Solar Construction Manager

Fluidstack

$130K — $230K *
Energy & Utilities
5 - 7 years of experience
Job Overview by Ladders

Qualifications

  • 5-7 years of experience managing utility-scale solar or solar-plus-storage projects.
  • Proficient in Primavera P6 or MS Project for schedule management.
  • Demonstrated ability in supervising civil, electrical, and BESS trade scopes simultaneously.
  • Strong background in enforcing safety protocols and documenting compliance.
  • Experience identifying procurement risks related to long-lead equipment. PREFERABLY OSHA 30 certified.

Responsibilities

  • Oversee daily execution of solar and BESS projects, ensuring safety and budget adherence.
  • Develop and maintain integrated construction schedules across multiple trades.
  • Enforce a strict safety program, aiming for a zero-incident standard.
  • Resolve field conflicts in real-time to maintain project schedules.
  • Track daily progress and report potential procurement risks to management.

Benefits

  • Competitive total compensation package including equity.
  • Retirement or pension plan aligned with local standards.
  • Comprehensive health, dental, and vision insurance.
  • Generous paid time off policy.
Full Job Description
Role Scope
  • Own day-to-day site execution for utility-scale solar and BESS projects, orchestrating EPC contractors, civil crews, electrical trades, and equipment vendors to deliver safe, on-schedule, on-budget facilities from mobilization through energization.
  • Build, maintain, and drive integrated construction schedules (Primavera P6, MS Project) across civil, structural, electrical, BESS, substation, and gen-tie scopes, and issue recovery plans the moment a critical path slips.
  • Enforce the site safety program and hold every subcontractor to a zero-incident standard, from pre-mobilization safety plans through final punch list.
  • Coordinate civil, racking, PV, inverter, BESS, and MV/HV electrical trades in real time, resolving field conflicts before they hit the schedule, and manage QA/QC, RFI, submittal, and change-order workflows to close-out.
  • Track and report daily progress, earned value, cost-to-complete, and resource loading to the Project Manager, and surface procurement risks on long-lead equipment (transformers, switchgear, inverters) early enough to act on them.


What We're Looking For

The below is a starting point. We always make space for exceptional people, so if you don't fit this role exactly, tell us where you would.
  • You've managed utility-scale solar, solar-plus-storage, or high-voltage substation construction from mobilization through commercial operation, and the projects you ran came in on schedule.
  • You coordinate civil, racking, PV, electrical, and BESS scopes simultaneously without losing track of where each trade is relative to the critical path.
  • You enforce safety hard: you've written and executed site safety plans, held subcontractors to them, and managed the documentation to prove it.
  • You catch long-lead equipment risks, SCADA integration gaps, and interconnection milestone conflicts before they surface as schedule hits.
  • You build and drive integrated schedules in Primavera P6 or MS Project, and your reporting is specific enough that a project manager can act on it the same day they read it.
  • Bonus: Utility-scale BESS construction. Substation and gen-tie scope. Multi-site concurrent delivery. OSHA 30.


Salary & Benefits
  • Competitive total compensation package (salary + equity).
  • Retirement or pension plan, in line with local norms.
  • Health, dental, and vision insurance.
  • Generous PTO policy, in line with local norms.


The base salary range for this position is $130,000 - $230,000 per year, depending on experience, skills, qualifications, and location. This range represents our good faith estimate of the compensation for this role at the time of posting. Total compensation may also include equity in the form of stock options.

We are committed to pay equity and transparency.

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