Contract Project Manager

LG Energy Solution Vertech, Inc.; Northern (KY); Hybrid; USD 97,000 - 150,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Full benefits

Job summary

LG Energy Solution Vertech, Inc. seeks a Project Manager to lead large-scale battery storage projects across North America, from initiation to closeout.

You will coordinate with teams in Korea and the United States, manage scope, schedule, budget, and contracts, and serve as primary liaison with customers. The role requires 4+ years in project execution, familiarity with electrical equipment or renewables, and strong communication skills.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s Degree preferred in a technical discipline.
• PMP certification or demonstrated project management competency is a plus.
• 4+ years of project execution experience required.
• Experience with electrical equipment or power/utility/renewables is a plus.
• Excellent stakeholder management and communication skills.

Responsibilities

• Lead battery storage system projects from initiation through installation, commissioning, and closeout.
• Manage stakeholder relationships including Engineering resources, subcontractors and suppliers.
• Coordinate preparation and submittal of manuals, drawings, and reports to meet customer requirements.
• Monitor project cost, scope, schedule, and quality.
• Understand contracts and manage change orders.
• Track financial and schedule performance using PTS and update schedules.
• Support commissioning, create risk register and liaise with Field Service teams.

Skills

Stakeholder Management

Contract Management

Project Controls

Technical Design

Cross-functional collaboration

Education

Bachelor's Degree in technical discipline

PMP Certification

Job description

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Project Manager

Contractor

Salary Range: $97,000.00 To $150,000.00 Annually

Remote- must be located out of one of these areas Arizona, New Mexico, Nevada or Texas

Company Overview

LG Energy Solution Vertech, Inc. (LGES Vertech) is a full-service energy storage system supplier and integrator. Using our core strengths of expert service to our customers, unparalleled safety, and excellence in manufacturing, we bring standardized, fully integrated energy storage systems to a rapidly growing worldwide market. Our systems address our customers' needs to reduce capital equipment and installation costs while enhancing system level performance and reliability using automated monitoring systems and analytics across the battery, power conditioning and auxiliary systems. Our AEROS® energy operating system is the engine of innovation to provide advanced control functions allowing our customers to maximize the value of their energy storage assets. Our service capabilities include advanced monitoring and analytics, scheduled maintenance, augmentation, and auxiliary system upgrades. The combination of excellence in battery technology and production coupled with nearly two decades of energy storage integration makes LGES Vertech a leading supplier and integrator in the power and energy markets.

LGES Vertech empowers and expects its team members to assume responsibility and make good decisions, while maintaining a team environment that fosters collaboration and innovation. Our diverse and growing team enjoys competitive salaries, generous benefits, including 100% employer sponsored medical, dental and vision insurance,and flexible working hours.

The Project Manager will be responsible for managing project deliverables to design, procure, install, commission and close out large-scale battery storage systems at customer sites throughout North America. This includes defining and managing project scope, schedule, budget, internal and external stakeholder management, change and risk management, project reporting and contracts management.

The Project Manager will be the primary interface between the customer and project stakeholders. You will lead and coordinate activities between staff in Korea and the United States. This is an opportunity to contribute to the growth in North America and the expansion of the Project Management organization. This position reports to the Director of Project Management.

Primary Responsibilities

Lead battery storage system projects from initiation through installation, commissioning, and closeout.

• Stakeholder Management:
  • Project point of contact for external and internal stakeholders including Engineering resources, subcontractors and suppliers.
  • Conduct regular project status meetings, follow up actions, and provide reports to customers as well as internal Management, including project cost, scope, schedule, and quality.
  • Coordinate preparation and submittal of manuals, drawings, reports and other documentation and deliverables to meet customer requirements.
  • Manage suppliers independently to manage supply chain + technical issues to support project work. Coordinates suppliers to site.
• Contract Management:
  • Understand contracts, issue change orders as needed using supervisor review and contracts help, if needed.
  • Understand all the LD, financial & Schedule risk drivers
  • Responsible for compliance with all contractual requirements and development of change orders. Work with a team to develop solutions to address any gaps.
• Project Controls (Financial and Schedule)
  • Tracks when vendors or 3rd party need to get paid.
  • Learns the interworking on the Financial Project Tracking Sheet (PTS) and assists in PTS/Revenue Tracking/ Forecast/ Scheduling duties for the project.
  • Has regular meetings with project scheduler to keep the P6 schedule updated
• Technical Design & Engineering Support
  • Identifies technical issues and routes to proper resources (Project Engineering, Software Engineering, PLC ) for solution.
  • Has a basic understanding of AEROS, Battery, PCS products
  • Delegates any technical decisions to engineering/software teams.
• Commissioning & Operations
  • Supports Cx coordination activities, attends daily PODs and supports the team as needed.
  • Manages vendor and customer during commissioning process and interfaces with Field Service team to drive commissioning to complete.
  • Interfaces with performance engineering to generate commissioning reports.
  • Creates and manages a risk register

Key Knowledge, Skills and Abilities

• Professional, proactive, adaptable individual with a strong results-oriented work ethic.
• Proven record of achieving successful completion of complex projects .
• Customer facing role with excellent written and verbal communication and interpersonal skills.
• A strong, collaborative, team player able to thrive within a matrix organization. Comfortable working with international stakeholders.
• Ability to prioritize responsibilities and multi-task in fast-paced environment .
• Embodies LG’s values of Humble, Hungry and Smart .

Education and Experience

• A Bachelor’s Degree, or equivalent, in a technical discipline is preferred.
• PMP Certification or demonstrated competency in managing complex project s is a plus.
• Number of years of Experience Required: 4+ yrs. Project Execution experience required.
• Experience with electrical equipment or power/utility/renewables market is a plus.

Travel

This position requires approximately 20% travel annually. This includes regular travel to project sites during key milestones.