Pre-Construction Project Manager II

What You Can Expect

ENGIE Distributed Solar and Storage(DSS) is looking for a Project Manager to join our Pre-Construction team. As a Pre-Construction Project Manager, you will work closely with DSS project development, origination, business development, engineering, procurement and delivery teams to advance distributed generation (DG) and/or battery energy storage system (BESS) projects through the development cycle and prepare for handoff to the Delivery Team.

As the Project Manager, you at all times adhere to and promote ENGIE’s health and safety requirements and culture.  The projects will be in different regions of the contiguous United States.   

You will review the available information for early-stage projects / prospects and support the Development, Origination and Business Development Teams from constructability review, preliminary budget and scheduling perspectives.  You are expected to work with internal and external engineering teams and have a good grasp of technical aspects of Solar and BESS projects.  You will work with E’s procurement team to issue purchase requisitions and negotiate with contractors. 

• Manage and/or collaborate on numerous DG or BESS projects simultaneously through various stages of development to notice to proceed to the Delivery group
• Work with internal or external engineering / design team to understand and review the project design and provide inputs on constructability and potential cost savings  
• Support proposal preparation, including due diligence site visit, project risk register, preliminary budget, scheduling, constructability review
• Audit ENGIE employees and contractors to ensure all parties adhere to the company’s Health and Safety oriented guidelines on active sites
• Create project schedule baselines and reports on progress to various internal and external stakeholders
• Coordinate preconstruction site visit and site surveys, as required.
• Track and analyze progress on project-level spend in relation to approved budget baselines 
• Prepare budgets for projects at approval milestones and cite any budget-relates issues and evaluate ways to ensure budget baselines are accurate
• Ensures contractual deadlines are met and required documentation is filed
• Provide regular status reports to clients and other external parties as necessary, including previously-mentioned schedule and budget/cost updates
• Ensure that all installations meet ENGIE plans and specifications, permitting and interconnection requirements, and client expectations
• Ensure all projects adhere to requirements listed in applicable legal agreements
• Works with engineering and development teams to obtain construction-related permits, negotiate and comply with interconnection agreements, and deliver construction and staging drawings, as require.
• Works with internal and external Procurement resources to contract the entire Scope of the project across various suppliers (GC selection, PO issuance and follow-ups)
• Mentor junior team members
• Carry out other duties, as assigned

What You’ll Bring

• Bachelor’s Degree in which you completed course in Construction Management, Civil or Electrical Engineering, or related field
• Experience within the renewable energy industry; specifically, solar photovoltaic arrays and/or battery energy storage