Senior Project Manager — High Voltage Execution

Company Profile: 

Repsol is a globally integrated multi-energy company headquartered in Madrid, Spain. With a team of 25,000 employees across more than 20 countries, we proudly serve 24 million customers worldwide. Our diversified renewable energy portfolio totals nearly 3,700 MW of installed capacity, with a strong presence in Spain, the United States, and Chile. 

As part of our commitment to a more sustainable future, low-emissions generation is at the core of our strategy to achieve net-zero emissions by 2050. Repsol Renewables North America (RRNA) plays a key role in this vision, with aims to increase generation capacity between 3,000 – 4,000 MW by 2027. 

We are driven by innovation, collaboration, and purpose. Repsol offers a comprehensive Employee Value Proposition (EVP), including a holistic Total Rewards program that supports the wellbeing, growth, and contributions of our people. Join us in shaping the future of energy. 

Job Summary:

The Senior Project Manager will report to and support the Head of Project Management in delivering utility-scale wind, solar, and battery storage projects safely, on schedule, within budget, and in alignment with commercial and contractual commitments. This role will have a dedicated focus on high-voltage execution, including owner-side management of substations, switchyards, transmission lines, interconnection facilities, gen-tie facilities, protection and control systems, utility interfaces, energization, synchronization, and COD readiness. The Senior Project Manager will lead cross-functional execution from late-stage development through construction, commissioning, COD, and handover, with accountability for safety leadership, contractor performance, utility coordination, schedule and cost control, risk mitigation, contract administration, change management, claims avoidance, and executive-level reporting. This role requires strong commercial judgment, technical fluency, disciplined governance, and the ability to drive timely decisions across internal teams, contractors, utilities, and external stakeholders.

The position is based in Downtown Houston with a hybrid work model of 3 days in the office and 2 days from home.

Key Responsibilities:

• Provide visible safety leadership across development-to-construction project execution, reinforcing that successful delivery includes protecting people, communities, assets, and the environment.
• Lead cross-functional project teams with accountability for safety, quality, schedule, cost, risk, commercial commitments, contractor performance, and timely resolution of execution issues.
• Manage project schedules, including baseline management, critical path analysis, progress measurement, forecasting, and early identification of threats to COD and major milestones.
• Coordinate with Finance, project controls, analysts, and internal support teams to manage monthly budget reforecasts, cost trends, contingency tracking, and updates to project economics.
• Prepare executive-level project reporting that clearly communicates status, risks, decisions required, commercial exposure, mitigation plans, and confidence in COD and budget outcomes.
• Manage EPC contractor performance against contractual obligations, including milestone achievement, deliverables, notices, reporting requirements, recovery plans, change control, and compliance with project execution requirements.
• Lead commercial and contractual review of change order requests and claims, coordinating with technical, Legal, Procurement, and project controls teams to assess entitlement, cost and schedule impact, contractual merit, and recommended negotiation or settlement strategy.
• Manage unbundled high-voltage scope execution, including substations, switchyards, transmission lines, gen-tie facilities, interconnection facilities, protection and control systems, SCADA interfaces, metering, relay settings, testing, commissioning, energization, and turnover.
• Own commercial and execution interfaces between the BOP contractor, HV contractor, OEMs, independent engineer, utility, ISO/RTO, transmission owner, and internal engineering, development, asset management, and operations teams.
• Drive HV design, procurement, construction, and commissioning readiness, including design reviews, constructability, long-lead equipment tracking, outage planning, utility witness testing, backfeed strategy, energization sequencing, punch list closure, and COD-critical milestone protection.
• Engage utility counterparts, interconnection stakeholders, consultants, and internal technical teams to support HV facility acceptance, backfeed, relay and protection coordination, energization, synchronization, and COD readiness.
• Maintain an integrated project risk register covering safety, permitting, interconnection, engineering, procurement, construction, schedule, commercial, and financial risks, with clear mitigation owners, due dates, escalation triggers, and quantified impacts where appropriate.
• Lead disciplined project governance, including decision logs, action registers, change logs, correspondence records, approval records, lessons learned, and handover documentation.
• Support EPC procurement and project financing activities, including RFP development, bid evaluation, contractor due diligence, technical and commercial clarifications, contract negotiation support, investor or lender diligence, and open item tracking.
• Lead structured turnover of completed projects to Asset Management, including closeout documentation, outstanding obligations, warranty items, lessons learned, operational readiness inputs, and transition of project knowledge.

Qualifications:

• Must be authorized to work for any US employer, without the need for work visa sponsorship now or in the future.
• Bachelor’s degree in an Engineering discipline.
• 12+ years of progressively responsible project management experience for major capital projects in energy, infrastructure, construction, or a related industry, with demonstrated ownership of cost, schedule, risk, contractor performance, commercial management, and executive reporting.
• 7+ years of direct high-voltage scope delivery experience involving substations, switchyards, transmission lines, gen-tie, interconnection, or grid integration scopes.
• Proven track record of managing full-life cycle EPC projects in the renewable energy sector at utility scale, including late-stage development, construction, commissioning, energization, COD, and turnover.
• Strong working knowledge of high-voltage electrical infrastructure, including AIS/GIS substations, collector substations, switchyards, breakers, transformers, buswork, transmission structures, foundations, grounding, relaying, protection and control, telecommunications, SCADA, metering, testing, commissioning, and energization requirements.
• Demonstrated ability to manage HV engineering deliverables, technical reviews, design clarifications, owner comments, utility requirements, outage constraints, long-lead equipment risks, energization plans, and commissioning turnover packages.
• Demonstrated experience managing EPC contracts for utility-scale renewable energy projects, including contract administration, change order evaluation, claims avoidance, and contractor performance management.
• Strong commercial acumen with ability to connect technical and construction issues to cost, schedule, risk, contractual entitlement, and project economics.
• Experience managing project controls, including baseline schedules, critical path analysis, cost forecasting, contingency tracking, progress measurement, and executive reporting.
• Proven ability to lead cross-functional teams and influence stakeholders across Development, Engineering, Procurement, Legal, Finance, HSE, Asset Management, utilities, contractors, investors, and consultants.
• Ability to prepare clear executive-level recommendations, including decision papers, risk summaries, commercial positions, mitigation plans, and escalation materials.
• Experience supporting late-stage development of energy projects, including permitting, land, interconnection, and transition into construction.
• Proficiency with Microsoft products and familiarity with project management, project controls, reporting, and collaboration tools.
• Strong analytical problem solving, structured communication, stakeholder management, commercial judgment, negotiation support, and technology-enabled project execution skills.

Preferred Qualifications:

• PMP certification preferred.
• Bachelor’s degree in Electrical Engineering highly desired.
• Understanding of utility interconnection requirements, including familiarity with FERC rules, ISO tariffs, transmission owner requirements, utility commissioning requirements, and other interconnection requirements as needed.
• Experience as an owner or EPC contractor in managing HV procurement, bid evaluation, contract negotiation support, technical clarifications, interface matrices, division-of-responsibility gaps, and change order evaluation for substation, switchyard, transmission line, and interconnection scopes.
• Familiarity with NERC, IEEE, NEC, NESC, utility standards, relay/protection coordination, commissioning test documentation, energization procedures, and grid compliance requirements.
• Experience with EPC negotiations, dispute avoidance, commercial correspondence, contractor notices, change management, and claims defense.
• Experience supporting project financing, lender or investor diligence, independent engineer reviews, and financial close processes.
• Familiarity with AACE cost estimate classes, schedule maturity expectations, project controls best practices, and stage-gate governance.
• Experience using project management and project controls platforms such as MS Project, Primavera P6, Power BI, Procore, Oracle, SAP, or equivalent tools.

Repsol is an Equal Opportunity Employer M/F/Disability/Veteran.