Senior Project Manager – Utility Solutions

Purpose of the Role

The Senior Project Manager – Utility Solutions is the single point of accountability for the delivery of a major enterprise software platform to a large utility client. The role owns the client relationship day-to-day, drives contractual milestones through to formal acceptance, and protects both the delivery schedule and the commercial terms of the contract.

This is a governance and relationship role, not an engineering one. The postholder works in partnership with CTO and with a Product Manager who owns scope definition, and with Business Development Director who owns the commercial relationship above the project.

Key Responsibilities

Client Relationship

• Act as the client's primary point of contact for all delivery matters.

• Run the weekly status meeting and issue the written status report and action log.

• Maintain and actively manage the client stakeholder map — control centre engineers, IT, procurement, and the executive sponsor.

• Escalate early and in writing. No issue should reach the company first from the client's side.

Delivery Governance

• Own the master schedule and drive it against contractual milestones.

• Maintain the RAID log (risks, assumptions, issues, dependencies) and review it weekly with the delivery team.

• Coordinate FAT, SAT, UAT, training, and go-live readiness in partnership with the Technical Delivery Lead.

• Chair the bi-weekly steering committee with both executive sponsors.

Commercial Protection

• Drive milestone acceptance sign-offs, which are the contractual triggers for invoicing.

• Enforce change control: no scope moves without a documented, priced, and signed change request.

• Flag margin risk, schedule slippage, and dependency failures to the Delivery Director before they translate into cost.

• Support Business Development on change order pricing and expansion opportunities.

Internal Coordination

• Translate client requirements and complaints into work the engineering team can consume.

• Interface with the Product Manager on scope definition and backlog priority, protecting the product roadmap from unmanaged client-specific demands.

• Direct the Project Coordinator on documentation, minutes, trackers, and the invoicing pack.

• Shield the engineering team from unmanaged client interruption.

Post Go-Live

• Transition the account into support and SLA governance.

• Identify follow-on work and hand qualified opportunities to Business Development.

Requirements

Essential

• Bachelor's degree in engineering, computer science, or a related field.

• Seven or more years in delivery or project management of enterprise software for large organisations.

• Demonstrated experience delivering to Egyptian utility, government, or state-owned clients — including procurement culture, approval chains, and formal correspondence.

• Track record of owning contractual milestones through to client acceptance and payment.

• Strong technical literacy: able to read architecture diagrams, interrogate estimates, and recognise when an engineering explanation does not hold.

• Fluent Arabic and English, including formal written reporting (French or German is a plus).

Desirable

• Exposure to SCADA, EMS, ADMS, or OT environments in any capacity.

• Familiarity with utility control centre operations.

• PMP, PRINCE2, or an equivalent project management qualification.

• Prior experience working with transmission or distribution utilities.

Attributes

• Comfortable being the person who says no to the client.

• Writes clearly and often — the paper trail is part of the job.

• Curious about the technical domain without wanting to do the technical work.

Success Measures — First 12 Months

• Milestone acceptance sign-offs obtained on or ahead of contractual dates.

• Collections achieved against invoiced milestones.

• Zero unpriced scope delivered.

• Client escalations resolved at project level rather than escalated to executive level.

• Steering committee cadence maintained without slippage.