Project Manager - Estimating & Financial Controls I, II, III
A regulated electric utility is hiring a Project Manager to plan and execute capital and non-outage projects with a strong emphasis on cost estimating, financial analysis, forecasting, budget control, contracting, and change management. The position leads cross-functional project teams and gives stakeholders clear, decision-ready visibility into scope, cost, schedule, risk, and resources.
The best fit combines hands-on project delivery with credible estimating or cost-engineering depth in an electric utility, commercial power generation, nuclear, or similarly regulated industrial environment. Candidates may be considered at Level I, II, or III based on education, experience, certification, and demonstrated project complexity.
Location: Richland, Washington
Schedule: Monday-Thursday, four 10-hour days
Work Setting: Onsite
Role Type: Contract
Contract Duration: Long-term contract opportunity with the ability to extend over 5-10 years
Openings: 1
Citizenship: U.S. citizenship required
Pay Rate: Level I: $40.75-$85.50/hour; Level II: $54.00-$96.50/hour; Level III: $58.25-$103.50/hour. Final level and rate depend on experience, certification, client approval, and alignment with the applicable level.
Benefits
- Eligible full-time CRG contract employees who work at least 30 hours per week may enroll in the CRG benefits program.
- Coverage begins on the first day of the month following 30 days after the hire date.
- Three Aetna medical plan options are available, including an HSA-compatible option; in-network preventive care is covered in full.
- Voluntary dental and vision coverage.
- Company-paid $25,000 basic life and AD&D coverage for employees enrolled in a CRG medical plan.
- Voluntary life and AD&D, short-term disability, long-term disability, and accident coverage.
- Employee assistance resources and benefit advocacy support.
- Weekly pay, direct deposit, referral bonus opportunities, and ongoing CRG recruiting and account-management support.
- 401(k) eligibility after 12 months as a CRG employee.
- Washington employees earn at least 1 hour of paid sick leave for every 40 hours worked. Over a 2,080-hour work year, that equals 52 hours, or 6.5 eight-hour days; unused balances of 40 hours or less carry over to the next accrual year.
- This is a summary only. Eligibility, coverage, exclusions, limits, waiting periods, payroll deductions, and employee costs are governed by official CRG plan documents and carrier materials.
Responsibilities
- Develop and maintain project cost estimates, budgets, cash-flow projections, and financial forecasts from planning through execution.
- Build detailed scopes of work, schedule projections, staffing plans, procurement strategies, and resource forecasts.
- Perform cost analysis, estimate validation, value engineering, sensitivity analysis, and quantitative risk assessment to support decisions.
- Partner with estimating, engineering, construction, procurement, finance, operations, and project-controls teams to validate assumptions and cost breakdowns.
- Track commitments, actuals, accruals, forecasts, variances, contingency, and estimate-at-completion; communicate trends early.
- Manage vendor contracts, bid evaluations, purchase orders, change orders, and commercial issues with disciplined financial oversight.
- Lead project teams whose size and composition vary with scope, risk, and project complexity.
- Maintain transparent relationships with stakeholders, vendors, and subcontractors while driving accountable project execution.
- Prepare concise status reports and decision packages covering scope, cost, schedule, risk, and recovery actions.
- Support authorized business travel when required by the technical representative.
Qualifications
- Bachelor's degree from an accredited college or university plus at least two years of progressively responsible project-management or professional-level experience in an electric public utility or equivalent government, public-utility, or private utility-related organization; OR
- Associate's degree from an accredited college or university plus at least three years of qualifying experience; OR
- High school diploma or GED plus at least five years of qualifying experience.
- Demonstrated background in estimating, financial analysis, project controls, or cost engineering.
- Working knowledge of project-management principles, methodologies, and governance practices.
- Ability to interpret budgets, forecasts, cost models, financial reports, and project performance data.
- Proficiency with project-management and estimating software and the ability to manage multiple priorities.
- Strong analytical, communication, stakeholder-management, and problem-solving skills.
- Current project-management certification is required for Levels II and III.
Preferred Qualifications
- Project Management Professional (PMP) certification.
- Commercial nuclear, power-generation, electric-utility, or other highly regulated capital-project experience.
- Experience with estimate development, cost baselines, forecasting, earned-value concepts, change control, procurement, and vendor commercial management.