Project Manager, Load Forecasting & Asset Analytics

An overview of your future role

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.

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.

Unlike technical project leads, project managers are accountable for end-to-end project performance, including schedule, budget, risk and client engagement across multiple workstreams.

With us, you’ll get the opportunity to... 

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
    
  • Data specialists
• Identify bottlenecks (e.g., data availability, 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
    
  • 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

Do your qualities and values match our corporate culture?

• 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