Staff Project Manager - Utility Scale

Company Overview

Mainspring Energy is revolutionizing power generation with the world’s most flexible and adaptable onsite power generator, the Mainspring Linear Generator. Commercial, industrial, and utility leaders are choosing Mainspring over traditional options like engines, turbines, and fuel cells to quickly and reliably deliver local power for EV charging, commercial facilities, data centers, and grid-scale operations. The Mainspring Linear Generator is fuel flexible, ramps up and down to meet demand, and utilizes a flameless technology with near-zero NOx emissions.

Backed by top-tier investors such as Khosla Ventures, Bill Gates, American Electric Power, and Lightrock, Mainspring designs, manufactures and delivers its products to customers across the U.S. today, and we’re quickly scaling for international expansion.

Inspired by our vision of the affordable, reliable, net-zero carbon grid, Mainspring is rapidly expanding within the $816B global electricity equipment market, and we’re hiring the best talent to meet growing customer demand around the globe. We welcome a broad range of backgrounds, experiences, and talents to bring fresh perspectives and ongoing innovation to our customers.

We are looking to build relationships with people who share our values:

• Pragmatic Optimism. Building a new category of world-class power generation requires the optimism of ambition and creativity, balanced with practicality to solve problems efficiently. The challenges that arise are opportunities for growth.
• Excellence without Ego. We bring expertise and commitment to creating the best customer experience, from sales to deployment and service, just as we apply deep technical rigor to building and delivering world-class products. We strive for excellence and behave as leaders with the humility to acknowledge our challenges, both collectively and as individual contributors.
• Proactive Collaboration. The integration and cross-disciplinary nature of Mainspring’s business requires intentionally seeking out others who bring different skills, perspectives, and priorities. Our culture of inclusion and respect extends beyond our team to interactions with our partners and customers.
  
  

Mainspring is based in Menlo Park and has partnered with top-tier investors and utilities such as Khosla Ventures, Bill Gates, NextEra, and American Electric Power. More information can be found at www.mainspringenergy.com.

Responsibilities

A key enabler of Mainspring’s mission is the ability of its team to deliver solutions based on our linear generator technology that solve customer problems in the cross-section of resiliency and clean power generation. This includes site due diligence, design engineering, permitting, construction operations, and commissioning.

A Staff Project Manager Will

• Drive a culture of safety, quality and best practices on all aspects of the Project.
• Oversee and manage the development and construction of Company projects. Scope, schedule, cost management in accordance with project and stakeholder requirements.
• Manage a project consisting of: Project Engineers, project administrators, permitting consultants, Product engineers, construction management, QA/QC department, etc.
• Effectively communicate with a variety of stakeholders to wholistically manage Utility scale projects from development engineering through commercial operation.
• Manage site construction manager and QA/QC processes. Oversee health and safety program on site and ensure compliance on all relevant parties.
• Maintain site records and databases to document inspection results, maintenance schedules, and all operational changes or updates.
• Collaborate with external contractors, consultants, site owners, and internal teams to resolve site-specific issues. Coordinate with other teams to ensure the necessary documentation is in place to naturally transitions projects to operational assets.
• Prioritize and escalate issues as necessary to maintain critical path.
• Coordinate product specifications, including submittal reviews and approvals.
• Negotiate prime, CM, and subcontract agreements. Manage change orders.
• Direct the project turnover documentation, warranty administration, project closeout, and record keeping/retention processes and procedures.
• Support communication with City, County, Building, Fire and other AHJ’s on project related topics.
• Environmental impact risks and mitigations.
• Review construction field reports.
  
  

Qualifications

• 10 years of experience in project management or site operations, specifically within power generation, distributed energy resources, or utility-scale facilities greater than 10 MW.
• Demonstrated expertise in Power Generators operation and maintenance or similar systems, with experience across all phases of development.
• Detailed understanding of contracting, procurement planning, construction and logistic, scheduling, estimate, and budgeting.
• Delivery and execution of project plans, writing RFPs, leading procurement activities and negotiations.
• Ability to utilize industry tools to track cost expenditures and budget allocations.
• Ability to travel to job sites 25% of the time.
• Strong working knowledge of Microsoft Office software (Word, Excel, Project, PowerPoint). Google workplace applications.
• Project Management software (Procore)
• Strong written/verbal communication skills.
• Strong analytical and problem-solving skills, and attention to detail.
• Ability to handle large volumes of work and multi-task in a fast-paced environment.
  
  

The Bay Area salary for this role is $132k-$165k base bonus pre-IPO stock options benefits. This position can be remote. The salary will be adjusted to reflect local market conditions based on employee location as well as the experience of the employee.

Does your experience not meet all of our posted requirements? Studies have shown that some people are less likely to apply to positions unless they meet every listed requirement. At Mainspring, we are committed to building a diverse, inclusive, flexible, and collaborative environment, so if you want to help us transition the world to clean and affordable electricity, and don’t meet all posted requirements for a particular role, we’d still love to hear from you. Mainspring can sometimes be flexible enough to shift responsibilities for the right person, or otherwise identify open or upcoming roles that may better fit your professional background.

In more traditional words, Mainspring Energy, Inc is an Equal Opportunity Employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, or protected veteran status and will not be discriminated against on the basis of disability.