Hybrid Senior Technical Project Manager

at SOLV Energy

• Job title: Senior Technical Project Manager
• Job type: Full Time
• Experience level: Senior
• Salary: $127,000 - $140,000 per year
• Degree requirement: Bachelor's Degree
• Tech skills: PMP
• Location requirements: Hybrid, San Diego, United States

About the role

• Senior Technical Project Manager overseeing small to mid-size technology projects for SOLV Energy. Focusing on planning, development, and delivering solutions in utility-scale power.

Responsibilities

• Responsible for managing small to mid-size Technology related projects using Project Management fundamentals to manage scope, schedule, budget and resources.
• Partner with business stakeholders to develop project charters and project plans, including the formulation of the project scope, definition of the project deliverables and schedule, creation of a logical work breakdown structure, definition of major project milestones, and project budgets.
• Provide day to day oversight of project plans to ensure assigned project teams are focused on assigned tasks, identify any impediments or blockers, and maintain the schedule and budget.
• Manage assigned projects to ensure adherence to project requirements, scope, schedule, and budget.
• Assigns, coordinates, and monitors team members' work tasks.
• Develops and maintains a detailed understanding of project scope and current status; including high level architecture/design, technologies/standards, technical impediments, etc.
• Serves as primary point of contact and coordination for project communications and activities with the various vendors, consultants, customers, and stakeholders.
• Develop KPI’s and provides written and verbal project status updates in formal and informal meetings and communications.
• Sets and tracks project milestones; manages and accounts for unforeseen delays, then realigns schedules and expectations as needed.
• Collects, analyzes, and summarizes information and trends as needed to prepare project status reports and deliverables.
• Document and apply lessons learned to inform future initiatives.
• Assists in development, then executes change management process and activities within the SOLV Energy Information Technology organization.
• Collaborate closely with key stakeholders, including department heads, product managers, and development teams, to understand business goals, align training objectives, and ensure smooth implementation of technology solutions.

Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, Business, or equivalent experience
• 10+ years in a project management role within related fields
• PMP Certification or equivalent is desired but not required.
• Understands project management fundamentals, work breakdown structures, meeting facilitation, timelines, roles, and responsibilities, negotiating for resources and timelines, change management and risk identification.
• Ability to engage with a variety of roles and interpret ideas, lead teams, and present to all levels of an organization.
• Ability to modify approach based on situations and individuals involved.
• Ability to help define what “done” is and focus on driving to completion.
• Align teams and stakeholders moving towards a goal while listening to their needs and directly involving them.
• Ability to coordinate multiple tasks and projects with minimal supervision.
• Ability to identify needs, tasks, risks, issues early and make sure to follow through on action items and communication within assigned projects.
• Ability to develop solutions that address the need not just the ask.
• Strong written and verbal communication skills, across all levels of the organization
• Ability to diffuse and resolve conflict within assigned projects.
• Proficient with Project Management scheduling applications including, but not limited to, Microsoft Project, Smartsheet, Primavera P6 and others.
• Proficient with the Microsoft O365 suite including Outlook, MS Teams, Excel, Word, Power Point, SharePoint, Power BI and others.
• Experience working in Program Management applications including Jira and Microsoft Teams
• Ability to understand how projects interact across multi-disciplinary departments.
• Ability to understand, communicate and facilitate the needs across the system and not focus on a single area.
• Ability to work effectively in a team environment, in cross-functional teams and independently.
• Energetic, enthusiastic, charismatic Entrepreneurial spirit.

Benefits

• Employees (and their families) are eligible for medical, dental, vision, basic life and disability insurance.
• Employees can enroll in our company’s 401(k) plan and are provided vacation, sick and holiday pay.