Project Engineer Manager, Civil

Bedminster, New Jersey | Houston, Texas | Katy, Texas | Pleasanton, California

DEPCOM Power has an immediate need for a Project Engineering Manager, Civil. This role is responsible for managing civil scope across utility-scale solar and energy storage projects from development through construction.

The position serves as a key liaison between customers, engineering, project management, and construction teams to drive scope alignment, manage risk, and ensure successful project delivery. Serving as the bridge between customers, engineering, project management, and field teams, this individual drives scope clarity, translates technical requirements into executable plans, and closes communication and knowledge gaps that can impact project success.

Operating with a Field First mindset, the Project Engineering Manager ensures our offering, estimates, designs, and plans are understood, aligned, and executable by the field while meeting customer commitments and project objectives.

This position can be based out of any of the following DEPCOM locations:
Pleasanton, CA;
Scottsdale, AZ;
Katy, TX (Greater Houston area); or Bedminster, NJ.

At DEPCOM, we are a field-first company that puts safety and environmental compliance first—always. We are committed to delivering superior, mutually beneficial customer experiences. Join us as we transform the future of utility-scale solar and energy storage and pursue our vision of becoming the industry’s most competitive EPC and services provider.

At Koch Industries, our Principle Based Management philosophy is at the center of how we do business, and as an employee, you will begin your journey of understanding and applying the way we do business in your everyday work.

• Own clear, complete, traceable, and field-ready civil scope across estimating, engineering, construction, environmental, safety, quality, and commercial functions.
• Translate site data, customer and contract requirements, design assumptions, estimates, and permit requirements into executable scope for pricing, subcontracting, design release, handoff, and field execution.
• Identify, assign, communicate, and upscale material civil risks, missing inputs, assumptions, scope gaps, dependencies, exclusions, quantity variances, and unresolved decisions before they affect safety, compliance, procurement, cost, schedule, quality, or field productivity.
• Support high-priority targets by reviewing site and design information and developing civil bid forms, estimate assumptions, customer clarifications, subcontract exhibits, and scope splits.
• Coordinate with engineers of record to review design inputs and deliverables for scope alignment, owner and permit requirements, quantity impacts, constructability, field readiness, and commercial expectations.
• Track civil quantities and cost drivers, and support timely resolution of RFIs, field questions, submittals, design clarifications, test results, nonconformances, as-built reviews, and sequencing concerns.
• Lead civil handoffs by communicating scope, assumptions, exclusions, quantities, risks, permit requirements, subcontractor boundaries, customer commitments, and open items; capture lessons learned to improve future scope definition and execution.

• Experience supporting civil engineering, civil construction, project engineering, estimating, pre-construction, or field execution.
• Experience interpreting civil drawings, specifications, scope documents, design assumptions, quantity information, and technical requirements.
• Experience coordinating work across engineering, estimating, construction, subcontractors, vendors, or other project stakeholders.
• Experience identifying, documenting, communicating, and escalating…