Project Director

1 month ago

Durham, United States Strata Clean Energy Full time

Summary:


As the Director of Project Management, you will lead a team of professionals providing preconstruction planning, estimating, strategy and contract oversight for utility scale solar, and battery energy storage projects. This position will oversee all aspects of planning, scheduling, and budgets from preconstruction to final completion across the EPC portfolio. You will be responsible for strategic direction, business development, project delivery, profitability, and client management.


Essential Duties and Responsibilities:


Safety & Environmental:


  • Drive safety culture by implementing safety improvement program plans, practices, and objectives in coordination with Health and Safety team
  • Ensure all employees follow safe practices
  • Responsible for environmental compliance on all projects
  • Support development of Safety Management Systems, Quality Management Systems and Environment Management Systems


Personal Characteristics:


  • Able to understand concepts easily.
  • Have a sharp mind, a good memory, and a high success rate pivoting companies’ products and services with the changing economy and markets.
  • Be an analytical problem solver who views obstacles as opportunities and creates solutions to systemic problems
  • Possess impeccable organizational skills.
  • Reduce complexity, create accountability, and be able to systemize, simplify, and apply technology to the company’s processes.
  • Be a positive mentor, coach, and people developer.
  • Maintain a sense of urgency, while managing multiple initiatives at once, to ensure project deadlines are accomplished.
  • Be a catalyst of positivity and drive growth within the organization.
  • Recognize necessary change and drive continuous improvement across the business.
  • Ability to represent the company before clients, external agencies, and the organization’s executive staff
  • Build trust and departmental structure by adhering to consistent standards as it relates to quality, process, and employee expectations
  • Be self-motivated, self-starter who takes full ownership of project results


Skills:


  • Ensure implementation of expectations, direction, and vision, as it aligns with organizational strategy
  • Oversee and direct a team of project management professionals
  • Provide guidance and input to Project Management on all aspects of project execution including schedule management, financial forecasting, prime contract compliance, progress reporting, client, and community relations, etc.
  • Provide input on project documentation related to contract administration, schedule, and budgets
  • Prioritize key activities on projects across the company portfolio in various stages from design through closeout
  • Experience within renewable energy, general contracting, or commercial construction
  • Detailed oriented, analytical, organized, able to meet established deadlines, strong communication skills, and works well in pressure-type situations
  • Use expertise to course correct and guide challenges to resolution.
  • Work with Construction Management to define project baseline, scope, resource allocation, and deliverables.
  • Collaborates closely with the Engineering and Procurement teams to define and refine scopes and prepare and manage BOP/BOS RFP processes for solar and battery energy storage systems
  • Coordinate with other department heads and senior management to ensure projects are properly designed, planned, and completed
  • Assembles presentation materials and reports for Senior Management on the status and risks for projects
  • Communicate project progress and challenges to Executive Management in a concise, fact-driven way.
  • Proactively direct project scope, identify critical variables and devise contingency plans.
  • Mentor Project Management on productivity, honoring commitments, and driving projects to completion
  • Leads the collaboration with PMO and other stakeholders to ensure buy-in and the development of processes and standards that meet organizational needs.

Supervisory Responsibilities:


  • Provide daily leadership to a staff of Project Managers responsible for planning and execution of projects
  • Advances corporate strategic direction by establishing goals for the PM group and hosting lessons learned for continuous improvement
  • Align personal and team goals to department and company goals
  • Mentors and trains staff on project control tools to effectively manage project costs, schedules, scopes, change orders and inspires a culture of disciplined attention to detail and frequent contract referencing to support contractor management and generation of management reports
  • Manage and support employee growth
  • Provide and facilitate resources to participate in implementation and development of “First Time Right” training initiatives

Education and/or Work Experience Requirements:

Education:


  • Minimum 10 to 15 years Solar Construction Experience including a minimum of 5 years P&L responsibility
  • Engineering Degree or Construction Management Major preferred
  • PMI/PMP certification · Knowledge of OSHA safety and construction regulations. OSHA 30 certification preferred
  • Experience and proficiency with Microsoft Project
  • Experience and proficiency with MS Office including MS Excel and MS Word
  • Solid knowledge and understanding of key value drivers for renewable power projects and developer/owner/operator company objectives
  • Strong oral and written communication, project management, leadership, and team-building skills, including experience working with cross-functional internal and external technical advisors and stakeholders
  • Demonstrated ability to read, interpret, edit, and understand plans and specifications for civil, mechanical, and electrical work
  • Experience with managing renewable energy construction contracts including change order management and dispute resolution
  • Experienced with managing and driving project schedules

Physical Requirements/Work Environment:

  • Ability to travel 50% of time or more to project locations

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