Power Systems Project Manager

About the Role

The devices we make at SEL are embedded in the power grid. They prevent blackouts. They make outages safer and shorter in duration; they add cybersecurity, automation, and communication. They use cutting-edge technologies and operate at speeds that push other pieces of the grid to go faster.

As a Project Engineer – Project Manager in Engineering Services, you'll provide solutions and services that help our customers protect and control critical electrical infrastructure and power systems worldwide.

Typical Responsibilities

• Work with customers to understand their needs and respond with solutions through new proposal development when within SEL Engineering Services' competencies
• Be a customer trusted advisor and lead projects to ensure assigned work is completed within agreed upon scope, schedule and budget to a high level of quality and safety
• Prepare and maintain detailed scoping, schedule, and budgeting documents
• Use project performance metrics to forecast actual project performance and compare against baselines through a regular reporting regimen
• Identify, measure and improve project and procedural deficiencies
• Lead projects that assist customers with the creation, design, configuration, validation, installation, commissioning and operation of automation and/or protection systems

This Job Might Be for You If You

• Have a history of managing or supporting projects through their entire lifecycle, from bid to close-out
• Enjoy new, meaningful challenges and overcoming real world limitations to deliver a quoted scope of work for the budget & schedule promised and to the quality your customers expect
• Understand how to exercise change management when deviations arise, applying a structured process and set of tools to achieve desired project results
• Know how to work with scheduling software to graphically represent the critical path to completion and use that data to advise stakeholders
• Understand how to monitor and control project performance metrics and compile that data into regular stakeholder reports
• Enjoy autonomy and working with latitude necessary to drive results
• Want to enhance your communication skills in all directions to achieve the common goal

Required Qualifications

• B.S. in Electrical Engineering or relevant discipline
• 5+ years relevant application experience with project management best practices and philosophies
• Good knowledge of electric power system protection and control, integration and/or automation and communications applications
• Working knowledge of electric power system design, studies, information and communication technology and protective relay applications
• Willing to travel both domestically and internationally a minimum of 25% based on focus area
• Strong writing, documentation, and speaking skills
• Ability to learn new skills and assume new responsibilities
• Ability to work cooperatively in a team environment
• Background check results satisfactory to SEL

Locations

Houston TX, Plano TX, Denver CO, Fairway Heights IL, West Lafayette IN, Plymouth MI, Medina MN, Markham ON

Compensation and Benefits

Pay Range: We anticipate filling this position as a Project Engineer II - Project Manager $79,000.00 - $124,000.00. We are open to reviewing additional candidates with more or less experience and the salary range may differ if filled at a different level. Our salary ranges are determined by job, responsibility, and location. We base our starting pay offer and title on location and job-related factors such as candidate experience, training, knowledge, and skills.

Retirement: Employer funded stock ownership plan (ESOP) and personal 401(k) options

Insurance: Top tier medical, prescription, dental, vision, life, and disability insurance

Time Off:

• 10 paid holidays
• Annual vacation accrual starting at 12 days
• 9 paid sick days
• Paid family and medical leave that covers 90% of your pay

Growth and Development: STEM courses, apprenticeships, tuition assistance, and engineering development programs

Additional Benefits: Wellness, fertility, adoption, and flexible spending benefits

About SEL

SEL invents, designs, and builds digital products and systems that protect power grids around the world. This technology prevents blackouts and enables customers to improve power system reliability and safety at a reduced cost. A 100 percent employee-owned company headquartered in Pullman, Washington, SEL has manufactured products in the United States since 1984 and now serves customers worldwide. Our mission is simple: to make electric power safer, more reliable, and more economical.

People are at the core of our company and we hire employee-owners.

Application

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SEL is an Equal Opportunity Employer: Vets/Disabled.