Utility-Scale Power & Renewables Project Manager
About The Position
At R-2 Contractors, the Utility-Scale Power & Renewables Project Manager owns the commercial, contractual, financial, and administrative success of assigned utility-scale power and renewables projects from estimating turnover through execution, customer acceptance, and closeout. The role partners closely with Field Operations to anticipate risks, protect profitability, support project execution, and build lasting customer relationships. Project Management is responsible for contractual and commercial administration, forecasting, customer coordination, master scheduling, procurement coordination, and billing. Field Operations retains authority over construction means and methods, crew leadership, daily production, equipment deployment, and field safety and quality execution; both groups share accountability for project outcomes. The Project Manager leads preconstruction and mobilization readiness, project controls, financial forecasting, scheduling, contracts and change management, customer communication, reporting, and closeout. They coordinate plans and decisions with field leaders while maintaining project records, tracking commercial exposure, and ensuring that changes and impacts are documented and pursued. The position may be based in Gilbert, Arizona; Prineville, Oregon; or on project sites, requires up to 20% nationwide travel, and is on-site with no remote work available. Compensation is $140,000–$220,000 annually, depending on experience.
Requirements
- Experience managing heavy civil, solar, BESS, substation, transmission, or underground infrastructure construction projects in the utility-scale market.
- Demonstrated command of contracts, estimating handoffs, project budgets, forecasting, scheduling, and change management.
- Ability to read construction plans, specifications, scope letters, and pricing schedules and translate them into execution requirements.
- Strong negotiation, communication, organizational, leadership, and problem-solving skills.
- Willingness to travel nationwide as required.
Nice To Haves
- Hands-on field experience performing the work, with progression into the project management department.
Responsibilities
- Lead assigned projects from estimating turnover and preconstruction through execution, customer acceptance, and final closeout.
- Serve as the primary commercial and contractual point of contact for customers, general contractors, and project stakeholders.
- Set project priorities, responsibilities, decision deadlines, and communication expectations across participating departments.
- Own project budgets, cost coding, commitments, estimates at completion, monthly forecasts, variance explanations, and margin-protection or recovery plans.
- Review costs, earned hours, margin trends, and projected cost to complete with Field Operations.
- Manage progress billings, payment applications, receivables, cash flow, and financial closeout; identify unbudgeted costs and pursue legitimate contractual cost recovery.
- Lead turnover reviews of scope letters, proposals, pricing schedules, contracts, drawings, specifications, and exclusions.
- Develop mobilization-focused preconstruction schedules for permits, access, submittals, shop drawings, procurement, fabrication, and deliveries.
- Confirm material quantities, vendor lead times, subcontractor commitments, approval requirements, staffing, equipment, milestones, and executable initial work with Field Operations.
- Identify scope gaps, design conflicts, and unresolved prerequisites before mobilization.
- Own the contractual master schedule, milestone tracking, customer coordination, and documentation of schedule impacts.
- Coordinate with Superintendents on lookaheads, predecessor work, constraints, inspections, and resource readiness.
- Support recovery plans and timely decisions while respecting Field Operations' authority over construction methods, crews, and daily production.
- Ensure current approved drawings, submittals, changes, and customer direction are communicated to field leadership.
- Administer contractual notices, RFIs, submittals, correspondence, change directives, and required project records.
- Identify, document, price, submit, negotiate, and track change orders, delays, differing conditions, and disruptions.
- Coordinate with Field Operations to capture supporting labor, equipment, material, and productivity records.
- Monitor commercial exposure, unresolved claims, and decisions needed to protect R-2.
- Coordinate safety, quality, testing, inspection, and corrective-action requirements with responsible field leaders.
- Build customer trust through timely, accurate, professional communication and consistent delivery of commitments.
- Provide concise weekly reporting on financial health, schedule, change orders, constraints, risks, and leadership decisions.
- Maintain action registers with owners and due dates and promptly communicate significant cost, scope, or schedule changes.
- Identify repeat-work opportunities and share lessons learned with estimating, procurement, and operations.
- Coordinate punch lists, turnover documents, as-builts, warranties, final acceptance, and outstanding commercial items.
- Close open commitments and change orders, reconcile final costs, and support collection of final payment.
- Lead lessons-learned reviews and improve planning, reporting, and project delivery systems.
- Live, teach, defend, and reinforce R-2's PRIDE, GRIT, and OWN IT! core values and leadership commitment.
Benefits
- Employer-paid medical benefits.
- Employer-paid dental benefits.
- Employer-paid vision benefits.
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What This Job Offers
Job Type
Full-time
Career Level
Mid Level
Education Level
No Education Listed
