
Senior Project Manager - Utility Solar
- Buffalo, NY
- $150,000-180,000 per year
- Permanent
- Full-time
- Enforces all Environmental Health & Safety policies and leads by example and drives a culture of Safety & Quality as a core value across project teams.
- Ability to manage large portfolios and multiple project teams
- Monitor and ensure portfolio level cash flow, risk assessment and mitigation
- Subject matter expert to provide necessary guidance to the project team as needed.
- Create and/or update policies in conjunction with the management team
- Manage to achieve positive outcomes with clients on project disputes
- Comfortable with presenting portfolio level updates to management.
- Works to hire, train and instill company culture into all team members in their project portfolio
- Actively plans and participates in team building events in their project portfolio
- Work with the Business Development to carry project through pipeline process, FMEA process, contract signing and project start-up.
- Responsible for ensuring all risks are identified and planned for.
- Seeks to resolve client issues to avoid legal actions. When needed work with legal teams on dispute resolutions and claims.
- Assist Teams with training and development activities.
- Hire and Train project managers in job function. Provide additional support for development and training of Team members.
- Portfolio level schedule and P&L responsibility
- Practices cross functional management between all project entities (internal and external)
- Foster a motivating Team environment across all project teams within a portfolio
- Work with cross functional departments to ensure all processes and documents are accessible to all departments and all processes are followed.
- Onsite presence during active construction
- Bachelor’s Degree in Construction Management, Renewable Engineering, Engineering or a related field
- 4-7+ years of relevant construction industry experience, with progressively greater responsibility
- Successfully led and managed complex project or portfolios valued at $30+ million
- Success leading, motivating and managing various project team sizes, including internal and external resources, while holding team members accountable
- Success in decisiveness in resolving project issues, prioritizing and decision-making
- Success in leading projects to on-schedule and within budget completion
- Success in managing project start-up meetings, project drawings, project execution plans, and subcontractor and vendor buyouts
- Ability to completes themselves and manage others to read, understand and interpret prime contracts, subcontracts, and purchase orders
- Success in managing subcontractors and developing and executing project changes
- Success in managing cost to complete estimates, costing and pricing Change Orders, and maximizing profits
- Entrepreneurial mindset with a well-rounded business perspective
- Experience influencing and gaining buy-in from stakeholders, executives, team members, and peers
- Strong proficiency in Word and Excel and a working knowledge of Microsoft Project and Bluebeam (or similar)
- Excellent teamwork, communication, and people skills are essential
- Effective time management skills capable of multitasking in a fast environment
- Ability and willingness to travel to project sites or office up to 75% of the time
- An offer of employment is conditioned upon complying with CS Energy's requirements including, but not limited to, signing a separate disclosure and consent form prior to any background check.
- Applicants must be authorized to work in the United States on a full-time basis
- CS Energy does not accept unsolicited resumes from individual recruiters and/or third parties in response to our job postings. Any unsolicited resumes become property of CS Energy and we reserve the right to pursue and hire any such candidate.
- Competitive Salaries
- Discretionary Bonus Program
- Field Weekend Pay Program
- Project Incentive Bonus Program (based on position eligibility)
- Per-diem Program for Field Employees ((based on eligibility)
- Vehicle Allowance & Gas Card Program (based on position eligibility)
- 401K Programs with Employer Matching
- Medical & Dental Benefits (Plan options 100% paid by employers), and Vision Plans
- Access to HSA with Employer Contribution
- Paid Referral Program
- Access to FSA - Health & Dependent Care
- Access to Short Term Disability
- Employer Paid Life Insurance
- Paid Time Off & Holidays
- Paid Parental Leave Program
- Volunteer Time Off
- Student Loan Benefit Program