Project Management Advisor

What You Can Expect

As a Project Management Advisor, your role will involve leading all phases of energy projects, ensuring they’re completed on time, within budget, and meet the highest standards for quality, safety, and cash management—all while securing strong customer references. These projects will span energy efficiency measures, facility renovations, renewable generation installations, and carbon reduction strategies, helping public sector, commercial, and industrial customers across the U.S. become more sustainable, reduce costs, and improve operations.

 

Managing multiple projects simultaneously, you’ll oversee everything from early development through post-construction, including design, procurement, contract negotiations, and project implementation. Assigning responsibilities to the project team and establishing schedules will be key, along with handling technical aspects like scope development, conducting savings analysis, and assessing the feasibility of proposed solutions. Collaboration is essential in this role, as you’ll work closely with the Sales team to support customer presentations and interviews during project development. Partnering with the Legal department, you'll negotiate and prepare customer agreements and change orders, ensuring contractual obligations are met.

 

When it comes to budgeting, maintaining precise records of all cost components will be crucial. Any necessary adjustments will be promptly communicated to your supervisors. Together with the Construction Manager, you’ll establish a comprehensive project schedule, ensuring milestones are met and projects are completed on time. Your coordination with Accounting will ensure timely customer invoicing, and you’ll proactively resolve any payment delays. Compliance with local labor regulations will be part of your responsibility, as will overseeing the completion of monitoring packages and final job close-out.

 

This position will be remote, Illinois and will report to the Project Management Director.

 

 

What You’ll Bring

• A minimum of a four (4) year degree in which you have gained a knowledge of construction management, engineering elements, and project management functions
• A minimum of seven (7) years of related work experience in project management of complex projects including training and certifications
• You are proficient with MS Office; including, Word, Excel, PowerPoint, and Project
• Skillful in project accounting to manage project budgets
• Strong negotiation skills
• Solid technical writing abilities
• Capability to create and execute project development and delivery schedules
• Excellent adherence to schedule, and collaborative problem-solving skills to maintain budget, schedule, and customer satisfaction 
• Ability to review engineering work across all typical energy and general construction project scope types
• Superior understanding of general construction methods and can work with the construction manager to implement the project
• Knowledge of contract scopes of work, and alignment with subcontractor scopes of work 
• Ability to manage a project team which may include Project Engineers, Consultants, Construction Managers, and other Subject Matter Experts   
• Proficient in Construction Management Software (CMS)

 

 

Additional Details

• This role is eligible for our hybrid work policy