Remote Solar Project Manager

Summary

The job is for a Solar Project Manager at Sunrock Distributed Generation, a company that develops, finances, and operates solar assets across the USA. The role involves leading commercial solar projects through various stages, collaborating with internal and external stakeholders, and ensuring safety, quality, and regulatory compliance.

Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree in construction management, architecture, planning, or engineering
• At least 5 years of experience leading and managing EPC/construction projects, particularly for a rooftop solar developer
• Experience working in solar or real estate, ideally solar
• Expertise handling power purchase agreements with stringent commissioning requirements, as well as design-build, operation and maintenance, storage, and energy-as-a-service agreements
• Skilled in the renewable energy market managing complicated multi-site portfolios and doing due diligence
• Demonstrated track record of achievement in project execution/construction in the renewable energy business

Responsibilities

• Managing, supervising, and coordinating with EPC partners and their subcontractors/installers to ensure safety, quality, and regulatory compliance
• Coordination of all construction deliverables from engineering, interconnection, and permits to construction and commissioning, through a project management software platform
• Collaboration with internal teams, customers, vendors, and installers to ensure accuracy and completeness
• Creating or helping prepare reports capturing major project milestones, important remarks, risk assessments, and other key indicators
• Collaborating with utility personnel from the company to obtain fast interconnection approval and permission to operate within their service zone
• Proactively engaging with internal and external stakeholders to mitigate risks
• Investigating new design and construction standards, innovations, code modifications, and value engineering opportunities, and put those ideas into action through a collaborative process
• Handling construction contracting, deliverables, timetables, and change order reviews from project engineering to construction and commissioning
• Enhancing offtaker and EPC satisfaction by maintaining effective cooperation and communication
• Evaluating and maintaining technical specifications, designs, scopes of work, commissioning reports, and other energy-related documents, as well as examining and responding to Contractor RFIs
• Supervising and/or conducting regular partner and customer-facing meetings at critical project milestones

Preferred Qualifications

• Renewable energy, solar, storage, and electric vehicle knowledge and experience are strongly recommended
• Familiar with Excel, other MS Office software and project management software or platforms

Benefits

Position Type/Expected Hours of Work: The candidate is ideally located in Boston, but can be flexible to be a remote role. This role may involve travel to sites nation-wide, and occasional in-person team meetings in Baltimore