Project Manager, Solar Preconstruction

Company overview moss is a national privately held construction firm providing innovative solutions resulting in award-winning projects. With regional offices across the united states, moss focuses on construction management, solar epc, and design-build. The company’s diverse portfolio encompasses a wide range of sectors, including luxury high-rise residential, landmark mixed-use developments, hospitality, k-12 and higher education, justice, solar energy and battery storage, and sports.

Moss is ranked by engineering news-record as the nation’s top solar contractor and one of the top 50 general contractors. Moss prides itself on a strong entrepreneurial culture that honors safety, quality, client engagement, and employee development. Its employees consistently rank moss as one of the best places to work.position scope and organizational impactthe project manager, solar preconstruction is a dual-role leader responsible for both managing the early-stage project lifecycle and overseeing estimating functions for utility-scale solar epc projects.

This role is critical in transitioning a project from pursuit to execution, including managing proposals, budgets, schedules, contracts, and engineering coordination. The project manager ensures that fully contracted projects, including limited notices to proceed (lntps) and epc agreements, are delivered to operations with clarity, precision, and compliance.essential job duties and responsibilitiespreconstruction management lead the review of project estimates and owner proposals to align scope, design assumptions, and final contract valuelead and mentor a high-performing a few direct reports, fostering professional growth, accountability, and a culture of operational excellencecoordinate owner contract review and negotiations in collaboration with legal, contracts, risk, and operations teamsprocure and manage owner provided information (e.g., surveys, geotechnical reports, design criteria) necessary for design and permittingmanage due diligence activities and support engineering through geotechnical testing, utility coordination, site investigations, pile testing, and document reviews coordinate closely with engineering and operations to develop baseline and target schedules;

ensure schedule alignment with cash flow projections and material lead timesdrive the development and execution of early works agreements, including scope, insurance, scheduling, and cost coordination with vendors and consultantslead the permitting process during preconstruction and ensure smooth handoff to the project execution teammaintain all preconstruction logs (budget tracking, exhibit tracking, rfi logs) and document control systems for transparency and consistencyfacilitate recurring owner meetings during preconstruction to address updates, deliverables, and critical path itemsprovide weekly reports, both internal and external, on status, schedule, budget, and key issues manage the estimating process through design phases, including conceptual, schematic, and final contract pricingprepare cost summaries and budgets aligned with owner bid forms and moss internal templatestrack design progression estimates and conducts value-engineering analyses as neededcoordinate with internal estimators and operations counterparts to ensure workflow alignment through milestone checkpoints (e.g., mid-bid reviews) interface with subcontractors and vendors to obtain pricing and maintain strong prequalification relationshipsassist in risk assessment, scope development, and pricing strategies to optimize competitiveness and marginpresent bid summaries to leadership upon submission with clear financial and strategic highlightsact as the central point of contact between moss and project…