Senior Project Manager

Energy Solutions - USA · Chicago, Illinois, United States

  • Senior
  • Full-time
  • $92,000 – $125,000
  • Posted 2026-10-30
  • Confirmed live on 10 November 2026

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Job description

Interested in joining a growing company where you will work with talented colleagues, enhance a supportive and energetic culture, and be part of the climate solution? At Energy Solutions, we focus on the big impacts. And we believe that market-based programs can be a powerful force to deliver large-scale energy, carbon, and water-use savings. Since 1995, we’ve harnessed that power to offer proven, performance-based solutions for our utility, government, and institutional customers.

Energy Solutions is seeking a Senior Project Manager manages large, complex programs, projects, and client engagements that require advanced project management expertise, stakeholder coordination, financial management, and operational oversight. This role is responsible for ensuring successful program delivery through effective planning, execution, risk mitigation, resource management, and client engagement while supporting client and organizational objectives.

In addition, the Senior Project Manager manages Project Managers and project contributors, supports continuous improvement efforts, contributes to strategic planning activities, and advances operational excellence across assigned programs.

Working independently with limited supervision, the Senior Project Manager manages program implementation efforts and cross-functional project teams and drives execution strategies that improve participant-facing operations, operational controls, documentation quality, delivery performance, customer participation, and program outcomes. The role identifies recurring operational issues and strengthens workflows, SOPs, quality controls, and delivery practices across assigned programs and workstreams. The role serves as the primary point of contact for clients and key stakeholders, proactively identifying challenges, resolving issues, and ensuring alignment across program activities.

Responsibilities include but are not limited to:

• Manage and oversee large-scale, complex programs, projects, and client engagements from initiation through closeout while ensuring alignment with client objectives, Standard Operating Procedures (SOPs), contractual requirements, regulatory obligations, and organizational priorities

• Ensures execution of day-to-day program tasks (including timely maintenance of program information across CRM platforms), implementation of activities, delivery planning, and coordination across multiple workstreams

• Monitor and evaluate program performance, milestones, schedules, objectives, deliverables, and operational effectiveness

• Drive accountability for program outcomes, quality standards, client satisfaction, and delivery performance

• Anticipate and resolve complex operational exceptions, workflow dependencies, and delivery challenges across assigned workstreams, escalating material contractual, financial, or strategic risks as appropriate.

• Contribute to development and implementation of program strategies, annual work plans, operational priorities, and continuous improvement initiatives

• Optimize project-level procedures and implementation approaches that improve documentation consistency, participant experience, delivery quality, and operational efficiency

• Recommend and implement approved enhancements that improve operational effectiveness, participation outcomes, client value, and delivery performance

• Support innovation and continuous improvement efforts by identifying opportunities to strengthen program execution, delivery practices, and organizational effectiveness

• Work with leadership and stakeholders to align program activities with evolving business and client needs

• Manage program budgets, forecasts, staffing plans, resource allocation activities, and financial reporting requirements

• Monitor financial performance, expenditures, utilization rates, labor allocations, and delivery costs to ensure alignment with contractual and organizational objectives

• Develop and maintain resource plans, implementation schedules, and operational forecasts

• Support proposal development, budgeting, scope definition, and business planning activities\

• Review resource needs and recommend adjustments that support the achievement of program objectives

• Serve as the primary client-facing contact for assigned programs and strategic initiatives

• Develop and maintain strong relationships with clients, utility program administrators, public-sector partners, trade allies, contractors, and internal stakeholders

• Facilitate client meetings, program reviews, performance discussions, and strategic planning sessions.

• Manage resolution of complex stakeholder and participant issues by coordinating across program teams, documenting decisions and corrective actions, and communicating outcomes to appropriate stakeholders

• Supervise/mentor cross-functional implementation teams by clarifying project objectives, priorities, responsibilities, and delivery expectations

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