Senior Director of Project Management

Solar Energy Company; New Jersey; On-site; USD 180,000 - 240,000; Full time

Job summary

Solar Energy Company is seeking a Senior Director of Project Management to lead the project management function for a growing solar EPC contractor delivering commercial solar projects with self-perform construction and GC/EPC work.

This role oversees customer-facing delivery, project controls, schedule performance, financial tracking, risk management, and leadership of the PM team, coordinating with Construction, Engineering, Pre-Construction, Procurement, Accounting, Safety, and Executive

Qualifications

• Strong leadership of project delivery across multi-project environments.
• Experience managing complex construction or renewable energy projects.
• Ability to protect project margins through disciplined controls.
• Experience leading project managers across multiple concurrent projects.

Responsibilities

• Lead the project management function across assigned commercial solar EPC projects.
• Own customer-facing project delivery, including client communication, contract administration, schedule commitments, commercial issue resolution, and executive-level project updates.
• Ensure project teams understand contract scope, exclusions, assumptions, milestones, liquidated damages exposure, customer delivers, reporting obligations, and closeout requirements.
• Lead project kickoff, handoff, and alignment processes following Pre-Construction and estimating turnover.
• Establish clear project execution plans in coordination with Construction, Engineering, Procurement, Safety, and Accounting.
• Maintain executive visibility into project risks, margin risks, schedule risks, customer risks, and resource constraints.
• Ensure project managers proactively manage scope, schedule, budget, documentation, owner communication, and change events.

Skills

Leadership

Project management

Financial acumen

Risk management

Stakeholder communication

Job description

Job Description

We are seeking a Senior Director of Project Management to lead the project management function for a growing solar EPC contractor delivering commercial solar projects through a combination of self-perform construction and GC/EPC work with subcontractors.

This role is responsible for customer-facing project delivery, commercial project outcomes, project controls, schedule performance, financial tracking, risk management, and leadership of the project management team. The Senior Director of Project Management will work closely with Construction, Engineering, Pre-Construction, Procurement, Accounting, Safety, and Executive Leadership to ensure projects are planned, managed, documented, and closed out successfully.

The ideal candidate is a strong project delivery leader with experience managing complex construction or renewable energy projects, protecting project margin, building disciplined project controls, and leading project managers across multiple concurrent projects.

Key Responsibilities

Project Leadership and Commercial Ownership

• Lead the project management function across assigned commercial solar EPC projects.
• Own customer-facing project delivery, including client communication, contract administration, schedule commitments, commercial issue resolution, and executive-level project updates.
• Ensure project teams understand contract scope, exclusions, assumptions, milestones, liquidated damages exposure, customer deliverables, reporting obligations, and closeout requirements.
• Lead project kickoff, handoff, and alignment processes following Pre-Construction and estimating turnover.
• Establish clear project execution plans in coordination with Construction, Engineering, Procurement, Safety, and Accounting.
• Maintain executive visibility into project risks, margin risks, schedule risks, customer risks, and resource constraints.
• Ensure project managers proactively manage scope, schedule, budget, documentation, owner communication, and change events.

Project Controls and Schedule Management

• Own and improve the company’s project controls standards, including schedule tracking, budget tracking, cost reporting, change logs, procurement logs, risk registers, submittal logs, RFI logs, closeout logs, and executive reporting formats.
• Ensure project schedules are established, maintained, updated, and communicated consistently.
• Coordinate with Construction leadership to validate construction durations, manpower plans, field sequencing, productivity assumptions, weather impacts, outage constraints, and recovery plans.
• Monitor schedule performance against contractual milestones and internal targets.
• Lead project-level schedule recovery planning in partnership with Construction when projects fall behind plan.
• Ensure customer schedule commitments are realistic, documented, and aligned with field execution capacity.

Financial Performance and Change Management

• Own project financial tracking, forecast accuracy, margin protection, and project-level commercial performance.
• Review and monitor project budgets, committed costs, cost-to-complete forecasts, change orders, allowances, contingencies, and billing status.
• Lead change order identification, pricing coordination, submission, negotiation support, approval tracking, and customer communication.
• Coordinate with Construction to validate field impacts, labor productivity impacts, schedule impacts, and subcontractor cost impacts related to change events.
• Partner with Accounting and Executive Leadership to support accurate revenu