Project Manager(s

Zero Energy Homes | Maine-based | Hybrid (Wiscasset Facility + Field Sites Across Maine + Your Home)
About Zero Energy Homes

Zero Energy Homes (ZEH) is a new Maine employee-owned cooperative building affordable, net-zero energy, panelized and modular homes using sustainably sourced regional forest products. We exist at the intersection of housing access, environmental responsibility, and economic equity — and we're growing.

As we expand from panelized to panelized and modular production in our new Wiscasset facility, we're building the team that will take us there.

An increasing number of home builds are in our production queue and we are seeking project managers to take the lead on seeing these projects from contract to completion.

We are open to multiple role configurations to staff the project management function from full time employment to part time contracting.

If you're an experienced construction or manufacturing project manager with a network of contractor relationships who is energized by work that is technically complex, community-rooted, and genuinely consequential, we'd like to talk.

If you are newer to project management or home building there may be a role for you after we fill an anchor project manager position.

We strongly encourage applications from a diversity of candidates.

Women, BIPOC candidates, and people of all gender identities and expressions are welcome, and cooperative-curious candidates are encouraged to apply.

The Project Manager is a primary point of contact for ZEH home buyers from contract through project completion. Working in close coordination with the sales, design, manufacturing, and onsite teams, you will carry home build projects through manufacturing, set, and onsite finishing. This is a relationship-intensive role that requires technical depth. You'll coordinate across ZEH's sales, design, production, and manufacturing teams as well as our embedded construction partner and external contractors, and you'll be doing it for multiple projects simultaneously.

As ZEH adds modular manufacturing to its current panelized production model, the nature of the work will shift and the project portfolio for this role will scale with it.

• - Support Business Development team in converting customer Letters of Intent to Contracts. This may include answering questions related to site selection, permitting, planning, and financing
• - Contribute to cost estimation and project scoping to bring projects to contract.
  
  This may include researching components that are more cost effective, sustainable, and local.

• - Support panel/module set and lead onsite finishing work through certificate of occupancy
• - Meet or exceed targets on project schedules and budgets
• - Serve as primary point of contact for ZEH customer communications
• - Coordinate with ZEH production and manufacturing teams on build sequencing
• - Serve as a coordinating liaison with Maker Construction and other contracting partners on field execution
• - Track and resolve issues across design, permitting, construction, and customer experience

• - Maintain clear communication between customers, sales, design, production, and field teams
• - Report project statuses to supervisor on a weekly basis
• - Ensure customers are informed and involved
• - Contribute to process improvement as ZEH scales its production model
• - Contribute to cooperative visibility, maintain awareness of communications and social media needs, provide content

• - 3+ years of experience in construction project management or a closely related role
• - Demonstrated ability to manage multiple projects simultaneously
• - Experience working directly with clients or customers in a construction or design-build context
• - Familiarity with residential permitting, sitework, and construction sequencing
• - Strong organizational and communication skills — written, verbal, and across organizational levels
• - Comfort with cost estimation and budget tracking
• - Valid driver's license and ability to travel to project sites across Maine
• - Maine residency
• -Must be 18 years of age or older and must be able…