Construction Director - South Carolina

Strata Clean Energy is seeking a Construction Director in Ridgeland, SC, responsible for driving safety culture and ensuring environmental compliance on projects. The role involves leading site teams, managing project schedules and budgets, and coordinating with engineering and procurement teams. Candidates should have experience in renewable energy or construction, strong communication skills, and the ability to negotiate contracts. This position requires a proactive leader who thrives in a fast-paced environment.
Safety

Essential Duties and Responsibilities:
• In coordination with Health and Safety team, drives safety culture by addressing safety concerns and implementing safety improvement measures
• Successful implementation of Health, Safety and Security program plans, practices, and objectives
• Participate in the development and implementation of safety and quality plans and procedures
• Ensure Environmental compliance on all projects
• Review Safety Management Systems, Quality Management Systems and Environment Management Systems
• Promote a safe work environment to show that safety is the most important function, ensuring that all employees follow safe practices

Personal Characteristics
• Thrives in the fast pace rapidly growing company
• Patient and professional in stressful, deadline-driven situations
• Lead and support the site teams in technical, quality and safety, using systems in place
• Ability to represent the company before clients, external agencies, and among this organization’s executive staff
• Build trust and departmental structure by adhering to consistent standards as it relates to quality, process, and employee expectations
• Analytical problem solver who views obstacles as opportunities and creates solutions to systemic problems
• Self-motivated, self-starter who takes full ownership of project results

Skills
• Exhibited success with process development and implementation, change management and growth
• Experience within renewable energy, general contracting, or commercial construction
• Detailed oriented, analytical, organized, able to meet established deadlines, strong communication skills, and works well in pressure-type situations
• Collaborates closely with the Engineering and Procurement teams to define and refine scopes and prepare and manage BOP/BOS RFP processes for wind, solar and battery energy storage systems
• Work closely to prioritize key activities on projects across the company portfolio in various stages from design through closeout
• Ensure on-time project delivery and excellent status communication and reporting to internal parties and clients
• Coordinate with other department heads and senior management, to ensure projects are properly designed, planned, and completed
• Assembles presentation materials and reports for Senior Management on the status and risks for the construction projects

Contracts
• Expert understanding of contractual terms, estimating, cost management, project scheduling and the supervision of project teams
• Leads and coordinates key functions such as financial feasibility analyses, engineering/design, project legal review, permitting activities and financial negotiations
• Prepare and submit requests for proposals, in addition to direction and oversight of the pre-construction teams
• Support the responses to Requests for Proposals and support the bid process to negotiate new projects
• Work with internal and external parties to negotiate the final contractual scope and deliverables and complete engineering design reviews for compliance to contract and scope of work
• Qualify, negotiate, and secure contracts with subcontractors; oversee the procurement and/or equipment and materials
• Establishes and maintains relationships with subcontractors and clients

Project Controls (Schedule & Budget)
• Ensure projects meet requirements for budgeting
• The Director/VP will work with other departments and personnel to develop and manage project budgets, forecasts, analysis, and reporting of projects cost- to -complete
• Working with Project Managers and site leads, the Director/VP will manage change orders as they arise, review, and monitor quality control processes and deliver oral and written reports as requested or contractually required

Supervisory Responsibilities
• The Director will participate in the identification and selection of the senior project teams, on-site leads and assist in the specification of labor classifications and personnel needs
• The Director will have responsibility for the oversight and direct communications with owners, site operations, subcontractors, and superintendents
• Mentors and trains staff on project control tools to effectively manage project costs, schedules, scopes, change orders and inspires a culture of disciplined attention to detail and frequent contract referencing to support contractor management and generation of management reports
• Help with employee relations, performance reviews, recruiting
• Provide and facilitate mentoring, development, and training resources; participate in implementation and development of “First Time Right” training initiatives

Education And/or Work Experience Requirements
• Minimum 10 to 15 years Solar Construction Experience including a minimum of 5 years P&L responsibility
• Engineering Degree or Construction Management Major preferred
• PMI/PMP certification a plus
• Knowledge of OSHA safety and construction regulations. OSHA 30 certification preferred
• Experience and proficiency with MS Office including MS Excel and MS Word
• Knowledge of state and utility rules and incentives with respect to renewables
• Solid knowledge and understanding of key value drivers for renewable power projects and developer/owner/operator company objectives
• Strong oral and written communication, project management, leadership, and team-building skills, including experience working with cross-functional internal and external technical advisors and stakeholders
• Demonstrated ability to read, interpret, edit, and understand plans and specifications for civil and electrical work
• Experience with managing renewable energy construction contracts including change order management and dispute resolutions
• Experienced with managing and driving project schedules

Physical Requirements/Work Environment

Ability to travel 80% of time or more to project locations

This job description is intended to describe the essential job functions of this position and is not intended to be an all-inclusive statement of job responsibilities.

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