Senior Project Manager - BESS

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Manufacturing Full Time
- Reg Professionals LaFox, IL, US

Salary Range: $ To $ Annually

The Senior Project Manager - BESS combines technical project management, design engineering, and cross-functional leadership for new and existing Battery Energy Storage System (BESS) product lines and customer installations. The position helps complete the BESS Demo Center installation and supports customer installation requirements from planning through commissioning and final handover. The role is accountable for supporting project schedules, project and product costs, technical quality, safety, and clear stakeholder communication.

• Lead assigned BESS projects from initial planning and design through installation, commissioning, and handover.
• Facilitate the BESS Demo Center installation in LaFox and apply lessons learned to future customer projects.
• Work directly with customers to define installation requirements, site needs, technical interfaces, schedules, and project deliverables.
• Provide cross-functional project leadership among Engineering, Product Management, Supply Chain, Manufacturing, Marketing, Sales, Finance, Service, contractors, utilities, and outside partners.
• Manage and continuously improve Phase-Gate product development activities for new and existing BESS product lines.
• Lead continuous improvement in estimating project cost, product cost, resource requirements, schedules, and key milestones within the Phase-Gate process.
• Work closely with Product Management to understand and refine product requirements.
• Manage project engineering, procurement, and permitting (EPC) workflows, utility interconnection, and commissioning in alignment with local codes, authorities having jurisdiction, and customer requirements.
• Obtain or coordinate required permits and regulatory approvals and ensure projects remain aligned with approved plans.
• Develop and maintain project plans, milestones, budgets, resource estimates, product cost estimates, and status reporting.
• Review contracts, scopes of work, engineered drawings, bills of materials, and technical requirements to identify risks, constructability concerns, and value‑engineering opportunities.
• Involved in vendor and subcontractor procurement, including negotiating contracts, scope boundaries, schedules, and deliverables.
• Coordinate site superintendents, vendors, subcontractors, third‑party inspectors, commissioning agents, and controls engineers to maintain project momentum and resolve technical or schedule issues.
• Track project financials, manage billing schedules, and control budget variances.
• Monitor schedules, change orders, requests for information, and submittal approvals; elevate risks, project delays, or unavailable resources with options and recommendations.
• Prepare concise presentations and weekly and monthly progress reports for customers, internal leadership, project sponsors, and executive leadership.
• Define project milestones and report progress from concept through production.

• Along with Sales and Product Management, perform hands‑on design and development of complex electro‑mechanical assemblies and bills of materials in support of BESS product and project requirements.
• Coordinate engineering tasks, design reviews, agency requirements, testing, mitigations, prototype and Alpha/Beta builds, and all phases of product development.
• Direct day‑to‑day project operations across civil, structural, electrical, controls, and battery storage work streams associated with BESS installations.
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