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Preconstruction Manager

SGC Power
Chicago, IL Full Time
POSTED ON 7/6/2026
AVAILABLE BEFORE 12/29/2026
Denver Location Preferred

Open to Remote Opportunities

Role Overview
The Preconstruction Manager supports Pivot Energy’s preconstruction function from mid- to late-stage development handoff through EPC Agreement execution and transition into project delivery. This role coordinates contractor engagement, bidding, estimating, commercial alignment, project-specific contracting, and budget formation in support of Pivot Energy’s project delivery methodologies, including but not limited to Design-Build, Integrated Design-Build, Design-Bid-Build, CMAR, and other delivery approaches used to support successful IPP project execution.

The role engages preferred contractor partners and internal stakeholders across Development, Legal, Project Management, Finance, Supply Chain Procurement, Engineering, Compliance, and other functions as needed to ensure projects enter execution with aligned scope, documented assumptions, commercial clarity, realistic schedules, appropriate risk allocation, strong document discipline, and budgets structured for effective execution control.

This role must understand job costing methodologies and have experience working with project management software, job costing systems, ERP platforms, and related reporting or analytics tools that support estimating, budget setup, cost tracking, forecasting, and continuity into execution.

This position materially supports Pivot’s eight focus areas throughout the preconstruction stage: Stakeholder Management, Contract Management, Quality Management, Financial Management, Schedule Management, Compliance Management, Risk Management, and Document Management, ensuring projects are well-planned, commercially sound, buildable, and aligned with cost, schedule, quality, safety, and compliance goals. Because cost control in an IPP model is influenced by all eight focus areas, this role must understand how decisions across those areas affect estimate quality, contract obligations, budget structure, contingencies, schedule risk, compliance exposure, and execution outcomes.

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 nation’s 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 Denver’s “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 environment. Learn 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 other’s 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.

The estimated base salary range for this position is $90,000-$130,000 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.

Salary : $90,000 - $130,000

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