Project Manager, Project Delivery

Job Description

Title: Project Manager, Project Delivery

Location: Remote – Remote / hybrid with project site travel.

Reports to: Project Delivery Leadership

Level: Manager or Director, based on experience

Company Overview

Why BrightNight?

BIG PROJECTS. BIG MOMENTUM. BIG OPPORTUNITY. BIG LONG TERM INCENTIVE PLAN!

You've spent years delivering renewable energy projects. You know what it takes to solve the hard problems and take a project from Notice to Proceed to COD and beyond. But are you getting the opportunity and the financial upside you deserve for that work?

At BrightNight, we're building an energy infrastructure business with serious scale and momentum. For those who want to do the work, see projects become reality and participate in the value they create, this is a chance to make a move that matters.

Here’s why your next move should be BrightNight

• Build Projects. Build Wealth. Our compelling Long-Term Incentive Plan (LTIP) offers the potential to participate in the value we create together. This is about more than your next paycheck, it could be a meaningful long-term financial opportunity.
• Capital to Execute. With an expanded corporate credit facility of up to $850 million and relationships with leading financial institutions, BrightNight has the financial resources to pursue ambitious projects.
• A 30 GW Development Portfolio. Our publicly announced 30 GW portfolio and more than 10 GW of safe-harbored projects mean substantial opportunity to advance utility-scale energy infrastructure.
• Projects That Actually Get Built. With projects progressing through financing and construction, our development work is becoming real infrastructure and not just another pipeline presentation.
• Do What You Do Best. This is a hands-on project delivery role. Solve problems, clear hurdles, secure milestones and move projects toward financial close. You do not need to lead a large team to make a big impact.
• Grow With the Business. Help shape BrightNight’s next chapter while building your own. Your contributions matter, and the LTIP offers potential participation in the success you help deliver.

The bottom line

You can keep delivering projects somewhere else, maybe. Or you can join a company with the pipeline, capital, ambition and momentum to take your career, and potentially your financial future, to another level.

BrightNight. Build Something Big. Share in the Opportunity.

BrightNight is a high-growth renewable power developer and Independent Power Producer (IPP) with a 30-gigawatt portfolio spanning 20 U.S. states. The company develops innovative, dispatchable, and hybrid energy solutions that deliver reliable, cost-efficient renewable power to utilities, data centers, and other high-demand customers across fast-growing energy markets.

Supported by strong financial partners, experienced industry leadership, and proprietary capabilities such as PowerAlpha®, BrightNight is scaling rapidly while differentiating itself through an AI-enabled, automation-driven approach to project development and operations. We are building a company where intelligence is built in, not bolted on - and where smart, curious people can take on meaningful responsibility, grow quickly, and help shape the future of reliable clean energy.

Position Summary

What You'll Do

As a Project Manager, Project Delivery, you own the integrated, end-to-end execution of one or more clean energy projects from financial close and FNTP through mechanical completion, substantial completion, placed in service, and COD, then hand the project to the BrightNight O&M team. You start building context during Stage 4-5 readiness so that the Stage 5-to-Stage 6 handover carries the full project record, commitments, and decisions forward.

You are not just a field coordinator. You hold the integrated view of contracts, schedule, cost, risk, safety, quality, interconnection, procurement, and financing obligations, and you orchestrate a matrix organization (EPC contractor, Engineering, Procurement, Interconnection and Transmission, Finance, Legal, Project Controls, and O&M) to deliver the project within its Landing Zones, the four measurable targets BrightNight sets for every project (see below). You have ultimate accountability for schedule, cost, safety, quality, contractual compliance, and returns exposure, and you represent your project to management team.

Key Responsibilities

What We Mean by Landing Zones

At BrightNight, every project is managed against four agreed, measurable targets that are set when the project's baseline is approved and locked. We call these Landing Zones: the range in which a project must land to stay financeable and to meet our commitments to customers, lenders, and investors. Each zone is tracked with a simple red / yellow / green status, and a project's overall status reflects its weakest zone.

· Returns: the project delivers its target financial return (for example, IRR and NPV) at financial close and COD.

· Specification: the design and equipment configuration are correct and complete, and match what the offtake agreement, the grid interconnection, and the permits require.

· Schedule: the project follows an executable schedule with a validated critical path, hitting key dates through COD.

· Budget: spend stays within the approved budget for the current phase of the project (development and early-works spend before financial close, project execution spend after).

Core Accountability

The Project Manager is accountable for:

· Safe, compliant, on-schedule, on-budget delivery of the project through COD

· One integrated view of all contractual dates and obligations: EPCA, PPA, BTA, LGIA, permits, financing, and equipment supply

· Prudent management of BrightNight and EPC obligations within the EPCA and its exhibit structure

· Landing Zone performance and transparent, fact-based reporting to internal and external stakeholders

· A clean, evidence-based handoff in (from the PDT at Stage 5) and out (to O&M at asset transfer)

Responsibilities

Project and Program Management

· Own project management for assigned projects through Stage 6, including Landing Zone management, and drive decisions across the EPC contractor, Engineering, Procurement, Interconnection, Finance, Legal, and Project Controls.

· Adopt and run the standard PDT Project Management Dashboard and the BrightNight standard toolset (schedule, risk register, cost and cash forecast, weekly report) to carry momentum from Stage 5 into execution.

· Define and confirm the reporting process for each major internal stakeholder and each major external stakeholder (EPC, offtaker, transmission provider, lenders and tax equity, OEMs).

· Lead the weekly and monthly status meeting cadence. Confirm internal meeting frequency and leadership around key commercial milestones, and ensure all stakeholders are aligned and coordinated.

· Manage a portfolio of projects at different stages with clear prioritization, backup coverage, and defined escalation routes.

Commercial and Milestone Management

· Maintain a firm understanding of every commercial relationship, commitment, and requirement needed to deliver best-in-class returns.

· Hold a firm understanding of milestone obligations within the PPA, BTA, and EPCA, and the timing BrightNight must meet them: backfeed, mechanical completion, substantial completion, placed in service, and COD.

· Manage EPC commercial terms: scope, owner obligations, notices, change orders, claims, forecast, contingency, and cash. Recommend positions and execute approved decisions.

· Support term loan conversion and tax equity funding near substantial completion, and support asset transfer at the key milestone under the BTA (MC or SC depending on structure).

Schedule

· Take ownership of internal schedule milestones and track external schedule milestones across the EPC, offtaker, interconnection provider, and finance parties.

· Own the integrated critical path, recovery plans, and early warning on schedule risk. Focus on changes that move overall project outcomes rather than every minor date slip.

Compliance

· Support and implement the compliance program built during the PDT stage: project agreements and contracts (full spectrum), project permits, milestone oversight, and notification and follow-up on actions needed to fulfill contractual obligations.

· Accept the compliance handover from Development and PDT (executed agreements, LNTP and NTP with payment history on a need-to-know basis, executed change orders, compliance task list, permits, drawings, mitigation plans, financing certificates, land agreements, and project file locations), and keep the compliance action list current through execution to COD.

· Track and monitor all BrightNight permits and obligations, and ensure the EPC is in compliance with its own permits and obligations.

Interconnection and Utility Transmission

· Maintain the bridge and PM protocols that take over the relationship with the utility transmission team. BrightNight has transmission SMEs, but the Project Manager is responsible for overall progress and accountability.

· Serve as lead BrightNight representative at monthly utility transmission meetings for IA, IC facilities, auxiliary power, and communications as needed for full plant operation.

· Manage and coordinate with gen-tie entities as required for project obligations.

Procurement and Supply Chain

· Align and coordinate all BrightNight-furnished equipment with the EPC schedule.

· Track high-risk OEMs and long-lead deliveries against required-on-site dates, recovery plans, and contractual remedies.

Engineering, Commissioning, and Readiness

· Coordinate engineering interfaces across PV, BESS, HV, T-line, and SCADA / metering / RTU, including all things metering, controls, test power, and operational and COD readiness.

· Manage utility-facing engineering items such as material modifications (inverters or other equipment) and design and metering validation against RTO, PPA, and BTA requirements.

· Support and manage project as-builts in advance of tax equity, term conversion, or asset sale requirements, and align timing so as-builts are available at mechanical completion when needed.

Safety, Quality, and Risk

· Confirm safety and quality controls are working in the field and that every obligation has an accountable owner.

· Anticipate and resolve technical, commercial, and legal challenges with speed and precision. Analyze complex real-world situations (tariffs, technology changes, contractual disputes), recommend the optimal outcome, and execute the approved plan.

Closeout and Handover

· Coordinate commissioning, turnover, and asset transfer to the BrightNight O&M team.

· Capture lessons learned and feed them back into bnPLC checklists, templates, and training.

· Provide general support for Q&A and problem solving as issues arise.

Leadership and Decision Rights

· Authority to escalate and recommend schedule recovery, resequencing, or commercial positions to executive leadership.

· Lead project reviews, gate readiness reviews, and the weekly project review format.

· Lead and leverage the matrix organization to bring functional departments together and remove roadblocks.

· Provide transparent, concise, fact-based recommendations to BrightNight executive leadership.

BrightNight is committed to building a high-performance, collaborative team. Qualified candidates whose experience aligns with the core capabilities of the role are encouraged to apply.

Equal Employment Opportunity

BrightNight is an Equal Opportunity Employer and considers all qualified applicants without regard to legally protected status.

Work Authorization

Candidates must be legally authorized to work in the United States without current or future employer sponsorship unless otherwise stated.

At-Will Employment

Employment is at will and may be terminated by either the employee or the Company at any time, with or without cause or notice, subject to applicable law.

Reasonable Accommodation

BrightNight is committed to providing reasonable accommodations to qualified individuals with disabilities throughout the hiring process and employment.