Power Systems Engineer Project Manager [Electrical Engineer]

ProSidian Seeks a Power Systems Engineer Project Manager Electrical Engineer Baseline Project Support 01. Project Initiation Scope Schedule and Budget Management  WAPAfor Program Support on a Exempt 1099 Contract: No Overtime Pay Basis Hybrid On/Off Client Site and Virtual in The CONUS - Phoenix AZ Area Contract Contingent generally located across the CONUS - Phoenix AZ Across The South West Area Region supporting a High-voltage electric transmission capital project management and owners engineer support for Federal power marketing administration managing high-voltage transmission and hydropower delivery.

The Power Systems Engineer Project Manager Electrical Engineer Baseline Project Support 01. Project Initiation Scope Schedule and Budget Management  WAPAis aligned with GSA Labor Category: Project Manager Electrical Engineer / Power Systems Engineer.  This role shall be principally focused on Project Management Engineering Support Services Baseline Project Support 01. Project Initiation Scope Schedule and Budget Management for Project Management Engineering Support Services

We seek Power Systems Engineer Project Manager Electrical Engineer candidates with relevant Energy Industry (Oil And Gas/Power And Utilities) Sector Experience (functional and technical area expertise also ideal) to support professional services engagement for Energy Industry (Oil And Gas/Power And Utilities) Sector Clients such as WAPA. This as a Contract Contingent or Contract W-2 (IRS-1099) Baseline Project Support 01. Project Initiation Scope Schedule and Budget Management  Functional Area / Swim Lane / Category Discipline Professional - Project Management Engineering Support Services Position; however ProSidian reserves the right to convert to a Full-Time ProSidian employed W-2 Position.

• Power Systems Engineer Project Manager Electrical Engineer Baseline Project Support 01. Project Initiation Scope Schedule and Budget Management  WAPA0009009. 
• The Project Manager Electrical Engineer / Power Systems Engineer role(s) are located in the South West Area Region at or near CONUS - Phoenix AZ Initially identified Work Site Address (Hybrid On/Off Client Site and Virtual - (Geo Code Address: 615 S. 43rd Ave Phoenix AZ 85009

JOB OVERVIEW

Provide services and support as a Power Systems Engineer Project Manager Electrical Engineer Project Management Engineering Support Services aligned with the Baseline Project Support 01. Project Initiation Scope Schedule and Budget Management  Functional Area / Swim Lane / Category Discipline in the Energy Industry (Oil And Gas/Power And Utilities) Industry Sector. 

This role focusses on EN Engineering Solutions for clients such as Department of Energy Western Area Power Administration Desert Southwest Region (DOE WAPA - DSW) DOE WAPA Desert Southwest Customer Service Region Transmission Asset Planning (G5100) Division Generally Located In CONUS - Phoenix AZ and across the South West Area Region (Of Country/World) Hybrid On/Off Client Site and Virtual.

Provide Project Management Support Services for WAPA Project Management and Owners Engineer Support. The ProSidian Engagement Team shall deliver integrated project management owners engineer technical coordination construction-phase support financial oversight regulatory and stakeholder compliance coordination and project closeout services for Western Area Power Administration electric transmission capital projects. Services shall be performed in accordance with the Performance Work Statement applicable task order requirements federal regulations WAPA policies and procedures standard commercial practices and the direction of the Federal Project Manager.

The Power Systems Engineer Project Manager serving as the lead Electrical Engineer shall plan engineer control and coordinate project execution to support the safe efficient transparent reliable and successful delivery of high-voltage transmission infrastructure.

Project Initiation Scope Schedule and Budget Management

•  Develop maintain and update the project scope in coordination with the Federal Project Manager and relevant subject matter experts.
•  Develop maintain and update integrated project schedules that reflect approved scope milestones dependencies constraints and task-order priorities.
•  Develop maintain and update project budgets aligned to approved scope work breakdown structure resource needs and execution timelines.
•  Establish and maintain cost-loaded schedules and performance baselines to support project tracking forecasting and reporting.
•  Define project milestones deliverable dates critical path activities and performance measurement points.
•  Estimate labor hours staffing requirements equipment needs and resource requirements for assigned project activities.
•  Compare estimated resource requirements against available resources and identify gaps conflicts or constraints.
•  Recommend schedule staffing sequencing or resource adjustments necessary to meet project objectives and schedule commitments.

RESPONSIBILITIES AND DUTIES - Power Systems Engineer Project Manager Electrical Engineer Baseline Project Support 01. Project Initiation Scope Schedule and Budget Management  WAPA0009009

• Serve as the senior Project Manager and Owners Engineer representative supporting WAPA DSW Transmission Asset Planning daily operations and the lifecycle delivery of complex high-voltage transmission capital projects.
• Plan organize lead and control assigned projects from development and design through procurement construction commissioning turnover and closeout maintaining accountability for scope schedule cost technical quality safety regulatory commitments and customer obligations.
• Develop and maintain integrated project plans work breakdown structures schedules cost forecasts risk registers action logs decision records progress metrics and executive-level status reports.
• Coordinate design-bid-build interfaces between WAPA the designer of record construction contractors customers private partners utilities environmental specialists cultural-resource personnel operations maintenance procurement legal finance and other stakeholders.
• Provide Owners Engineer technical oversight of transmission line substation right-of-way foundation structure access-road outage energization and utility-construction activities; identify technical conflicts and drive timely resolution.
• Represent the transmission owner as the primary liaison to external customers private partnerships tribal entities landowners agencies and other stakeholders including projects governed by power-marketing transmission-service network-credit or comparable utility contractual arrangements.
• Support FAR-based construction contract administration including review of pay applications and invoices against contract line items schedules of values progress measurements approved work and supporting documentation.
• Evaluate contractor changes requests for equitable adjustment schedule and cost impacts entitlement support negotiation documentation and independent estimate-style analyses; maintain contemporaneous records that support claims avoidance and dispute resolution.
• Integrate NEPA commitments mitigation measures Section 106 and cultural-resource constraints SHPO coordination requirements tribal protocols inadvertent-discovery procedures vegetation-management controls and environmental permits into construction planning and field execution.
• Coordinate outages access restrictions right-of-way constraints long-lead material and equipment procurement customer interfaces and construction sequencing for MV HV and EHV transmission line and substation projects.
• Apply applicable NESC requirements FERC regulations NERC reliability standards WAPA/DOE procedures Federal and State requirements and standard utility practices to project decisions and deliverables.
• Use Microsoft Project Excel SharePoint Teams Maximo SAP BusinessObjects Enterprise GIS and related systems to gather and analyze data manage budgets forecast expenditures track milestones document decisions and report performance.
• Lead cross-functional teams through influence rather than direct authority resolve competing priorities facilitate decisions escalate material risks and consistently drive measurable scope schedule cost quality compliance and customer-satisfaction outcomes.
• Support project closeout including punch-list resolution final invoice and change reconciliation as-built and turnover documentation lessons learned records completion and confirmation that contractual and environmental commitments are satisfied.

Qualifications :

Desired Qualifications For Power Systems Engineer Project Manager Electrical Engineer Baseline Project Support 01. Project Initiation Scope Schedule and Budget Management  WAPA0009009 Candidates:

• Senior engineering and construction professional with a demonstrated record of delivering large complex electric-utility transmission projects.
• Primary fit is an Electrical Engineer or Power Systems Engineer with high-voltage transmission substation power

Education / Experience Requirements / Qualifications

• Bachelor of Science degree from an accredited university in engineering or construction management.
• Minimum fifteen (15) years of professional experience in engineering construction or utility infrastructure.
• Minimum ten (10) years as a Project Manager Senior Project Manager or Deputy Project Manager with direct accountability for scope schedule and cost control.
• A minimum of five (5) years of project-management experience must be specifically associated with high-voltage transmission projects.
• Minimum of ten (10) years experience managing Bulk Electric System transmission-line construction projects at 115 kV or above.

Demonstrated Experience

1. Demonstrated experience managing transmission construction projects with individual total construction values exceeding $100 million.
2. Demonstrated experience in transmission-line rebuilds; candidate must provide relevant project examples.
3. Demonstrated design-bid-build experience coordinating the designer of record and construction contractor; at least one project example is required.
4. Demonstrated leadership of cross-functional teams in complex federal utility or Power Marketing Administration environments; project examples must demonstrate stakeholder alignment conflict resolution and measurable progress in scope schedule and cost.
5. Demonstrated Owners Engineer lifecycle experience including primary liaison responsibilities representing a transmission owner to external customers private partnerships and stakeholders; project examples and references are required.
6. Demonstrated experience supporting projects governed by power-marketing transmission-service network-credit or similar utility contractual arrangements; examples of projects are required.

We are seeking a Senior engineering and construction professional with a demonstrated record of delivering large complex electric-utility transmission projects.  Primary fit is an Electrical Engineer or Power Systems Engineer with high-voltage transmission substation power

Skills Required

• Primarily focused on Engineering Services initiatives and aligned with Program Support activities Baseline Project Support 01. Project Initiation Scope Schedule and Budget Management Functional Area Activities. 
• Transmission project planning project controls cost estimating forecasting scheduling risk management change control issue resolution and closeout.
• Owners Engineer technical oversight for high-voltage transmission lines substations structures
• FAR-based construction contract-administration experience including invoice/pay-application review change-order evaluation negotiation support independent estimate-style analysis claims avoidance issue documentation and contemporaneous recordkeeping; provide a responsibility narrative and at least two FAR-governed project examples.
• Environmental and cultural-resource coordination experience covering NEPA commitments Section 106 constraints SHPO impacts vegetation management within transmission ROW corridors monitoring and inadvertent-discovery procedures; provide at least one project example showing how requirements were tracked communicated and enforced.
• Tribal coordination experience on at least two projects involving tribal entities culturally sensitive construction or work near tribal lands or resources; provide two project examples reference contacts coordination interfaces protocols followed and construction controls implemented.
• This position aligns with functional and technical requirements in the Energy Industry (Oil And Gas/Power And Utilities) Sector and Power Systems Engineer Project Manager Electrical Engineer Candidates principally support Baseline Project Support 01. Project Initiation Scope Schedule and Budget Management  Functional Area / Swim Lane / Category Disciplines.

Competencies Required

• Project Leadership and Accountability owns outcomes and drives disciplined delivery across the full project lifecycle.
• Owners Engineer Judgment balances technical integrity constructability operability safety cost schedule customer obligations and lifecycle value.
• Matrixed Team Leadership gains alignment and performance through influence credibility collaboration and clear decision governance.
• Commercial and Contract Acumen understands FAR-based construction administration contractual entitlement progress measurement change management and defensible documentation.
• Risk and Controls Discipline identifies emerging risk quantifies impacts develops mitigation escalates appropriately and maintains reliable project-control data.
• Regulatory and Compliance Integration converts environmental cultural tribal reliability safety and acquisition requirements into executable construction controls.
• Stakeholder and Customer Coordination communicates effectively with government leaders utility customers contractors designers private partners tribal entities regulators and landowners.
• Conflict Resolution and Decision Facilitation frames issues evaluates alternatives documents decisions and resolves technical or organizational impasses.
• Written Record Quality produces accurate timely traceable and dispute-ready records correspondence reports meeting minutes and action documentation.
• Cost-Effectiveness and Customer Satisfaction delivers practical solutions that protect public resources project commitments and service quality.

Ancillary Details Of The Roles

OWNERS ENGINEER CUSTOMER AND STAKEHOLDER INTERFACE

1. Owners Engineer Representation: Act as WAPAs senior technical and project-delivery representative throughout the transmission-project lifecycle protecting the transmission owners technical operational commercial financial regulatory and schedule interests.
2. Independent Technical and Constructability Review: Independently review engineering designs specifications calculations construction submittals schedules cost information work plans and field conditions to identify risks validate compliance and support informed owner decisions.
3. Customer and Stakeholder Coordination: Coordinate project interfaces among WAPA personnel utility customers private partners landowners regulatory agencies tribal entities operations and maintenance personnel designers contractors environmental specialists and other affected stakeholders.
4. Transmission-Service and Partnership Arrangements: Apply experience with power-marketing and transmission-service arrangements customer-funded projects public-private or utility partnerships network-credit concepts where applicable outage and access commitments and the documentation of owner customer and partner obligations.
5. Issue Resolution and Decision Management: Facilitate timely owner decisions reconcile competing stakeholder interests resolve technical and commercial issues maintain decision and action records and preserve measurable progress in scope schedule cost quality safety compliance and customer satisfaction.
6. Required Supporting Documentation: Provide representative project examples and reference contacts demonstrating how owner interests were protected stakeholder interfaces were managed competing priorities were aligned and technical or commercial issues were resolved.

FEDERAL CONSTRUCTION CONTRACT ADMINISTRATION

1. FAR-Based Construction Administration: Integrate engineering project management and field execution with applicable Federal Acquisition Regulation requirements contract terms task order provisions and federal construction administration practices.
2. Progress and Invoice Validation: Review and validate contractor progress quantities payment applications invoices schedule updates deliverable status and supporting documentation before recommending acceptance or payment.
3. Change Management and Cost Evaluation: Evaluate requests for information site-specific conditions change proposals schedule and cost impacts and entitlement considerations. Develop negotiation-support materials technical evaluations cost analyses and independent government estimate-style documentation.
4. 1Claims Avoidance and Dispute Resolution: Maintain contemporaneous records of field conditions decisions correspondence delays access constraints contractor performance and issue resolution. Support claims avoidance negotiations dispute resolution and the development of defensible contract files.
5. Long-Lead Material and Equipment Procurement: Demonstrate knowledge of federal procurement requirements affecting the planning acquisition inspection delivery storage and installation of long-lead materials and equipment for medium-voltage high-voltage and extra-high-voltage transmission-line and substation projects.
6. Required Supporting Documentation: Provide at least two examples of projects performed under FAR-governed construction or acquisition requirements including contact references and descriptions of the contract administration responsibilities performed.

ENVIRONMENTAL CULTURAL-RESOURCE AND RIGHT-OF-WAY COMPLIANCE

1. Environmental Commitment Integration: Translate National Environmental Policy Act commitments mitigation measures permit conditions and other environmental requirements into project schedules work packages access plans contractor instructions inspection criteria field controls and project records.
2. Section 106 and Cultural-Resource Compliance: Coordinate Section 106 requirements cultural-resource surveys archaeological or cultural monitoring avoidance areas stop-work requirements and inadvertent-discovery procedures during planning and construction.
3. State Historic Preservation Office Coordination: Incorporate the State Historic Preservation Offices requirements and commitments into construction sequencing site access planning contractor communications monitoring activities compliance tracking and field enforcement.
4. Vegetation Management and Transmission Right-of-Way Coordination: Coordinate vegetation management activities within high-voltage transmission line rights-of-way considering environmental restrictions access limitations easement conditions landowner requirements clearance standards sensitive resources and construction sequencing.
5. Environmental Compliance Tracking and Enforcement: Establish mechanisms to track communicate inspect document and enforce environmental and cultural resource requirements throughout construction.
6. Required Supporting Documentation: Provide project examples that demonstrate the integration of NEPA commitments cultural resource requirements vegetation management constraints and right-of-way considerations. Include at least one project example that describes how SHPO or cultural resource requirements were tracked communicated and enforced during construction.

TRIBAL CONSULTATION AND CULTURALLY SENSITIVE CONSTRUCTION COORDINATION

1. Tribal Coordination Experience: Demonstrate experience coordinating with tribal governments tribal historic preservation representatives cultural-resource specialists or other tribal stakeholders on projects involving tribal lands culturally sensitive areas traditional cultural properties or resources of tribal interest.
2. Consultation Protocols and Construction Controls: Apply established consultation and communication protocols access restrictions monitoring requirements notification procedures inadvertent-discovery protocols stop-work provisions confidentiality protections and other culturally sensitive construction controls.
3. Required Supporting Documentation: Provide two project examples involving tribal coordination or culturally sensitive construction activities. Each example must include a reference contact and describe the coordination interfaces consultation protocols sensitive-resource considerations and construction controls implemented.

TRANSMISSION REGULATORY AND TECHNICAL-STANDARDS KNOWLEDGE

1. Electrical Safety and Design Standards: Demonstrate the ability to interpret and apply the National Electrical Safety Code to medium-voltage high-voltage and extra-high-voltage transmission-line and substation planning design construction operation and compliance activities.
2. Federal Energy Regulatory Commission Requirements: Demonstrate working knowledge of applicable Federal Energy Regulatory Commission requirements affecting transmission planning transmission service interconnection cost allocation reliability coordination and customer or partner obligations.
3. North American Electric Reliability Corporation Standards: Demonstrate experience applying relevant North American Electric Reliability Corporation reliability standards to transmission planning project development construction coordination operational readiness documentation and compliance.

PROJECT MANAGEMENT AND ENTERPRISE SOFTWARE PROFICIENCY

1. Microsoft Productivity and Collaboration Tools: Demonstrate proficiency with Microsoft Word PowerPoint Excel Outlook Project SharePoint and Teams for project planning scheduling reporting document control stakeholder communication collaboration and records management.
2. Enterprise Asset and Data-Analysis Systems: Demonstrate experience using systems such as IBM Maximo SAP BusinessObjects Enterprise or comparable enterprise applications to support data collection asset and work-order tracking budget monitoring forecasting expenditure analysis performance reporting and project-management decision support.
3. Geographic Information Systems: Demonstrate sufficient working familiarity with GIS applications to interpret transmission-system maps right-of-way exhibits parcel information environmental constraints cultural-resource avoidance areas access routes construction limits and other geospatial project information.

Other Details

• This is a non-personal services requirement. WAPA will not supervise contractor employees. The ProSidian Engagement Team retains responsibility for management supervision work assignment performance recruiting training onboarding and employment-related matters.
• A Program Manager must be designated in writing to the Contracting Officer and Contracting Officers Representative before work begins.
• The local Program Manager must be available during normal duty hours and capable of meeting with the CO COR or authorized WAPA personnel within two hours when required.
• Work must comply with the task-order PWS WAPA and DOE procedures applicable FAR requirements Federal and State regulations NESC FERC NERC environmental and cultural-resource commitments and standard commercial utility practices.
• Project assignments may span development design procurement construction commissioning and closeout and may involve multiple sites transmission corridors substations customers agencies and stakeholder jurisdictions within the WAPA Desert Southwest operating environment.
• Candidates must be prepared to document required project examples responsibilities references consultation interfaces protocols and construction controls as part of qualification verification.
• Active Professional Engineer licensure is not required; demonstrated depth of relevant project delivery and Owners Engineer experience is the controlling qualification factor.
• Work location site presence travel access and schedule requirements will be established by the task order and individual project assignments.

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Additional Information :

All employees as a condition of employment must fulfill their roles by setting managing pursuing and achieving annual goals and objectives with documented goals for each of ProSidians eight core competencies: Personal Effectiveness Continuous Learning Leadership Client Service Business Management Business Development Technical Expertise and Innovation & Knowledge Sharing (Thought Leadership). Additionally they are expected to support all business development and related activities on behalf of ProSidian.

Eight ProSidian Global Competencies

1. Personal Effectiveness The ability to manage tasks time and relationships efficiently achieving consistent impactful results.
2. Continuous Learning Ongoing pursuit of knowledge skills and adaptability to remain relevant competent and professionally competitive.
3. Leadership Inspiring guiding and motivating others toward shared goals fostering accountability collaboration and strategic organizational success.
4. Client Service Delivering responsive high-quality solutions that address client needs build trust and strengthen long-term partnerships.
5. Business Management Coordinating people processes and resources to achieve strategic objectives operational efficiency and sustainable organizational performance.
6. Business Development Identifying pursuing and securing growth opportunities through strategic relationships market insight and innovative solutions.
7. Technical Expertise Applying specialized knowledge analytical skills and practical experience to solve complex problems with accuracy.
8. Innovation & Knowledge Sharing (Thought Leadership) Generating creative solutions sharing insights and influencing industry direction through expertise collaboration and continuous improvement.

OTHER REQUIREMENTS

• Business Tools Understanding and proficiency with business tools and technology including Microsoft Office. The ideal candidate is advanced with Excel Access Outlook PowerPoint and Word; proficient with Adobe Acrobat data analytics tools and Visio; and able to quickly learn other tools as needed.
• Business Tools Strong understanding and proficiency in business tools and technology especially Microsoft Office. The ideal candidate should be advanced in Excel Access Outlook PowerPoint and Word proficient in Adobe Acrobat data analytics tools and Visio and capable of rapidly learning new tools as required.
• Commitment - to work with intelligent interesting people with diverse backgrounds to solve the most significant challenges across private public and social sectors.
• Curiosity the ideal candidate exhibits an inquisitive nature and the ability to question the status quo among a community of people they enjoy and teams that work well together.
• Humility exhibits grace in success and failure while doing meaningful work where skills have an impact and make a difference.
• Willingness - to constantly learn share and grow and to view the world as their classroom.

BENEFITS AND HIGHLIGHTS

ProSidian Employee Benefits and Highlights - Your health and well-being are vital to ProSidian. We invest in employees to support health and work-life balance. Our Employee Benefits Program promotes your health and well-being including benefits for Full-Time Employees.

• Competitive Compensation: The pay is competitive with health benefits pre-tax employee benefits and incentives. The company contributes a fixed monthly amount to medical and dental plans deducted pre-tax.
• Group Medical / Dental / Vision Health Insurance Benefits: ProSidian partners with providers to offer eligible employees various medical and dental plans including high-deductible health plans PPOs and vision plans.
• 401(k) Retirement Savings Plan: The 401(k) Retirement Savings Plan allows eligible employees to save for retirement via various investments and financial planner support. It is a pre-tax Safe Harbor plan with company matching.
• Vacation and Paid Time-Off (PTO) Benefits: Eligible employees can use PTO for vacations appointments or personal events. Benefits include 2 weeks of vacation three sick days 10 ProSidian holidays and government holidays.
• Pre-Tax Payment Programs: Pre-Tax Payment Programs are premium-only plans (POPs) offering eligible employees a Flexible Spending Account (FSA) and tax benefits.
• Purchasing Discounts & Savings Plans: We aim for your financial success through a Purchasing Discounts and Savings Plan in the Corporate Perks Benefit Program providing eligible employees discounts on everyday products and services.
• Security Clearance: A security clearance is required for consulting teams working on sensitive projects in the Federal Marketplace and is a valuable add to your professional credentials.
• ProSidian Employee & Contractor Referral Bonus Program: ProSidian offers up to $5000 for referrals who stay employed 90 days through our Referral Program.
• Performance Incentives: Performance incentives are linked to each new client employee we help acquire and support due to the nature of our consulting work.
• Flexible Spending Account: FSAs allow pre-tax coverage for healthcare and daycare costs. You estimate annual expenses and deduct part of each paycheck.
• Supplemental Life/Accidental Death and Dismemberment Insurance: If you want extra protection for yourself and your eligible dependents you can choose supplemental life insurance.  D&D covers death or dismemberment resulting solely from an accident.
• Short- and Long-Term Disability Insurance: Disability insurance plans are designed to offer income protection during your recovery from a disability.

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