
• Leads without direct authority
• 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
• 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
• Project Management Professional or equivalent project management certification