The Senior Project Manager is responsible for the end-to-end execution of complex, high-value, and strategically important customer projects. The role leads projects from formal handover by the sales and tendering teams through design, procurement, integration, delivery, installation, commissioning, financial and administrative closeout, and formal customer acceptance.
The Senior Project Manager applies project governance proportionate to project complexity, contractual exposure, technical risk, and business requirements. The role is accountable for day-to-day project delivery and serves as the primary point of contact for customers and key stakeholders.
This position requires strategic judgment, strong matrix leadership, and deep technical, commercial, contractual, and financial acumen. The Senior Project Manager directs cross-functional teams and protects safety, quality, cybersecurity, customer satisfaction, schedule, cash, margin, and contractual outcomes throughout execution.
What will you do?
1. Project Execution and Governance
Lead complex customer projects through all applicable execution activities from formal handover through customer acceptance, including project initiation and setup, design, integration and delivery, installation and commissioning, integrated change control, and performance monitoring and control.
Apply the appropriate level of governance, documentation, review, and approval based on project complexity, contractual exposure, technical risk, and business requirements.
Plan, prepare, document, and support approval of applicable project reviews and key milestones, including project setup, design completion, site readiness, delivery completion, installation completion, and formal customer acceptance.
Ensure assigned projects are established, categorized, linked, and maintained in SGV and the applicable ERP system in accordance with execution-governance requirements.
Support the initial and ongoing Risk Escalation Level (REL) assessment and participate in internal team meetings, portfolio reviews, full project reviews, and REL reviews, as applicable.
Lead the formal handover from Tendering and Sales to the execution team, confirming that approved scope, specifications, drawings, bill of material, technical requirements, contractual commitments, commercial assumptions, risks, opportunities, and customer expectations are understood and documented.
Establish the project charter, core project team, stakeholder register, responsibility assignments, project management plan, communication plan, budget baseline, schedule baseline, procurement strategy, risk and opportunity baseline, and change-control approach.
Conduct internal and customer kickoff meetings and confirm that contractual and operational conditions for coming into force are satisfied before applicable execution work begins.
Develop and maintain detailed schedules, resource plans, cost plans, billing milestones, cash forecasts, and risk-mitigation strategies aligned with contractual commitments.
Provide expert support during pre-sales, quotation, and contract-finalization activities when requested to improve execution feasibility and reduce downstream risk.
3. Design, Procurement, Delivery, and Site Execution
Coordinate with the customer, Schneider Electric plant engineering, and SE Field Services Operations to schedule an Engineering Site Visit (ESV), including any required customer outage.
Obtain pricing for changes identified through the ESV. Communicate the findings and associated change-order proposals to the customer and secure documented customer direction before proceeding with affected work.
Manage the technical-submittal process.
Coordinate design validation, customer approvals, and all required material releases.
Launch and monitor critical and long-lead procurement; coordinate suppliers, factories, logistics, internal manufacturing, third-party vendors, and subcontractors to protect contractual dates and technical requirements.
Provide the customer with regular updates on shipment schedules, logistics, and delivery details.
Confirm completion of subsystem build and testing, system integration, and factory acceptance testing, and coordinate customer witness testing when required.
Work with the customer and SE Field Services Operations to schedule the on-site material inventory and subsequent installation and commissioning outage based on confirmed material delivery dates and site readiness.
Facilitate planning sessions with SE Field Services Operations covering mobilization, installation, testing, commissioning, customer training, and operational handover.
Hold recurring coordination meetings with internal and external stakeholders as the installation date approaches to finalize the execution plan and confirm alignment on roles, responsibilities, dependencies, and readiness.
Confirm site readiness before delivery and manage constraints involving access, storage, interfaces, permits, utilities, safety, installation sequence, and customer dependencies.
Manage Schneider Electric, supplier, and subcontractor site activities in accordance with approved safety, quality, technical, schedule, and contractual requirements.
4. Commercial, Contract, and Financial Management
Protect project profitability and cash performance through disciplined cost control, forecasting, billing, collections, revenue recognition, risk provisions, and financial reconciliation.
Maintain accurate cost-to-complete estimates, forecast-at-completion scenarios, gross-margin projections, revenue forecasts, billing plans, and cash-collection forecasts.
Establish and maintain integrated change control to identify, document, assess, approve or reject, price, negotiate, and implement deviations from the contractual baseline, including change orders and commercial concessions.
Manage customer and supplier variation orders and claims in coordination with Contract Management, Finance, Procurement, Legal, Sales, and other appropriate stakeholders.
Protect Schneider Electric's contractual position through timely notices, substantiation, correspondence, records, approvals, and commercial documentation.
Prevent unauthorized scope execution and ensure approved changes are reflected in budgets, schedules, forecasts, customer orders, supplier commitments, and ERP records.
5. Risk, Performance, and Systems Control
Monitor actual and forecast performance against approved scope, schedule, cost, margin, cash, billing, quality, safety, cybersecurity, and customer-satisfaction targets.
Maintain current risks, opportunities, issues, contingencies, changes, claims, actions, owners, mitigation plans, and realistic impact dates.
Monitor schedule slippage or compression, contractual milestones, liquidated-damages exposure, overdue invoices, unbilled revenue, supplier performance, and other conditions requiring corrective action or escalation.
Develop and execute recovery plans when performance deviates from baseline, and promptly escalate matters beyond the project team's authority or control.
Maintain accurate and timely project data in SGV, SAP or Oracle, and other required systems, including project review and milestone status, commentary, action tracking, cost planning, scope changes, productivity metrics, financial performance, and project-review records.
Reconcile project data across governance and ERP systems and resolve discrepancies affecting order value, cost, margin, invoicing, cash, forecasts, or reporting.
6. Customer and Cross-Functional Leadership
Serve as the primary customer contact from formal execution handover through customer acceptance, leading regular progress, schedule, commercial, technical, and risk reviews.
Communicate status, decisions, changes, dependencies, customer obligations, site-readiness requirements, and emerging impacts clearly and promptly.
Provide direction to matrixed teams and coordinate a consistent Schneider Electric position across Sales, Tendering, Engineering, Services, Supply Chain, factories, Finance, Contract Management, Quality, Environment, Health and Safety, Cybersecurity, Legal, and leadership.
Resolve issues professionally, preserve constructive customer relationships, and protect Schneider Electric's scope, schedule, commercial, and contractual position.
Identify and propose alternative solutions that improve safety, quality, cost, performance, delivery, customer outcomes, or lifecycle value.
Lead, coach, and influence project team members and less-experienced project managers without relying on direct reporting authority.
7. Safety, Quality, Cybersecurity, Acceptance, and Closeout
Ensure compliance with Schneider Electric and customer environmental, health and safety, quality, and cybersecurity requirements throughout design, manufacturing, delivery, site execution, commissioning, and closeout.
Coordinate required assessments, controls, records, corrective actions, and governance evidence with the appropriate Environment, Health and Safety, Project Quality, and Cybersecurity specialists.
Stop or escalate work when project activities present unacceptable safety, quality, environmental, cybersecurity, commercial, or contractual risk.
Confirm completion of applicable installation and commissioning obligations, resolve or document outstanding project items, obtain formal customer acceptance, and complete the Senior Project Manager's formal project ownership responsibilities at formal customer acceptance.
Drive technical, contractual, administrative, and financial closeout activities required for formal customer acceptance, including resolution of open commitments, supplier and subcontractor closure, final revenue recognition, invoicing, cash collection, and documented transfer of any remaining open items.
Capture, validate, communicate, and apply lessons learned and best practices throughout execution and before formal customer acceptance by completing a Return on Experience and Lessons Learned review.
What are the key skills we are looking for?
Prioritization - advanced level; managing competing demands across multiple projects and stakeholders
Project Management - intermediate level; leading end-to-end delivery of mono-technology and multi-system integration projects
Operational Efficiency - intermediate level; driving cost reduction while maintaining or improving delivery quality
Communication - intermediate level; coordinating effectively with local and global teams and stakeholders
Critical Thinking - intermediate level; making sound decisions in ambiguous situations with minimal supervision
Budgeting - intermediate level; overseeing project financials and ensuring alignment with business objectives
What qualifications will make you successful?
Bachelor's degree in Engineering, Construction Management, Business, or a related field.
Project Management Professional (PMP) certification.
Minimum 7-10 years of project management experience in electrical power distribution, construction, mechanical systems, or a comparable technical project environment.
Demonstrated success managing large-scale, complex projects across engineering, procurement, manufacturing, logistics, construction, installation, testing, commissioning, customer acceptance, and project closeout.
Experience managing projects through formal lifecycle, stage-gate, or execution-governance processes.
Strong financial acumen, including project budgeting, cost-to-complete, forecasting, gross margin, billing, cash collection, provisions, cost control, and revenue recognition.
Demonstrated knowledge of contract administration, integrated change control, customer and supplier claims, commercial documentation, and risk and opportunity management.
Technical knowledge of low-voltage and medium-voltage electrical distribution equipment and associated systems and services.
Experience managing cross-functional teams, suppliers, subcontractors, and site activities in a matrixed organization.
Ability to prepare and present project performance, recovery plans, financial scenarios, risks, and leadership-support requests to senior stakeholders.
Excellent customer communication, negotiation, conflict-resolution, and stakeholder-management skills.
Proficiency with Microsoft 365 applications; scheduling tools such as Microsoft Project or Primavera; enterprise resource planning systems such as SAP or Oracle; and enterprise project-governance tools. Experience with SGV is preferred.
What's in it for me?
High-visibility role where your work directly impacts customer success and business outcomes
Opportunity to lead diverse, global teams across cutting-edge projects and technologies
Collaborative culture that values autonomy, professional judgment, and career development
Dynamic environment with exposure to both Capex and Opex initiatives
Ready to make your mark? Apply today and lead projects that matter!
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How Costa Mesa compares. Among the 145 largest places in California, Costa Mesa is #62 by population, #136 for homeownership (#1 = highest), #20 for long commutes (#1 = fewest), #44 for remote work (#1 = most). Its county, Orange County, is #9 of 58 counties for average pay ($81,403).
The place in numbers
Costa Mesa has 110,330 residents (ACS 2020–2024), about 0.3% of the population of California. It covers 16 square miles of land, which works out to roughly 6,980 people per square mile. The median age is 36.7, 3% younger than the state median (36.7 against 37.9).
Housing
The median gross rent is $2,446 a month (rent plus utilities), 20% above the state median ($2,446 against $2,036). Over a year that is 26.3% of the median household income. US housing guidance treats housing as affordable when it takes 30% of income or less, so the typical household is under that line. The median home value is $1,115,100, which is 10.0 times the median household income ($111,505); a ratio above 5 usually means buying is out of reach without savings or a second income. 39.5% of households own their home, 29% below the state average (39.5% against 55.9%). A low ownership share points to a rental-heavy market with more apartments and shorter stays.
Work and pay
The Los Angeles-Long Beach-Anaheim, CA metropolitan area has 6,271,560 jobs in the BLS wage survey, and the median pay across all occupations is $55,850 a year, 10% above the national median ($55,850 against $50,980). The biggest occupation groups are office and administrative support (702,480 jobs, median $52,710); food preparation and serving related (588,660 jobs, median $38,460); healthcare support (537,460 jobs, median $35,630). The area is most specialised in arts, design, entertainment, sports, and media (2.2 times) and healthcare support (1.7 times), where the share of workers is well above the national share. The best-paying groups with at least 5,000 jobs are management ($136,490) and legal ($128,110). In 2026M09 the unemployment rate of Orange County was 4.3%. 73.5% of residents aged 16 and over are in the labour force. The city lies in Orange County; its jobs, pay by industry and GDP are on the county page.
Getting around
Among workers, 62.4% drive alone, 1.6% use public transit, 2.1% walk, 22.2% work from home. 9.7% of workers commute 45 minutes or more, 50% below the state average (9.7% against 19.4%). Remote work is more common than in the state as a whole, which widens the set of employers a resident can work for without moving.
People and education
45.0% of adults aged 25 and over hold a bachelor's degree or higher, 21% above the state share (45.0% against 37.1%). 22.3% of residents were born outside the United States, 17% below the state share (22.3% against 27.0%). The poverty rate is 9.1%, 24% below the state rate (9.1% against 12.0%).
Climate
The warmest month is Aug, averaging 69°F (20.7°C), and the coolest is Feb at 58°F (14.3°C). About 314 mm (12 inches) of precipitation falls in a year; Feb is the wettest month (73 mm) and Jun the driest (1 mm). These values come from NASA satellite-based climatology on a grid of about 50 km, so they describe the wider area, not a weather station in the city.
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