Job Description
Project Manager
The Project Manager will be responsible for delivering major transformer projects throughout their full lifecycle. You will work cross-functionally with engineering, manufacturing, procurement, logistics, quality, and customer teams to ensure successful project execution.
- Manage the complete lifecycle of power transformer projects from handover through contract close-out.
- Develop and maintain project plans, schedules, budgets, resource requirements, and risk mitigation strategies.
- Act as the primary point of contact for customers, consultants, utility companies, and key stakeholders.
- Coordinate engineering, manufacturing, procurement, logistics, finance, and quality teams to ensure project milestones are achieved.
- Monitor project financial performance, cost controls, and contractual obligations.
- Lead Factory Acceptance Tests, Site Acceptance Tests, commissioning activities, and project handover processes.
- Drive continuous improvement initiatives while ensuring compliance with quality, safety, and international industry standards.
The Successful Applicant: For the Project Manager we are seeking:
- Bachelor's Degree in Electrical Engineering, Mechanical Engineering, or a related technical discipline.
- 10+ years of project management experience within power transmission, energy, transformer manufacturing, or heavy electrical equipment industries.
- Strong knowledge of transformer design, manufacturing, testing, commissioning, and installation processes.
- Experience managing large-scale, technically complex customer projects.
- Proficiency with project management methodologies.
- Strong experience using project planning tools including Microsoft Project, Primavera, or similar platforms.
- Understanding of commercial contracts, project finance, budgeting, and risk management principles.
- Familiarity with international standards including IEC, ISO, ANSI, and related electrical industry standards.
- Excellent stakeholder management, customer-facing, negotiation, and communication skills.
- Proven ability to lead cross-functional teams and influence stakeholders at multiple organizational levels.
- Customer-focused mindset with a passion for delivering operational excellence and continuous improvement.
What's on Offer:
- Competitive base salary and performance-based bonus structure.
- Comprehensive healthcare and retirement benefits.
- Opportunity to work on high-profile power infrastructure and transformer projects.
- Exposure to international customers and large-scale utility and industrial applications.
- Career progression within a growing global engineering and manufacturing organization.
- Collaborative environment focused on innovation, quality, and operational excellence.
- Significant opportunity to influence project delivery standards and best practices.
Job summary:
Sector Engineering & Manufacturing Sub Sector Project / Program Management Industry Industrial / Manufacturing Where Houston Contract Type PermanentNumbers & Facts
| Location | Houston, Texas |
| Job Type | Full-time |
| Industry | Staffing/Employment Agencies |
| Salary | $110,000–$120,000 Per Year |
| Company Size | 10,000 employees or more |
| Website | https://www.michaelpage.ca/ |
About Company
Michael Page is one of the world's leading professional recruitment consultancies, specializing in the placement of candidates in permanent, contract, temporary and interim positions with clients around the world.
Our business was established in Canada in 2005 when we opened our Toronto office. Our role is to work with employers and job seekers to facilitate a successful match. This can range from advising a global company on a candidate sourcing strategy to helping a job seeker find their dream job.
In Canada, we focus on recruiting for the following areas:
Banking and financial services
Digital and e-commerce
Engineering and manufacturing
Finance and accounting
Human resources
Information technology
Marketing
Oil and gas
Procurement and supply chain
Property and construction
Sales
An Established Brand
The Group has established a leading presence in many of the key markets for professional recruitment around the world and has positioned itself in certain other markets, which offer the opportunity for future growth. Within its current largest markets, Michael Page has also built a regional presence, including in the UK, France and Australia. Consequently, the Michael Page brand is among the most widely recognized brands in the professional recruitment industry.
A Market Leader
The role of a recruitment consultancy is to act as an intermediary, identifying and sourcing suitably qualified candidates on behalf of its clients. Candidates are recruited either for permanent or contract positions (typically for a fixed term) or on a temporary basis. Within the overall recruitment industry, the market for professional recruitment services is a specialist sector which has developed more recently. Michael Page is widely recognized as leading the development of this market around the world.
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