Remote-Ready Preconstruction Lead, Solar & Storage

Pivot Energy; Denver (CO); On-site; USD 90,000 - 130,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Health insurance

401(k) matching

Work from home stipend

Paid time off

Parental leave

Job summary

Pivot Energy is seeking a Preconstruction Manager to steer the mid- to late-stage development handoff through EPC agreement execution and project delivery transition in the PV and BESS portfolio.

You will coordinate contractors, bids, budgeting, risk reviews, and contract terms across legal, procurement, engineering, and project management teams, ensuring alignment with delivery strategies such as Design‑Build and CMAR. Remote-friendly Denver-based role.

Qualifications

• 3–7 years of relevant experience in estimating, cost analysis, preconstruction, project management, commercial management, or related delivery functions supporting commercial solar and/or BESS projects.
• Experience leading field diligence efforts, coordinating site assessment teams, and managing development‑phase due diligence activities for corporate pipeline, community solar, commercial solar, and energy storage projects.
• Experience participating in contractor engagement, bid review, cost evaluation, or contract review workflows.
• Ability to understand technical documentation related to renewable energy projects, including drawings, specifications, interconnection materials, utility requirements, permitting documents, civil and electrical scopes, and commercial exhibits. Experience evaluating subcontractor and vendor bid packages.
• Working knowledge of project management software, job costing software, ERP platforms, and related workflows used to support budget setup, cost control, forecasting, and reporting.
• Ability to work with reporting tools, dashboards, and basic analytics needed to evaluate project cost, schedule, and commercial information.
• Strong organizational capacity to manage multiple opportunities with competing deadlines and shifting priorities.
• Strong communication and interpersonal skills.
• Ability to work independently and cross‑functionally with limited day‑to‑day direction.

Responsibilities

• Manage stakeholder engagement from development handoff through bidding, contractor alignment, commercial negotiation, and contract execution.
• Lead site assessment strategy, field diligence coordination, and consultant engagement activities supporting the CCES pipeline from mid‑ to late‑stage development.
• Maintain timely communication, accountability, and alignment across Preconstruction, Development, Legal, Project Management, Finance, Engineering, Procurement, Compliance, and other required participants.
• Coordinate bid review, descope, commercial alignment, and pre‑award meetings with contractors and internal stakeholders.
• Ensure open development assumptions, commercial terms, owner obligations, and project readiness items are aligned with term sheets, POs, LOIs, EPC agreements, subcontracts, and execution strategy.
• Facilitate peer reviews and handoff meetings to Project Management following execution so that negotiated terms, assumptions, exclusions, clarifications, milestones, and unresolved risks are fully understood and documented.
• Drive timely issue closure and escalates unresolved commercial, schedule, scope, and risk items when required.
• Contract Management – Serve as a primary coordination point with Legal and other internal stakeholders for project‑specific contract review workflow, issue resolution, document turn management, and negotiation support.
• Support development of contract exhibits, scope alignment, risk position tracking, commercial clarifications, and approval routing.
• Maintain clear decision logs, open‑issue trackers, review logs, target execution dates, and document version control.
• Support negotiation planning and ensure pre‑award commitments and negotiated terms transition into execution without loss of context.
• Apply understanding of different project delivery methodologies to contract structure, risk allocation, scope definition, and commercial positioning.
• Quality Management – Support Preconstruction leadership in ensuring contractor partners are appropriately prequalified and that contractor performance feedback is incorporated into selection decisions.
• Help ensure development and bid packages are complete, accurate, coordinated, and issued with sufficient detail to support accurate pricing, schedule development, contracting, and execution planning.

Skills

Stakeholder management

Site diligence

Budgeting

Preconstruction coordination

Contract negotiation

Risk management

Documentation

Schedule management

Compliance

Communication

Tools

Procore

Bluebeam

Estimating tools

ERP platforms

Job description

Pivot Energy is seeking a Preconstruction Manager to steer the mid- to late-stage development handoff through EPC agreement execution and project delivery transition in the PV and BESS portfolio.

You will coordinate contractors, bids, budgeting, risk reviews, and contract terms across legal, procurement, engineering, and project management teams, ensuring alignment with delivery strategies such as Design‑Build and CMAR. Remote-friendly Denver-based role.