Solar Project Manager

Fluidstack

$160K — $250K *
Energy & Utilities
5 - 7 years of experience
Job Overview by Ladders

Qualifications

  • 5-7 years of project management experience in utility-scale solar or solar-plus-storage projects.
  • Proven track record of delivering projects on budget, with strong problem-solving around schedule pressures.
  • Deep understanding of civil, electrical, substation, and BESS workstreams; able to identify scope gaps early.
  • Experience managing project budgets, including earned-value tracking and change order governance.
  • Ability to navigate interconnection milestone processes across various energy markets (CAISO, MISO, ERCOT, PJM).
  • Strong communication skills, tailored for diverse stakeholders including lenders and field teams.
  • Experience in leading and scaling teams across multiple project sites.

Responsibilities

  • Drive the end-to-end delivery of utility-scale solar and BESS projects, managing all workstreams.
  • Build and maintain integrated project schedules as the definitive source throughout the project lifecycle.
  • Own project budgets and cash-flow forecasts, reporting on KPIs and addressing deviations proactively.
  • Manage the entire contract lifecycle, from RFP through close-out, including change-order governance.
  • Mitigate risks related to critical paths and long-lead items, ensuring project accountability across stakeholders.
  • Lead and coordinate efforts of construction managers and engineers over multiple concurrent project sites.

Benefits

  • Competitive total compensation package including salary and equity opportunities.
  • Retirement or pension plan aligned with local norms.
  • Comprehensive health, dental, and vision insurance coverage.
  • Generous paid time off policy to promote work-life balance.
Full Job Description
Solar Project Manager

Role Scope
  • Drive end-to-end delivery of utility-scale solar and BESS projects from development handoff through commercial operation, owning budget, schedule, scope, and risk across civil, electrical, substation, gen-tie, and interconnection workstreams.
  • Build and own integrated project schedules (Primavera P6, MS Project) across engineering, procurement, construction, and commissioning, and maintain the master schedule as the single source of truth from site mobilization through energization.
  • Own project budgets, cash-flow forecasts, and change-order governance, report earned-value KPIs weekly, and flag cost and schedule deviations with recovery options before they compound.
  • Manage the full contract lifecycle: RFP, bid analysis, EPC and subcontractor award, PCO tracking, lender and interconnection reporting requirements, and close-out.
  • Drive mitigation on critical-path and long-lead risks including transformers, inverters, switchgear, BESS enclosures, and interconnection queue milestones, and act as the single point of accountability for all internal and external project stakeholders.
  • Lead construction managers, field superintendents, and project engineers across concurrent solar sites, develop staffing plans, and run the weekly cadence of standups, reviews, and issue escalations.


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 led project management on utility-scale solar or solar-plus-storage projects from NTP through COD, delivered on budget, and can describe exactly where the schedule pressure came from and how you resolved it.
  • You understand civil, structural, electrical, BESS, substation, and gen-tie scopes well enough to catch scope gaps at bid time and hold EPC contractors to the contract during execution.
  • You own budgets at the project level: you've run earned-value tracking, managed owner-controlled contingency, and governed change orders without losing commercial position.
  • You manage interconnection milestones as a critical path item, and you've navigated CAISO, MISO, ERCOT, or PJM queue processes without letting them dictate your schedule.
  • You communicate with enough precision that a lender, a landowner, and a field superintendent each get exactly what they need from the same status update, reframed for their context.
  • You've built and scaled field-based project teams across multiple concurrent sites, and the people you've led have gone on to run projects themselves.
  • Bonus: PMI-PMP or equivalent. BESS and substation construction. Multi-state concurrent portfolio delivery. Lender reporting and project finance interface.
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 $160,000 - $250,000 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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