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Project Manager

United Statesfull_timeVerifiedPosted 28 Jul 2026

About the role

ROLE OVERVIEW

The Project Manager supports Pivot Energy’s owner-side project delivery function from formal handoff out of preconstruction and contract readiness through engineering, procurement, permitting, construction, commissioning, testing, turnover, and final closeout. This role is accountable for leading project execution with discipline across scope, budget, schedule, quality, safety, compliance, documentation, and stakeholder alignment

The Project Manager acts as the primary project-level operator on behalf of Pivot, translating negotiated commercial terms, preconstruction assumptions, budgets, schedules, and risk positions into executable plans and controlled outcomes. The role protects Pivot’s business interests while coordinating internal stakeholders and external partners including EPCs, suppliers, engineers, utilities, AHJs, owner’s engineers, independent engineers, asset management, revenue operations, legal, project finance, procurement, accounting, compliance, and operations.

This role materially supports Pivot’s eight focus areas throughout execution: Stakeholder Management, Contract Management, Quality Management, Financial Management, Schedule Management, Compliance Management, Risk Management, and Document Management.

This role sits primarily within the execution phase of the project lifecycle and is responsible for maintaining continuity, control, and accountability across the following stages:

Preconstruction handoff and execution readiness
EPC and subcontract execution alignment
Engineering phase
Procurement phase
Permitting phase
Construction through Mechanical Completion
Mechanical Completion through Substantial Completion, including commissioning, performance testing, and capacity testing
Substantial Completion through Final Completion
Turnover to O&M, Asset Management, Revenue Operations, and Finance
Internal project closeout and record completion

PRIMARY RESPONSIBILITIES

1. Stakeholder Management

Serve as the primary project-level coordination lead across internal teams and external delivery partners.

Maintain alignment among Preconstruction, Engineering, Construction Management, Procurement, Accounting, Legal, Compliance, Project Finance, Asset Management, Revenue Operations, O&M, EPC contractors, utilities, AHJs, OE, and IE.

Lead regular project working sessions, health reviews, lookaheads, milestone coordination meetings, and issue-resolution meetings.

Ensure stakeholders understand current project status, forecast dates, financial exposure, required decisions, and open risks.

Escalate aged decisions, unresolved cross-functional conflicts, and issues that threaten cost, schedule, quality, or commercial outcomes.

Preserve continuity from preconstruction assumptions and negotiated contract positions into live project execution.

Coordinate APMs, coordinators, consultants, and external partners to support clean execution and timely issue closure.

2. Contract Management

Administer Prime EPC agreements, sub-EPC agreements, purchase orders, exhibits, notice provisions, milestone obligations, and change management requirements.

Understand how contract terms, scope exhibits, specifications, schedule commitments, owner obligations, payment mechanics, and relief provisions interact in execution.

Issue, track, and preserve formal notices in accordance with contractual requirements and Delegation of Authority.

Manage change events, change orders, claims support, and commercial issue resolution with appropriate internal review and escalation.

Coordinate with Legal and leadership on disputed scope, entitlement positions, contractor nonperformance, schedule relief requests, and material deviations from negotiated terms.

Maintain disciplined contract logs, issue logs, deviation trackers, and records needed to support enforceable project administration.

Ensure preconstruction handoff items, scope clarifications, negotiated assumptions, and unresolved commercial risks are actively managed in execution.

3. Quality Management

Ensure project quality expectations are translated from contract and design documents into execution controls.

Coordinate with Construction Management, Quality, Engineering, EPCs, and vendors to manage submittals, inspections, testing, punch, NCRs, and closeout requirements.

Support constructability awareness throughout execution and identify quality risks before they turn into rework, delay, or warranty exposure.

Ensure major material warranties, turnover packages, commissioning records, test reports, and required as-built and acceptance documentation are comp