SmartSignal's Gas Power business focuses on advanced natural gas-powered technologies and services. They are seeking a Senior Project Manager to oversee the execution of complex projects, ensuring customer satisfaction and financial performance while managing resources and timelines.
Responsibilities:
- Serve as first and primary customer contact for assigned projects
- Lead customer engagement, negotiations, and issue resolution to ensure successful project outcomes
- Manage and align multiple internal and external stakeholders including customers, partners, contractors, and vendors to achieve project targets and deliverables
- Influence peers and stakeholders to adopt alternative perspectives or solutions when required for problem solving
- Own end‑to‑end execution of mega, complex, non‑turnkey, and product / equipment‑only projects
- Develop early execution strategies in partnership with the ITO Commercial Manager and ensure successful transition into project execution
- Coordinate contract reviews to ensure full alignment on requirements, scope, and obligations
- Lead daily management cadence and ensure timely escalation of issues
- Full P&L accountability, including Revenue, Contribution Margin, and Cash
- Drive ownership and accountability for key project performance metrics
- Align teams when trade‑offs arise between cost, schedule, performance, and risk. Develops and manages the risk register with mitigation action
- Accountable for EHS performance within contractual obligations
- Develop, own, and actively manage the Risk & Opportunity Register, including mitigation actions
- Evaluate quality and completeness of information received and challenge conflicting or incomplete data
- Utilize multiple internal and external inputs to support sound, risk‑based decision making
- Develop deep expertise within project execution and/or technical discipline, serving as a subject matter expert where applicable
- Interpret internal and external business challenges and drive best practices to improve products, processes, or services
- Apply understanding of industry trends to inform decisions and execution strategies
- Influence policy and ensure delivery within area of responsibility, linking with adjacent functions across the organization
- Lead teams to develop creative solutions within complex manufacturing, engineering, or production environments
- Employ advanced operational, engineering, and product management techniques across interdependent workstreams
- Collaborate closely with partnering functions to resolve cross‑functional issues and execution constraints
- Provide direct or indirect leadership of project teams and resources with moderate to high complexity, risk, and scale
- Support Functional Project Managers with escalations across functions, customers, and partners
- Present project, business, or technical solutions to internal and external senior leadership teams
- Influence without authority in a matrix organization to drive unified execution
- Champion LEAN principles and disciplined execution across project organizations
- Timely evaluation of issues through Daily Management
- Drive continuous improvement in safety, quality, delivery, and cost performance
Requirements:
- Bachelor's Degree from an accredited college or university
- Minimum 10 years of Project Management experience within Energy, Construction, or large‑scale Project environments
- Must be willing to travel up to 50% of time
- Experience and demonstrated understanding of large-scale capital project execution costs and estimates
- Demonstrated ability to manage multiple projects simultaneously and to work independently with minimal direction required
- Demonstrated strong customer focus and the ability to foster strong relationships; Experience working with and influencing senior level leaders
- Strong portfolio leadership experience; strategic thinking and problem solving, business and financial acumen
- Strong oral and written communication skills
- Demonstrated presentation skills and ability to succinctly communicate complex messages results
- An inclusive style and strong interpersonal and leadership skills at all levels to gain acceptance and buy in from other matrix functions to accomplish goals
- Demonstrated ability to make independent decisions, manage conflicting priorities in a fast-paced environment and effectively interface at all organizational levels
- Experience applying data and lean tools and technologies for strategic, operational and project efficiencies