Development Project Manager

Position Overview

Power your future with Qualus in our Program Management department as a Development Project Manager. We are seeking experienced Project Managers at Level I, II, III, and Senior levels who are passionate about the power industry. Our Development Project Managers will lead the development planning phase for large electric utility transmission line projects with focus on early scoping, capital planning alignment, and will support projects through to the delivery stage. The successful candidate must have exceptional leadership skills and possess the ability to successfully navigate through and resolve complex and oftentimes multi-functional challenges associated with large projects.

Responsibilities

• Lead early project scoping, feasibility reviews, and constructability assessments.

• Collaborate with Engineering and Asset Strategy to identify transmission asset‑condition
  needs.

• Advance projects through design, permitting, environmental review, and development
  milestones.

• Develop and maintain schedules focused on construction‑readiness milestones.

• Track scope, cost, schedule, and risk during the project‑development phase.

• Support bid‑package development and procurement preparation.

• Coordinate construction‑readiness requirements including access, outages, and material
  planning.

• Responsible for the overall management of the project scope, schedule, and cost.
• Accountable for key project decision-making.
• Manages a collaborative project team to ensure each key functional project discipline is meeting the planned project scope, schedule, and cost.
• Lead overall project – coaching, conflict resolution, facilitation, motivation, and negotiation.
• Responsible for leading project meetings.
• Accountable to develop, update and manage the project plan associated with development phase of the project lifecycle.
• Coordinate communication and provides status updates to stakeholders as required.
• Assess project risk and proactively develop mitigation plans.
• Proactively manages project requests for information and action items.
• Ensure availability or seeks out adequate resources to support projects.
• Establish and maintain effective working relationships with those contacted in the course of work.

Minimum Qualifications

• Minimum of 3 years of electric utility project management experience required.
• Strong proficiency in Microsoft Excel, including advanced data analysis, financial modeling, and reporting capabilities.
• Demonstrated financial management experience, including:

• Cash flow forecasting and management for capital projects, including both internal labor and contractor-supported work.
• Purchase Order (PO) financial tracking and oversight.
• Financial risk assessment and mitigation to support achievement of investment objectives.
• Capital portfolio financial planning, monitoring, and performance management.
• Identification, evaluation, and communication of financial risks and opportunities.
• Strong data management, analysis, and presentation skills, with the ability to translate complex information into actionable insights.
• Proven ability to collaborate effectively across cross-functional teams, particularly between Project Management and Financial Management organizations.
• Experience preparing and delivering executive and leadership-level reporting, including financial performance, portfolio status, risks, and investment outcomes.
• Demonstrate the ability to be organized and work on multiple projects and meet deadlines by setting priorities.
• Must be able to prepare clear and concise status updates and reports as required.
• Proven experience in Microsoft Software Applications (Word, Excel, PowerPoint and Project).
• Proficient in analyzing problems, identifying alternative solutions, project consequences of proposed actions and implement recommendations to support project scope, schedule and cost objectives.
• Demonstrates excellent leadership, verbal/written communications, time management, interpersonal and organizational skills.
• Consistently produces results that meet goals, has high work standards, and understands the business environment and processes.
• Strives for individual excellence by seeking challenges and self-development, demonstrating high levels of expertise and showing commitment, self-confidence, and integrity.
• Must be able to work a hybrid schedule including working from the Hartford, CT office and attending project site visits.

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Preferred Skills

• Bachelor Degree preferred but not required.
• PMP Certification is preferred but not required.
• Experience with utility capital investment business models is preferred but not required.

Benefits & Compensation


Company Overview

Qualus is a leading pure-play power solutions firm and innovator at the forefront of power infrastructure transformation, with differentiated capabilities across grid modernization, resiliency, security, and sustainability. The firm partners with utilities, commercial, industrial, data center, and government clients, and renewable and energy storage developers, offering comprehensive solutions through boutique and integrated advisory, planning, engineering, digital solutions, program management, energy efficiency and specialized field services. Qualus also provides software and technology enabled services and develops breakthrough solutions for critical power industry challenges such as distributed and variable resource integration, emergency management, and secure data exchange. The firm has over 2,000 professionals, with offices throughout the U.S. and Canada.

Equal Opportunity Employer

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