Hybrid Project Management Consultant – Program Manager, Owner's Representative

at Black & Veatch

• Job title: Project Management Consultant – Program Manager, Owner's Representative
• Job type: Full Time
• Experience level: Senior, Lead
• Salary: Not specified
• Degree requirement: Bachelor's Degree
• Location requirements: Hybrid, Abilene, United States

About the role

• Project Management Consultant acting as Owner's Representative for complex infrastructure programs at Black & Veatch. Leading project execution, oversight, and client coordination across energy and mission-critical projects.

Responsibilities

• Serve as the Owner’s representative for program and project execution
• Act as the primary client interface for day‑to‑day coordination and issue resolution
• Establish priorities and drive alignment across contractors, EPCs, OEMs, and stakeholders
• Oversee scope, schedule, cost, risk, quality, and safety performance
• Coordinate interfaces across power generation, electrical infrastructure, data center, and interconnection scopes
• Support change management, claims avoidance, and commercial risk alignment
• Partner with client or home‑office PM, scheduling, cost, and risk resources to maintain: Integrated Master Schedules, Cost forecasts, commitments, and change logs, Risk registers and mitigation plans
• Provide consistent, executive‑level reporting to client and internal leadership
• Coordinate integrated testing, commissioning, and turnover activities
• Support transition to operations, documentation closeout, and lessons learned

Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree in Engineering, Construction Management, or related discipline OR Equivalent field experience (minimum 15+ years) in construction, commissioning, or execution of complex energy, power, or mission-critical infrastructure projects in lieu of a bachelor’s degree
• Minimum 12 years of progressive experience managing complex infrastructure or energy projects
• Demonstrated experience in Owner’s‑Representative, Project Management Consulting (PMC), Owner’s Engineer, or similar client‑side execution roles
• Strong background in Mega Project Execution in conventional generation
• Risk Mitigation
• Stakeholder, Contractor and EPC coordination
• Construction oversight and field execution
• Commissioning and turnover support

Benefits

• competitive compensation
• 401K match
• benefits that start day 1
• flexible work schedules
• paid vacation and holiday time
• sick time
• dependent sick time
• adoption reimbursement
• tuition reimbursement
• vendor discounts
• an employment referral program
• AD&D insurance
• pre-taxed accounts
• voluntary legal plan
• the B&V Credit Union
• performance-based bonus program