Associate Project Manager- Capital Projects

derivaenergy; Charlotte (NC); Presencial; USD 90.000 - 125.000; Jornada completa

Descripción de la vacante

Deriva Energy, an independent power producer in the US renewables sector, seeks an Associate Project Manager to plan and execute capital projects for its wind fleet and other initiatives. You will manage campaigns, coordinate with operations, engineering, procurement, and finance to deliver scope on time and within budget.

The role covers developing charters, managing schedules, budgets, and contractor interfaces while ensuring safety, compliance, and operational readiness across sites.

Formación

• Bachelor's degree and 5+ years of relevant project, construction, maintenance, or operations experience (for basic qualifications).
• Alternative: high school diploma or GED AND 10+ years of relevant experience.

Responsabilidades

• Serve as the project manager and primary point of coordination for assigned capital projects and multi-site campaigns.
• Develop project charters and execution plans defining scope, schedule, budget, contracting strategy, outage requirements, quality expectations, risks, communications, and turnover criteria.
• Partner with wind operations, site leadership, engineering, procurement, finance, EHS, legal, and asset management to validate project need and develop executable scopes.
• Plan and coordinate major component replacements and campaign work involving turbines, BOP systems, cranes, labor, transportation, tooling, materials, and site access.
• Establish and maintain integrated project schedules considering engineering, material readiness, contractor mobilization, outage windows, construction, commissioning, and turnover.
• Manage approved project budgets, forecasts, cash flow, contingency, invoices, change orders, accruals, and variance reporting.
• Lead contractor and supplier interfaces during execution and resolve safety, quality, schedule, and commercial issues.
• Maintain risk registers; identify issues and elevate decisions with clear recommendations.
• Ensure adherence to safety, environmental, quality, security, and regulatory obligations.
• Provide updates, dashboards, and decision materials for operations and leadership.
• Coordinate project closeout including punch lists, turnover docs, warranty info, and lessons learned.

Educación

Bachelor's degree in Engineering, Construction Management, Business Administration, or a related field

High school diploma or GED AND 10+ years of relevant experience

Descripción del empleo

Job Description:

Deriva Energy is a leading Independent Power Producer in the US renewables market, with over 6.5 GW of operating or under-construction wind, solar, and storage projects across the country. Formerly a part of Duke Energy, Deriva is now a Brookfield Renewable company. Brookfield Renewable operates one of the world's largest publicly traded, pure-play renewable power platforms. Join a dynamic team committed to excellence and innovation who envision a future of energy independence using resilient, carbon-free generation. We offer competitive compensation, comprehensive benefits, and the opportunity to make a significant impact in the rapidly evolving energy industry. Deriva empowers customers with innovative clean energy solutions that strengthen communities and serve future generations.

Position Overview

Deriva Energy is seeking an Associate Project Manager to plan and execute capital projects supporting the operating wind fleet as well as other projects as assigned, including major projects across other technologies. The role will manage assigned capital campaigns and site improvement projects, including major corrective work, component replacement campaigns, reliability improvements, and other sustaining capital initiatives.

Responsibilities

• Serve as the project manager and primary point of coordination for assigned capital projects and multi-site campaigns
• Develop project charters and execution plans that define scope, schedule, budget, contracting strategy, outage requirements, quality expectations, risks, communications, and turnover criteria
• Partner with wind operations, site leadership, engineering, procurement, finance, EHS, legal, and asset management to validate project need and develop executable scopes
• Plan and coordinate major component replacements and other campaign work involving turbines, balance-of-plant systems, cranes, specialized labor, transportation, tooling, materials, and site access
• Establish and maintain integrated project schedules, including engineering, material readiness, contractor mobilization, outage windows, construction activities, commissioning, and return-to-service milestones
• Manage approved project budgets, commitments, forecasts, cash flow, contingency, invoices, change orders, accruals, and variance reporting
• Lead contractor and supplier interfaces during execution, monitor performance, and drive timely resolution of safety, quality, schedule, commercial, and technical issues
• Maintain project risk and action registers; identify emerging issues, develop mitigation and recovery plans, and elevate decisions with clear recommendations
• Ensure projects are executed in accordance with Deriva requirements for safety, environmental compliance, quality, security, regulatory obligations, and operational readiness
• Provide concise project updates, dashboards, forecasts, and decision materials for operations and company leadership
• Coordinate project closeout, including punch-list completion, turnover documentation, warranty information, lessons learned, final cost reconciliation, and transition to the operating site

Basic Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in Engineering, Construction Management, Business Administration, or a related field AND five (5) or more years of relevant project, construction, maintenance, or operations experience
• In lieu of a bachelor's degree, a high school diploma or GED AND ten (10) or more years of relevant experience

Desired Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in Engineering, Construction Management, Business Administration, or a related field AND five (5) or more years of relevant project, construction, maintenance, or operations experience including one (1) year of direct reports
• Experience coordinating multiple stakeholders, contractors, schedules, budgets, risks, and project deliverables
• Ability to travel to wind project sites and contractor or supplier locations as business needs require
• Experience managing capital projects in an operating power-generation, renewable energy, industrial, utility, or heavy construction environment
• Wind energy experience, including turbine major components, balance-of-plant systems, planned outages, maintenance campaigns, or site construction
• Knowledge of project controls, cost forecasting, scheduling, change management, construction management, and contractor oversight
• Working knowledge of procurement, contracting, invoice review, material planning, logistics, and project closeout
• Demonstrated ability to organize multiple concurrent projects, communicate clearly, solve problems, and make sound decisions in a field