Summary:
Manage commercial solar or solar plus storage projects from the inception/estimating phase, through design, engineering, construction, and handover to O&M, taking full ownership of the projects and coordinating all internal and external stakeholders to achieve the identified project requirements. The Project Manager also oversees associate project managers who are doing the same.
What you’ll do:
- Act as the main point of contact for clients, installers, inspectors, and internal teams
- Project manage multiple multi-million dollar PV and/or ESS contracts simultaneously
- Create and maintain project CPM schedules
- Manage and reduce project costs and conduct project financial projections for the team’s projects monthly
- Conduct internal and external project team meetings
- Provide status reports to various project stakeholders
- Drive internal and/or external engineering teams to develop design drawing packages for various milestones of the project development cycle (interconnection, permitting, construction)
- Identify & develop project-specific scopes of work and assemble complete budgets and estimates based upon civil, structural, & electrical drawings and specifications
- Request, analyze, & negotiate project-specific pricing for equipment, material, & subcontracted scopes of work
- Mitigate project risk by identifying & implementing contingency plans, and ensure projects adhere to engineering, utility, AHJ, and legislative requirements/specifications
- Achieve or improve upon baseline project margins & schedule
What you’ll need for success:
- Bachelor of Science in Electrical Engineering or related field desired
- 3+ years in commercial solar and/or battery storage EPC project management role
- Demonstrated engineering and/or project management of commercial BESS experience desirable
- Proven success managing multi-million dollar PV and/or ESS contracts simultaneously
- NABCEP PV Installation Professional (desired)
- FAA part 107 (desired)
- NEC code knowledge (required)
- Thorough understanding of commercial PV installations, components, and solutions required
- Demonstrated success satisfying KPIs, managing budgets and timelines, and achieving profitability targets
- Effective time management, organization, and prioritization abilities
- Demonstrated leadership and influence skills
- Proven analytical abilities
- Intermediate software knowledge:
- MS Office Suite: Outlook, Word, Excel
- Bluebeam/Adobe Acrobat Pro
- Primavera/MS Project desired
- Helioscope desired
Our Company
Continental Energy Solutions offers end-to-end EPS solutions. We design, engineer, procure, install, commission, monitor, and maintain solar arrays, solar plus battery storage, and full microgrid solutions.
We offer an unbeatable team of engineers, project managers, and field supervisors, including NABCEP Certified Professionals, the gold standard in the solar industry. Together, our team works to provide our customers with clearly outlined costs, energy savings, and overall project ROI. We have built hundreds of commercial solar PV projects, many solar plus battery storage solutions, and installed over 350 electric vehicle (EV) chargers. Our project portfolio includes rooftop systems for big-box retail and warehouse customers, and community solar projects with multiple developers. Our commercial projects are typically larger than 750kW and are paired with storage resources. With our experienced team and extensive project portfolio, we can build a solar and storage solution to meet any challenge.
Working for Continental Energy Solutions provides:
- Collaboration, assistance, tools and resources for success
- An engaging and respectful workplace with excellent benefits and compensation
- Pride working for the largest PV and battery storage installer in Illinois
Continental Energy Solutions is an equal opportunity employer and does not discriminate in employment on account of race, color, religion, national origin, citizenship status, ancestry, age, sex, sexual or gender orientation, marital status, physical or mental disability, military status or unfavorable discharge from military service.
