Director, Preconstruction

People Management

• Lead mentor and develop a growing team of Preconstruction Managers Senior Preconstruction Managers and related delivery personnel.

• Establish clear expectations for role ownership communication issue escalation commercial rigor documentation quality and stakeholder responsiveness.

• Foster a culture of accountability collaboration continuous improvement operational discipline and commercial awareness.

• Promote leadership behaviors that reinforce transparency ownership consistency documentation discipline and proactive risk escalation.

Portfolio Management

• Own a defined preconstruction book of business across multiple concurrent project portfolios geographies technologies contractors and customer or financing requirements.

• Maintain reporting standards project prioritization portfolio controls issue escalation and operational controls that create predictability across the preconstruction function.

• Monitor portfolio-wide schedule cost procurement interconnection permitting compliance contractor and commercial risks and escalate material issues to leadership.

• Resolve cross-functional blockers with Development Procurement Interconnection Development Engineering Legal Finance Compliance Project Management and Construction Management to keep projects moving through transition EPCA execution and execution readiness.

• Drive consistency in project contracting estimating standards and handoff procedures.

• Support portfolio-level procurement strategies long-lead planning preferred contractor engagement strategies and market intelligence

• Serve as a senior point of contact for internal leadership external contractor partners consultants vendors and strategic stakeholders during preconstruction.

• Align Development Development Engineering Interconnection Procurement Legal Compliance Finance Project Management teams around project execution and delivery readiness.

• Ensure communication protocols escalation pathways Investment Committee visibility and governance processes are consistently followed.

• Promote alignment between development assumptions commercial commitments budget structures procurement strategy interconnection dependencies compliance obligations and execution planning.

• Resolve cross-functional friction early enough to preserve schedule scope clarity commercial position transition timing EPCA execution and execution readiness.

• Ensure material blockers are framed with issue cause impact options owner due date recommendation and decision required so leadership and governance forums can act without ambiguity.

Contract Management

• Oversee commercial contracting and pre-award execution activities across project portfolios.

• Support EPC negotiations subcontracting strategy owner-furnished versus contractor-furnished scope decisions commercial risk allocation and contract-exhibit completeness.

• Ensure established contract standards fallback positions negotiation frameworks and approval workflows and deviation logs are maintained.

• Ensure negotiated commercial terms transition cleanly into execution without loss of scope clarity schedule obligation compliance obligation document context or risk visibility.

• Drive consistency in commercial clarifications assumptions exclusions allowances contingency treatment and risk registers.

• Escalate major commercial deviations and contractor exceptions non-standard risk allocations and unresolved legal or business positions.

Quality Management

• Maintain and support organizational standards for bid package quality estimate completeness constructability review design basis clarity and execution readiness.

• Ensure consistent application of QA/QC principles throughout the preconstruction lifecycle.

• Drive lessons-learned initiatives and continuous improvement programs across estimating procurement contracting and project setup processes including use of scorecards issue trends quality history schedule performance change behavior and commercial discipline. Relationships with project management is crucial to the on going success of the contractor partnership program.

• Support contractor prequalification and performance evaluation processes.

• Ensure field execution feedback and O&M requirements are integrated into preconstruction workflows where they materially affect scope budget contract exhibits or execution readiness.

• Support oversight of project cost intelligence and analytics budget development contingency strategy procurement cost integration and cost control methodologies.

• Collaborate with Procurement Finance Development Engineering and internal stakeholders to ensure owner-furnished equipment subcontractor scope vendor costs and third-party services and internal owner costs are accurately incorporated into project budgets.

• Maintain strong Basis of Estimate discipline by ensuring all estimates clearly document scope basis design basis assumptions exclusions clarifications allowances contingencies escalation assumptions pricing sources unresolved risks and reconciliation between estimate versions as projects progress through preconstruction.

• Ensure budgets are structured for execution and job-cost visibility by aligning scope and risk to appropriate cost codes cost types and work breakdown structures that reflect contract obligations and commercial risk.

• Drive value engineering initiatives and cost optimization strategies while maintaining quality compliance operability revenue financing and schedule objectives.

• Coordinate with Finance to ensure cost forecasting accuracy budget continuity and cost reporting consistency.

• Ensure budget continuity from early-stage estimate through contract execution.

Schedule Management

• Maintain project-level and portfolio-level scheduling standards including visibility into development transition bid issuance proposal review contract negotiation permitting procurement interconnection engineering NTP readiness and execution handoff.

• Manage the assigned book of business against transition and EPCA execution run-rate expectations currently approximately three projects per week or the then-current approved business target.

• Ensure schedules are logic-driven commercially aligned resource-aware and capable of supporting leadership decision-making contractor accountability Investment Committee visibility and external commitment management.

• Ensure schedule alignment across development engineering procurement permitting interconnection and construction readiness activities.

• Ensure contractors either utilize Pivots template or integrate their schedules into it in a manner that allows Pivot as owner and IPP to consistently monitor project progress and performance across the full project lifecycle.

• Identify systemic schedule risks and implement mitigation strategies across project portfolios.

• Drive schedule accountability with contractors consultants vendors and internal stakeholders including early escalation of missed commitments delayed decisions and external dependency risk.

Compliance Management

• Ensure preconstruction activities align with applicable compliance obligations incentive program requirements labor standards domestic content requirements FEOC restrictions safety expectations quality requirements and internal governance policies.

• Support implementation of evolving regulatory market investor tax and internal policy requirements into project delivery standards scope of work Basis of Estimate assumptions procurement strategy and contract exhibits.

• Partner with Compliance Legal Finance Procurement and Project Management teams to establish repeatable controls and audit-ready documentation practices.

• Ensure compliance obligations are appropriately incorporated into contract exhibits procurement workflows contractor submittal requirements execution planning cost assumptions and handoff packages and procurement workflows. planning.

• Escalate compliance ambiguity or policy changes early when they may affect scope cost schedule procurement strategy risk allocation or project economics.

Risk Management

• Serve as the primary preconstruction risk manager and processor of projects entering the execution pipeline.

• Support portfolio-level risk identification escalation mitigation planning and governance processes.

• Maintain established risk management frameworks that support predictable execution outcomes and informed decision-making.

• Evaluate commercial technical schedule procurement interconnection permitting regulatory compliance contractor stakeholder and organizational risks across project portfolios.

• Ensure Investment Committee or appropriate governance stakeholders are notified when risks or unresolved issues threaten approved economics schedule commitments transition timing EPCA execution LNTP readiness or execution viability.

• Ensure risk ownership escalation pathways and mitigation tracking are clearly documented and actively managed.

• Support strategic decisions regarding delivery methodology contractor engagement models procurement strategy and commercial positioning.

• Anticipate second-order impacts of unresolved risk including impact to financeability revenue commitments customer commitments tax credit qualification contractor accountability and execution handoff.

Document Management

• Support standardized document control procedures naming conventions approval workflows and repository governance.

• Drive operational consistency across estimating files bid packages contract exhibits handoff packages and reporting systems.

• Promote disciplined documentation and traceability across all phases of preconstruction and project setup.

• Ensure finalized contract documents supporting exhibits execution assumptions and decision records are organized and accessible to Project Management and downstream stakeholders.

• Champion continuous improvement initiatives that improve scalability efficiency reporting accuracy AI-readiness document quality and execution quality.

Technical / Commercial Standards

• Advanced understanding of renewable energy project delivery methodologies including Design-Bid-Build Design-Build Integrated Design-Build CMAR EPC and hybrid delivery approaches.

• Strong commercial acumen related to EPC contracting procurement strategy construction sequencing cost control and risk allocation.

• Advanced understanding of estimating methodologies Basis of Estimate discipline forecasting principles budget development job costing systems cost-code and cost-type structure ERP platforms project controls tools and reporting environments.

• Strong understanding of job costing methodologies & systems ERP platforms project controls tools and reporting environments.

• Ability to evaluate project constructability execution readiness design maturity procurement risk contractor performance and commercial exposure across PV and BESS projects.

• Ability to support operational standards and scalable delivery processes across a growing organization.

• Ability to evaluate project constructability execution readiness procurement risk and contractor performance.

• Ability to support commercial negotiations with an understanding of how T&Cs SOW specifications assumptions exclusions schedule commitments procurement strategy cost codes and cost types interact.

• Ability to enforce preconstruction operating processes governance routines issue escalation pathways and run-rate discipline without creating unnecessary bureaucracy or slowing business-critical decisions.

• Ability to own a defined book of business and coordinate Development Development Engineering Interconnection Procurement Legal Finance Compliance and Delivery stakeholders to preserve transition and EPCA execution momentum.

• Ability to distinguish project-specific issues from systemic issues that require operating model process template governance or leadership intervention.

Behavioral / Judgment Standards

This role is expected to:

• Lead through accountability structure clear communication and sound judgment.

• Support team-member growth while ensuring alignment with organizational goals; role expectations and business priorities.

• Protect relationships while protecting Pivots commercial operational compliance and financial interests.

• Balance strategic thinking with practical execution and timely decision-making.

• Drive clarity and alignment in fast-moving ambiguous and cross-functional environments;

• Escalate risk early and communicate difficult issues transparently; especially when facts are incomplete or stakeholder positions conflict.

• Ensure commercial decisions are aligned with approved standards; documented fallback positions risk tolerance and leadership approval thresholds.

• Promote operational discipline without creating unnecessary bureaucracy;

• Maintain professionalism during negotiations escalations and executive decision-making.

• Use standards documentation and decision records as leadership tools not administrative exercises.

• Coach team members to convert blockers into clear issue statements options recommendations owners due dates and decision paths.

• 7 years of experience in renewable energy preconstruction estimating commercial management project delivery construction management project controls EPC management or related infrastructure leadership roles.

• 3 years of people leadership experience managing multidisciplinary teams project teams or functional workstreams with accountability for performance outcomes.

• Experience with EPC contracting procurement strategy budgeting estimating Basis of Estimate documentation schedule management and project execution planning.

• Advanced understanding of solar PV and/or BESS project delivery including development-to-delivery handoff permitting engineering procurement construction readiness and execution transition.

• Strong leadership communication commercial analytical financial and decision-making skills.

• Experience supporting operational processes governance frameworks and scalable delivery standards reporting routines and cross-functional operating discipline.

• Strong analytical commercial and financial management capabilities.

• Ability to lead in high-growth fast-paced environments with competing priorities imperfect information and changing business requirements.

• 5 years of experience in solar and/or BESS preconstruction estimating commercial management design coordination project management or construction management.

• Experience managing geographically focus team.

• Experience with Procore MS Project ERP systems estimating platforms BI/reporting tools and project controls systems.

• Understanding of compliance drivers (e.g. prevailing wage/apprenticeship domestic content safety quality).

• MBA engineering degree construction management degree or related advanced professional credentials preferred.

Core Capabilities