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Director, Project Management

Pivot Energy· Project Management
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Hybrid (Denver, CO)$140k - $180kFull-timePosted 4mo ago

About the role

The Director of Project Management leads Pivot Energy’s project management execution across assigned portfolios, regions, customer programs, or enterprise-client workstreams, including greenfield, brownfield, roof top, carport, Mergers & Acquisitions, Tax Credit Transfers, Renewable Energy Credits, and other multi-site programs. The role ensures projects are executed in alignment with Pivot’s standards for cost, schedule, quality, compliance, documentation, and reporting, while developing and leading Project Managers and coordinating across multiple internal functions.

Responsibilities

  • Lead, coach, and hold PMs accountable for disciplined stakeholder communication across internal teams, external contractors, clients, consultants, investors, IE/lender representatives, and executive stakeholders.
  • Ensure PMs provide clear, timely, fact-based updates using Procore, Power BI, project controls reports, and approved reporting cadences.
  • Maintain alignment between Pivot, EPCs, consultants, internal stakeholders, and contract obligations.
  • Lead portfolio health reviews and ensure risks, variances, open issues, delays, recovery plans, and decision needs are surfaced clearly.
  • Ensure communication is direct, professional, kind, and commercially disciplined.
  • Remove cross-functional friction between Project Management, Preconstruction, Procurement, Construction Management, FP&A, Accounting, Legal, Compliance, Asset Management, O&M, and Revenue Operations.
  • Ensure executive leadership receives reliable information early enough to make decisions.
  • Ensure PMs understand and actively manage the contract, not just the relationship.
  • Enforce DOA-compliant commitments, change management, approval routing, and contract administration.
  • Ensure formal notices are issued, received, tracked, evaluated, and escalated appropriately.
  • Oversee contractor accountability for milestone obligations, reporting obligations, submittals, QA/QC documentation, PWA /compliance obligations, schedule updates, change orders, pay applications, and closeout deliverables.
  • Ensure Procore Change Events are used to capture issue, cause, impact, options, timing, responsibility, and commercial resolution.
  • Partner with Legal on disputed issues, claims, delay notices, contract interpretation, risk posture, and precedent-sensitive decisions.
  • Ensure PMs protect Pivot’s commercial position while maintaining constructive contractor relationships.
  • Confirm that PMs understand the distinction between relationship management and contract management.
  • Oversee portfolio schedule performance against baselines, milestones, and dates; ensure updates, recovery plans, and risk escalation.
  • Coordinate with Construction Management and contractors to validate field progress against reported progress.
  • Ensure schedule data is current, trustworthy, and usable for decision-making by Delivery, FP&A, Development, leadership, investors, and stakeholders.
  • Prevent casual rebaselining that obscures performance or weakens accountability.
  • Oversee project-level and portfolio-level financial performance, budgeting, commitments, actuals, forecast, contingency, and cash flow.
  • Ensure cost forecasts, ETC/EAC, and variance explanations are timely and rigorous.
  • Partner with FP&A, Accounting, and Finance for accurate forecasting and portfolio predictability.
  • Hold PMs accountable for recognizing risks before overruns.
  • Clarify Cost to Complete vs Estimate to Complete vs Estimate at Completion in communications.
  • Challenge optimistic forecasts considering change events, claims, productivity, and schedule delays.
  • Ensure financial reporting aligns with project conditions and contract obligations.
  • Enforce QA/QC standards through leadership, workflows, inspections, NCRs, and closeout controls; coordinate with Construction Management and stakeholders.
  • Monitor energization, commissioning, testing, turnover readiness, and documentation alignment with stakeholder expectations.
  • Capture and feed lessons learned into playbooks, scorecards, and standards.
  • Oversee project-level compliance documentation and accountability for environmental, safety, IRA PWA, Domestic Content, FEOC, permits, interconnection, lender, and contractual obligations.
  • Escalate compliance gaps early to protect tax, revenue, financing, safety, and operations.
  • Maintain portfolio-level visibility into risks; ensure risk registers have mitigations, owners, dates, and escalation paths.
  • Conduct regular risk reviews and escalate material risks to senior leadership.
  • Promote disciplined risk management; ensure consistency across risk registers, notices, and reporting.
  • Enforce document-control discipline across Procore, financial workflows, records, RFIs, submittals, change events, and closeout packages.
  • Uphold naming conventions, version control, metadata, routing, and storage for records.

Qualifications

  • 10+ years of project management, construction management, project controls, EPC, IPP, renewable energy, infrastructure, or large-scale construction experience.
  • 3+ years of people leadership, portfolio leadership, or programmatic project delivery leadership.
  • Demonstrated experience managing multi-project portfolios or complex construction programs.
  • Strong understanding of project controls integration across cost, schedule, scope, risk, contract, document, and reporting systems.
  • Strong understanding of contract administration, formal notices, change management, claim avoidance, and contractor accountability.
  • Working knowledge of Procore, ERP systems, Power BI or similar dashboards, and project reporting systems.
  • Ability to lead through ambiguity, friction, competing stakeholder priorities, and incomplete information.
  • Strong written and verbal communication skills.
  • Strong judgment in escalation, prioritization, risk framing, and team leadership.

Skills

Required:Project managementStakeholder managementContract administrationCPM schedulingFinancial managementProcore

Benefits

  • Excellent health/dental/vision insurance benefits with up to 100% of premiums covered by the company
  • Four weeks of vacation in year 1, with increasing vacation accrual rates based on work anniversary date
  • Company paid life insurance and short- & long-term disability coverage
  • Generous parental leave
  • 401(k) matching (after vesting period)
  • Work from home stipend for new employees
  • Public transit reimbursement
  • PTO for volunteering in the community
  • Charitable donation matching up to $500/year
  • Professional development and educational reimbursements
Last updated Oct 21, 2026. Interested? Apply on the company site.

About Pivot Energy

Powering Progress.

Pivot Energy develops, finances, builds, owns, and manages impact-driven community-scale solar and energy storage projects. Pivot leverages its renewable expertise to provide a range of unique offerings that accelerate the clean energy transition by helping companies and communities attain impactful decarbonization.

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