Director, Preconstruction

Director, Preconstruction

The Director, Preconstruction is a leadership role responsible for managing Pivot Energy's preconstruction function across a portfolio of distributed generation, community solar, commercial solar, and energy storage projects. This role maintains strategic alignment, supports commercial direction, and governs preconstruction management from late-stage development through EPC execution and transition to project management.

In addition to project and portfolio leadership responsibilities, the Director is accountable for developing a high-performing preconstruction team, managing scalable operating standards, reinforcing process consistency, developing talent, and ensuring alignment across Development, Engineering, Procurement, Finance, Legal, Compliance, Project Management, Construction Management, O&M, Asset Management, and other stakeholders as needed.

The Director supports multiple concurrent programs and project portfolios while ensuring consistency in estimating methodologies, contract strategy, procurement coordination, budgeting discipline, risk management, schedule alignment, compliance integration, and execution readiness. The role serves as a key interface between leadership stakeholders and delivery teams and is expected to support enterprise-level project delivery maturity and operational performance.

This position requires a sophisticated understanding of renewable energy project delivery models, EPC and commercial contracting structures, cost and schedule controls, job costing methodologies, ERP and project controls environments, portfolio risk management, organizational leadership, and program governance principles. The Director must balance strategic objectives with operational execution while driving predictable, scalable, and commercially sound project outcomes.

The Director materially supports Pivot Energy's eight focus areas throughout the preconstruction lifecycle:
Stakeholder Management, Contract Management, Quality Management, Financial Management, Schedule Management, Compliance Management, Risk Management, and Document Management.

Primary Responsibilities

People Management

• Lead, mentor, and develop a growing team of Preconstruction Managers, Senior Preconstruction Managers, and related delivery personnel.
• Establish clear expectations for role ownership, communication, issue escalation, commercial rigor, documentation quality, and stakeholder responsiveness.
• Foster a culture of accountability, collaboration, continuous improvement, operational discipline, and commercial awareness.
• Promote leadership behaviors that reinforce transparency, ownership, consistency, documentation discipline, and proactive risk escalation.

Portfolio Management

• Own a defined preconstruction book of business across multiple concurrent project portfolios, geographies, technologies, contractors, and customer or financing requirements.
• Maintain reporting standards, project prioritization, portfolio controls, issue escalation, and operational controls that create predictability across the preconstruction function.
• Monitor portfolio-wide schedule, cost, procurement, interconnection, permitting, compliance, contractor, and commercial risks and escalate material issues to leadership.
• Resolve cross-functional blockers with Development, Procurement, Interconnection, Development Engineering, Legal, Finance, Compliance, Project Management, and Construction Management to keep projects moving through transition, EPCA execution, and execution readiness.
• Drive consistency in project contracting, estimating standards, and handoff procedures.
• Support portfolio-level procurement strategies, long-lead planning, preferred contractor engagement strategies, and market intelligence

Stakeholder Management

• Serve as a senior point of contact for internal leadership, external contractor partners, consultants, vendors, and strategic stakeholders during preconstruction.
• Align Development, Development Engineering, Interconnection, Procurement, Legal, Compliance, Finance, Project Management teams around project execution and delivery readiness.
• Ensure communication protocols, escalation pathways, Investment Committee visibility and governance processes are consistently followed.
• Promote alignment between development assumptions, commercial commitments, budget structures, procurement strategy, interconnection dependencies, compliance obligations, and execution planning.
• Resolve cross-functional friction early enough to preserve schedule, scope clarity, commercial position, transition timing, EPCA execution, and execution readiness.
• Ensure material blockers are framed with issue, cause, impact, options, owner, due date, recommendation, and decision required so leadership and governance forums can act without ambiguity.

Contract Management

• Oversee commercial contracting and pre-award execution activities across project portfolios.
• Support EPC negotiations, subcontracting strategy, owner-furnished versus contractor-furnished scope decisions,…