Pre-Construction Manager, Renewable Projects

Koch; Scottsdale (AZ); Hybrid; USD 160,000 - 200,000; Full time

Job summary

Koch in Scottsdale, AZ (US) is hiring a Pre-Construction Manager. You will own the pre-construction process, drive phase handoffs, and provide project delivery teams with reproducible tools and playbooks to improve cost, schedule, and quality across the lifecycle.

You will develop and deploy Project Execution Plans, dashboards, and templates that increase predictability and mobilization, close feedback loops to capture lessons, and support commercial and constructability input while coordinating

Qualifications

• Experience in pre-construction, estimating, project engineering, or project planning for medium-to-large construction projects (utility-scale renewables experience strongly preferred).
• Demonstrated experience with stage-gate frameworks and developing Project Execution Plans.
• Proven ability to translate commercial and technical inputs into executable plans.

Responsibilities

• Phase coordination and accountability: Lead phase handoffs and own stage-gate process quality across the full project lifecycle to ensure continuity and accountability.
• Project readiness and mobilization: Produce and validate Project Execution Plans (PEPs) and mobilization deliverables (budget fidelity, construction schedule, procurement sequencing, major subcontract scopes, site logistics, and risk register).
• Tools and process development: Build and roll out playbooks, checklists, templates, and automated dashboards (PowerBI) used across projects to improve predictability and decision-making.
• Analytics and reporting: Develop metrics and dashboards that track pre-construction KPIs (estimate variance, time-to-mobilization, stage-gate compliance, key risk indicators) and present actionable insights to leadership.
• Continuous improvement and lessons learned: Capture and institutionalize lessons learned, lead root-cause reviews for early-project issues, and run pilots to test process or tool improvements.
• Commercial and constructability input: Provide execution-focused input to commercial terms, contract allowances, contingency strategy, and subcontractor/supplier sequencing to reduce execution risk.
• Stakeholder influence: Facilitate cross-functional decision-making, clearly document decisions and action owners, and escal?

Skills

Pre-construction

Stage-gate Frameworks

Project Execution Plans

Education

Engineering or Construction Management degree

Tools

Primavera P6

MS Project

Procore

Job description

Koch in Scottsdale, AZ (US) is hiring a Pre-Construction Manager. You will own the pre-construction process, drive phase handoffs, and provide project delivery teams with reproducible tools and playbooks to improve cost, schedule, and quality across the lifecycle.

You will develop and deploy Project Execution Plans, dashboards, and templates that increase predictability and mobilization, close feedback loops to capture lessons, and support commercial and constructability input while coordinating