Procurement Manager (Solar)

Description

This position serves as the overall Project Leader for the jobs in which they are involved. Responsibilities range from project set up, project buy out, contract execution and compliance, material procurement, progress tracking, material invoice approval, responsible for project sequencing and scheduling, maintaining, and updating schedules, coordination, and communication with General Contractor, change order distribution/tracking, coordination with Estimators, cost report job forecasting, overall project fiscal responsibility.

• Develop and negotiate purchase orders on new jobs to ensure the scope of work is consistent with the estimate and design specifications
• Work closely with accounting to establish and manage a schedule of values for progress billing.
• Operates within the organization's formal and informal structures, builds allies and relationships across departments, uses allies to build consensus and create results, is appropriately diplomatic, understands others' roles and perspectives, can sell projects and ideas across the organization.
• Mentoring Project Coordinator’s.
• Serve as primary/initial contact to key suppliers and trade partners on projects.
• Build relationships with key suppliers and trade partners.
• Ensure department achieves goals through management and leadership mentality.
• Support preconstruction team in proposal phase of projects.
• Coordinate with subcontractors and suppliers on project schedules.
• Coordination with on site project team ensuring material is being delivered in accordance with contract.
• Minimize job site and schedule problems wherever possible and minimize cost impact of potential back charges.
• Establishes project goals, milestones, and procedures, defines roles and responsibilities, acquires project resources, coordinates projects throughout the company, monitors project progress, and manages multiple projects.
• Identify opportunities for change orders and establish cost where applicable.
• Prequalify new suppliers and subcontractors.
• Prepare, issue and track change order status for material above and beyond the original contract.
• Is attentive to detail and accuracy, is committed to excellence, looks for improvements continuously, monitors quality levels, finds root cause of quality problems, owns/acts on quality problems.

Requirements

• Knowledge and understanding of utility scale solar and storage projects.
• Ability to work with Microsoft Office Suite, On-Screen Estimating software, and ACC Build.
• Breaks down problems into smaller components, understands underlying issues, can simplify and process complex issues, understands the difference between critical details and unimportant facts.
• Anticipates and resolves conflicts, turns team diversity into an advantage, uses unique team talents, defines processes and goals, works for consensus.
• Knowledge of construction principles/practices required.
• Ability to identify, assimilate and comprehend the critical elements of a situation to extract and interpret implications of courses of actions to attend to details of a problem.
• 5+ years of experience.
• Bachelors Degree in Construction Management or Engineering discipline preferred.
• Effectiveness in planning and controlling work, motivating, and developing subordinates, improving work methods and results, encouraging and supporting suggestions for work improvements, etc.
• Communicates well both verbally and in writing, creates accurate reports, delivers presentations, shares information and ideas with others, has good listening skills.

Benefits

• Discretionary Annual Bonus: Subject to company and individual performance.
• 2025 Best Places to Work – St. Louis Business Journal, Los Angeles Business Journal, and Phoenix Business Journal.
• Comprehensive Benefits Package Including: Medical, dental and vision plans, 401k, generous PTO and paid company holidays, employee assistance program, flexible spending accounts, life insurance, disability coverage, learning & development programs and more!

Training + Development

Interview process

Visa Sponsorship

Security clearance