Preconstruction Manager

Denver Location Preferred | Open to Remote Opportunities Role Overview The Preconstruction Manager supports Pivot Energy’s preconstruction function from mid- to late-stage development handoff through EPC Agreement execution and transition into project delivery. This role coordinates contractor engagement, bidding, estimating, commercial alignment, project-specific contracting, and budget formation in support of Pivot Energy’s project delivery methodologies, including Design-Build, Integrated Design-Build, Design-Bid-Build, CMAR, and other delivery approaches used to support successful IPP project execution. The role engages preferred contractor partners and internal stakeholders across Development, Legal, Project Management, Finance, Supply Chain Procurement, Engineering, Compliance, and other functions to ensure projects enter execution with aligned scope, documented assumptions, commercial clarity, realistic schedules, appropriate risk allocation, strong document discipline, and budgets structured for effective execution control. This position materially supports Pivot’s eight focus areas throughout preconstruction: Stakeholder Management, Contract Management, Quality Management, Financial Management, Schedule Management, Compliance Management, Risk Management, and Document Management. The role must understand how decisions across these areas affect estimate quality, contract obligations, budget structure, contingencies, schedule risk, compliance exposure, and execution outcomes. Primary Responsibilities Stakeholder Management Ensure the appropriate internal and external stakeholders are engaged from development handoff through bidding, contractor alignment, commercial negotiation, and contract execution. Lead site assessment strategy, field diligence coordination, and consultant engagement activities supporting the Corporate Clean Energy Solutions pipeline from mid- to late-stage development. Participate in site evaluations to validate project readiness, align stakeholders, and proactively identify constructability, schedule, and execution risks. Maintain timely communication, accountability, and alignment across Preconstruction, Development, Legal, Project Management, Finance, Engineering, Procurement, Compliance, and other required participants. Coordinate bid review, scope reduction, commercial alignment, and pre-award meetings with contractors and internal stakeholders. Ensure open development assumptions, commercial terms, owner obligations, and project readiness items are aligned with term sheets, POs, LOIs, EPC agreements, subcontracts, and execution strategy. Facilitate peer reviews and handoff meetings to Project Management following execution so that negotiated terms, assumptions, exclusions, clarifications, milestones, and unresolved risks are fully understood and documented. Drive timely issue closure and escalations of unresolved commercial, schedule, scope, and risk items when required. Contract Management Serve as a primary coordination point with Legal and other stakeholders for contract review workflow, issue resolution, document turn management, and negotiation support. Support development of contract exhibits, scope alignment, risk position tracking, commercial clarifications, and approval routing. Maintain clear decision logs, open-issue trackers, review logs, target execution dates, and document version control. Support negotiation planning and ensure pre-award commitments and negotiated terms transition into execution without loss of context. Apply understanding of different project delivery methodologies to contract structure, risk allocation, scope definition, and commercial positioning. Quality Management Support Preconstruction leadership in ensuring contractor partners are appropriately prequalified and that contractor performance feedback is incorporated into selection decisions. Help ensure development and bid packages are complete, accurate, coordinated, and issued with sufficient detail to support accurate pricing, schedule development, contracting, and execution planning. Coordinate and participate in field diligence activities, constructability evaluations, estimate reviews, subcontractor procurement efforts, and package quality assurance processes to support accurate pricing, execution readiness, and successful project delivery outcomes. Reduce rework caused by poor document hygiene, incomplete consultant deliverables, or bid packages, missing scope definition, unclear design basis, or inadequate response to contractor RFIs. Integrate safety planning into preconstruction by ensuring project-specific safety expectations, known site risks, temporary works considerations, and safety-related bid inclusions are identified early enough to inform scope, means and methods sensitivity, budget, and contractor alignment. Financial Management Produce, coordinate, and validate cost estimates and project budgets for PV and BESS projects, highlighting assumptions, exclusions, clarifications, allowances, contingencies, and other material commercial drivers. Analyze cost drivers, identify cost-saving opportunities, support value engineering, and ensure budgets align with project objectives and execution strategy. Coordinate RFQs and RFPs, subcontractor bid leveling, scope reduction reviews, and commercial reconciliation of contractor and vendor pricing. Collaborate with Procurement and internal stakeholders to ensure owner-furnished equipment, subcontractor scope, vendor costs, and third-party services are accurately incorporated into project budgets. Maintain strong Basis of Estimate discipline by ensuring all estimates document scope basis, assumptions, exclusions, clarifications, allowances, contingencies, pricing sources, unresolved risks, and reconciliation between estimates as projects progress through preconstruction. Establish budgets for execution using disciplined cost code and cost type structures that allocate scope, commercial exposure, and controllable risk in a manner that reflects contract obligations, reporting needs, and forecast visibility during project execution. Understand how to structure the budget so cost codes, cost types, and related attributes preserve continuity from estimate to contract value to project budget to job cost reporting and forecast updates. Carve risk appropriately into contingencies and allowances, including areas of shared commercial exposure between contractor and Pivot to maintain control of bid costs and execution-period costs while preserving visibility into ownership of risk. Support procurement strategy by identifying bid packaging approach, owner-furnished versus contractor-furnished scope strategy, long-lead considerations, and market constraints that may affect cost, timing, and risk. Monitor project budgets throughout preconstruction and provide clear cost-tracking reports and updates to Delivery leadership. Schedule Management Manage Preconstruction’s portion of the project schedule and maintain credible baselines tied to permitting, interconnection, procurement, contractor engagement, contract execution, notice to proceed, and key delivery milestones. Support development, review, and management of logic-based schedules and critical path awareness sufficient to identify schedule risk, procurement interfaces, design dependencies, and execution constraints. Validate schedule realism against development assumptions, design maturity, procurement strategy, access constraints, utility requirements, and construction sequencing. Use Pivot’s schedule template as part of commercial alignment and negotiation with contractors, ensuring contractors either use Pivot’s template or integrate their schedules into it in a manner that allows Pivot to consistently monitor project progress and performance across the full lifecycle. Ensure deadlines are visible, communicated, monitored, and escalated when aged review items, delayed responses, or missed commitments threaten execution readiness. Manage handoff continuity so that schedule assumptions carried in development and preconstruction are preserved or explicitly revised before execution. Compliance Management Support integration of prevailing wage and apprenticeship requirements, domestic content, FEOC, safety, QA/QC, and other compliance-related obligations into bid packages, contract exhibits, contractor expectations, and execution planning. Help ensure compliance-related contractual requirements are documented, traceable, and properly incorporated into contract packages and handoff documentation. Coordinate with Compliance, Legal, Project Management, Procurement, and other stakeholders to surface gaps early and support clean implementation through execution. Remain capable of understanding policy changes, regulatory changes, incentive program changes, and evolving compliance requirements, and incorporate those changes into scope definition, Basis of Estimate assumptions, contract exhibits, and execution planning as needed. Risk Management Maintain project risk registers and support alignment with project execution plans, owner-provided information, design basis, contractor proposals, and commercial terms. Identify, document, and communicate scope, schedule, design, procurement, budget, compliance, and contractual risks early enough to support mitigation rather than reaction. Ensure project scope and design basis are sufficiently defined to be priced, negotiated, engineered, and built prior to full preconstruction commitment. Evaluate site conditions, client goals, utility requirements, permitting constraints, package completeness, and other deal elements that may affect constructability, contract strategy, budget, and schedule. Support consistent application of approved business and risk positions and ensure prompt escalation of material departures from standard terms or expected project assumptions. Where appropriate, support integrated delivery strategies that bring contractors or trade partners into the process early enough to reduce uncertainty, advance design coordination, and improve schedule confidence. Document Management Maintain disciplined document control across RFP documents, bid sheets, estimate files, scope summaries, exhibits, decision logs, approval records, execution copies, and handoff packages. Ensure finalized documents are stored accurately and consistently in Procore and other approved repositories. Promote document consistency across departments through standard forms, naming conventions, organized records, repeatable workflows, and version control discipline. Preserve continuity from development assumptions to estimate, contract value, project budget, and execution reality through strong documentation and traceability. Required Competencies 3–7 years of relevant experience in estimating, cost analysis, preconstruction, project management, commercial management, or related delivery functions supporting commercial solar and/or BESS projects. Experience leading field diligence efforts, coordinating site assessment teams, and managing development-phase due diligence activities for corporate pipeline, community solar, commercial solar, and energy storage projects. Experience participating in contractor engagement, bid review, cost evaluation, or contract review workflows. Ability to understand technical documentation related to renewable energy projects, including drawings, specifications, interconnection materials, utility requirements, permitting documents, civil and electrical scopes, and commercial exhibits. Experience evaluating subcontractor and vendor bid packages. Working knowledge of project management software, job costing software, ERP platforms, and related workflows used to support budget setup, cost control, forecasting, and reporting. Ability to work with reporting tools, dashboards, and basic analytics needed to evaluate project cost, schedule, and commercial information. Strong organizational capacity to manage multiple opportunities with competing deadlines and shifting priorities. Strong communication and interpersonal skills. Ability to work independently and cross-functionally with limited day-to-day direction. Preferred Competencies 3+ years of experience in solar and/or BESS preconstruction, estimating, commercial management, design coordination, project management, or construction management. Experience in DG and/or small utility-scale renewable project delivery. Experience with Procore, Bluebeam, estimating tools, job costing software, ERP platforms, and BI or analytics/reporting workflows. Experience supporting owner-side IPP, EPC, or design-build project delivery organizations. Familiarity with prevailing wage, domestic content, FEOC, QA/QC, safety, and related project compliance considerations. Core Capabilities Highly organized and detail-oriented. Strong sense of ownership and follow-through. Able to manage multiple priorities without losing control of detail. Disciplined in process, documentation, and communication. Comfortable working across departments and levels of leadership. Able to maintain professionalism and accuracy in fast-moving negotiations. Strong judgment regarding escalation, issue tracking, and workflow discipline. Committed to consistency, clarity, and high-quality output. Success Measures Field diligence activities, site assessment deliverables, and development-phase evaluations are completed on schedule and with sufficient rigor to validate project feasibility, execution readiness, and commercial alignment. Projects enter EPC contracting and execution with clear scope, validated assumptions, documented risks, aligned schedules, and strong handoff continuity. Estimates are suitably documented, commercially sound, and appropriate for internal decision-making, financial modeling, contract formation, and budget development. Basis of Estimate documentation is clear, current, and traceable across estimate revisions. Budgets are structured for execution using cost codes, cost types, contingencies, and allowances that reflect contract obligations, reporting requirements, and ownership of risk. Bid packages, contract documents, and supporting records are complete, accurate, and organized. Key commercial, schedule, and compliance risks are identified early and escalated in time to influence outcomes. Handoff packages to Project Management are complete and preserve negotiated terms, assumptions, exclusions, clarifications, unresolved issues, and budget logic. Document control, approval routing, and execution records are accurate and reliable. Internal stakeholders view Preconstruction as a disciplined, value-adding function that improves consistency, standardization, execution readiness, and cost control. For Design-Build delivery, target cycle times for bidding, contracting, and early schedule readiness are met or deviations are clearly documented, justified, and escalated. Compensation $90,000 - $130,000 a year Benefits Excellent health, dental, and vision insurance benefits with up to 100% of premiums covered by the company. Four weeks of vacation plus employment milestone bonus vacations. 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. A complete list of all benefits may be provided upon request. Recruitment Agency Notice We appreciate your interest in partnering with us; however, we are not seeking recruitment agency support for this role. Diversity, Equity, Inclusion and Justice Statement Pivot invests in company-wide trainings, assessments, and programs to advance internal inclusion and equity practices, such as employee allyship building, cross-cultural communications, and equitable hiring and management protocols to increasingly recognize bias and ensure mutual respect and belonging. EEO Statement Pivot Energy is an Equal Opportunity Employer and is committed to increasing the diversity of its workforce. 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