Construction Director

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Description

Essential Duties and Responsibilities:

Safety:

• In coordination with Health and Safety team, drives safety culture by addressing safety concerns and implementing safety improvement measures
• Successful implementation of Health, Safety and Security program plans, practices, and objectives
• Participate in the development and implementation of safety and quality plans and procedures
• Ensure Environmental compliance on all projects
• Review Safety Management Systems, Quality Management Systems and Environment Management Systems
• Promote a safe work environment to show that safety is the most important function, ensuring that all employees follow safe practices

Personal Characteristics:

• Thrives in the fast pace rapidly growing company
• Patient and professional in stressful, deadline-driven situations
• Lead and support the site teams in technical, quality and safety, using systems in place
• Ability to represent the company before clients, external agencies, and among this organization’s executive staff
• Build trust and departmental structure by adhering to consistent standards as it relates to quality, process, and employee expectations
• Analytical problem solver who views obstacles as opportunities and creates solutions to systemic problems
• Self-motivated, self-starter who takes full ownership of project results

Skills:

• Exhibited success with process development and implementation, change management and growth
• Experience within renewable energy, general contracting, or commercial construction
• Detailed oriented, analytical, organized, able to meet established deadlines, strong communication skills, and works well in pressure-type situations
• Collaborates closely with the Engineering and Procurement teams to define and refine scopes and prepare and manage BOP/BOS RFP processes for wind, solar and battery energy storage systems
• Work closely to prioritize key activities on projects across the company portfolio in various stages from design through closeout
• Ensure on-time project delivery and excellent status communication and reporting to internal parties and clients
• Coordinate with other department heads and senior management, to ensure projects are properly designed, planned, and completed
• Assembles presentation materials and reports for Senior Management on the status and risks for the construction projects

Contracts:

• Expert understanding of contractual terms, estimating, cost management, project scheduling and the supervision of project teams
• Leads and coordinates key functions such as financial feasibility analyses, engineering/design, project legal review, permitting activities and financial negotiations
• Prepare and submit requests for proposals, in addition to direction and oversight of the pre-construction teams
• Support the responses to Requests for Proposals and support the bid process to negotiate new projects
• Work with internal and external parties to negotiate the final contractual scope and deliverables and complete engineering design reviews for compliance to contract and scope of work
• Qualify, negotiate, and secure contracts with subcontractors; oversee the procurement and/or equipment and materials
• Establishes and maintains relationships with subcontractors and clients

Project Controls (Schedule & Budget):

• Ensure projects meet requirements for budgeting
• The Director/VP will work with other departments and personnel to develop and manage project budgets, forecasts, analysis, and reporting of projects cost- to -complete
• Working with Project Managers and site leads, the Director/VP will manage change orders as they arise, review, and monitor quality control processes and deliver oral and written reports as requested or contractually required

Supervisory Responsibilities:

• The Director will participate in the identification and selection of the senior project teams, on-site leads and assist in the specification of labor classifications and personnel needs
• The Director will have responsibility for the oversight and direct communications with owners, site operations, subcontractors, and superintendents
• Mentors and trains staff on project control tools to effectively manage project costs, schedules, scopes, change orders and inspires a culture of disciplined attention to detail and frequent contract referencing to support contractor management and generation of management reports
• Help with employee relations, performance reviews, recruiting
• Provide and facilitate mentoring, development, and training resources; participate in implementation and development of “First Time Right” training initiatives

Education and/or Work Experience Requirements:

• Minimum 10 to 15 years Solar Construction Experience including a minimum of 5 years P&L responsibility
• Engineering Degree or Construction Management Major preferred
• PMI/PMP certification a plus
• Knowledge of OSHA safety and construction regulations. OSHA 30 certification preferred
• Experience and proficiency with MS Office including MS Excel and MS Word
• Knowledge of state and utility rules and incentives with respect to renewables
• Solid knowledge and understanding of key value drivers for renewable power projects and developer/owner/operator company objectives
• Strong oral and written communication, project management, leadership, and team-building skills, including experience working with cross-functional internal and external technical advisors and stakeholders
• Demonstrated ability to read, interpret, edit, and understand plans and specifications for civil and electrical work
• Experience with managing renewable energy construction contracts including change order management and dispute resolutions
• Experienced with managing and driving project schedules

Physical Requirements/Work Environment:

Ability to travel 80% of time or more to project locations

This job description is intended to describe the essential job functions of this position and is not intended to be an all-inclusive statement of job responsibilities.

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