Construction Project Manager (Solar and BESS / Renewables - Nationwide Opportunities!)

Renewables Construction Project Manager

Join the movement to power a cleaner future. We're seeking an experienced and driven Renewables Construction Project Manager to lead utility-scale solar or battery energy storage projects across the United States. In this pivotal role, you'll serve as the single point of accountability for delivering safe, high-quality, and profitable projects—on time and on budget.

As a Project Manager, you'll guide your team through every phase of the project lifecycle—from acquisition and pre-construction through execution and close-out—ensuring alignment with company standards and client expectations. You'll be responsible for implementing best practices in safety, quality control, and cost management, while fostering strong partnerships with energy clients and internal stakeholders.

This is a leadership role that demands excellence in communication and planning. Your ability to inspire teams, solve problems, and drive results will directly contribute to building a more sustainable energy future.

Location & Travel Details: You'll get the opportunity to travel across the US, helping our team build renewable projects. This is a traveling position (up to 100%), where you will be onsite at a project location. You have the potential to be placed on a project site located in any state throughout the US. You'll spend 8-12 months on average per project. We offer designated daily per diem in addition to base pay to support and help you cover living expenses. A vehicle allowance will be provided. This position is eligible for routine travel home (rotation) from the jobsite.

Company Overview

MasTec Renewables, comprised of Wanzek Construction, IEA Constructors, and White Construction, combines over 20 years of experience in renewable energy construction. Depending on your position and project, you may work for one or more of our companies over your career with us. Join one of the largest construction firms in the country (Engineering News-Record [ENR]: #1 in Power, #17 Top 50 Domestic Heavy Contractors, #20 Transportation Contractor).

We embrace diverse perspectives among our employees and across all levels of our business, including our suppliers, community partners, and clients. We have built a multidimensional workforce that brings valuable differences in perspectives, work ethics, and approaches to our organization. By collaborating across departments, we foster innovation and encourage everyone—from interns to executives—to share their ideas and make an impact. Our goal is to create a respectful work environment where all employees feel valued, included, and empowered to become innovative leaders in our industry.

The MasTec Renewables market sector is part of the MasTec Clean Energy & Infrastructure business segment. MasTec's Clean Energy & Infrastructure (CE&I) segment generates over $4 billion in annual revenue, providing construction services across industrial, renewables and infrastructure sectors. Our renewables sector focuses on solar, wind and battery storage. Sustainability and safety are foundational to our culture and influence everything we do.

MasTec, a minority-owned Fortune 500 company, has shaped the construction industry for more than 90 years. With over 35,000 employees and 400 offices nationwide, we provide flexibility and career growth in dynamic work environments.

Responsibilities

• Assure project abides by all environmental safety awareness and compliance
• Support and further the company culture, values, Key Results and quality management
• Document and communicate project progress, performance, and issues to all stakeholders
• Provide day to day direction and oversight of project resources (staff, equipment, subcontractors) and materials
• Successfully integrate resources, activities, and deliverables as outlined in the Project Execution Plan
• Own the project budget, cost, forecast, and schedule
• Provide successful management of all contract documents, risks and changes throughout the project
• Project Integration Management: manage the processes and activities needed to identify, define, combine, unify, and coordinate the various processes and project management activities within the project
• Project Scope management: Responsible for the processes required to ensure that the project includes all the work required, and only the work required, to complete the project successfully
• Project Time Management: track and monitor the processes required to manage the timely completion of the project
• Project Cost Management: work collaboratively with support and operations teams to successfully manage the planning, estimating, budgeting, financing, funding, managing, and cost controls so that the project can be completed within the approved budget
• Project Quality Management: establish and support the processes and activities of the performing organization that determine quality policies, objectives, and responsibilities so that the project will satisfy the needs for which it was undertaken
• Project Human Resource Management: organize, manage, and lead the project team
• Project Communications Management: ensure timely and appropriate planning, collection, creation, distribution, storage, retrieval, management, control, monitoring, and the ultimate disposition of project information
• Project Risk Management: Conduct risk management planning, identification, analysis, response planning, and controlling risk on project
• Project Procurement Management: purchase or acquire products, services, or results needed from outside the project team. Processes in this area include Procurement Planning, Solicitation Planning, Solicitation, Source Selection, Contract Administration, and Contract Closeout
• Project Stakeholder Management: identify all people or organizations impacted by the project, analyzing stakeholder expectations and impact on the project, and developing appropriate management strategies for effectively engaging stakeholders in project decisions and execution
• Invest time and effort in enhancing apprentices' skills and knowledge – champion the process
• Provide positive environment to support coaching and mentoring of apprentices
• Commit to accurate classification to ensure PWA (Prevailing Wage & Apprenticeship) compliance when applicable
• Commit to involving PWA (Prevailing Wage & Apprenticeship) team prior to subcontract negotiations
• Ensure documents in regards to discipline for apprentices gets completely filled out and submitted to HR and PWA team for DOL purposes
• Issue PWA non-compliance notices following alerts from PWA (Prevailing Wage & Apprenticeship) team
• Full responsibility of PWA compliance execution through partnering with PWA (Prevailing Wage & Apprenticeship) team
• Ensure the CMIII keeps the Apprentice/Journeyman pairings updated and sent to Apprenticeship team weekly
• Submit PWA deliverables to the Owner
• Disperse and delegate all PWA questions to the appropriate subject matter experts while ensuring all questions get answered timely

Qualifications

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree from four-year college or university in Construction Management, Engineering, or equivalent combination of education and experience
• Minimum of five years of construction Industry experience/knowledge of construction techniques, estimating and construction management
• Experience in project management on utility scale renewables projects such as Solar, BESS or wind preferred, experience in project management on EPC or other large scale construction projects such as experience working for a heavy general contractor will be considered

Knowledge/Skills/Abilities

• Take reasonable care of your own and others' health and safety and of those who may be affected by the day-to-day delivery of this role by taking personal responsibility for working toward company's Zero Injury principles
• Proficient in Microsoft Office, Excel, Primavera, Timberline, and Construction Software
• Ability to read, analyze and interpret blueprints, professional journals, technical procedures, contracts or governmental regulations
• Write reports, business correspondence and document project activities
• Effectively present information and respond to questions from project managers, superintendents, clients, customers and the general public
• Effectively present information to top management, public groups, and/or boards of directors
• Calculate figures and amounts such as discounts, interest, proportions, percentages, area, circumference and volume
• Ability to apply concepts of basic algebra and geometry
• Solve practical problems and deal with a variety of concrete variables in standardized situations
• Interpret a variety of instructions furnished in written, oral, diagram or schedule form
• Willingness and ability to work from job site 100% of time with rotation schedule home

Working Environment

• When visiting jobsites the work environment involves some exposure to hazards or physical risks, which require following basic safety precautions
• This work environment may involve moderate exposure to unusual elements, such as extreme temperatures, dirt, dust, fumes, smoke, unpleasant odors and/or loud noises