Project Manager - Engineering & Construction

Requisition ID: 90859

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Position Specific Description

The Project Manager will join the world's largest renewable construction company, supporting the Solar Regional Lead Project Manager with minimal oversight. This role offers significant career growth opportunities.

Key responsibilities include:

- Independently managing multiple Solar projects through the Early-Stage process, preparing them for construction turnover.

- Ensuring each project is technically viable, on schedule, commercially supported, and financially sound.

- Analyzing technical and financial data, identifying project-specific trends, and integrating broader market impacts.

- Creating, owning, and managing the assigned solar project capital budget.

- Coordinating development and permitting, leveraging expertise, facilitating engineering, resolving issues, managing budgets, and executing commercial contracts.

- Engaging in various software applications for data management and reporting key indicators.

- Supporting process and efficiency initiatives in the Early-Stage team.

- Interfacing with Executive Leadership, suppliers, regulatory agencies, local communities, and other stakeholders.

This role is in-office, Monday through Friday, with occasional travel required.

Job Overview

This position is responsible for the overall management of the team and assigned projects, to ensure compliance within required budgetary, scheduling, and safety goals. Employees in this role coordinate and manage construction work performed by contractors and/or vendors at the project site. Employees in this role manage the engineering, procurement and construction oversight-activities necessary to develop, license/permit, erect, start-up, and commence commercial operations.

Job Duties & Responsibilities

- Works collaboratively with resources in various disciplines to determine project priorities and work plans

- Meets corporate objectives with limited project management, scheduling and estimating resources

- Manages department resources to provide effective early-stage project development support

- Ensures projects are efficiently, effectively and safely implemented in accordance with department procedures and policies

- Manages walk down of planned work, validates acceptance of completed work to design requirements, approves contractor payment requests

- Verifies constructability, ensures proper resource allocations, assesses field status and resolves issues as needed

- Leads project meetings and reviews budget, risk tracker, and contingency allocations

- Interfaces with project's designated management committees, or acts as Executive Director of project activities

- Supervises activities and/or coordinates activities or groups, such as safety programs, engineering, construction, budget, and analysis and contract administration

- Oversees commissioning activities to meet corporate objectives, with limited project management, scheduling and estimating resources

- Performs other job-related duties as assigned

Required Qualifications

- Bachelor's or Equivalent Experience

Preferred Qualifications

- None

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Employee Group: Exempt Employee Type: Full Time Job Category: Maintenance/Construction Organization: NextEra Energy Project Management, LLC Relocation Provided: Yes, if applicable

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