Project Director - Renewable Energy

Job Description

Job Description

Great work starts with great people. At Flintco, you’ll find respect, stability, and opportunity to grow your career. Established in 1908, Flintco maintains offices in 8 major cities and employs more than 900 talented and humble professionals. Ranked among the largest and safest contractors in the nation, we deliver projects across a wide range of market sectors, including healthcare, education, hospitality, sports, mixed-use/residential, advanced industries, and renewable energy. With self-perform capabilities in concrete, steel fabrication and erection, site work, and other critical services, we bring a distinct in-house advantage to every project. Guided by the core principles of our Ethos — Safety, Quality, Honesty, Integrity, and Innovation — our culture is rooted in accountability, collaboration, and commitment to shared success. Beyond the jobsite, we invest in the communities we call home, strengthening the places where we live, work, and build.

Job Summary

The Project Director oversees the day-to-day operations of renewable energy projects, ensuring efficiency, safety, and compliance. This role involves strategic planning, performance management, budget oversight, and team leadership. Responsibilities include managing relationships with vendors and contractors, monitoring project performance, and implementing new technologies. The Project Director contributes to business development and the ongoing development of the Company’s capability to compete in the marketplace. The Project Director works closely with and communicates openly with the Vice President / Market Leader to ensure the success of the business unit. The Project Director must be able to travel to projects approximately 50% of the time.

Essential Duties and Responsibilities

All duties and responsibilities include the following, however, other duties may be assigned. To perform in this position successfully, an individual must be able to perform each essential duty satisfactorily. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.

• Supervise Engineering, Procurement, & Construction (EPC) contractors, ensuring contractual, safety, quality, schedule, and cost adherence.
• Lead and support self-perform construction scopes including civil, electrical, mechanical, and related field operations.
• Oversee multiple large-scale projects concurrently, integrating Electrical, Civil, Mechanical, and Water scopes.
• Manage project P&L, feasibility, budgeting, and financial offers, ensuring cost-effectiveness.
• Ensure adherence to safety standards (OSHA), environmental regulations, permits, and quality benchmarks.
• Champion a strong safety culture and ensure strict adherence to all company, client, and regulatory safety requirements
• Provide expertise in Medium/High Voltage systems, grid interconnections, PV, BESS, or Wind.
• Secure permits, monitor adherence to local/national laws, ensure environmental standards are met, and manage interconnection requirements with utilities.
• Oversee implementation of project quality control programs to ensure work meets contractual, code, and engineering standards
• Ensure full compliance with prevailing wage, certified payroll, and labor compliance requirements (federal, state, and local)
• Oversee compliance with Davis-Bacon, project labor agreements (PLAs), and other labor-related contractual obligations as applicable
• Coordinate with compliance, HR, and payroll teams to ensure accurate reporting and documentation
• Identify, assess, and mitigate risks (technical, financial, environmental, regulatory).
• Manage budgets, forecasts, and financial reporting, and ensuring effective cost management and resource utilization. Review of project bids, contract development and negotiation, invoice review and approval, and timely collection of accounts receivables.
• Develop and implement comprehensive QA/QC programs, ensuring compliance with specifications, standards and regulations.
• Oversee the full project lifecycle, from planning and execution to closeout, ensuring projects are delivered on time, within budget, and to the required quality standards.
  • Assist with business development efforts, including expanding services with existing clients and pursuing new business opportunities.
• Ensure work complies with internal standards, customer specifications, and regulatory requirements, minimizing rework and claims.
• Build and maintain strong relationships with clients, serving as a primary point of contact for project-related issues.
• Support and interface with business unit management in reviewing the preparation of proposals and contracts in areas specific to cost and benchmark to previous proposals with consistent deliverables.
• Manage personnel and provide an environment for the development and professional advancement of staff members, including training and development opportunities, and timely performance feedback.
• Performs additional duties as assigned and directed by a supervisor or other authorized person.

Management Responsibilities

Oversee, lead, and direct project managers, field personnel & support staff

Knowledge/Skills/Ability

Ability to model the Flintco Ethos by representing to all people a level of integrity, pride, enthusiasm and competence that encourages the highest level of performance and morale; ability to communicate effectively, both orally and in writing, especially in providing direction to employees and communicating with architects, clients, subcontractors and third parties; ability to perform all duties and operational procedures utilizing company information technology systems; ability to understand and manage all aspects of construction contracting and operations; has a comprehensive knowledge of construction documents, roles & responsibilities of all parties, means & methods, bonds & insurance and risk management; ability to accurately forecast monthly project status reports. Advanced knowledge of the construction industry and specific client market required. Ability to communicate effectively, both orally and writing, especially in providing written and oral instructions to employees and in communicating with clients, architects, and subcontractors. Must have organizational leadership skills, communications skills, and analytical skills. Must have ability to read and comprehend technical and statistical data and interpret legal documents. Ability to lead large groups of personnel and to accomplish desired results through subordinate levels of management.

Education

Bachelor’s degree in Electrical, Mechanical or Civil Engineering or an equivalent combination of education and experience.

Experience

Extensive experience managing and directing a team, 10 or more years of experience using Utility Scale, commercial solar design, strong knowledge of electrical principles, low and medium voltage distribution design, protection and relaying design, SCADA design; familiar with a variety of solar equipment and balance of systems for the proper design of PV systems; proficient in Helioscope, PV Syst, AutoCAD 2D and 3D or Revit, proficient in MS Office Suite; excellent communication, strategic thinking and analytical skills, impeccable attention to detail, strong sense of ownership, excellent time management skills; able to work independently with minimal supervision; able and willing to collaborate with the team. Should have experience with integrating engineering modeling with online MRP/ERP systems to create and validate sock-keeping units (SKU's), writing detailed and accurate support documentation (e.g., QC checklist, install guide, equipment commissioning guide), create design and permitting packages; participation in the development, design, QA/QC and implementation of PV systems, collaborate with utility engineers in the interconnection process

Certificates, Licenses, Registrations

None required

Physical Requirements

• Physical demands are representative of those that must be met by an employee to successfully perform the essential functions of this position. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.
• While performing the duties of this position, the employee is regularly required to stand; walk; use hands to finger, handle, or feel; reach with hands and arms; climb or balance; stoop, kneel, crouch, or crawl; and talk or hear.
• The employee is occasionally required to sit and smell.
• The employee must occasionally lift and/or move up to 50 pounds.
• Specific vision abilities required by this position include close vision, distance vision, color vision, peripheral vision, depth perception, and ability to adjust focus.
• Occasionally, especially when managing multiple projects and during problematic opening and/or closing phases of projects, mental stress can be taxing.
• May be required to work long hours for extended periods of time.

Special Job Dimensions

The office provides a safe and healthy work environment, is adequately heated and cooled, is free from exposure and extreme conditions, has appropriate lighting and office furnishings, and is smoke-free and drug-free. While performing the duties of this

* NOTE – Where allowed, employees who work in positions classified as “safety-sensitive” can be disciplined if they test positive for marijuana or its metabolites, even if they have a valid state medical marijuana license. In addition, Flintco may also refuse to hire applicants for safety-sensitive jobs who test positive for marijuana as part of a pre-employment drug test, even if those applicants can produce a valid medical marijuana patient license.