Description

• Responsible for planning, designing, and implementing solutions to meet project needs
• Perform cost analysis, project scheduling and project management activities
• Ensure projects are properly executed, as budgeted, and billed in a timely manner within scope of the contract
• Manage the selection, cost comparison, and schedule of materials to be procured for the projects assigned
• Proactively work to establish advantageous long-term customer relationships
• Interface with customer throughout the project life cycle to gain feedback and provide information for customer satisfaction
• Provide leadership by demonstrating focus on projects by supporting operations, estimating, finance, and business related items
• Communicate project status to management, providing forecasts of revenue, costs, schedule, billing, and other metric / dashboard items
• Actively pursue additional business through change orders; perform associated cost estimates / comparisons, prepare proposals and negotiate final settlement price and customer acceptance
• Negotiate, prepare and issue subcontracts; foster and maintain good working relationships with subcontractors
• Attend meetings and conference calls with the customer or New South staff to support the efforts of project and resource management
• Analyzes project finances to reconcile variances in project budgets and vendor purchase orders
• Ensure Purchase Orders are assigned in an effort to control the costs of the job and maintain profitability
• Identify and communicate alternative solutions that could make a project safer, more efficient and more cost-effective
• Make specific recommendations and changes to improve / increase project performance
• Ensure that team deliverables are reached
• Assist the Estimating Team with project estimates and recommended construction approaches

Qualifications

• Must have solar and power experience
• Ability to define problems, collect data, establish facts, and draw valid conclusions, to prioritize and work in a multi-tasked environment
• Knowledge and understanding of all Project Management Principles
• Familiarity with Microsoft Office applications including Excel, Word, and Project is required
• Knowledge of Lean construction methodologies and principles is critical
• Knowledge of methods, materials, equipment, and safety hazards of construction projects
• Skill in organizing and coordinating large construction projects
• Skill in monitoring the work of contractors
• Must be very well organized and methodical
• Ability to prepare construction schedules in Microsoft Project and/or Primavera
• Must have excellent analytical, organizational, verbal, written, and communication skills