Description
WSP is currently seeking a Power Generation Package Manager to join our Power & Energy Team. The successful candidate will oversee the full lifecycle of specific, large-scale components for power projects, ensuring technical compliance, budget control, and adherence to safety and quality standards.
Your Impact
- Serve as Package Manager for defined scopes within larger programs, with full accountability for delivery of assigned packages, including scope, schedule, cost, quality, and risk.
- Coordinate and integrate multi-discipline teams, subcontractors, and suppliers to ensure seamless execution and alignment with overall program objectives.
- Develop and manage detailed package execution plans, including scope definition, deliverable tracking, interface management, and resource allocation.
- Lead package-level schedule development and reporting, ensuring alignment with master project/program schedules and identifying potential impacts or conflicts.
- Manage package budgets and cost controls, including forecasting, earned value tracking, and variance analysis.
- Identify, track, and mitigate risks and opportunities specific to assigned packages, ensuring proactive escalation and resolution of issues.
- Coordinate procurement activities for assigned packages, including scoping, supplier selection support, and performance oversight.
- Oversee subcontractor and vendor performance at the package level, ensuring compliance with contractual, safety, and quality requirements.
- Ensure effective interface management between packages and workstreams, resolving cross-functional dependencies and conflicts.
- Maintain clear and consistent communication with the Project/Program Manager and key stakeholders, providing regular updates on package status, risks, and performance metrics.
- Support change management processes, including evaluation of scope changes, cost/schedule impacts, and implementation of approved changes within assigned packages.
- Develop the work breakdown structure tasks and estimated costs.
- Establish and actively drive the appropriate levels of technical review required for the project, selecting appropriately qualified staff to perform the required reviews, and adherence to the QA/QC plan, as applicable.
- Ensure and maintain a record of each review and the disposition of review comments and all correspondence leaving the project.
- Participate in the technical aspects of contract negotiation, presentation, and meetings.
- Conduct and facilitate project kick-off meetings with key stakeholders.
- Maintain regular communications with the client including reporting on monthly status.
- Participate in problem project reviews, providing input about root cause issues and potential solutions to leadership and other stakeholders.
- Provide regular project reporting and updates to clients, technical area, and business unit managers, identifying any emergent issues with scope, risk, and/or budget.
- Work with the Procurement Department to closeout procurements and/or supplier agreements as appropriate.
- Complete formal project closeout activities, along with conducting and documenting a lessons-learned meeting with key project staff.
- Exercise responsible and ethical decision-making regarding company funds, resources and conduct, and adhere to WSP’s Code of Conduct and related policies and procedures.
- Perform additional responsibilities as required by business needs.
Who You Are
- Bachelor’s degree in engineering, science, or a related major, or equivalent experience in a technical or engineering firm.
- 10+ years of relevant post education experience in a package/project management role within our industry.
- Proficient understanding of project delivery process within the A/E/C or EPC industry and strong background and experience in package/project management.
- Highly proficient analytical and organizational skills, with business acumen to bridge the business and project management.
- Highly proficient with critical thinking and problem-solving skills to make assessments and calculations involving the application of package/project management principles, with a sound understanding of intent, impact, and optimal outcomes.
Preferred Qualifications
- Essential project management certification required (e.g., PMP, CAP-M)
- Master’s Degree