Director of Preconstruction Management

This is a fully remote position, open to applicants in United States.

📋 Description

• Promote CoVolt’s core values both internally and externally.

• Oversee, coordinate, and lead the Preconstruction Management team.

• Create, train, and implement standardized tools and processes for tracking and reporting on contracting and preconstruction progress.

• Guide and develop team members in technical, commercial, and project management areas.

• Encourage ownership and a sense of urgency in addressing problems, mitigating risks, and resolving outstanding issues.

• Represent CoVolt’s culture and capabilities in interactions with customers, partners, and the industry.

• Develop post-award contracting strategies, objectives, responsibilities, and timelines.

• Lead customer contracting from the award stage through to the execution of the EPC agreement.

• Collaborate with legal, commercial, technical, estimating, scheduling, procurement, and operations resources to address contract issues.

• Monitor contract terms, assumptions, clarifications, exclusions, exhibits, approvals, and open items; provide status reports to leadership.

• Identify commercial, technical, scheduling, and execution risks and opportunities, and implement mitigation plans.

• Manage change from the award phase through EPC execution, documenting impacts on scope, cost, and schedule.

• Create and maintain project preconstruction plans that encompass scope, schedule, budget, responsibilities, milestones, and reporting.

• Ensure that engineering, permitting, procurement, estimating, scheduling, and other preconstruction functions are completed as planned.

• Address scope gaps, design development challenges, constructability issues, and commercial decisions that influence margin, schedule, or execution risk.

• Align the executed EPC contract with the project’s budget, schedule, procurement plan, and execution strategy.

• Document customer-driven and internal changes, securing necessary cost and schedule modifications.

• Facilitate a thorough handover to Project Delivery, including contract requirements, assumptions, risks, changes, remaining actions, and ownership.

• Provide updates on contract/exhibit status, preconstruction deliverables, and overall progress to leadership.

• Report to the Executive Vice President – Client Solutions.

⛳️ Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree in business, finance, pre-law, construction management, estimating, civil, mechanical or electrical engineering, architecture, or a related field; equivalent experience will be accepted.

• Demonstrated leadership focused on communication, process development, team mentoring, and cross-functional collaboration.

• Dedication to delivering exceptional customer service and achieving successful customer outcomes.

• Proficiency with EPC contracts, including legal, commercial, and technical terms, exhibits, and risk distribution.

• In-depth knowledge of PV solar and battery storage technology along with the project EPC lifecycle.

• Strong skills in risk identification, assessment, and mitigation.

• Capability to formulate and implement contracting strategies that protect or enhance project margins and risk profiles.

• Excellent change management, issue tracking, data analysis, and interpretation abilities.

• Ability to distill technical and commercial information into clear decisions, actions, and executive reports.

• Proficient negotiation and interpersonal skills.

• Self-motivated individual with a strong sense of urgency, accountability, and ownership.

• Computer literate with proficiency in MS Office, particularly strong Excel skills; MS Project proficiency is a plus.

• Proven success in leading multidisciplinary managers and teams.

• Demonstrated experience in negotiating and executing utility-scale renewable energy EPC contracts exceeding $100MM.

• Comprehensive understanding of project management control systems, including scheduling, estimating, cost control, procurement, contract administration, and change management.

• Field construction experience is preferred.

🏝️ Benefits

• Equal opportunity employer.

• Full-time remote work arrangement.