Senior Project Manager

As a Senior Project Manager, you are responsible for helping RISE pursue, develop, win, and deliver large-scale energy savings performance contracts and complex design-build energy infrastructure projects. This highly visible role serves as a senior customer-facing representative of RISE throughout procurement interviews, project development, contract negotiation, implementation, commissioning, and performance verification.

The position is accountable for converting RISE’s technical capabilities into a credible, executable delivery strategy; establishing customer confidence during competitive pursuits; and ensuring awarded projects meet contractual, financial, schedule, safety, quality, energy-performance, and customer-satisfaction commitments.

Unlike a conventional post-sale project management role, this position will participate before award to shape project strategy, evaluate delivery and commercial risks, support proposal development, lead customer interviews and presentations, and establish the project execution framework that will carry forward after contract award.

Provide executive leadership for assigned ESPC, energy management services, decarbonization, and complex design-build energy projects from pursuit and development through design, construction, commissioning, closeout, and performance verification.

Assume accountability for project execution following award, ensuring that commitments made during the proposal, interview, and negotiation process are translated into a disciplined and achievable project plan.

Develop and maintain project schedules, ensuring milestones, crew/subcontractor assignments, and material and equipment needs are planned and communicated in advance.

Foster strong relationships and serve as the primary point of contact with customers, utility program representatives, vendors, and installation teams to support successful project outcomes and a high level of customer satisfaction.

Maintain accurate project records, monitor schedules and budgets, and provide regular status updates to management throughout the project lifecycle.

Provide leadership and guidance to project teams to ensure quality and safety standards are met.

Supervision of program coordination staff as applicable

Leadership of multidisciplinary internal and external delivery teams.

Coordinate cross-functionally with Sales, Development, Supply Chain, Field Operations, and Finance to ensure accurate handoffs and smooth information flow across systems (e.g., Salesforce, Acumatica, EPlus, as applicable to the division).Identify and drive resolution of project risks, delays, and scope changes, escalating to leadership when needed.

Quickly and efficiently resolve any installation, craftsmanship, warranty, customer service or other issues.

Coordinate project close-out, including final walkthroughs, customer sign-off, punch-list resolution, and financial reconciliation.

Partner with Finance, and Billing to ensure timely project completion, accurate documentation, and prompt customer invoicing

Responsible for working with RISE management and the appropriate agencies to develop program standards, metrics, reporting, and ensure compliance within these guidelines

Coordinate the procurement and delivery of project materials and schedule installation resources to support efficient project execution.

Proactively resolve installation, scheduling, customer service, warranty, and quality-related issues to ensure a positive customer experience

Contribute to continuous improvement of project delivery processes, consistent with RISE's RBS operating principles.

FINANCIAL & CONTRACTUAL OVERSIGHT:

Own the financial performance of assigned projects, including revenue, gross margin, cash flow, billing milestones, cost-to-complete forecasting, contingencies, allowances, commitments, and change-order recovery.

Establish the project control structure and maintain current forecasts for cost, schedule, procurement, billing, and cash requirements.

Coordinate bonding, insurance, prevailing-wage, permitting, contract-compliance, and public-procurement requirements with the appropriate internal and external resources.

Responsible for achieving program budgets, energy savings and cost effectiveness goals

Manage pipeline projections and reporting SUBCONTRACTORS:

Develop the project procurement and subcontracting strategy, including bid packaging, bidder qualification, competitive solicitation, scope leveling, commercial evaluation, negotiation, and award recommendations.

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