Site Manager

Description

• Track actual costs and assess the cost-effectiveness of products, projects, or services
• Communicates pertinent project details relating to on-site activities to the Director of Projects, clients, and additional stakeholders, which include landowners, as necessitated.
• Work performed around hazardous equipment.
• Establishes the initial site layout and infrastructural services, ensuring the provision of essentials such as water, power, internet, office trailers, and other necessary facilities.
• Anticipates changes and risks promptly in relation to project schedules and budgets, implementing proactive measures.
• Coordinates employee leave scheduling to ensure continuous management coverage.
• Coordinates external communications, articulating project updates, milestones, and adjustments to stakeholders, media, and the public as appropriate, while safeguarding sensitive company and project information.
• Promptly addresses all on-site challenges during construction, guaranteeing safe progression and providing explicit directives to craft personnel and subcontractors.
• Cost reporting: Prepare reports on a project's current status, showing estimated costs, revenues, and timeline.
• Oversees and directs daily construction operations on-site, ensuring strategic sequencing, meticulous planning, and adept execution align with the project's timeline and financial objectives.
• Overall responsibility for all stages of construction projects in tens to hundreds of millions of dollars.
• Collaborate with team members when necessary to ensure effective communication and results.
• Guarantees that training and certification requirements for field staff are met in compliance with EMS stipulations.
• Manage all parties involved (internal and external) and ensure professional project management from system design to construction phase.
• Manage the construction planning process alongside the Director of Projects, facilitating the hiring of subcontractors, and interfacing with engineers and vendors. Skillfully negotiates contracts with these parties.
• Serves as the primary liaison between the construction team and on-site client representatives, fostering transparent communication and ensuring that client requirements and expectations are effectively managed and aligned with the project's progress and outcomes.
• Monitors subcontractor activity on-site diligently.
• Develop work breakdown structures.
• Administers the performance of subcontractors on-site, assuring adherence to the terms of the subcontract agreements.
• Provide cost estimation, identify and project costs related to time, materials, and labor
• Has independently overseen multi-million-dollar projects
• Supervises the construction site vigilantly to monitor work progression, including the productivity and fiscal performance of each installation activity.
• Oversees a robust quality control program to ensure that all processes are consistent and executed as per the established plan.
• Detects impending alterations to the schedule, workflow, and staffing requirements in a proactive manner.
• Operates the company vehicle for comprehensive site supervision; capable of driving to and on-site during varying hours and in diverse weather conditions.
• Collaborates closely with the Director of Projects to confirm that all aspects of engineering, procurement, submissions, and work plans are well-established, supporting the seamless execution of work in accordance with the project schedule.
• Orchestrates and guarantees suitable staffing levels for daily construction tasks through the coordination of employees, temporary staffing agencies, and subcontractors.
• Develop and review project schedules, cost estimations, bills of materials, budgets, scopes of work, standards, and quotes from suppliers.
• Supervise project implementation to ensure cost, time, quality, and execution guidelines according to schedule.
• Represent project towards external parties such as investors, public authorities, grid operator and others.
• Ensures that construction disciplines are synchronizing daily activities to avert potential scheduling discrepancies.
• Supplies necessary documentation, schematics, and additional materials to the EHSQ for the oversight and upkeep of the EMS.
• Work performed in confined areas

Requirements

• Regular attendance, in accordance with the company’s attendance policy and supervisory assignment, is an essential job duty requirement for this position.
• Demonstrated ability to lead and motivate a team, manage subcontractors, and ensure compliance with safety regulations.
• Ability to work under pressure and adapt to changing circumstances.
• Proficient in construction management software, such as Procore, or similar.
• Current OSHA certification and familiarity with other construction-related regulatory requirements.
• Experience in budgeting, scheduling, and cost control.
• Stoop, kneel, crouch, crawl, or work at elevated heights as well as in confined spaces (towers, vessels, excavations, etc.).
• Must be able to stand or walk for long periods of time.
• Regular attendance, in accordance with the company's attendance policy and supervisory assignment, is an essential job duty requirement for this position.
• Work performed at low and/or high elevations
• Able to climb and maintain balance on ladders, scaffolding, stairways, etc.
• Strong negotiation skills with a fair and assertive approach to contracts.
• Minimum of 2 years of solar PV or wind power project experience, preferred
• Able to walk or move continuosuly while carrying 50 lbs. of tools and/or materials. It is recommended to get assistance to lift items over 50 lbs. Check with your project supervisor or project safety director.
• Must be able to work extended hours on your feet on uneven surfaces (dirt, concrete, asphalt, mud, gravel, etc.) Full range of motion and flexibility consistent with requirements of the job duties.
• Strong understanding of construction methodologies, blueprint reading, and building codes.
• Requires repetitive movement.
• Minimum of 5-7 years of professional experience managing the performance of major projects, preferably in the building of power stations or supply networks, or other utility-scale construction projects
• Excessive humidity, rain, etc.
• Excellent verbal and written communication skills, with the ability to communicate complex information to diverse audiences.
• Proven track record of managing all phases of construction projects from inception to completion, preferably in utility-scale self-perform solar.
• Knowledge of environmental, health, and safety (EHS) standards and compliance requirements.
• Must possess a valid driver's license and be willing and able to drive to various construction sites, including travel during adverse weather conditions.

Benefits

• Predominately outdoor climate
• Uneven ground level

Training + Development

Interview process

Visa Sponsorship

Security clearance