Commercial Project Controls & Coordination Manager

SunStrong Management, LLC; United States; Remote; USD 120,000 - 170,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Health & Wellness benefits

401(k) retirement plan

Job summary

SunStrong Management is seeking a remote Commercial Project Controls & Coordination Manager to lead schedule, cost, change, and contract controls across solar, storage, wind, and EV infrastructure portfolios. The role blends analytical scheduling with coordination of registers, document vault, and reporting cadence to enable evidence-based gate decisions.

The candidate combines five or more years in project controls or scheduling with advanced Excel and Primavera P6 or MS Project, and experience

Qualifications

• Five or more years in project controls, cost engineering, or scheduling within construction, energy, or infrastructure.
• Demonstrated ownership of schedule baselines and earned value reporting on capital projects.
• Working knowledge of EPC contract terms, including milestones, retainage, and change authority.
• Advanced Excel; scheduling software proficiency (Primavera P6 or MS Project).
• Ability to report variances clearly to project leadership and stakeholders.

Responsibilities

• Establish and maintain the integrated project schedule baseline; control baseline changes through a documented change process.
• Review EPC-submitted schedules for logic integrity and critical path credibility.
• Maintain portfolio milestone and gate forecasts; flag slips early for informed decisions.
• Perform schedule variance and trend analysis and distinguish recoverable vs structural slip.
• Own the change order log and assess each change against contracted scope.
• Abstract EPC agreements into standard term registers and track baseline exposures.
• Own the punchlist register system and ensure data integrity and timely closure.
• Produce monthly owner project review packages and weekly gate/variance reporting.
• Define and enforce data standards; build reporting tooling and dashboards.

Skills

Project controls

Scheduling

Cost engineering

Data analysis

Document control

Education

Bachelor's degree or equivalent

Tools

Primavera P6

MS Project

Power BI

SQL

Power Automate

Python

Job description

Commercial Project Controls & Coordination Manager

BRIEF DESCRIPTION OF SUNSTRONG MANAGEMENT

SunStrong Management is a leading independent asset management and servicing platform specializing in residential and commercial solar energy portfolios. SunStrong provides end-to-end services including operations and maintenance, customer billing and support, asset performance management, and investor reporting. The company partners with leading capital providers to optimize clean energy assets at scale, supporting the growth of distributed renewable energy while delivering reliable performance and exceptional customer experience

THE COMMERCIAL PROJECT CONTROLS & COORDINATION MANAGER

SunStrong Management is seeking a remote Commercial Project Controls & Coordination Manager. SunStrong delivers technical asset management and operations for a renewable portfolio spanning solar, battery energy storage, wind, and EV infrastructure. Project Delivery reports into Commercial Operations by design: the organization that will operate an asset for thirty years controls the standard by which it is accepted at twelve months.
The Manager of Project Controls & Coordination owns the integrity of the information the delivery organization runs on — schedule, cost, change, contract terms — and the operating discipline of the registers that trace every commitment and every open item to closure. The role is the reason a gate decision can be made on evidence rather than on a contractor’s summary.
The role deliberately combines two distinct bodies of work: an analytical function that independently baselines, recalculates, and reports variance, and a coordination function that maintains the registers, the document vault, and the meeting and reporting cadence. This is a single role by design at current portfolio scale, with a defined trigger for splitting it. The candidate profile is analytical first — coordination discipline can be taught to an analyst; analytical judgment cannot be taught to a coordinator.

COMMERCIAL PROJECT CONTROLS & COORDINATION MANAGER RESPONSIBILITIES

Analytical — Schedule Control

• Establish and maintain the integrated project schedule baseline; control all baseline changes through a documented change process.
• Review EPC-submitted schedules for logic integrity — open ends, constraints, negative float, excessive lags, and critical path credibility. A schedule accepted without interrogation is a schedule written for the contractor.
• Maintain the portfolio milestone and gate forecast; identify projected slip against COD, lender, tax equity, and host commitments early enough that it is a decision rather than an emergency.
• Perform schedule variance and trend analysis; distinguish recoverable slip from structural slip and state which is which.
• Verify that three-week lookaheads reconcile to the master schedule rather than describing a parallel reality.

Analytical — Cost Control

• Own the project cost baseline, commitment tracking, actual cost capture, and cost-to-complete forecasting.
• Maintain earned value methodology across the portfolio; report SPI, CPI, and forecast at completion with a stated basis.
• Review EPC payment applications against verified physical progress, milestone achievement, and retainage terms before release.
• Maintain the retainage and punchlist hold register, including SSM independent cost estimates supporting Category B and C holds.
• Support capital forecasting and cash flow projection with Finance and Asset Management.

Analytical — Change Control

• Own the change order log from request through disposition, with schedule and cost impact independently assessed rather than accepted as submitted.
• Analyze each change against the contracted scope to determine whether it is genuine added scope, a scope gap the EPC should have caught, or a contractor estimating error.
• Track cumulative change against delegated authority thresholds and flag approaching limits before they are exceeded.
• Maintain change trend analysis by contractor as a direct input to the EPC performance scorecard.

Analytical — Contract Abstraction

• Abstract every EPC agreement into the standard term register within fifteen business days of intake — completion definitions, performance guarantees, testing methodology, liquidated damages, retainage, warranty, notice requirements, and change authority.
• Identify and log Baseline Exposures where the contract as written falls short of the SSM acceptance standard; assign owners and track mitigation.
• Maintain the warranty register with expiration tracking and claim window alerting. A claim window that closes unnoticed is a direct loss and is treated as one.
• Maintain the delivery risk register with quantified exposure and mitigation status.

Coordination — Registers and Document Control

• Own the punchlist register system — structure, field standards, data integrity, aging reporting, and completeness of closure evidence across all projects.
• Maintain register hygiene: no orphaned IDs, no renumbering, no items closed without a verifier and an evidence reference.
• Drive aging follow-up across punchlist, RFI, submittal, and nonconformance logs; elevate items breaching aging thresholds rather than reporting them indefinitely.
• Own the project document vault — filing standard, naming convention, version control, access control.
• Maintain the equipment register — serial numbers, network addresses, warranty start dates — as construction data lands.

Coordination — Cadence and Reporting Production

• Produce the monthly owner project review package and the weekly gate and variance reporting.
• Coordinate the weekly internal delivery standup and the monthly owner project review — agenda, materials, actions, and action closure.
• Track action items from all delivery forums to closure with named owners and dates.
• Support lender, tax equity, and host milestone certification with defensible documentation.

Systems and Data Standards

• Define and enforce data standards — naming conventions, site codes, equipment tags, WBS structure — so that delivery data reconciles to operations data after turnover rather than requiring a manual crosswalk.
• Build and maintain reporting tooling and dashboards that surface exceptions rather than requiring the reader to hunt for them.
• Automate recurring coordination tasks. Every hour automated is an hour returned to analysis.
• Build durable tooling within the constraints of the actual environment, including SharePoint limitations, rather than solutions that depend on software SSM does not have.

MINIMUM REQUIREMENTS

• Five or more years in project controls, cost engineering, or scheduling within construction, energy, or infrastructure.
• Demonstrated ownership of schedule baselines and earned value reporting on capital projects.
• Working command of EPC contract commercial terms and their controls implications — milestone payment, retainage, liquidated damages, and change authority.
• Advanced Excel; scheduling software proficiency (Primavera P6 or MS Project).
• Demonstrated ability to report an unfavorable variance accurately to the person whose project it is.
• Willingness to perform coordination and document control work personally at current scale. This role builds the function before it supervises one.
• Bachelor’s degree in engineering, construction management, finance, or a related field, or equivalent demonstrated experience.

Preferred Qualifications

• Solar PV or BESS construction controls experience.
• AACE International certification — PSP, CCP, or EVP.
• Power BI, SQL, Power Automate, or Python for reporting automation.
• Experience building durable tooling inside SharePoint-constrained environments.
• Experience standing up a controls function rather than inheriting one.

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Benefits
SunStrong Management offers a rich and affordable Health & Wellness Benefits package that includes:

• PPO and HDHP Medical Plans, buy-up plans for both Dental and Vision, ancillaries such as Accident, Critical illness, Hospital indemnity, Employer sponsored Short Term and Long-Term Disability, Voluntary Life, and Legal services along with multiple add-ons.
• Our 401(k) Package includes a Safe Harbor Match of 100% up to the first 4% and 50% on the next 2% with immediate vesting.