Engineering Manager – Project Management

At Schweitzer Engineering Laboratories (SEL), we design and manufacture cutting-edge electronic devices and panels, and deliver expert engineering services that safeguard, monitor, and control power systems. Our mission is to make electric power safer, more reliable, and more economical. Leveraging advanced technologies - including time-domain protection, sophisticated control systems, cybersecurity, and high-speed communications - we’re helping build a smarter, more resilient electric grid.

As an Engineering Manager – Project Management within our Engineering Services division, you’ll be at the forefront of delivering innovative solutions that protect and manage critical electrical infrastructure worldwide. Our diverse customer base spans utilities, oil and gas companies, data centers, universities, and more.

As an Engineering Manager – Project Management, a typical day might include the following:

• Leading and managing a multidisciplinary project management team, including project managers, controllers, and account administrators.

• Providing mentorship, performance oversight, and strategic guidance to ensure alignment with organizational goals.

• Driving project excellence by proactively identifying performance trends and implementing corrective actions.

• Supporting team members in setting and achieving career development objectives.

• Act as Project Manager to successfully execute complex projects from initiation through completion by working closely with the technical team and following internal processes.

• Training and assisting customers with the creation, design, configuration, validation, installation, commissioning and operation of automation and/or protection systems.

• Work with customers to understand their needs and respond with solutions through new proposal development when within SEL Engineering Services’ competencies.

• Complete and implement assigned work 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 forecasting to compare against baselines through a regular reporting regimen.

• Identify, measure and improve project and procedural deficiencies.

This job might be for you if you:

• Are a strategic leader with a passion for mentoring teams, driving project excellence, and aligning project outcomes with business growth and team development goals

• 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 that when deviations arise, how to exercise change management, when appropriate, to apply a structured process and set of tools to achieve the desired project results.

• Know how to work with scheduling software to graphically represent the critical path to completion and how to use that data to advise your stakeholders.

• Understand how to monitor and control project performance metrics and how compile that data into regular stakeholder reports.

• Enjoy autonomy and working with latitude necessary to drive results.

• Have experience in construction management within the power systems industry

Required Qualifications:

• B.S. in Electrical Engineering or relevant discipline

• 8+ years relevant application experience with project management best practices and philosophies

• Relevant experience in managing power systems engineering projects.

• 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

Location:

We are open to this position being in Pullman, WA, Phoenix, Arizona or Boise, Idaho.

Competitive pay. Superior benefits. Inspiring work.

People are at the core of our company and we hire employee-owners. We welcome you to learn more about how we support employees.

• We’re 100% employee owned. Retirement benefits include an employer funded stock ownership plan (ESOP) and personal 401(k) options.

• We offer top tier medical, prescription, dental, vision, life, and disability insurance.

• We recognize the importance of a healthy life balance and offer: 10 paid holidays, annual vacation accrual starting at 12 days, 9 paid sick days, and paid family and medical leave that covers 90% of your pay.

• We foster growth and development of our employees through avenues such as STEM courses, apprenticeships, tuition assistance, and engineering development programs.  

• Ask our team about other benefits including wellness, fertility, adoption, and flexible spending benefits.

Communication with Applicants 

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SEL is an Equal Opportunity Employer: Vets/Disabled.