Principal Consultant - Kansas (Virtual) Job Details | Black & Veatch Family of Companies

Black & Veatch - Fort Worth, TX

Part-time,Full-time - Senior

Remote - Fort Worth, TX

Professional, Scientific, and Technical Services

About the position

The Principal Consultant at Black & Veatch leads the delivery of Utility Transformational programs and projects, focusing on Grid Modernization, Advanced Metering Infrastructure, Customer Experience solutions, and Enterprise Work and Asset Management. This role involves managing project scope, schedule, budget, quality, and resources while ensuring client satisfaction and developing long-term relationships. The consultant will also support federal award project delivery and contribute to the development of methodologies and templates for continuous improvement in project management and organizational change management.

Responsibilities

• Align client technical needs with identified business objectives through the planning and execution of grid, asset, and customer solution projects.
• Lead large, complex, multi-year technology infrastructure and systems projects involving multiple stakeholder organizations across the client utility.
• Lead continuous improvement and quality development in go to market collateral, delivery work products, templates, and processes.
• Support Key Account Management practices in one or more regions across the country, targeting long-term client growth through excellence in delivery and trusted relationship development.
• Bring strong verbal and written communication skills and demonstrated ability to overcome obstacles and negotiate resolutions to complex problems.
• Leverage knowledge of multiple delivery methodologies to integrate planning and scheduling across power systems infrastructure and OT/IT systems.
• Support organizational planning, structured project planning and execution, finance and accounting, personnel administration, technology life cycle management, delegation, team building, conflict management, and problem solving.
• Identify resource needs, conduct personnel interviews, and build project teams, identify team roles and responsibilities, align team members, motivate and inspire consulting professionals to meet project objectives.
• Be a change advocate and overcome barriers to change for clients and team members, navigate/resolve unforeseen challenges, effectively balancing scope, schedule, resources, and quality.
• Demonstrate effective business and technical writing and verbal communication skills; develop presentations for reporting to all levels of the client business.
• Manage meetings with defined agendas, effective group participation, time management, and action items tracking.
• Develop professional quality work products at each stage of the project management lifecycle.

Requirements

• Bachelor's Degree or relevant work experience
• Has managed significant engagements
• 10+ years in a business/consulting environment

Nice-to-haves

• Master's Degree
• Project Management Professional (PMP) certification
• Experience in Utility Management & Technical Consulting

Benefits

• Competitive compensation
• 401K match
• Benefits starting day 1
• Flexible work schedules
• Paid vacation and holiday time
• Sick time and dependent sick time
• Adoption reimbursement
• Tuition reimbursement
• Vendor discounts
• Employment referral program
• AD&D insurance
• Pre-taxed accounts
• Voluntary legal plan
• B&V Credit Union
• Performance-based bonus program