Preconstruction Manager - West
Denver, Colorado / California / Chicago, Illinois
Preconstruction /
Full-time /
Remote
ROLE OVERVIEW
We are seeking an experienced Preconstruction Manager to help support our efforts in solar preconstruction and project execution. The Preconstruction Manager will be instrumental in the pre-subcontract award phase, ensuring that projects are well-planned, feasible, and aligned with our sustainability goals. This role requires a combination of technical expertise, project management skills, and a thorough understanding of the solar energy industry. This is a new position with tremendous growth potential that will be working across multiple teams, so the individual hired for this role must be self-directed, passionate, collaborative, and goal-oriented.
PRIMARY RESPONSIBILITIES
- ·Ensure that feasibility criteria are met for potential solar projects prior to Preconstruction engagement. Review project risk status of development items that may impact construction costs and develop strategies for risk mitigation.
- Work closely with various internal teams to evaluate and understand site conditions, client goals, and other essential deal elements. Review drawings and specifications and have a clear understanding of the scope of work and schedule expectations.
- Produce cost estimates and establish budgets for PV and battery storage projects that highlight key assumptions, exclusions, and other deal elements. Analyze cost drivers, identify cost-saving opportunities, and ensure budgets align with project objectives.
- Vendor and Supplier Coordination: Identify, evaluate, and select potential vendors and suppliers. Collaborate with the procurement team to secure competitive bids and establish partnerships.
- Cost Tracking and Reporting: Monitor project costs throughout the preconstruction phase. Provide regular cost-tracking reports and updates to senior management.
- Coordinate subcontractor engagement, prequalification, and review of subcontractor financials with CFO.
- Create and publish subcontractor RFQs and RFPs.
- Coordinate subcontractor RFP sharing with prospective subcontractor partners to ensure that subcontractor bids are delivered on time and budget.
- Manage cost estimates with subcontractor partners throughout the development cycle up until Project Management handoff, including regular communications with subcontractors regarding project scope, costs, and schedule. This includes coordinating descope meetings with subcontractors to review bid sheets, ensure the accuracy of costs/contingency, and eliminate scope gaps.
- Coordinate with Pivot Procurement and Pivot Interconnection teams for major equipment and interconnection costs.
- Participate in internal estimate review meetings, subcontractor selection process, and constructability reviews.
- Manage RFI process, including value engineering feedback/alternates to improve project economics.
- Coordinate with the Preconstruction Team and Project Management on subcontractor selection.
- In collaboration with Legal, subcontractor partners, and other Preconstruction team members: review and provide comments on master subcontract agreements and other contracts to ensure alignment with owner contract documents.
- Support the Preconstruction team with preconstruction deliverables and preconstruction timeline optimization.
- Additional responsibilities as required.
REQUIRED COMPETENCIES
- Minimum 3 years of experience in estimating, cost analysis, and/or project management of commercial solar energy systems
- Minimum 3 years of experience in contract review & management
- Ability to understand technical documentation related to renewable energy projects such as site drawings and specifications, interconnection agreements, facilities studies, permitting documents, local codes and regulations, civil and electrical construction specifications
- Experience evaluating subcontractor bid packages
- Must be self-motivated and be able to work both individually and/or in a collaborative team environment with minimal guidance
- Must have strong organizational capacity to simultaneously manage multiple opportunities with competing deadlines and be able to quickly adapt to changes and shift priorities
- Strong communication and interpersonal skills
PREFERRED COMPETENCIES
- Preference of at least 5 years of experience in the solar industry
- Experience in DG/Small Utility scale estimating, design, installation and/or construction management
- Experience or familiarity with various estimating tools and software, i.e., Procore, Bluebeam, etc.
$75,000 - $130,000 a year
COMPENSATION & BENEFITS
The base salary range for this position is $75,000 - $130,000 depending on relevant experience, along with eligibility for the company’s substantial bonus plan, with a target bonus of 30% of annual salary (prorated in the first year based on start date).
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
· Generous parental leave
· 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.
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.
