Denver Location Preferred
Open to Remote Opportunities
ROLE OVERVIEW
The Preconstruction Manager supports Pivot Energy’s preconstruction function from mid- to late-stage development handoff through EPC Agreement execution and transition into project delivery. This role coordinates contractor engagement, bidding, estimating, commercial alignment, project-specific contracting, and budget formation in support of Pivot Energy’s project delivery methodologies, including but not limited to Design-Build, Integrated Design-Build, Design-Bid-Build, CMAR, and other delivery approaches used to support successful IPP project execution.
The role engages preferred contractor partners and internal stakeholders across Development, Legal, Project Management, Finance, Supply Chain Procurement, Engineering, Compliance, and other functions as needed to ensure projects enter execution with aligned scope, documented assumptions, commercial clarity, realistic schedules, appropriate risk allocation, strong document discipline, and budgets structured for effective execution control.
This role must understand job costing methodologies and have experience working with project management software, job costing systems, ERP platforms, and related reporting or analytics tools that support estimating, budget setup, cost tracking, forecasting, and continuity into execution.
This position materially supports Pivot’s eight focus areas throughout the preconstruction stage: Stakeholder Management, Contract Management, Quality Management, Financial Management, Schedule Management, Compliance Management, Risk Management, and Document Management, ensuring projects are well-planned, commercially sound, buildable, and aligned with cost, schedule, quality, safety, and compliance goals. Because cost control in an IPP model is influenced by all eight focus areas, this role must understand how decisions across those areas affect estimate quality, contract obligations, budget structure, contingencies, schedule risk, compliance exposure, and execution outcomes.
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PRIMARY RESPONSIBILITIES
1. Stakeholder Management
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Ensure the appropriate internal and external stakeholders are engaged from development handoff through bidding, contractor alignment, commercial negotiation, and contract execution.
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Lead site assessment strategy, field diligence coordination, and consultant engagement activities supporting the Corporate Clean Energy Solutions (CCES) pipeline from mid- to late-stage development. Participate in site evaluations as needed to validate project readiness, align stakeholders, and proactively identify constructability, schedule, and execution risks.
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Maintain timely communication, accountability, and alignment across Preconstruction, Development, Legal, Project Management, Finance, Engineering, Procurement, Compliance, and other required participants.
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Coordinate bid review, descope, commercial alignment, and pre-award meetings with contractors and internal stakeholders.
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Ensure open development assumptions, commercial terms, owner obligations, and project readiness items are aligned with term sheets, POs, LOIs, EPC agreements, subcontracts, and execution strategy.
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Facilitate peer reviews and handoff meetings to Project Management following execution so that negotiated terms, assumptions, exclusions, clarifications, milestones, and unresolved risks are fully understood and documented.
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Drive timely issue closure and escalate unresolved commercial, schedule, scope, and risk items when required.
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Serve as a primary coordination point with Legal and other internal stakeholders for project-specific contract review workflow, issue resolution, document turn management, and negotiation support.
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Support development of contract exhibits, scope alignment, risk position tracking, commercial clarifications, and approval routing.
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Maintain clear decision logs, open-issue trackers, review logs, target execution dates, and document version control.
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Apply understanding of different project delivery methodologies to contract structure, risk allocation, scope definition, and commercial positioning.
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Help ensure development and bid packages are complete, accurate, coordinated, and issued with sufficient detail to support accurate pricing, schedule development, contracting, and execution planning.
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Coordinate and participate in field diligence activities, constructability evaluations, estimate reviews, subcontractor procurement efforts, and package quality assurance processes to support accurate pricing, execution readiness, and successful project delivery outcomes.
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Reduce rework caused by poor document hygiene, incomplete consultant deliverables or bid packages, missing scope definition, unclear design basis, or inadequate response to contractor RFIs.
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Integrate safety planning into preconstruction by ensuring project-specific safety expectations, known site risks, temporary works considerations, and safety-related bid inclusions are identified early enough to inform scope, means and methods sensitivity, budget, and contractor alignment.
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Produce, coordinate, and validate cost estimates and project budgets for PV and BESS projects, highlighting assumptions, exclusions, clarifications, allowances, contingencies, and other material commercial drivers.
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Analyze cost drivers, identify cost-saving opportunities, support value engineering, and ensure budgets align with project objectives and execution strategy.
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Coordinate RFQs and RFPs, subcontractor bid leveling, descope reviews, and commercial reconciliation of contractor and vendor pricing.
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Collaborate with Procurement and internal stakeholders to ensure owner-furnished equipment, subcontractor scope, vendor costs, and third-party services are accurately incorporated into project budgets.
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Maintain strong Basis of Estimate discipline by ensuring all estimates clearly document scope basis, assumptions, exclusions, clarifications, allowances, contingencies, pricing sources, unresolved risks, and reconciliation between estimate versions as projects progress through preconstruction.
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Establish budgets for execution using disciplined cost code and cost type structures that appropriately allocate scope, commercial exposure, and controllable risk in a manner that reflects contract obligations, reporting needs, and forecast visibility during project execution.
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Understand how to structure the budget so cost codes, cost types, and related attributes preserve continuity from estimate to contract value to project budget to job cost reporting and forecast updates.
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Support procurement strategy by identifying bid packaging approach, owner-furnished versus contractor-furnished scope strategy, long-lead considerations, and market constraints that may affect cost, timing, and risk.
5. Schedule Management
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Manage Preconstruction’s portion of the project schedule and maintain credible baselines tied to permitting, interconnection, procurement, contractor engagement, contract execution, notice to proceed, and key delivery milestones.
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Support development, review, and management of logic-based schedules and critical path awareness sufficient to identify schedule risk, procurement interfaces, design dependencies, and execution constraints.
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Validate schedule realism against development assumptions, design maturity, procurement strategy, access constraints, utility requirements, and construction sequencing.
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Use Pivot’s schedule template as part of commercial alignment and negotiation with contractors, ensuring contractors either utilize Pivot’s template or integrate their schedules into it in a manner that allows Pivot, as owner and IPP, to consistently monitor project progress and performance across the full project lifecycle.
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Ensure deadlines are visible, communicated, monitored, and escalated when aged review items, delayed responses, or missed commitments threaten execution readiness.
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Support integration of prevailing wage and apprenticeship requirements, domestic content, FEOC, safety, QA/QC, and other compliance-related obligations into bid packages, contract exhibits, contractor expectations, and execution planning.
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Coordinate with Compliance, Legal, Project Management, Procurement, and other stakeholders to surface gaps early and support clean implementation through execution.
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Remain capable of understanding policy changes, regulatory changes, incentive-program changes, and evolving compliance requirements, and incorporate those changes into scope definition, Basis of Estimate assumptions, contract exhibits, and execution planning as needed.
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Maintain project risk registers and support alignment with project execution plans, owner-provided information, design basis, contractor proposals, and commercial terms.
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Identify, document, and communicate scope, schedule, design, procurement, budget, compliance, and contractual risks early enough to support mitigation rather than reaction.
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Ensure project scope and design basis are sufficiently defined to be priced, negotiated, engineered, and built prior to full preconstruction commitment.
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Evaluate site conditions, client goals, utility requirements, permitting constraints, package completeness, and other deal elements that may affect constructability, contract strategy, budget, and schedule.
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Where appropriate, support integrated delivery strategies that bring contractors or trade partners into the process early enough to reduce uncertainty, advance design coordination, and improve schedule confidence.
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Maintain disciplined document control across RFP documents, bid sheets, estimate files, scope summaries, exhibits, decision logs, approval records, execution copies, and handoff packages.
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Promote document consistency across departments through standard forms, naming conventions, organized records, repeatable workflows, and version control discipline.
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Preserve continuity from development assumptions to estimate, contract value, project budget, and execution reality through strong documentation and traceability.
Technical / Commercial Standards
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Strong understanding of multiple project delivery methodologies, including Design-Bid-Build, Design-Build, Integrated Design-Build, CMAR, and related commercial implications.
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Ability to translate delivery methodology into risk allocation, contract formation, scope definition, bid packaging, procurement strategy, and execution planning.
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Understanding of job costing methodologies and budget architecture sufficient to set projects up for accurate cost tracking, forecasting, contingency control, and execution reporting.
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Ability to evaluate constructability, design maturity, scope completeness, and package readiness for pricing and contracting.
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Ability to support commercial negotiations with an understanding of how T&Cs, SOW, specifications, assumptions, exclusions, schedule commitments, procurement strategy, cost codes, and cost types interact.
Behavioral / Judgment Standards
This role is expected to:
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Distinguish facts, assumptions, interpretations, risks, and unresolved issues;
REQUIRED COMPETENCIES
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3–7 years of relevant experience in estimating, cost analysis, preconstruction, project management, commercial management, or related delivery functions supporting commercial solar and/or BESS projects.
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Experience leading field diligence efforts, coordinating site assessment teams, and managing development-phase due diligence activities for corporate pipeline, community solar, commercial solar, and energy storage projects.
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Experience participating in contractor engagement, bid review, cost evaluation, or contract review workflows.
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Ability to understand technical documentation related to renewable energy projects, including drawings, specifications, interconnection materials, utility requirements, permitting documents, civil and electrical scopes, and commercial exhibits. Experience evaluating subcontractor and vendor bid packages.
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Working knowledge of project management software, job costing software, ERP platforms, and related workflows used to support budget setup, cost control, forecasting, and reporting.
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Ability to work with reporting tools, dashboards, and basic analytics needed to evaluate project cost, schedule, and commercial information.
PREFERRED COMPETENCIES
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3+ years of experience in solar and/or BESS preconstruction, estimating, commercial management, design coordination, project management, or construction management.
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Experience with Procore, Bluebeam, estimating tools, job costing software, ERP platforms, and BI or analytics/reporting workflows.
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Familiarity with prevailing wage, domestic content, FEOC, QA/QC, safety, and related project compliance considerations.
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Field diligence activities, site assessment deliverables, and development-phase evaluations are completed on schedule and with sufficient rigor to validate project feasibility, execution readiness, and commercial alignment.
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Projects enter EPC contracting and execution with clear scope, validated assumptions, documented risks, aligned schedules, and strong handoff continuity.
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Estimates are suitably documented, commercially sound, and appropriate for internal decision-making, financial modeling, contract formation, and budget development.
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Budgets are structured for execution using cost codes, cost types, contingencies, and allowances that reflect contract obligations, reporting requirements, and ownership of risk.
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Bid packages, contract documents, and supporting records are complete, accurate, and organized.
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Handoff packages to Project Management are complete and preserve negotiated terms, assumptions, exclusions, clarifications, unresolved issues, and budget logic.
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Internal stakeholders view Preconstruction as a disciplined, value-adding function that improves consistency, standardization, execution readiness, and cost control.
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For Design-Build delivery, target cycle times for bidding, contracting, and early schedule readiness are met or deviations are clearly documented, justified, and escalated.
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$90,000 - $130,000 a year
The estimated base salary range for this position is $90,000-$130,000 depending on relevant experience.
Pivot Energy is dedicated to providing a great work experience for all employees, placing an emphasis on company culture, and a focus on our people. To that end, Pivot offers an outstanding benefits package that includes:
Excellent health/dental/vision insurance benefits with up to 100% of premiums covered by the company
Four weeks of vacation plus employment milestone bonus vacations
Company paid life insurance and short- & long-term disability coverage
401(k) matching (after vesting period)
Work from home stipend for new employees
Public transit reimbursement
PTO for volunteering in the community
Charitable donation matching up to $500/year
Professional development and educational reimbursements
A complete list of all the benefits Pivot offers may be provided upon request.
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Recruitment Agency Notice:
We appreciate your interest in partnering with us; however, we are not seeking recruitment agency support for this role.
ABOUT PIVOT
Pivot Energy is a national renewable energy provider that develops, finances, builds, owns, and manages solar and energy storage projects that help decarbonize our nation’s electricity, increase equitable access to clean energy for local communities, and provide real cost-savings to American businesses and
families.
We are fiercely dedicated to accelerating the rapid transition taking place in the energy industry to a more decentralized and cleaner approach to power generation. We are committed to positively contributing to the local communities and people we serve with more than clean energy. We believe global warming poses an existential threat to our planet and that we have a responsibility to help mitigate the threat. Our portfolio includes projects that reduce energy burden for income-limited families, create workforce pathways for under-represented groups within the solar industry, and include robust community investment opportunities.
As a Certified B Corporation and one of Denver’s “Best Places to Work”, we believe that company success is driven by a healthy environment, thriving society, and workplace where all individuals are respected. We evaluate every internal decision on environmental, social, and governance (ESG) factors to determine if our actions will result in a net positive impact on the community, our employees, customers, shareholders, and the environment. Learn more in our annual ESG Report.
At Pivot, our core values guide our work internally and externally:
·Impact – We hold ourselves accountable to having a measurable impact on our people, communities, and the planet
·Balance – Put family first; work hard/have fun
·Determination – Find ways to be successful no matter how difficult the challenge
·Professionalism – Impress everyone we touch, be a team player
·Honesty – Be truthful and transparent, externally and internally
·Kindness – Create an environment where kindness, empathy, and vulnerability are embraced
DIVERSITY, EQUITY, INCLUSION and JUSTICE STATEMENT
At Pivot, we are proactively developing and maintaining an inclusive culture, rooted in mutual respect, that supports a workforce of different generations, races, gender identities, sexual orientations, ability statuses, religions, and cultures to work collaboratively together for greater impact. We seek to build a team that invests in relationship building, celebrates each other’s successes, and makes space for the unique contributions and working styles people bring into Pivot.
Pivot invests in company-wide trainings, assessments, and programs to advance internal inclusion and equity practices, such as employee allyship building, cross-cultural communications, and equitable hiring and management protocols to increasingly recognize bias and ensure mutual respect and belonging.
EEO STATEMENT
Pivot Energy is an Equal Opportunity Employer and is committed to increasing the diversity of its workforce. We actively work to cultivate an inclusive culture that welcomes, empowers, and enables equitable career growth for employees regardless of background.
