Project Management Advisor

What You Can Expect

As a Project Management Advisor, your role will involve leading all phases of energy projects, ensuring they’re completed on time, within budget, and meet the highest standards for quality, safety, and cash management—all while securing strong customer references. These projects will span energy efficiency measures, facility renovations, renewable generation installations, and carbon reduction strategies, helping public sector, commercial, and industrial customers across the U.S. become more sustainable, reduce costs, and improve operations.

Managing multiple projects simultaneously, you’ll oversee everything from early development through post-construction, including design, procurement, contract negotiations, and project implementation. Assigning responsibilities to the project team and establishing schedules will be key, along with handling technical aspects like scope development, conducting savings analysis, and assessing the feasibility of proposed solutions. Collaboration is essential in this role, as you’ll work closely with the Sales team to support customer presentations and interviews during project development. Partnering with the Legal department, you'll negotiate and prepare customer agreements and change orders, ensuring contractual obligations are met.

When it comes to budgeting, maintaining precise records of all cost components will be crucial. Any necessary adjustments will be promptly communicated to your supervisors. Together with the Construction Manager, you’ll establish a comprehensive project schedule, ensuring milestones are met and projects are completed on time. Your coordination with Accounting will ensure timely customer invoicing, and you’ll proactively resolve any payment delays. Compliance with local labor regulations will be part of your responsibility, as will overseeing the completion of monitoring packages and final job close-out.

This position will be remote, Illinois and will report to the Project Management Director.

What You’ll Bring

• A minimum of a four (4) year degree in which you have gained a knowledge of construction management, engineering elements, and project management functions
• A minimum of seven (7) years of related work experience in project management of complex projects including training and certifications
• You are proficient with MS Office; including, Word, Excel, PowerPoint, and Project
• Skillful in project accounting to manage project budgets
• Strong negotiation skills
• Solid technical writing abilities
• Capability to create and execute project development and delivery schedules
• Excellent adherence to schedule, and collaborative problem-solving skills to maintain budget, schedule, and customer satisfaction 
• Ability to review engineering work across all typical energy and general construction project scope types
• Superior understanding of general construction methods and can work with the construction manager to implement the project
• Knowledge of contract scopes of work, and alignment with subcontractor scopes of work 
• Ability to manage a project team which may include Project Engineers, Consultants, Construction Managers, and other Subject Matter Experts   
• Proficient in Construction Management Software (CMS)

Additional Details

• This role is eligible for our hybrid work policy
• Must be available to travel domestically up to 25% of the time and with some overnight trips
• Ability to conduct regular site visits during development and construction; which may include light lifting and climbing
• Must possess a valid U.S. driver’s license with clean driving record
• Must be willing and able to comply with all ENGIE ethics and safety policies

Compensation

Salary Range: $112,000-$172,500 USD

This represents the average expected pay range for a qualified candidate. Actual offered salary may depend on geography, experience, industry knowledge, education, internal pay alignment, or other bona fide factors.

ENGIE complies with all federal, state, and local minimum wage laws. Actual salary offered may vary depending on geography, experience, education, internal pay alignment, or other bona fide factors.

In addition to base pay, this position is eligible for a competitive bonus / incentive plan.

Your Talent Acquisition Partner can share more specific information regarding the benefits or the salary for the position based on the work location

At ENGIE, we take your well-being seriously. Our comprehensive benefits package includes options for medical, dental, vision, life insurance, employer-paid short-term and long-term disability insurance, ESPP, generous paid time off including wellness days, holidays and leave programs. We also help you plan for retirement by offering a 401(k) Retirement Savings Plan with a company match.  But that's not all – we're dedicated to the health and happiness of your entire family, offering supplemental benefits for full time employees that enhance emotional and physical well-being through all stages of life from family forming to caregiver benefits. Explore our benefits package to see how we can support you. Learn more.

Why ENGIE?

ENGIE North America isn’t just participating in the Zero-Carbon Transition, we’re leading it!  Join us as we develop energy that is renewable, efficient, and accessible to everyone. 

At ENGIE, our goal is to support, promote, and thrive on diversity, equity, and inclusion.  We do so for the benefit of our employees, customers, products and services, and community.  ENGIE is proud to be an equal opportunity workplace, and we are firmly committed to creating an equitable and inclusive environment for all employees.

We are committed to providing employees with a work environment free of discrimination and harassment.  All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, religion, national origin, disability, veteran status, or other legally protected status.

If you need assistance with this application or a reasonable accommodation due to a disability, you may contact us at ENGIENA-ENGIEHR@engie.com. This email address is reserved for individuals with disabilities in need of assistance and is not a means of inquiry regarding positions or application status.

We are unable to sponsor or take over sponsorship of an employment visa for this role at any time.

The safety of our employees is our number one priority. All employees at ENGIE have both a duty and the authority to STOP WORK if unsafe acts are observed.