Director, Project Management

Pivot Energy


Job Location:

Denver, CO - USA

Monthly Salary: $ 140000 - 180000
Posted on: 5 days ago
Vacancies: 1 Vacancy

Department:

Project Management

Job Summary

ROLE OVERVIEW

The Director of Project Management leads Pivot Energys project management execution across assigned portfolios regions customer programs or enterprise-client workstreams including greenfield brownfield roof top carport Mergers & Acquisitions Tax Credit Transfers Renewable Energy Credits and other multi-site programs.

Through disciplined project controls contract management team leadership proactive risk management and servant-leader principles this role ensures assigned projects are executed in alignment with Pivots standards for cost schedule quality compliance documentation and reporting.

The role manages and develops Project Managers Senior Project Managers Assistant Project Managers and Coordinators. It also serves as connective tissue between Project Management Preconstruction Construction Management Quality Control Procurement FP&A Accounting Legal Development Asset Management O&M Revenue Operations and executive leadership.

The role is expected to create confidence in the portfolio by ensuring that project data is current contract obligations are understood risks are known formal notices are managed forecasts are credible schedules are actively governed and project teams are operating with discipline.

PRIMARY RESPONSIBILITIES

1. Stakeholder Management

  • Lead coach and hold PMs accountable for disciplined stakeholder communication across internal teams external contractors clients consultants investors IE/lender representatives and executive stakeholders.
  • Ensure PMs provide clear timely fact-based updates using Procore Power BI project controls reports and approved reporting cadences.
  • Maintain alignment between Pivot EPCs consultants internal stakeholders and contract obligations.
  • Lead portfolio health reviews and ensure risks variances open issues delays recovery plans and decision needs are surfaced clearly.
  • Ensure communication is direct professional kind and commercially disciplined.
  • Remove cross-functional friction between Project Management Preconstruction Procurement Construction Management FP&A Accounting Legal Compliance Asset Management O&M and Revenue Operations.
  • Ensure executive leadership receives reliable information early enough to make decisions.

2. Contract Management

  • Ensure PMs understand and actively manage the contract not just the relationship.
  • Enforce DOA-compliant commitments change management approval routing and contract administration.
  • Ensure formal notices are issued received tracked evaluated and escalated appropriately.
  • Oversee contractor accountability for milestone obligations reporting obligations submittals QA/QC documentation PWA /compliance obligations schedule updates change orders pay applications and closeout deliverables.
  • Ensure Procore Change Events are used to capture issue cause impact options timing responsibility and commercial resolution.
  • Partner with Legal on disputed issues claims delay notices contract interpretation risk posture and precedent-sensitive decisions.
  • Ensure PMs protect Pivots commercial position while maintaining constructive contractor relationships.
  • Confirm that PMs understand the distinction between relationship management and contract management.

3. Schedule Management

  • Oversee portfolio schedule performance and ensure projects are managed against approved baseline schedules guaranteed dates contractual milestones P90 dates and externally committed dates.
  • Ensure PMs understand critical path schedule logic procurement dependencies utility milestones permitting constraints energization activities commissioning sequences and turnover requirements.
  • Require timely schedule updates recovery plans variance explanations and escalation of schedule risk.
  • Coordinate with Construction Management and contractors to validate field progress against reported progress.
  • Ensure Pivots schedule data is current trustworthy and usable for decision-making by Delivery FP&A Development executive leadership investors and other stakeholders.
  • Ensure schedule movement is contractually understood before dates are accepted communicated or relied upon.
  • Prevent casual rebaselining that obscures performance or weakens accountability.
4. Financial Management
  • Oversee project-level and portfolio-level financial performance across budget commitments actuals forecast contingency allowance usage change events change orders cash flow draw readiness and EAC.
  • Ensure PMs understand and use job costing methodologies cost codes cost types Procore budgets commitments ERP data and Power BI reporting in a disciplined way.
  • Ensure cost forecasts cash-flow projections cost-to-complete estimate-to-complete and EAC forecasts are timely current explainable and reviewed with appropriate rigor.
  • Partner with FP&A Accounting and Finance to support accurate forecasting accruals draw packages margin visibility and portfolio predictability.
  • Hold PMs accountable for recognizing risks before they become overruns.
  • Ensure PMs understand that Cost to Complete is the remaining known cost Estimate to Complete is the remaining expected cost and Estimate at Completion is the final expected cost outcome.
  • Challenge optimistic forecasts that ignore pending change events contractor claims productivity impacts schedule delays allowance exposure or unresolved commercial issues.
  • Ensure financial reporting is aligned with actual project conditions and contract obligations.

5. Quality Management

  • Enforce Pivots QA/QC standards through PM leadership Construction Management coordination Procore workflows inspections observations NCR tracking Action Plans commissioning documentation and closeout controls.
  • Ensure quality issues are documented tracked resolved and escalated appropriately.
  • Coordinate with Construction Management Quality Control contractors OE IE and other stakeholders to validate construction progress and quality readiness.
  • Monitor energization commissioning performance testing capacity testing mechanical completion substantial completion and final completion readiness.
  • Ensure quality documentation aligns with Pivot client lender IE O&M Asset Management and Revenue Operations expectations.
  • Ensure lessons learned are captured and fed back into the Delivery Playbook Preconstruction contractor scorecards and future execution standards.

6. Compliance Management

  • Oversee project-level compliance documentation and PM accountability for environmental safety IRA PWA Domestic Content FEOC permit utility interconnection lender and contractual compliance obligations.
  • Ensure compliance requirements are visible in project controls and understood by PMs and contractors.
  • Partner with Compliance Legal Asset Management O&M Revenue Operations Procurement and external consultants to ensure continuity from execution through COD and turnover.
  • Ensure PMs understand changes in compliance requirements and integrate those requirements into contractor expectations reporting documentation and project execution.
  • Escalate compliance gaps early enough to protect tax revenue financing safety and operational outcomes.

7. Risk Management

  • Maintain portfolio-level visibility into schedule cost scope contract quality compliance permitting utility contractor stakeholder and documentation risk.
  • Ensure PMs maintain current project risk registers with meaningful mitigations ownership dates and escalation paths.
  • Conduct regular risk reviews with PMs and escalate material systemic or precedent-setting risks to senior leadership.
  • Promote the operating expectation: identify early act fast communicate clearly report accurately.
  • Ensure PMs do not confuse risk awareness with risk management. Risks must be quantified assigned tracked mitigated and escalated.
  • Ensure risk registers change events formal notices schedule variances financial forecasts and executive reporting tell the same story.
  • Protect Pivot from late surprises by requiring disciplined issue capture and escalation.

8. Document Management

  • Enforce document-control discipline across Procore Intacct-related financial workflows project records RFIs submittals change events meeting minutes formal notices pay applications schedule updates closeout records lender deliverables commissioning documentation and turnover packages.
  • Ensure PMs maintain reliable records that support contract enforcement financial reporting lender diligence compliance audits claims defense lessons learned and asset turnover.
  • Uphold naming conventions version control metadata approval routing and document storage expectations.
  • Ensure project records are accurate enough to support executive reporting and future portfolio learning.
  • Reinforce the principle that poor documentation weakens accountability claims position project continuity and institutional memory.

Technical / Functional Standards

  • Renewable energy project delivery including PV BESS DG community solar C&I brownfield greenfield and multi-site program execution.
  • Owner-side IPP project delivery and the financial contractual operational and stakeholder obligations that come with owning and operating assets.
  • Design-Build Integrated Design-Build EPC and related delivery methodologies.
  • Contract administration formal notice management change order governance claim exposure and commercial risk control.
  • CPM schedule review schedule baseline management recovery planning and milestone accountability.
  • Job costing methodology cost code structure cost type usage budget governance commitments actuals forecasts EAC CTC ETC contingency allowances and cash flow.
  • Procore Intacct Power BI Salesforce and related project controls systems.
  • QA/QC workflows inspections observations NCRs Action Plans commissioning testing turnover and closeout.
  • Compliance management including PWA Domestic Content FEOC safety environmental permitting lender and contractual compliance.
  • Portfolio risk management including risk registers issue logs change events escalation pathways and executive reporting.
  • Team leadership coaching performance management talent development and succession planning.

Behavioral / Judgment Standards

This role is expected to:

  • lead with clarity kindness candor consistency and accountability;
  • protect relationships while protecting Pivots contract financial schedule and compliance position;
  • distinguish facts assumptions forecasts commitments risks and unresolved issues;
  • operate effectively when facts are incomplete but decisions still need to be made;
  • coach PMs to think commercially not just administratively;
  • escalate early with analysis and options;
  • avoid surprise-based management;
  • reinforce standards without becoming rigid or bureaucratic;
  • use data to support judgment not replace it;
  • hold contractors accountable without damaging long-term partner relationships unnecessarily;
  • hold PMs accountable without taking their work away from them;
  • develop APMs into PMs PMs into Senior PMs and Senior PMs into future Directors;
  • build a team culture where good process creates better outcomes.

REQUIRED COMPETENCIES

  • 10 years of project management construction management project controls EPC IPP renewable energy infrastructure or large-scale construction experience.
  • 3 years of people leadership portfolio leadership or programmatic project delivery leadership.
  • Demonstrated experience managing multi-project portfolios or complex construction programs.
  • Strong understanding of project controls integration across cost schedule scope risk contract document and reporting systems.
  • Strong understanding of contract administration formal notices change management claim avoidance and contractor accountability.
  • Working knowledge of Procore ERP systems Power BI or similar dashboards and project reporting systems.
  • Ability to lead through ambiguity friction competing stakeholder priorities and incomplete information.
  • Strong written and verbal communication skills.
  • Strong judgment in escalation prioritization risk framing and team leadership.

PREFERRED COMPETENCIES

  • Experience in renewable energy distributed generation community solar commercial solar utility-scale solar BESS or IPP project delivery.
  • Experience with owner-side project execution lender / IE requirements asset turnover and operational handoff.
  • Experience with Procore Sage Intacct Salesforce Power BI and integrated project controls environments.
  • PMP DBIA CCM PE or similar credential preferred but not required.
  • Experience developing project managers and building repeatable project delivery standards.
  • Experience with contractor scorecards portfolio dashboards lessons learned programs QA/QC programs and delivery playbooks.
  • Experience supporting executive-level reporting investor reporting or board-level project performance narratives.
Core Capabilities
  • Portfolio leadership
  • Team development
  • Project controls fluency
  • Contract discipline
  • Schedule discipline
  • Financial forecasting judgment
  • Risk identification and escalation
  • QA/QC and compliance awareness
  • Contractor accountability
  • Cross-functional leadership
  • Data governance
  • Executive communication
  • Process improvement
  • Talent calibration
  • Calm leadership under pressure
$140000 - $180000 a year

COMPENSATION & BENEFITS

The estimated base salary range for this position is $140000-$180000 depending on relevant experience.

Pivot Energy is dedicated to providing a great work experience for all employees placing an emphasis on company culture and a focus on our people. To that end Pivot offers an outstanding benefits package that includes:

  • Excellent health/dental/vision insurance benefits with up to 100% of premiums covered by the company

  • Four weeks of vacation plus employment milestone bonus vacations

  • Company paid life insurance and short- & long-term disability coverage

  • Generous parental leave

  • 401(k) matching (after vesting period)

  • Work from home stipend for new employees

  • Public transit reimbursement

  • PTO for volunteering in the community

  • Charitable donation matching up to $500/year

  • Professional development and educational reimbursements

A complete list of all the benefits Pivot offers may be provided upon request.

Recruitment Agency Notice:
We appreciate your interest in partnering with us; however we are not seeking recruitment agency support for this role.

ABOUT PIVOT

Pivot Energy is a national renewable energy provider that develops finances builds owns and manages solar and energy storage projects that help decarbonize our nations electricity increase equitable access to clean energy for local communities and provide real cost-savings to American businesses and
families.
We are fiercely dedicated to accelerating the rapid transition taking place in the energy industry to a more decentralized and cleaner approach to power generation. We are committed to positively contributing to the local communities and people we serve with more than clean energy. We believe global warming poses an existential threat to our planet and that we have a responsibility to help mitigate the threat. Our portfolio includes projects that reduce energy burden for income-limited families create workforce pathways for under-represented groups within the solar industry and include robust community investment opportunities.
As a Certified B Corporation and one of Denvers Best Places to Work we believe that company success is driven by a healthy environment thriving society and workplace where all individuals are respected. We evaluate every internal decision on environmental social and governance (ESG) factors to determine if our actions will result in a net positive impact on the community our employees customers shareholders and the more in our annual ESG Report.
At Pivot our core values guide our work internally and externally:
Impact We hold ourselves accountable to having a measurable impact on our people communities and the planet
Balance Put family first; work hard/have fun
Determination Find ways to be successful no matter how difficult the challenge
Professionalism Impress everyone we touch be a team player
Honesty Be truthful and transparent externally and internally
Kindness Create an environment where kindness empathy and vulnerability are embraced
DIVERSITY EQUITY INCLUSION and JUSTICE STATEMENT
At Pivot we are proactively developing and maintaining an inclusive culture rooted in mutual respect that supports a workforce of different generations races gender identities sexual orientations ability statuses religions and cultures to work collaboratively together for greater impact. We seek to build a team that invests in relationship building celebrates each others successes and makes space for the unique contributions and working styles people bring into Pivot.
Pivot invests in company-wide trainings assessments and programs to advance internal inclusion and equity practices such as employee allyship building cross-cultural communications and equitable hiring and management protocols to increasingly recognize bias and ensure mutual respect and belonging.
EEO STATEMENT
Pivot Energy is an Equal Opportunity Employer and is committed to increasing the diversity of its workforce. We actively work to cultivate an inclusive culture that welcomes empowers and enables equitable career growth for employees regardless of background.



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ROLE OVERVIEWThe Director of Project Management leads Pivot Energys project management execution across assigned portfolios regions customer programs or enterprise-client workstreams including greenfield brownfield roof top carport Mergers & Acquisitions Tax Credit Transfers Renewable Energy Credits...

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