Iberdrola Group

Sr PM - Major Construction

United States Of America, Connecticut, Orange · Senior · Contract

Sponsorship not specified$128k-$160kDetected 7 days ago

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About the role

The Senior Project Manager is the single point of accountability for the successful delivery of complex substation construction projects across Connecticut.
The Senior Project Manager is fully accountable for the on‑time delivery of assigned substation construction projects, ensuring delivery within approved budgets and in conformance with engineering, quality, safety, and regulatory standards.
The Senior Project Manager represents the company in regulatory proceedings and public forums, including meetings with municipalities, regulators, and other external stakeholders.

Responsibilities

Coordinates and provides project‑level oversight of internal and external engineering resources, ensuring designs are complete, accurate, and issued in accordance with project schedules and construction needs.
Ensures timely resolution of engineering issues, design changes, and constructability challenges that impact construction execution, outage planning, or energization.
Ensures effective integration between engineering and construction teams to support sequencing, outage planning, and field execution.
Maintains overall accountability for construction execution outcomes, including safety, schedule, cost, quality, and readiness for energization.
Proactively manages cost, schedule, and risk; develops and implements recovery strategies when performance deviates from plan.
Provides overall leadership and oversight of the engineering phase of substation projects, ensuring engineering deliverables support constructability, schedule commitments, cost targets, and operational requirements.
This role owns safety, cost, schedule, contractor performance, outage coordination, and energization through execution in live brownfield environments.

Requirements

Oversees Construction Managers and Field Construction Managers responsible for day‑to‑day field activities, providing direction, priority setting, and escalation support as required.

Nice to have

Minimum of 12 years of relevant project management experience in utility, infrastructure, or complex construction environments is required
Substation PM construction experience is strongly preferred, including exposure to live or brownfield environments and projects delivered through energization.
Candidates without direct substation experience may be considered if they demonstrate closely related and transferable experience
Demonstrated experience overseeing engineering development, construction execution, contractor performance, cost and schedule controls, and risk mitigation on capital projects is required.
Project Management Professional Certification preferred
Bachelor's degree (in Engineering preferred) with 12 years relevant experience in energy industry required.
Or more than 20 years relevant experience in energy industry required.
It is preferred that for this job, the candidate fulfills the requirements in terms of levels indicated below.

Skills

Experienced in contractor management, contract execution, change management, and dispute resolution.

Compensation

The salary range for this position is dependent upon experience and location, ranging from $128,320 to $160,400.

Benefits

Competitive benefits and growth opportunities
Comprehensive health, dental, and vision insurance
Tuition reimbursement
For more information, please visit: Benefits - Avangrid

Company info

Please note that any applicant who is not a citizen of the country of the vacancy will be subject to compliance with the applicable immigration requirements to legally work in that country.
If you are an individual with a disability or a disabled veteran who is unable to use our online tool to search for or to apply for jobs, you may request a reasonable accommodation by contacting our People and Organization department at careers@avangrid.com.
Avangrid employees may be assigned a system emergency role and in the event of a system emergency, may be required to work outside of their regular schedule/job duties.
This is applicable to employees that will work in Connecticut, Maine, Massachusetts, and New York within Avangrid Network and Corporate functions.
This does not include those that will work for Avangrid Power.
Avangrid employees may also be assigned a NERC Reliability Standards compliance role supporting Critical Infrastructure Protection (CIP) and/or Operations and Planning (O&P) responsibilities.
This is applicable to employees that will work in electric transmission, operations, and cyber security business areas in Connecticut, Maine, Massachusetts, and New York within Avangrid Network and Corporate business areas.
NERC Reliability Standards compliance roles and responsibilities may include additional access protections, training, audit engagement, and required evidence retention, and will be communicated by the employee's management.
Mobility Information
At Avangrid we provide fair and equal employment and advancement opportunities for all employees and candidates regardless of race, color, religion, national origin, gender, sexual orientation, age, marital status, disability, protected veteran status or any other status protected by federal, state, or local law.
Job Posting End Date:
July-31-2026
Coordinates with internal departments, municipal stakeholders, permitting agencies, regulators, utilities, and major customers throughout project development and execution.

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