Project Manager, High-Voltage

Clēnera develops, owns, and operates utility-scale solar and energy storage facilities. The High-Voltage Project Manager represents the owner and leads high-voltage, protection and controls, SCADA/communications, testing, and commissioning activities, managing cost, schedule, scope, quality, and risk through energization, interconnection testing, and turnover to Operations.

Responsibilities:

• Own end-to-end HV and site wide commissioning project planning and control, establishing the WBS, baseline schedule, cash flow forecasts, procurement milestones, and resource plans
• Drive weekly schedule reviews, recovery planning, and critical path management with EPC and site leadership
• Lead HV and site wide commissioning cost management and forecasting, including monthly EAC/EVA updates, change order pricing validation, contingency management, pay application review/approval, and alignment of financial reporting with Project Controls and Finance
• Direct contract administration, ensuring scope clarity, deliverable compliance, and change management discipline; draft, negotiate, and recommend change orders and claims with clear schedule/cost impact analyses
• Coordinate cross-functional execution to ensure design completeness, permitting compliance, interconnection readiness, and QA/QC adherence
• Execute risk management throughout the lifecycle, maintaining the risk register, quantifying impacts, implementing mitigations, and escalating strategic risks to senior leadership with recommended actions
• Drive site safety culture and compliance, integrating HSSE requirements into schedules and work plans and ensuring EPC adherence to safety KPIs and incident reporting
• Manage external stakeholder relationships, including utilities, AHJs, landowners, third party inspectors, and lenders' engineers, ensuring timely reviews, approvals, and alignment on critical path items
• Produce executive ready reports and presentations, summarizing progress, risks, cash flow, and forecasted outcomes for internal leadership and, when applicable, board-level review
• Mentor and guide other members of the project team, delegating workstreams, providing technical direction, and building execution discipline across the project team
• Lead lessons learned and continuous improvement, capturing insights during closeout and feeding back process and contract improvement recommendations to Construction leadership
• Collaborate with individual departments, as well as cross-functionally with other departments within the organization
• Maintain organizational excellence in terms of project timelines and deliverables
• Demonstrates the Clēnera Core Values of Caring, Committed, and Courageous
• Other duties as assigned

Requirements:

• Education: Bachelor's degree in construction management, electrical engineering, business, or related field experience
• Experience: Minimum of 5 years of experience in HV construction and commissioning project management
• Technology: Proficiency with Microsoft Office Suite, and an ability to learn company-specific software programs, tools, processes, and machines
• Strong understanding of schedule and cost controls, including critical path analysis, recovery planning, earned value, EAC forecasting, and cash flow management
• Strong EPC contract administration and negotiation skills, capable of structuring clear change orders, resolving claims, and driving accountability to contractual obligations
• Technical fluency in utility scale HV, construction, including civil works, MV/HV systems, SCADA, protection/controls, energy storage technology and commissioning sequences
• Adept at identifying systemic and emergent risks, quantifying impacts, and implementing mitigation actions that protect COD and budget objectives
• Ability to build trust and effectively coordinate with utilities, AHJs, inspectors, lenders' engineers, and EPC executives to clear critical path issues
• Clear, persuasive communication, producing concise, decision ready reporting for senior leadership and guiding the project team toward shared outcomes
• Demonstrated ability to lead highly effective teams, both internally and externally
• Self-motivated to work through complex problems and competing priorities, including a high level of detail and organization
• Effective verbal and written communication skills