Associate Project Manager

 COMPANY OVERVIEW

174 Power Global (174 PG), headquartered in Irvine, California, is an affiliate company of the Hanwha Group, a FORTUNE Global 500 firm among the eight largest business enterprises in South Korea. With approximately eighty professionals engaged in all aspects of development, execution, financing, and operations, 174 PG designs, builds, and manages utility-scale solar power plant and battery energy storage solutions. The company provides a decade of global leadership in solar PV to North America, combining best-of-world technology, processes, and partnerships to deliver customized solar PV and energy storge solutions to its customers. With proven capabilities across the solar and energy storge value chain, 174 PG minimizes uncertainty and risk, and helps customers achieve a higher return on their renewable and storage technology investments.

POSITION OVERVIEW

The Associate Project Manager for 174 PG will assist the Project Manager in achieving on-time, on budget deployment of Utility Scale Solar Power Plants and battery energy storage solutions with potential integrated technologies throughout the United States and Northern America, as assigned. The selected candidate will support project budgets, approvals, EPC contractor invoicing, internal and external project reporting and provide Development RFP support. Working closely with internal and external stakeholders, the Project Manager will monitor and coordinate all pre-construction and construction activities for projects authorized for design and construction.

This position reports to the Project Manager or another management personnel that the CEO of the Company may designate. This opportunity requires travel to multiple projects in various geographical regions and may involve travel up to 50% of the time.

RESPONSIBILITIES

• Facilitate that all construction sites are safe from mobilization though COD, and perform ad-hoc safety audits;
• Ensure projects released for construction are completed on schedule;
• Support development of project budgets for Engineering and Construction and prepare monthly cash flow forecast;
• Work with Program Controls to maintain master schedule of pre-COD activities, integrate schedules of PMs and Developers to identify resource needs and constraints;
• Work with Program Controls to develop individual project schedules integrating all stakeholders’ tasks, (i.e., design, procurement, EPC, commissioning);
• Document adherence to all project commitments;
• Provide regular verbal and written reports on project progress and metrics;
• Facilitate and document reductions in installed costs through hosting Value Engineering sessions on projects going into design for construction;
• Facilitate and document lessons learned meeting with project stakeholders and suppliers as part of project closeout process;
• Ensure that work is completed to specification, and per code requirements;
• Assist in Procurement with bid development, supporting negotiating and awarding of contracts and monitor contracts for compliance;
• Support change order requests made by Suppliers and by 174 PG, minimizing cost impacts;
• Manage and monitor EPC contractors, and coordinate with other project stake holders;
• Support acceptance and commissioning process to verify plant complies with contractual obligations and design;
• Create various documents such as resource plans, project schedules, work breakdown structures, communication plans, risk management plans, issues logs, and action and decision logs;
• Coordinate the work of project team members and guides team in prioritizing work based upon knowledge of customer requirements, project schedule, and various dependencies;
• Assist with the development and support of local Project Management Office policies, procedures, and best practices;
• Drive issues to closure and escalates obstacles to project sponsor as necessary;
• Oversee implementation of project quality plan; and
• Perform other duties and special projects, as assigned by the Project Manager. 

REQUIRED QUALIFICATIONS

• A bachelor’s degree in engineering, Management, or another related Engineering science;
• Minimum of 2 years of professional experience supporting the construction of major projects, preferably in the building of power stations or supply networks, or other renewable utility-scale construction projects;
• Solar PV, ESS, or wind power project experience, preferred;
• High voltage electrical expertise, including Utility interconnections, preferred; and
• Advanced proficiency in office software, Excel, Word, Outlook, Power Point and Visio.

KEY COMPETENCIES

• Demonstrable skills in Project and Construction Management;
• Knowledge of Civil, Mechanical and Electrical System Design and Construction;
• Record keeping – Excellent skills in documenting meetings, decisions, site conditions and change order defense;
• Safety trained for field work – OSHA 30;
• Experience supporting medium and high voltage design and construction; and
• Self-driven to exceed internal and external customer expectations.

Attention external recruitment firms, we will not accept any unsolicited resumes at this time. Please do not contact any internal member of our company to discuss the position or to solicit candidates.

174 Power Global provides equal employment opportunities (EEO) to all employees and applicants for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, national origin, age, disability or genetics.

www.174powerglobal.com.