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Summary:
As the Director of Project Management, you will lead a team of professionals providing preconstruction planning, estimating, strategy and contract oversight for utility scale solar, and battery energy storage projects. This position will oversee all aspects of planning, scheduling, and budgets from preconstruction to final completion across the EPC portfolio. You will be responsible for strategic direction, business development, project delivery, profitability, and client management.
Essential Duties and Responsibilities:
Safety & Environmental:
Drive safety culture by implementing safety improvement program plans, practices, and objectives in coordination with Health and Safety team
Ensure all employees follow safe practices
Responsible for environmental compliance on all projects
Support development of Safety Management Systems, Quality Management Systems and Environment Management Systems
Personal Characteristics:
Able to understand concepts easily.
Have a sharp mind, a good memory, and a high success rate pivoting companies’ products and services with the changing economy and markets.
Be an analytical problem solver who views obstacles as opportunities and creates solutions to systemic problems
Possess impeccable organizational skills.
Reduce complexity, create accountability, and be able to systemize, simplify, and apply technology to the company’s processes.
Be a positive mentor, coach, and people developer.
Maintain a sense of urgency, while managing multiple initiatives at once, to ensure project deadlines are accomplished.
Be a catalyst of positivity and drive growth within the organization.
Recognize necessary change and drive continuous improvement across the business.
Ability to represent the company before clients, external agencies, and the organization’s executive staff
Build trust and departmental structure by adhering to consistent standards as it relates to quality, process, and employee expectations
Be self-motivated, self-starter who takes full ownership of project results
Skills:
Ensure implementation of expectations, direction, and vision, as it aligns with organizational strategy
Oversee and direct a team of project management professionals
Provide guidance and input to Project Management on all aspects of project execution including schedule management, financial forecasting, prime contract compliance, progress reporting, client, and community relations, etc.
Provide input on project documentation related to contract administration, schedule, and budgets
Prioritize key activities on projects across the company portfolio in various stages from design through closeout
Experience within renewable energy, general contracting, or commercial construction
Detailed oriented, analytical, organized, able to meet established deadlines, strong communication skills, and works well in pressure-type situations
Use expertise to course correct and guide challenges to resolution.
Work with Construction Management to define project baseline, scope, resource allocation, and deliverables.
Collaborates closely with the Engineering and Procurement teams to define and refine scopes and prepare and manage BOP/BOS RFP processes for solar and battery energy storage systems
Coordinate with other department heads and senior management to ensure projects are properly designed, planned, and completed
Assembles presentation materials and reports for Senior Management on the status and risks for projects
Communicate project progress and challenges to Executive Management in a concise, fact-driven way.
Proactively direct project scope, identify critical variables and devise contingency plans.
Mentor Project Management on productivity, honoring commitments, and driving projects to completion
Leads the collaboration with PMO and other stakeholders to ensure buy-in and the development of processes and standards that meet organizational needs.
Supervisory Responsibilities:
Provide daily leadership to a staff of Project Managers responsible for planning and execution of projects
Advances corporate strategic direction by establishing goals for the PM group and hosting lessons learned for continuous improvement
Align personal and team goals to department and company goals
Mentors and trains staff on project control tools to effectively manage project costs, schedules, scopes, change orders and inspires a culture of disciplined attention to detail and frequent contract referencing to support contractor management and generation of management reports
Manage and support employee growth
Provide and facilie resources to participate in implementation and development of "First Time Right" training initiatives
Education and/or Work Experience Requirements:
Education:
Minimum 10 to 15 years Solar Construction Experience including a minimum of 5 years P&L responsibility
Engineering Degree or Construction Management Major preferred
PMI/PMP certification · Knowledge of OSHA safety and construction regulations. OSHA 30 certification preferred
Experience and proficiency with Microsoft Project
Experience and proficiency with MS Office including MS Excel and MS Word
Solid knowledge and understanding of key value drivers for renewable power projects and developer/owner/operator company objectives
Strong oral and written communication, project management, leadership, and team-building skills, including experience working with cross-functional internal and external technical advisors and stakeholders
Demonstrated ability to read, interpret, edit, and understand plans and specifications for civil, mechanical, and electrical work
Experience with managing renewable energy construction contracts including change order management and dispute resolution
Experienced with managing and driving project schedules
Physical Requirements/Work Environment:
Ability to travel 50% of time or more to project locations
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