Project Manager, Load Forecasting & Asset Analytics

Position Overview

BBA is a national, employee-owned, multi-disciplinary engineering and services firm with offices coast to coast in the U.S. and abroad. We have an established Power and Renewables business line, which comprises Power Advisory and Asset Management (PAAM), Transmission and Distribution (T&D), Wind and Solar, Storage, Hydropower and Industrial Power groups. We want to strengthen our position in the PAAM group and Power Markets segment across Canada. As Project Manager, you’ll be responsible for delivering load forecasting and asset analytics projects in the North American power utility market. You’ll leverage your expertise, industry knowledge, client relationships and engineering/data science experience to achieve our objectives. This role is a great position for being at the forefront of helping our clients meet the challenges of the energy transition.

Type of position: Régulier

Key Responsibilities

You’ll deliver asset condition assessment and asset analytics projects for utility clients. This role provides structured project governance, commercial oversight and stakeholder coordination across multidisciplinary teams, enabling technical consultants to focus on delivering high-quality analytical outputs.

Project governance and delivery oversight

• Establish and manage overall project governance structures and reporting cadences
• Develop integrated project plans covering data acquisition, asset inspections (if applicable), analytics/modelling phases, reporting and recommendations
• Coordinate across multiple workstreams led by technical consultants
• Ensure alignment between technical delivery and contractual scope

Schedule and resource management

• Build and maintain detailed schedules across analytics, engineering, and client activities
• Coordinate resource allocation across asset analytics teams, engineering SMEs, and data specialists
• Identify bottlenecks such as data availability or SME constraints and proactively resolve them
• Ensure workload balancing across concurrent projects

Budget and commercial management

• Own project financials, including budget tracking and forecasting, burn rate monitoring, margin protection
• Manage scope changes, variations and contract adjustments
• Support invoicing and revenue recognition milestones

Stakeholder and client management

• Serve as the primary non-technical point of contact for client stakeholders
• Structure and lead steering committee meetings, status updates, risk/issue discussions
• Ensure alignment between client expectations and technical outputs
• Support consultants in translating complex analytics into decision-ready messaging

Risk, issue and dependency management

• Maintain and actively manage risk registers, issue logs, and dependency tracking (especially data and client inputs)
• Anticipate risks specific to asset analytics projects: data quality/availability issues, model validation delays, regulatory or stakeholder review cycles
• Lead mitigation planning and escalation when needed

Integration with technical teams

• Work closely with consultants/advisors leading asset analytics to align timelines with modelling and analysis cycles
• Ensure clarity of deliverables and milestones
• Avoid overloading technical resources with admin overhead

Quality and deliverables coordination

• Ensure consistency and completeness of deliverables across workstreams
• Coordinate internal reviews before client submissions
• Enforce adherence to delivery standards and templates
• Support development of repeatable delivery models for asset analytics projects

Qualities & Values

• Autonomous
• Aptitude for self-development
• Results-driven
• Excellent communication and soft skills
• Attention to detail
• Strong organizational skills
• Thirst to learn and excel
• Rigorous and ethical
• Caring mindset that puts people first

Qualifications & Experience

• Bachelor’s degree in engineering, business or related field
• 7 to 10+ years of project management experience in Utilities, Infrastructure and/or Asset-heavy industries
• Experience managing data-driven or analytics-focused projects
• Strong experience in budget and schedule management, and multi-stakeholder coordination

Additional Assets

• Experience working alongside asset analytics/asset management teams and utility asset planning or performance groups
• PMP, PRINCE2 or equivalent certification
• Familiarity with:
  • Asset condition assessment programs
  • Risk-based asset management frameworks
  • Utility data ecosystems (SAP, Maximo, GIS, SCADA)

Benefits & Total Rewards

• Annual base salary
• Annual premium program for regular employees
• Onsite mobility premium
• Time bank
• Cellphone fee reimbursements
• Group insurance plan from the first day of employment, including disability insurance and a telemedicine program
• Retirement savings plan for regular employees
• Annual vacation and sick leave
• Premium for employee referrals
• Custom training and development plans
• A corporate culture that values expertise
• Participation in innovation projects
• Generous pension and insurance plan
• Agility and listening: Your ideas are transformed into concrete initiatives
• Friendly, eco-mindful and high-tech workspaces
• A collaborative team that shares its ideas and knowledge
• Interesting growth opportunities to match your ambitions

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