Project Manager

Located in Lincoln, Nebraska, LES is customer-owned and is one of the nation's leading utility companies. We are recognized for low costs, unmatched reliability, financial stability, cutting-edge innovation, environmental stewardship, and community engagement. We pride ourselves on delivering exceptional customer service while fostering a culture that celebrates passion, talent, and high standards. If youre not just looking for a job but a fulfilling career in a workplace that values excellence, the environment, and the community we call home, LES might just be the perfect fit for you. Join us and power a brighter future!

• LES is interested in every qualified candidate who is eligible to work in the United States.
• LES is unable to sponsor employment-based immigrant or non-immigrant visas.
• This is not a remote position and requires residency within a reasonable commuting distance to LES in Lincoln, Nebraska.

Job Title

Project Manager

Employment Type

Starting Pay Range

Posting Date

FULL-TIME

$84,400.00 - $127,900.00

10/15/2026

Employment Classification

Division

Closing Date

Regular

Administration

10/29/2026

Bring your project leadership expertise to LES and help move important initiatives from vision to results. As a Project Manager, you'll lead complex infrastructure, technology, and other enterprise projects, collaborate with leaders and teams across the organization, and drive alignment around scope, schedule, budget, risk, and successful delivery. We're looking for someone who can see the big picture, navigate competing priorities, build strong stakeholder relationships, and keep complex work moving forward. If you enjoy leading through influence and delivering projects that make an organizational impact, we'd like to hear from you.

JOB SUMMARY

Responsible for managing infrastructure and enterprise projects and programs in collaboration with organizational leadership to achieve strategic goals and objectives. Serves as the designated project lead, accountable for overall project performance, including scope, schedule, budget, quality, and safety compliance, as applicable. Leads the planning, execution, and successful delivery of projects within the enterprise portfolio, overseeing large, complex, and cross-functional initiatives. Partners with project sponsors and key stakeholders to drive alignment, manage expectations, and deliver outcomes that support organizational priorities. Consistent and reliable attendance is required.

ESSENTIAL DUTIES AND CORE COMPETENCIES

Project Manager

• Develops and manages project plans including schedule, cost, resourcing, and risks; monitors progress and reports on performance and variances.
• Coordinates communication between stakeholders, management, and project teams to ensure alignment and effective execution; including project statuses, risks, and issues throughout the project lifecycle.
• Proactively manages changes in project scope and develops mitigation and contingency plans.
• Ensures detailed documentation of project activities, decisions, and outcomes is maintained and available post-project.
• Provides leadership to project team members and contributors.

Project Manager II

• Demonstrates solid, applied knowledge of project management principles, methodologies, governance practices, and organizational processes.
• Independently leads large, complex, and cross-functional projects from initiation through closeout within established governance frameworks.
• Exercises judgment to manage scope, schedule, budget, risks, and stakeholder expectations while balancing competing priorities.
• Serves as a project management resource and coordinates work across multiple teams, stakeholders, and organizational functions.
• Identifies and implements improvements to project management processes, tools, and standards to improve organizational effectiveness.

Accountability - Holds self and others responsible for goals, outcomes, deadlines, and objectives and follows through on commitments. Takes accountability for delivering on commitments; owns mistakes and uses them as opportunities for learning and development.

Critical and Analytical Thinking - Using logical thought processes to analyze information and draw conclusions. Skilled at finding logical flaws in arguments and plans; identifies problems and solutions that others might miss; provides detailed insight and constructive criticism into problems and complex situations.

Decision Making - Moves quickly to make good decisions and commit to a clear course of action; comfortable making sound decisions based on partial information; willing to take appropriate risks in order to maintain momentum; shows a strong bias toward action.

Initiative - Takes action on their own without being prompted; handles problems independently; able to resolve issues without relying on extensive help from others; does more than is expected or asked.

Project Management - Establishes project goals, milestones, and procedures, defines roles and responsibilities, acquires project resources, coordinates projects throughout company, monitors project progress, and manages multiple projects.

REQUIRED EDUCATION and/or EXPERIENCE

• Project Manager ($84,400 - $105,500) - Four years of progressively responsible project management experience in infrastructure, enterprise, or related projects; or an equivalent combination of education and experience sufficient to successfully perform the essential duties of the job. Bachelors degree in Business Administration, Engineering, Construction Management, Information Systems, Project Management, or related field. Project Management Professional (PMP) certification preferred.
• Project Manager II ($102,320 - $127,900) - Seven years of progressively responsible project management experience in infrastructure, enterprise, or related projects; or an equivalent combination of education and experience sufficient to successfully perform the essential duties of the job. Bachelors degree in Business Administration, Engineering, Construction Management, Information Systems, Project Management, or related field. Project Management Professional (PMP) certification required; Valid driver's license

REQUIRED CERTIFICATES, LICENSES, REGISTRATIONS

• Valid Driver's License

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