Note: The job is a remote job and is open to candidates in USA. Clēnera is a tier-one developer and independent power producer located in Boise, Idaho, focusing on utility-scale solar and energy storage facilities. The HV & Commissioning Project Manager will lead high-voltage and commissioning activities, ensuring projects are completed safely, on time, and within budget while managing relationships with various stakeholders.
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
Skills
- Bachelor's degree in construction management, electrical engineering, business, or related field experience
- Minimum of 5 years of experience in HV construction and commissioning project management
- Minimum of 2 years of experience executing utility-scale renewable energy projects
- 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
- Travel: 25%
Benefits
- Clēnera pays 100% of employee and dependent premiums for a suite of medical, dental, and vision coverages.
- Hybrid Work Environment
- HSA and FSA Plans Available
- Employee Assistance Program
- Retirement Plan with Employer Match
- Life Insurance (Basic, Voluntary, and AD&D
- Paid Time Off (Vacation and Public Holidays)
- Incentive Pay and RSU Plans
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