Senior Project Manager (Remote)

Qualus is a leading pure-play power solutions firm and innovator at the forefront of power infrastructure transformation. The Senior Project Manager will lead complex software and integration projects for utility customers, ensuring projects are delivered efficiently and to the highest standards while managing various stakeholders and project governance.

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
• 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
• 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
• Identify and manage project, technical, and operational risks
• Maintain risk and issue logs with mitigation plans
• Manage cross-system and cross-program dependencies
• Oversee SIT, UAT, performance, and security testing
• Track defects and readiness criteria
• Enforce go-live readiness gates
• 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:

• 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
• PMP Certification or equivalent project management certification
• 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
• 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