PROJECT MANAGER (PERMITTING, FINANCE & LEGAL)

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The Project Manager – Business is responsible for leading the planning, coordination, and day-to-day execution support for the permitting, finance, and legal workstreams within the LIT project. This role helps integrate activities that are essential to project readiness, compliance, funding, contracting, and decision support, ensuring these workstreams are aligned with overall program priorities and timelines.

This role serves as the central coordinator for workstream plans, status tracking, issue management, meeting facilitation, and follow-up across internal leaders, subject matter experts, and external advisors. The Project Manager must be able to manage multiple complex processes at once, maintain strong attention to detail, and translate workstream developments into concise updates, clear action items, and timely escalations.

AN IDEAL CANDIDATE WILL POSSESS THE FOLLOWING COMPETENCIES

Core Competencies

1. Cross-Functional Project Leadership: Coordinates complex workstreams involving regulatory, financial, legal, and operational stakeholders.
2. Planning & Organization: Maintains strong control over timelines, milestones, follow-up items, and interdependencies.
3. Regulatory & Governance Orientation: Understands the importance of compliance, approvals, documentation, and disciplined decision processes.
4. Communication: Presents information clearly and concisely to both technical and executive audiences.
5. Risk & Issue Management: Anticipates roadblocks, identifies concerns early, and drives resolution.
6. Execution & Follow-Through: Keeps work moving and ensures commitments are completed on time.
7. Stakeholder Coordination: Works effectively across internal leaders, external advisors, and partner organizations.
8. Judgment: Exercises sound judgment in handling sensitive issues, competing priorities, and escalation decisions.
9. Attention to Detail: Maintains accuracy in logs, documentation, status reporting, and process tracking.
10. Adaptability: Responds effectively to changing requirements, approvals, and project conditions.
11. Commercial Understanding: Exhibits a core competency in sound business principles  and displays an ability to advance the comprehensive project business case, including CAPEX and OPEX considerations, commercial drivers, opportunities for efficiencies, and development of aggressive, well-documented and realistic forecasts on revenues, volumes, expenses, etc.
12. Financials: Understands basics of project cash needs and timing, can work with financial team in establishing cost breakdowns and timing, then manage ongoing updates for project cash flow forecasting based upon changes in scope and/or timing.