Project Manager

Inventure; Houston (TX); On-site; USD 140,000 - 190,000; Full time

Job summary

Inventure seeks an experienced Project Manager for its owner-side construction team to deliver utility-scale power projects, including battery storage pipelines. You will own scope, schedule, and budget, and lead EPC contractor and supplier coordination from pre-construction through commissioning.

You will also collaborate with finance on tax equity and lender diligence while interfacing with utilities, permitting authorities and interconnection activities.

Qualifications

• Owner-side experience: you've worked for the company that owns the asset, not only the contractor.
• Hands-on delivery of technical capital projects through design, procurement, construction and commissioning.
• 5+ years in project engineering or project management.
• Contract management and vendor coordination as the lead on a project.
• Solid handle on project financials, scheduling and risk.

Responsibilities

• Own each project end to end as the owner's PM, managing scope, schedule and budget.
• Build schedules, budgets and milestone tracking; coordinate with EPC contractors and equipment suppliers.
• Maintain proactive risk management and clear communication with engineering and construction teams.
• Work with finance on tax equity and lender diligence; interact with utilities, permitting authorities and interconnection.

Skills

Owner-side experience

Project engineering/PM

Contract management

Vendor coordination

Project financials

Scheduling

Risk management

Lean environment

Job description

Our client is an independent power producer that develops, builds and operates utility-scale power projects. They hold and operate what they build, so this seat is on the owner's side for the whole project, from pre-construction through commissioning and COD.

Their battery storage pipeline is growing, and they're adding a Project Manager to the construction team to deliver it. Battery experience isn't required. They're looking for owner-side engineers who have run technical capital projects, and they're open to people coming from midstream, oil and gas, chemical, petrochemical, LNG, terminals and pipelines. Their most recent hire came from midstream.

The role

You own each project end to end as the owner's PM. That means scope, schedule and budget, managing the EPC contractor and equipment suppliers as their primary point of contact, and making the call on design and field issues with the engineering and construction teams. You build the schedules, budgets and milestone tracking, and you stay ahead of risk instead of reacting to it.

The other half of the job is the part most PMs never see. You work with the finance team on tax equity and lender diligence, and you deal with utilities, permitting authorities and interconnection. So you're managing the people who fund and approve the asset, not only the people building it. That's the side of capital projects that rarely gets handed to a PM at a large operator, and it's where this seat stands apart.

What our client is looking for

• Owner-side experience: you've worked for the company that owns the asset, not only the contractor building it. This is the non-negotiable.
• Hands-on delivery of technical capital projects through design, procurement, construction and commissioning.
• Roughly 5+ years in project engineering or project management.
• Contract management and vendor coordination as the lead on a project.
• A solid handle on project financials, scheduling and risk.
• Comfortable in a lean environment: proactive, autonomous, able to run a project with minimal oversight.

Likely backgrounds: owner-side project and capital projects teams at midstream operators, terminal and storage owners, LNG, chemical and petrochemical producers, or renewables and storage IPPs.

Why this seat

You run the whole project, not one piece of it, with direct access to leadership and visibility across procurement, finance and operations. The business is well capitalized with a pipeline of projects ready to build, so there's plenty of work and room to grow with it. Equity comes with the role.