ABOUT US
At POWERX, we make power work.
We deliver engineering, protection and control, commissioning, NETA field services, and compliance, supporting the full lifecycle of power infrastructure. With a multinational footprint across the United State and Canada, we bring technical depth and field-proven experience to every project.
POWERX is built on four pillars, with our people as the foundation. Guided by our values, HEART, our people-first culture shapes how we show up for each other and for our clients because we believe the best work comes from people who feel valued and supported.
That commitment to excellence has been recognized nationally, including Great Place to Work, Fortune Best Workplace in Construction, and Power Best Companies.
Through our family of brands, POWERX Edge expands that promise with turnkey solutions across critical power infrastructure. Our edge is the ability to connect specialized expertise through one integrated platform, helping customers plan, build, energize, protect, and optimize power infrastructure with confidence.
In an industry where technology and complexity are ever-changing, we’re ready to help you meet today’s challenges while preparing for tomorrow’s innovations. Work with a team that’s powered by excellence.
POWERX Edge Brands Overview Mission-critical Level I–V facility & mechanical commissioning, design review through owner turnover. A2LA Field Evaluation Body. 30+ years of experience via Genelco by POWERX Edge.
The POWERX Edge brand also offers a direct gateway for utilities services, including, distribution engineering, P&C, SCADA validation, wiring, construction support & reliability.
Elect, A POWERX Company offers electrical & power-systems engineering, studies, utility & substation design serving NC, GA, VA & NY.
All other services roll up under our main platform, POWERX, supporting the full lifecycle of power infrastructure.
OUR POWERX Edge PERKS
- Competitive Pay
- Incentives for Certifications
- Referral Bonus Program
- Tuition Reimbursement
- Medical, dental, vision, LTD, STD, Basic Life/AD&D, and other ancillary products
- 401k program with a company match
- Performance Program
- Paid Parental Leave
- PTO including Wellness Days and Paid Holidays
- And much more!
Position Summary:
The P&C Manager is responsible for the overall performance, profitability, and operational execution of the Protection and Control service line within an assigned region or portfolio. This role leads P&C Supervisors and the field organization beneath them, owning project financial performance, client relationships, workforce capability, and safety and human performance compliance across all assigned work.
This is a non-billable leadership position. Success is measured not by hours charged, but by the health of the business: accurate estimates and budgets, disciplined scope and change management, on target margins, retained and growing client accounts, and a technically capable, safe, and engaged workforce. The P&C Manager translates division strategy into field execution and translates field reality back into forecasts, staffing plans, and commercial decisions.
The P&C Manager is expected to retain enough technical depth to lead credibly. This role evaluates technical competency, conducts technical interviews, participates in progression testing, and understands protection philosophy, commissioning execution, and operational risk well enough to challenge assumptions, support supervisors under pressure, and represent POWERX capability in front of client engineering and operations leadership.
Supervisory Responsibilities:
- Directly supervises P&C Supervisors.
- Accountable for hiring, onboarding, performance management, development, and retention across the assigned organization.
Core Responsibilities:
Technical Knowledge
- Maintain working knowledge of protection philosophy, relay platforms, commissioning execution, and testing standards sufficient to evaluate field decisions and technical competency.
- Review high risk test plans, isolation plans, and energization plans prior to execution.
- Support Supervisors and Lead Test Engineers in resolving complex technical or operational issues that cannot be closed at the project level.
- Ensure testing across the portfolio aligns with utility standards, NETA practices, IEEE guidance, and client specific commissioning requirements.
- Reinforce the philosophy that protection systems are validated as complete operational systems, not isolated components.
- Retain sufficient depth in relay protection, SCADA integration, and substation communications to challenge assumptions and assess technical risk across concurrent projects.
Technical Leadership
- Ensure work is resourced and sequenced correctly across projects, balancing client commitments against crew availability and capability.
- Support Supervisors in outage planning, energization readiness, and escalation of operational risk.
- Coordinate personnel mobilization across projects, including travel, lodging, per diem, and rental arrangements.
- Plan and schedule equipment movement between projects, shops, and calibration vendors to meet committed project start dates.
- Contribute to the development and continuous improvement of Protection and Control standard operating procedures, test plan templates, and commissioning standards.
- Manage calibration, certification, and preventive maintenance schedules so no asset is deployed outside of certification.
- Track asset renewal, replacement, and retirement, and provide capital recommendations supported by utilization data.
- Establish the technical and documentation standards that Supervisors are accountable for enforcing at the project level.
- Identify performance trends and root causes across the portfolio rather than treating individual results in isolation.
Project Financial & Commercial Management
- Create project estimates and budgets for new and recurring scopes of work, including labor, equipment, travel, and subcontracted costs.
- Work with Ops manager to open and maintain projects in Salesforce, ensuring accurate setup, budget loading, and alignment with the executed scope and contract terms.
- Manage project scope change financials: identify scope changes early, quantify cost and schedule impact, and ensure change orders are documented, priced, and approved before work proceeds.
- Monitor project cost performance against budget throughout execution and take corrective action when variances emerge.
- Manage performance and financial KPIs for the assigned portfolio, including gross margin, labor utilization, schedule adherence, rework, safety performance, and quality of turnover documentation.
- Establish KPI targets with Supervisors and review performance against those targets on a defined cadence.
- Support revenue forecasting, backlog reporting, and manpower loading for the assigned portfolio.
- Review and approve project related expenditures, timesheets, and invoicing inputs for accuracy.
- Partner with estimating, project management, and finance to improve estimating accuracy based on actual field performance.
- Report portfolio performance, risks, and mitigation plans to division leadership.
Leadership & Mentorship Expectations
- Conduct performance reviews for direct reports and ensure Supervisors complete timely, substantive reviews for their teams.
- Conduct technical interviews for P&C candidates at all career levels, evaluating both technical capability and cultural alignment.
- Perform technical progression testing in partnership with Talent Development Management to validate readiness for advancement along the Test Engineer career ladder.
- Oversee new talent onboarding, ensuring new hires are properly equipped, assigned, and supported through their initial field assignments.
- Ensure onboarding of talent to client requirements is complete and current, including badging, site specific training, background and drug screening, NERC CIP access, and client safety orientations.
- Conduct “Stop, Start, Keep” meetings with Supervisors and field teams on a regular cadence to surface what is working, what is not, and what needs to change.
- Convert Stop, Start, Keep feedback into documented actions with owners and due dates, and close the loop with the teams that raised the issues.
- Build succession depth by identifying high potential individuals and creating deliberate development paths toward Lead and Supervisor roles.
- Partner with POWERX Academy and Talent Development Management on curriculum needs identified from field performance gaps.
- Address performance and conduct issues directly, promptly, and consistently.
Safety & Human Performance
- Perform monthly audits of safety and human performance compliance across assigned crews and job sites, documenting findings and corrective actions.
- Maintain and promote a safety first culture in which stopping work is always the correct decision when conditions are unclear.
- Verify field adherence to Lock Out / Tag Out (LOTO) procedures, switching boundaries, and isolation practices.
- Reinforce the use of Human Performance Improvement (HPI) tools, pre job briefs, and JHA quality.
- Maintain compliance with OSHA, NERC CIP, utility requirements, and internal POWERX standards.
- Lead or support investigation, root cause analysis, and mitigation of safety or operational events, and communicate lessons learned across the organization.
Client & Operational Engagement
- Maintain client relations as the senior POWERX representative for assigned accounts, building trust through consistent execution, transparency, and responsiveness.
- Conduct regular client touchpoints outside of active project escalations, not only when problems arise.
- Communicate schedule impacts, technical concerns, and commercial issues early and professionally.
- Identify follow on work, scope expansion, and new opportunities within existing accounts and coordinate pursuit with division leadership.
- Ensure POWERX work products, including test records, redlines, reports, and turnover packages, meet client expectations and reinforce POWERX technical credibility.
- Support proposal development, rate structures, and contract negotiations for assigned accounts.
- Represent POWERX in client leadership reviews, lessons learned sessions, and account level planning.
Additional responsibilities and tasks as required to support the organization's goals and adapt to evolving business needs.
Attributes/Abilities:
- Must have a satisfactory background/MVR check.
- Must pass a pre-employment, post-accident, reasonable suspicion, and/or random drug test.
- Business and financial acumen, able to read a job the way a P&L reads, and to connect field decisions to margin outcomes.
- Sound judgment under commercial and operational pressure, holding the technical and safety standard when schedule or cost argues against it.
- Able to hold others accountable while maintaining trust, delivering hard messages without damaging the relationship.
- Strong evaluator of technical competency, able to assess capability accurately in interviews, progression testing, and field observation.
- Portfolio level systems thinking, able to recognize a pattern across projects and correct the underlying process rather than the single occurrence.
- Willing to hear unfiltered feedback from the field and act on it visibly.
- Organizational discipline across budgets, KPIs, audits, reviews, and corrective actions, with follow through that closes items rather than logging them.
- Strong planning, forecasting, and resource management capability across concurrent projects and competing client schedules.
- Customer focused mentality, representing POWERX credibly to client engineering, operations, and executive leadership.
- Comfortable leading through others, measuring success by the performance of the organization rather than by personal field output.
- Adaptability in dynamic field and client environments, including travel as project demand requires.
- Commitment to continuous learning and professional development, personally and for the teams reporting to this role.
- Proficiency in Microsoft Word, Excel, and Outlook, and in Salesforce or an equivalent CRM.
- Capable of effectively presenting information and responding to questions from diverse groups with varying levels of technical expertise, including client executives.
Experience and Education:
- Minimum 10+ years of experience in high-voltage Protection & Control testing and commissioning, required.
- Minimum 5+ years in a leadership role with direct responsibility for personnel and project outcomes, required.
- Demonstrated experience owning project budgets, estimates, and financial performance, required.
- Experience with various relay platforms, required.
- Experience commissioning substations from 12.5kV through 765kV preferred.
- Bachelor’s degree in electrical engineering or electrical technology, or an Associate degree in Electrical Technology or related field experience preferred.
- OSHA 30 certification preferred.
- Knowledge of the National Electrical Code (NEC) and OSHA Electrical Safe Work Practices is preferred.
- First Aid / CPR certification preferred.
- Familiarity with NERC CIP requirements preferred.
Physical Requirements:
- Ability to work safely around energized electrical equipment and mechanical hazards.
- Ability to work in operational substations and construction environments.
- Ability to lift up to 50 pounds.
- Ability to travel as required.
- Ability to work overtime and outage schedules as necessary.
- Exposure to outdoor weather conditions, noise, vibration, heat, dust, oil, grease, and energized equipment environments.
POWERX is an equal opportunity employer, and all qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, age, sex, national origin, disability status, genetics, protected veteran status, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, or any other characteristic protected by federal, state or local laws.
