Senior Project Manager - PV Solar Construction; Remote Experienced

Position Summary

The Senior Project Manager – Utility Scale PV is responsible to provide effective leadership by managing all aspects of a portfolio of projects including quality, timeliness, and profitability. The Senior Project Manager will take on larger and more complex projects, possess a higher level of experience than peers, and assumes more decision-making responsibilities in daily tasks. Incumbents will manage, collaborate with, train, and provide guidance to other team members and developing Project Managers.

Terrasmart Project Management leadership roles are a critical component in the business’s success and generally manage an average of 20 projects at any time, requiring an advanced mastery of project scheduling, budget management, and customer service. This role creates an environment that models and ensures best-in-class level of customer experience, for every project, regardless of size, scope, or geography.
* No sponsorship opportunity available for this position. This position is available for fully remote opportunities if highly experienced in solar construction. Relocation assistance is not authorized for this role.

• Own and manage all aspects of projects, schedules, budgets, profitability, procedures, etc. through comprehensive project completion working in close collaboration with cross-functional teams for sales, legal, engineering and production.
• Sets the standard for responsive, timely, and optimistic communication internally and externally regarding project status and reporting.
• Works with EPC Project Managers, and other stakeholders to identify and correct project issues in a timely and cost-effective manner through diligent oversight, independently anticipates concerns and works to provide alternative or precautionary solutions.
• Create a written workflow and manage project from RFQ through comprehensive completion and close out with document delivery to include submittal package of drawings, specifications, manuals, cut sheets and warranty.
• Identify and implement continuous improvement opportunities to generate project efficiency and generate savings.
• Develop and refine relationships with customers, responsible for providing effective and continuous communication internally and externally regarding project status and reporting to ensure zero unplanned deviations.
• Sales Stage:
  • Partners with Sales and Estimating to ensure visibility to project budget pre-contract (Pre-BOM).
  • Owns operational translation of contract to internal systems.
  • Responsible for identifying, initiating, and owning to recovery, all scope changes via change orders, including pre-BOM.
  • Owns the creation, dissemination, and tracking of schedule and timelines; owns and partners with resources to secure subs, logistics, mobilization, materials, and resources.
  • Working with the Safety Department, owns and responsible for the project safety plan.
  • Continuously identifies and builds risk mitigators back into contract.
• Construction Stage:
  • Owns all knowledge of site, project, conditions, percent completions, and situational awareness of day-to-day production, ensuring issues are addressed rapidly.
  • Owns inventory control, continuously verifying MRP, and coordinating all site deliveries.
  • Manages and coordinates owner/developer meetings and tempo, weekly customer communication, schedule changes, and all invoicing.
  • Assist in the oversight of field crew and sub-contractors to ensure adherence to quality, project timelines, and cost.
  • Understands impact of all cost adjustments, reflects costs accurately in Epicor for P&L, forecasts, and reports to senior management of any future cost overrun concern.
  • Maintain appropriate documentation throughout the project including change order logs, submittal logs, etc. and prepare and present project status reports.
  • Follow up on all PO deliveries, tracking shipments, and/or missing items.
  • Identifies and corrects project issues in a timely and cost-effective manner through diligent oversight, ensuring PO matches quote and BOM.
  • Owns the Quality Assurance program, ensuring projects are constructed to drawings, using self-perform and/or contract labor; conducts…