Manifest Solutions is currently seeking a Senior Project Manager for a hybrid position in Niles, MI.

• Attend Project Engagement meeting, provide PM contact information, gather project information (project number, name, preliminary schedule, high level scope) and document on master list to drive initial scoping by I&M Region Engineering.
• For D-funded projects with Station impacts, hold kick-off and follow-up meetings for project, engaging with controls to ensure appropriate BPIDs, functional scopes/schedules/estimates are entered into IRR, P6, and Ecosys appropriately to tee project up for hand off to execution PM.
• For D-funded projects without Station impacts and T-funded projects, attend kick-off and follow meetings for project, engaging with stakeholders to ensure timely completion of function and detail scopes/schedules/estimates to be entered into IRR and P6 to tee project up for hand off to execution PM.
• Run reports (Smartsheet/Region Report/P6/Excel) monthly to keep master list updated with appropriate information.
• Interface with/update P6 Teams milestones/tasks weekly to communicate Planning statuses back to the Energy Delivery team.
• Hold monthly Scoping Coordination meeting with Distribution Planning and I&M Region Engineering to ensure communication between parties, gather statuses of scopes and estimates, and gain insight of engagement statuses.
• Hold monthly Portfolio reviews with Distribution Planning and I&M Energy Delivery to check in on Funding timing and gather/document information on revised schedules and issues that are holding projects up.
  
• Collate up-to-date project information into OneNote template to prepare project for hand-off.
• For d-line projects, upon “detail scoping” completion step in IRR, enter projects for detail scoping into the IDP Checklist with preliminary schedule.
• Attend bi-weekly “Detail Scoping” meetings to represent the projects to I&M Region Engineering and ensure scoping dates are accurate and are being met.
• Review detail scopes to ensure necessary information is present for design and follow process to pass along and get the Row IDs created and the tasks moved into I&M Central Design’s queue.
• Hold hand-off meeting with Execution PM, reviewing OneNote contents and risks identified.
• Prepare monthly update Planning slide for report-out.
• Hold necessary meetings to engage Distribution Planning, Energy Delivery, I&M Distribution, and Project Solutions stakeholders to gather necessary information to build the annual baseline document and align it with the next year’s budget.

Basic Qualifications :

• Bachelor's degree in Construction Management, Engineering, Business or related field of study with five (5) years qualified experience or, two-year Associate's degree in the same required disciplines with seven (7) years of qualified experience (see below).
• Qualified experience includes work in project management, major construction field experience, project estimating, project controls, project engineering, and/or comparable internal or external experience in a competitive production environment.
• Experience must exhibit progressively increasing project management and business acumen and responsibility for most of the PMI PMBOK knowledge areas.
• Demonstrated preparedness for journey level PM knowledge capability in areas of construction safety, negotiations, scope development and control, cost estimating, construction contracting, project controls and reporting, quality control, risk management, etc
• Licenses/Certifications: Project Management Professional (PMP) is preferred.

Posted On: Tuesday, March 11, 2025