Civil Project Engineering Leader — Solar & Storage

DEPCOM Power, Inc; Bedminster Township (NJ); On-site; USD 140,000 - 190,000; Full time

Job summary

DEPCOM Power is seeking a Project Engineering Manager, Civil to oversee civil scope across utility-scale solar and energy storage projects from development through construction.

You will coordinate across customers, engineering, project management, and field teams to ensure scope clarity, manage risks, and deliver projects on time and to spec. Travel up to 25% to project sites will be required.

Qualifications

• Experience supporting civil engineering, civil construction, project engineering, estimating, pre-construction, or field execution.
• Experience interpreting civil drawings, specifications, scope documents, design assumptions, quantity information, and technical requirements.
• Experience coordinating work across engineering, estimating, construction, subcontractors, vendors, or other project stakeholders.
• Experience identifying, documenting, communicating, and escalating project risks, open items, scope gaps, or changes.
• Experience using project data and technical information to support decisions affecting cost, schedule, constructability, quality, safety, environmental compliance, or field execution.
• Ability to travel (25%) to project sites as business needs require.

Responsibilities

• Own clear, complete, traceable, and field-ready civil scope across estimating, engineering, construction, environmental, safety, quality, and commercial functions.
• Translate site data, customer and contract requirements, design assumptions, estimates, and permit requirements into executable scope for pricing, subcontracting, design release, handoff, and field execution.
• Identify, assign, communicate, and escalate material civil risks, missing inputs, assumptions, scope gaps, dependencies, exclusions, quantity variances, and unresolved decisions before they affect safety, compliance, procurement, cost, schedule, quality, or field productivity.
• Support high-priority targets by reviewing site and design information and developing civil bid forms, estimate assumptions, customer clarifications, subcontract exhibits, and scope splits.
• Coordinate with engineers of record to review design inputs and deliverables for scope alignment, owner and permit requirements, quantity impacts, constructability, field readiness, and commercial expectations.
• Track civil quantities and cost drivers, and support timely resolution of RFIs, field questions, submittals, design clarifications, test results, nonconformances, as-built reviews, and sequencing concerns.
• Lead civil handoffs by communicating scope, assumptions, exclusions, quantities, risks, permit requirements, subcontractor boundaries, customer commitments, and open items; capture lessons learned to improve future scope definition and execution.

Skills

Civil engineering

Project management

Risk management

Stakeholder coordination

Travel readiness

Education

Bachelor's degree in Civil Engineering

PE licensure / EIT

Job description

DEPCOM Power is seeking a Project Engineering Manager, Civil to oversee civil scope across utility-scale solar and energy storage projects from development through construction.

You will coordinate across customers, engineering, project management, and field teams to ensure scope clarity, manage risks, and deliver projects on time and to spec. Travel up to 25% to project sites will be required.