Power & Renewables Project Lead | Nationwide Travel

R-2 Contractors; Boardman (OR); On-site; USD 140,000 - 220,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Employer-paid medical benefits

Dental benefits

Vision benefits

Job summary

R-2 Contractors seeks a Utility-Scale Power & Renewables Project Manager to own the commercial, contractual, financial, and administrative success of assigned projects from turnover through closeout. You will partner with Field Operations, anticipate risks, protect profitability, and build lasting customer relationships on nationwide deployments.

The role requires on-site delivery with up to 20% travel and compensation in the $140k–$220k range, DOE, reflecting market value for utility-scale

Qualifications

• Experience managing heavy civil, solar, BESS, substation, transmission, or underground infrastructure construction projects in the utility-scale market.
• Demonstrated command of contracts, estimating handoffs, project budgets, forecasting, scheduling, and change management.
• Ability to read construction plans, specifications, scope letters, and pricing schedules and translate them into execution requirements.
• Strong negotiation, communication, organizational, leadership, and problem-solving skills; willingness to travel nationwide as required.
• Preferred: someone who has worked their way into the project management department through hands-on experience in the field.

Responsibilities

• Lead assigned projects from estimating turnover through execution, customer acceptance, and final closeout.
• Serve as the primary commercial and contractual point of contact for customers, general contractors, and project stakeholders.
• Establish project priorities, responsibilities, decision deadlines, and clear communication between all participating departments.
• Own commitments, solve problems proactively, and elevate material risks with recommended solutions.
• Own project budgets, cost coding, commitments, and reliable estimates at completion.
• Review budget versus actual costs, production-based earned hours, margin trends, and projected cost to complete with Field Operations.
• Maintain accurate monthly forecasts, explain variances, and execute margin-protection and recovery plans.
• Manage progress billings, payment applications, receivables, cash flow, and timely financial closeout.
• Identify unbudgeted costs and pursue legitimate contractual cost recovery.
• Lead scope-letter, proposal, pricing schedule, contract, drawings, specification, and exclusion reviews at project turnover.
• Build a mobilization-driven preconstruction schedule covering permits, access, submittals, shop drawings, procurement, fabrication, and deliveries.
• Confirm material quantities, vendor lead times, subcontractor commitments, and approval requirements.
• Partner with Field Operations to align staffing, equipment, critical milestones, and the first two weeks of executable work.
• Identify scope gaps, design conflicts, and unresolved prerequisites before mobilization.
• Own the contractual master schedule, milestone tracking, customer coordination, and documentation of schedule impacts.
• Coordinate with Superintendents on the two-week lookahead, predecessor work, constraints, inspections, and resource readiness.
• Communicate major foundation placements, shutdowns, mobilizations, and critical-path milestones early enough for operational support.
• Support recovery plans and timely decisions without displacing Field Operations authority over means, methods, crews, and daily production.
• Ensure current approved drawings, submittals, changes, and customer direction reach field leadership.
• Administer contractual notices, RFIs, submittals, correspondence, change directives, and required project records.
• Identify, document, price, submit, negotiate, and track change orders, delays, differing conditions, and disruptions.
• Capture supporting labor, equipment, material, and productivity records with Field Operations.
• Maintain visibility into open commercial exposure, unresolved claims, and decisions required to protect R-2.
• Coordinate safety, quality, testing, inspection, and corrective-action requirements with responsible field leaders.
• Build trust through timely, accurate, professional communication and consistent delivery of commitments.
• Provide concise weekly reporting on project financial health, schedule, change orders, constraints, risks, and leadership decisions.
• Keep action registers current with owners and due dates; promptly communicate significant changes to cost, scope, or schedule.
• Identify repeat-work opportunities and share lessons learned with estimating, procurement, and operations.
• Coordinate punch lists, turnover documents, as-builts, warranties, final acceptance, and outstanding commercial items.
• Close open commitments and change orders, reconcile final costs, and support collection of final payment.
• Lead lessons-learned reviews and improve planning, reporting, and project delivery systems.
• Coordinate risk identification and escalation with Field Operations to protect margins.
• Project Management owns contractual and commercial administration, project forecasting, customer coordination, master scheduling, procurement coordination, and billing.

Skills

Negotiation

Communication

Organization

Leadership

Problem-solving

Travel willingness

Job description

R-2 Contractors seeks a Utility-Scale Power & Renewables Project Manager to own the commercial, contractual, financial, and administrative success of assigned projects from turnover through closeout. You will partner with Field Operations, anticipate risks, protect profitability, and build lasting customer relationships on nationwide deployments.

The role requires on-site delivery with up to 20% travel and compensation in the $140k–$220k range, DOE, reflecting market value for utility-scale