Senior Project Manager

Nova Scotia Power is seeking a Senior Project Manager in Halifax, NS, to lead the Eastern Clean Energy Initiative Team. The role involves overseeing project execution, coordinating with stakeholders, managing budgets and timelines, and ensuring safety and environmental compliance. The position requires experience in energy transmission and a passion for renewable energy. The closing date for applications is April 9, 2025.
The Opportunity

Company, Department: Nova Scotia Power, Office of The CCEO

Location: Halifax, Nova Scotia

Closing Date: April 9, 2025

At Nova Scotia Power, providing safe and reliable electricity is at the core of everything we do. We understand how essential electricity is in daily life — powering homes, businesses, and communities. We have a passion for energy — producing and delivering it safely to our customers across Nova Scotia, every day.

This is an exciting time for Nova Scotia Power’s Eastern Clean Energy Initiative Team, as we undertake the largest transformation in the history of our company to reach 80% renewable electricity by 2030. This means we are transforming a system that took five decades to build to develop new ways to deliver energy, new ways of doing business, a new way of serving our customers, and new ways of working with partners in and out of the province to help build a green economy.

If you are an experienced Senior Project Manager, who understands energy transmission, and you are passionate about creating a greener future for our province, this could be the opportunity for you’ve been searching for. You will lead a team of dedicated, like-mined professionals, in the installation of multiple synchronous condensers to support power generation and grid stability. Come and join our team of dedicated professionals, as we work to power a green Nova Scotia, together.

Key elements of this role include:
• Provide overall leadership and be responsible for scheduling, execution of contracts, coordinating site preparation activities (NSP scope), forecasting and cost controls, project documentation management, procurement processes, environmental and safety management, project reporting, project commissioning, and close out.
• Coordinate with Procurement for the development of Contracting Strategies, detailed and comprehensive scope of work for RFP(s) and evaluation of proposals so as to ensure Company achieves best value for customers while limiting the opportunity for change requests and claims.
• Facilitate regular meetings with external stakeholders and contractors to review project progress against timelines, identify risks, and develop mitigation strategies as required.
• Manage project progress and deliverables against the project timeline, decision gates, and budget.
• Development of System Interconnection Requests, and interfacing with System Planning on Facilities Studies/Interconnection Agreements for timely planning and execution of point of interconnection to overall project integrated plan (including ECC activities).
• Prepare progress reports, including construction status, any material changes approved, and updated projected projects costs to internal stakeholders.
• Develop and maintain an up-to-date register of all potential project risks and initiate proactive risk management strategies with stakeholders as required.
• Participates in preparation of all documentation required for regulatory filing. Supports culture of “Zero Accident Mindset”.
• Provide direction and supervise direct report project team members.
• Lead project team with both dedicated resources and contributing members from across the organization.
• Team development, coaching and performance evaluation.

These skills will make you successful:

To thrive in this role, you recognize yourself in most of the following competencies and skills listed below:

Education & Experience
• Degree in Engineering and Professional Engineer designation.
• Minimum fifteen (15) years demonstrated experience in successfully managing and delivering complex, large scale infrastructure projects across multiple sites simultaneously.
• Project Management Professional designation (PMP) is considered an asset.
• Experience in energy generation is considered an asset.

Technical/Job Specific Knowledge and Abilities
• Demonstrated understanding of project management principles and processes.
• Proactive approach to problem-solving with strong decision-making skills.
• Strong organizational skills and ability to manage priorities and deadlines.
• Strong ability to analyze information, assess risk, and make decisions.
• Strong stakeholder management skills.
• Persuasive communicator and problem solver.
• Strong written and verbal communication skills.
• Proficiency with Microsoft Office Suite.
• Experience using SharePoint Online (SPOL) is an asset.
• Ability to quickly learn new software applications.
• Hold a valid driver’s license.

We understand that experience comes in many forms, and we’re dedicated to adding new perspectives to the team. So, if your experience is close to what we’ve listed above, please consider applying.

Learn more about our culture and values

At the Emera Group of Companies, you’ll be part of an inclusive, respectful workplace where everyone is welcomed and supported. Come build a career as unique as you are: making an impact from Atlantic Canada to the world. Your experience and perspective will help us to safely deliver cleaner, more reliable energy to our customers.

If working in an innovative environment, challenging yourself, and shaping a cleaner energy future inspires you, we want to hear from you. Apply by April 9, 2025 and let us know why this role is right for you.

The perks of joining our team? We offer:
• Health & Wellbeing: A comprehensive benefits plan, 24/7 access to virtual health care services for you and your family through Dialogue, access to a free on-site fitness centre, Employee and Family Assistance Program, parental leave top-up plan and wellness benefits.
• Grow Your Career: Opportunities to advance within and between our affiliate companies, a focus on employee development and available sponsored education programs.
• Community Engagement & Care: Corporate investments in the places where our people live and work, mentoring opportunities, fundraising-matching, volunteer programs, various committees and employee resource groups, and scholarships for children of employees.
• Competitive Compensation: Short-term incentive plans and a Defined Contribution Pension Plan.

Diversity, Equity & Inclusion at Emera

As one of Atlantic Canada’s largest publicly traded companies, we are ranked one of Canada’s Top 100 Employers, Top Employers for Young People and Top Diversity Employers. We know our success is driven by our dedicated teams and we strongly encourage applications from all qualified candidates, including persons who identify as racially visible, Indigenous, persons with disabilities, women in underrepresented roles and members of the 2SLGBTQ+ community.
Applicants from these equity groups may self-identify through the online application process. We support candidates and employees with access and accommodation needs and encourage you to let us know when you require accommodation.

Recruitment & Promotion Policy

The success of the Emera Company is driven by its people: a strong team with a shared commitment to support the Emera Company mission and values. The purpose of our recruitment policy is to provide a consistent framework to support fair and equitable attraction, hiring, and retention of the best talent for vacant positions. We are dedicated to maintaining a fair hiring process that provides equitable opportunities to all our applicants and is guided by our company values.