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Director, Capital Project Delivery

Panthalassa· Business Operations
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Full-timePosted 4w ago

About the role

Director responsible for establishing and leading Panthalassa's owner-side capital delivery function for facilities, infrastructure, and technical environments, including definition, design, permitting, construction, commissioning, and turnover of projects in active operating environments. Initially hands-on, with scale-up to a defined internal team and delivery model.

Responsibilities

  • Lead and prioritize a portfolio of concurrent facility, infrastructure, and technical-environment projects.
  • Set each project's delivery strategy, scope, budget, schedule, risk profile, staffing approach, and acceptance criteria.
  • Build and lead the capital projects team, beginning with Project Engineer and Project Coordinator capability and expanding with portfolio growth.
  • Clarify accountability across internal project leads, owner's representatives, consultants, contractors, and external partners.
  • Establish practical delivery standards and maintain clear portfolio-level reporting on priorities, staffing, progress, cost, schedule, risk, decisions, and dependencies.
  • Lead construction execution, field coordination, energization, commissioning, turnover, and closeout for electrical service expansions and utility infrastructure projects.
  • Coordinate with utilities, landlords, authorities having jurisdiction, engineers, contractors, suppliers, and internal technical owners to resolve construction issues and manage cost, schedule, risk, and operational impacts.
  • Direct the construction and integration of substations, transformers, switchgear, distribution, standby power, metering, controls, cooling, process utilities, and related site infrastructure.
  • Manage long-lead equipment, utility commitments, permitting dependencies, shutdowns, temporary-power requirements, and energization milestones to protect business and project schedules.
  • Confirm that approved scope, design documents, permits, budget, schedule, contracts, risks, and operational acceptance criteria are ready for construction handoff.
  • Serve as the accountable owner-side lead from construction mobilization through commissioning, turnover, and closeout, with regular presence at active project sites.
  • Lead contractors, consultants, vendors, and commissioning providers during construction, initially providing hands-on coordination and increasingly working through internal and external resources as the team grows.
  • Manage field progress, safety, quality, sequencing, logistics, RFIs, submittals, changes, pay applications, schedules, punch lists, and material decisions.
  • Ensure construction aligns with approved design documents, requirements, budget, schedule, and operational needs.
  • Resolve field conditions and coordinate design clarifications with appropriate technical owners, escalating significant decisions with clear options and recommendations.
  • Plan work in active facilities to protect people, equipment, testing, manufacturing, and continuity of operations.
  • Confirm commissioning and turnover requirements at project handoff, then lead inspections, startup, functional testing, training, documentation, final acceptance, financial closeout, and operational transition.
  • Manage project budgets, schedules, forecasts, contingencies, risk registers, cash flow, commitments, and estimated cost at completion against baselines.
  • Evaluate changes for cost, schedule, operational impact, and alignment with approved requirements; identify variance early and recommend action.
  • Partner with Finance and Procurement on contracting, forecasting, accruals, invoicing, capital reporting, and commercial closeout.

Qualifications

  • Approximately 12 or more years of progressive experience delivering complex capital projects, industrial construction, advanced manufacturing facilities, technical laboratories, infrastructure, or similarly demanding built environments.
  • Demonstrated experience as an accountable owner-side project lead through definition, design, permitting, construction, commissioning, turnover, and closeout.
  • A strong record delivering multiple concurrent projects with meaningful capital exposure, complex stakeholder requirements, and hard operational deadlines.
  • Experience building or scaling a project-delivery capability, including hiring or leading Project Engineers, Project Coordinators, Project Managers, owner's representatives, or external construction-management resources.
  • Experience delivering electrical service or utility upgrades
  • Strong field-execution, construction-administration, and project-controls experience, including budgets, schedules, forecasts, contracts, changes, pay applications, and closeout.
  • Ability to read and challenge drawings, specifications, estimates, schedules, proposals, contracts, and change requests across major building and infrastructure disciplines.
  • Experience delivering new construction or renovations within active manufacturing, engineering, laboratory, office, or other operating environments.
  • Strong judgment, direct communication, and the ability to translate complex project conditions into clear decisions, trade-offs, and recommendations while holding partners

Benefits

  • Flexible paid time off
  • Health insurance (company pays 100% of gold-level PPO plan for full-time employees, partners, and dependents)
  • Dental insurance (company pays 100% for full-time employees, partners, and dependents)
  • Vision insurance (company pays 100% for full-time employees, partners, and dependents)
  • Disability insurance (company pays 100% for a policy to provide long-term financial support if you become disabled)
  • Ability to contribute to tax-advantaged accounts, including 401(k), health FSA, and dependent care FSA
  • Relocation assistance to Portland (if needed)
Last updated Sep 28, 2026. Interested? Apply on the company site.
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We're harnessing renewable energy in the open ocean and delivering it around the world. Engineered in Portland, Oregon.

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