Senior Project Manager - Combine Cycle Gas Power

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