Civil Project Engineering Manager - Solar & Storage

DEPCOM Power, Inc; Houston (TX); On-site; USD 120,000 - 180,000; Full time

Job summary

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

This role connects customers, engineering, project management, and field teams to ensure scope clarity and successful delivery. The position supports field-first execution and alignment of estimates, designs, and plans with customer commitments and project objectives, with travel up to 25% to project sites.

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.
• 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 and escalate civil risks, missing inputs, scope gaps, dependencies, and unresolved decisions before they affect safety, cost, or schedule.
• 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 coordination

Risk management

Travel readiness

Education

Bachelor's degree in Civil Engineering

PE licensure or EIT

Job description

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

This role connects customers, engineering, project management, and field teams to ensure scope clarity and successful delivery. The position supports field-first execution and alignment of estimates, designs, and plans with customer commitments and project objectives, with travel up to 25% to project sites.