Remote Director of Projects/Senior Project Manager

Summary

The job is for a Director of Projects / Senior Project Manager at Energy Vault Solutions to manage BESS projects across APAC. The role involves collaboration with various teams, documenting and building scalable processes, technology, and products, and ensuring on-time, on-budget delivery.

Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree in Engineering (civil, electrical, mechanical, or similar) or Management or another related engineering science
• 10+ years’ experience in managing electrical infrastructure projects such as sub-stations, wind farms, solar/PV farms, gas-based power plants, power stations, other utility-scale power, data center projects
• 2+ years of BESS project experience, preferred
• Has independently overseen large multi-million-dollar projects
• PMP certification, preferred
• Experience in permitting/planning processes with local authorities and stakeholders
• Strong in Microsoft Office tools, including MS Project, Primavera P6 experience big plus
• Willingness to travel domestically and internationally, up to 40%

Responsibilities

• Deliver customer projects on time, on budget, reducing project risks, without incidents/accidents, and proactively identifying enhancement opportunities
• Effectively manage client relations, including progress meetings, correspondence, periodic reports, change orders, and responses to client inquiries
• Work with Engineering, Procurement and Construction (EPC) partners to plan, sequence, develop schedules, budget, resource allocation plan, and other support requirements for assigned projects
• Manage EPC and construction contractors’ construction activities associated with the installation of civil foundations, electrical cabling infrastructure, Fiber Optic communications work, fencing etc
• Supervise project implementation to assure cost, time, quality, and project execution is according to the contract schedule and budget
• Track progress against the established project plan and critical milestones and provide recovery action plans to alter or update schedule and resource allocation as needed to meet schedule requirements
• Ensure project Scope of Work, as per customer requirements, is delivered, on time and on budget, manage and monitor adherence to approved plans, specifications, and appropriate governing code
• Identify deficient contractor work, monitor, and verify that the Contractor effectively corrects deficient work. Record and drive to resolution corrective actions
• Monitor and ensure Contractor's compliance with the approved Contractor's Quality Plan in coordination with Quality specialists on-site including Contractor’s and stakeholder representatives
• Manage construction managers to provide with a thorough record of the work performed by completing and submitting a Daily construction report and Monthly project report
• Maintain submittal control, including scheduling, receiving, reviewing, approving, and expediting submittals from suppliers and subcontractors to comply with the progress schedule
• Deploy company controls and strict discipline to projects that support Change Order Management, and approvals to these processes, for both company representative’s requests, the EPC contractor, and subcontractors
• Ensure HSEQ compliance with all company processes and procedures (as per ISO accreditation) during project execution, including Site construction, ensuring zero harm
• Manage grid modelling process and Inverter modelling to achieve connection and commissioning approval from AEMO or similar authorities or regulators
• Communicate project progress, escalations, and issue analysis to key stakeholders; collaborate with management and internal partners to implement changes to product, process, or program plan to resolve escalated issues and lessons learnt
• Manage project invoicing and purchase orders and coordinate ordered equipment logistics

Preferred Qualifications

Comfortable in fast-paced, rapid growth environments

Benefits

Remote work, flexible hours