Remote Project Manager – Utility Solar & Storage Construction

Primergy; Oregon; Hybrid; USD 140,000 - 200,000; Full time

Job summary

Primergy seeks an experienced Project Manager, Construction to lead execution and construction for large-scale renewable energy projects. You will partner with the Sr.

Director of Construction to scope, contract, and deliver EPC packages, manage budgets, and ensure schedule adherence across multi-disciplinary teams. You will oversee owner representatives, EPC partners, and internal stakeholders through preconstruction, procurement, construction, and turnover to asset management.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree or equivalent combination of education and experience.
• 7+ years of renewable energy development and/or construction experience, including 4+ years of on-site construction experience on utility-scale projects (100 MWac+ solar PV and/or 50 MW+ BESS).
• Demonstrated experience in solar PV and/or battery energy storage (BESS) development or construction, with proficiency in EPC procurement and management.
• Strong cross-functional communication and coordination skills, with the ability to proactively manage project risks and collaborate with Development, M&A, Legal, Origination, Finance, Engineering, and Operations teams.
• While this role is remote, the employee must have access to a major metropolitan airport to ensure easy access for travel.

Responsibilities

• Lead the procurement of EPC contracts including bidding, scoping and execution on large scale utility and distributed generation utility solar plants.
• Manage various forms of project documentation including submittals, RFIs, project meeting minutes, construction documents, contractual obligations, delivery, permits and monthly reporting to internal and outside parties.
• Manage a diverse team that could include an Assistant Project Manager, Construction Manager and other field positions.
• Direct the owner's consultants and oversee overall project activities in coordination with the development, development engineering and pre-construction teams.
• Manage the overall project budget and contingency, review and approve the EPC contractor's pay applications, support the lender draw process, and coordinate the Independent Engineer's site visits and reporting.
• Manage change orders and the change order log, along with project contract documentation.
• Prepare required logs and other project documentation for construction meetings.
• Own the tracking and reporting on contract milestone submittals to ensure accuracy and timeliness.
• Review and challenge the EPC contractor's baseline schedule and monthly updates, track performance against contractual milestones, and manage owner-controlled inputs.
• Provide owner oversight of site safety, verifying that the EPC contractor and subcontractors implement and follow a compliant EHS program and monitoring incident reporting, safety metrics, and OSHA compliance.
• Oversee quality assurance and quality control, witness commissioning and performance testing, verify punch-list closeout, and manage substantial and final completion, COD, and turnover to the asset management and O&M teams.
• Administer the EPC contract from the owner's perspective, including negotiating change orders, enforcing liquidated damages and performance guarantees, and managing warranty claims and disputes.
• Manage the owner's interconnection agreement and power purchase agreement obligations and milestones, coordinating with the utility, ISO/RTO, and offtaker through energization.
• Manage the PWA consultant to ensure EPC contract flow-down of prevailing wage and apprenticeship obligations
• Support the creation of requests for proposals, analyze bids, and administer the EPC contract and any owner-furnished equipment supply agreements.
• Work directly with the third-party EPC management team on executing project activities and ensure that management and reporting is conducted based upon contracted scopes and the project needs.
• Represent company/project in meetings with stakeholders, government agencies, power offtakers, contractors, subcontractors, etc.
• Serve as the primary point of accountability for project execution and project supervision.
• Work with the project team on the preparation of project reports and documentation as needed.
• Travel to project sites across the United States and lead stakeholder engagement during preconstruction and construction activities.
• Participate in regularly scheduled project team calls, prepare agendas and meeting minutes, and identify key action items.
• Work collaboratively with and be responsive to requests from internal colleagues.
• 5% - Other duties as assigned.

Skills

Project management

Coordination

Communication

Stakeholder mgmt

Education

Bachelor's degree

Tools

Primavera P6

MS Project

Procore

Autodesk Build

Bluebeam

Job description

Primergy seeks an experienced Project Manager, Construction to lead execution and construction for large-scale renewable energy projects. You will partner with the Sr.

Director of Construction to scope, contract, and deliver EPC packages, manage budgets, and ensure schedule adherence across multi-disciplinary teams. You will oversee owner representatives, EPC partners, and internal stakeholders through preconstruction, procurement, construction, and turnover to asset management.