Director, Cost Competitiveness

Your Job

This Director, Cost Competitiveness is responsible for cross-functional coordination, project management, and facilitation of cost competitiveness and continuous improvement initiatives in large-scale Solar and BESS EPC projects. This leader ensures project integration, resolves constraints, organizes cross-departmental efforts to harness best available knowledge, and maintains focus on total install cost - driving both immediate execution and long-term transformation across all workstreams.

Our Team

At Koch Inc, our Principle Based Management philosophy is at the center of how we do business, and as an employee, you will begin your journey of understanding and applying the way we do business in your everyday work. DEPCOM Power's Project Delivery team ensures that the Project Operations team has the tools they need to be successful.

What You Will Do

- Cross-Functional Knowledge Integration: Organize and harness the best knowledge and resources across the company to identify and execute strategic opportunities (“key bets”) that drive cost competitiveness.

- Constraint Management: Escalate and support the resolution of constraints across all cost competitiveness workstreams to maintain momentum and enable timely decision-making.

- Accountability & Timeline Ownership: Drive project timeline adherence and accountability across all cost competitiveness workstreams, ensuring delivery of key milestones.

- Executive Communication & Decision Support: Track, report, and communicate initiative progress, milestones, and outcomes to senior leadership, providing actionable insights and driving informed decision-making with the executive team.

- Empowerment of Construction Organization: Empower the construction organization to leverage and evolve best knowledge and practices, fostering transformation and sustained performance improvements.

Who You Are (Basic Qualifications)

- EPC project management and cross-functional coordination on utility scale solar or BESS projects

- Demonstrated experience driving complex initiatives, facilitating stakeholder groups, and delivering measurable results

- Proven knowledge of process improvement methodologies and cost reduction strategies

What Will Put You Ahead

- 5+ years of EPC project management and cross-functional coordination on utility scale solar or BESS projects

- Experience leading cost competitiveness or transformation programs within EPC organizations

- Advanced proficiency in project management tools (MS Project, Primavera, Procore, etc.)

- Familiarity with Lean, Six Sigma, or other continuous improvement frameworks

At Koch companies, we are entrepreneurs. This means we openly challenge the status quo, find new ways to create value and get rewarded for our individual contributions. Any compensation range provided for a role is an estimate determined by available market data. The actual amount may be higher or lower than the range provided considering each candidate's knowledge, skills, abilities, and geographic location. If you have questions, please speak to your recruiter about the flexibility and detail of our compensation philosophy.

Hiring Philosophy

All Koch companies value diversity of thought, perspectives, aptitudes, experiences, and backgrounds. We are Military Ready and Second Chance employers. Learn more about our hiring philosophy here.

Who We Are

As a Koch Engineered Solutions company, DEPCOM Power is a leading energy solutions partner for the utility solar and broader energy industries, providing project development support, engineering, procurement and construction, energy storage, repowering and operations and maintenance services. Our highly skilled team of conventional and renewable power industry experts work to deliver the lowest cost of energy and the highest rate of return.

At Koch, employees are empowered to do what they do best to make life better. Learn how our business philosophy helps employees unleash their potential while creating value for themselves and the company.

Our Benefits

Our goal is for each employee, and their families, to live fulfilling and healthy lives. We provide essential resources and support to build and maintain physical, financial, and emotional strength - focusing on overall wellbeing so you can focus on what matters most. Our benefits plan includes - medical, dental, vision, flexible spending and health savings accounts, life insurance, ADD, disability, retirement, paid vacation/time off, educational assistance, and may also include infertility assistance, paid parental leave and adoption assistance. Specific eligibility criteria is set by the applicable Summary Plan Description, policy or guideline and benefits may vary by geographic region. If you have questions on what benefits apply to you, please speak to your recruiter.

Additionally, everyone has individual work and personal needs. We seek to enable the best work environment that helps you and the business work together to produce superior results.

Equal Opportunities

Equal Opportunity Employer, including disability and protected veteran status. Except where prohibited by state law, some offers of employment are conditioned upon successfully passing a drug test. This employer uses E-Verify. Please click here for additional information. (For Illinois E-Verify information click here, aquí, or tu).