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1. Stakeholder Management

• Lead, coach, and hold PMs accountable for disciplined stakeholder communication across internal teams, external contractors, clients, consultants, investors, IE/lender representatives, and executive stakeholders.
• Ensure PMs provide clear, timely, fact-based updates using Procore, Power BI, project controls reports, and approved reporting cadences.
• Maintain alignment between Pivot, EPCs, consultants, internal stakeholders, and contract obligations.
• Lead portfolio health reviews and ensure risks, variances, open issues, delays, recovery plans, and decision needs are surfaced clearly.
• Ensure communication is direct, professional, kind, and commercially disciplined.
• Remove cross-functional friction between Project Management, Preconstruction, Procurement, Construction Management, FP&A, Accounting, Legal, Compliance, Asset Management, O&M, and Revenue Operations.
• Ensure executive leadership receives reliable information early enough to make decisions.

2. Contract Management

• Ensure PMs understand and actively manage the contract, not just the relationship.
• Enforce DOA-compliant commitments, change management, approval routing, and contract administration.
• Ensure formal notices are issued, received, tracked, evaluated, and escalated appropriately.
• Oversee contractor accountability for milestone obligations, reporting obligations, submittals, QA/QC documentation, PWA /compliance obligations, schedule updates, change orders, pay applications, and closeout deliverables.
• Ensure Procore Change Events are used to capture issue, cause, impact, options, timing, responsibility, and commercial resolution.
• Partner with Legal on disputed issues, claims, delay notices, contract interpretation, risk posture, and precedent-sensitive decisions.
• Ensure PMs protect Pivot's commercial position while maintaining constructive contractor relationships.
• Confirm that PMs understand the distinction between relationship management and contract management.

3. Schedule Management

• Oversee portfolio schedule performance and ensure projects are managed against approved baseline schedules, guaranteed dates, contractual milestones, P90 dates, and externally committed dates.
• Ensure PMs understand critical path, schedule logic, procurement dependencies, utility milestones, permitting constraints, energization activities, commissioning sequences, and turnover requirements.
• Require timely schedule updates, recovery plans, variance explanations, and escalation of schedule risk.
• Coordinate with Construction Management and contractors to validate field progress against reported progress.
• Ensure Pivot's schedule data is current, trustworthy, and usable for decision-making by Delivery, FP&A, Development, executive leadership, investors, and other stakeholders.
• Ensure schedule movement is contractually understood before dates are accepted, communicated, or relied upon.
• Prevent casual rebaselining that obscures performance or weakens accountability.

• Oversee project-level and portfolio-level financial performance across budget, commitments, actuals, forecast, contingency, allowance usage, change events, change orders, cash flow, draw readiness, and EAC.
• Ensure PMs understand and use job costing methodologies, cost codes, cost types, Procore budgets, commitments, ERP data, and Power BI reporting in a disciplined way.
• Ensure cost forecasts, cash-flow projections, cost-to-complete, estimate-to-complete, and EAC forecasts are timely, current, explainable, and reviewed with appropriate rigor.
• Partner with FP&A, Accounting, and Finance to support accurate forecasting, accruals, draw packages, margin visibility, and portfolio predictability.
• Hold PMs accountable for recognizing risks before they become overruns.
• Ensure PMs understand that Cost to Complete is the remaining known cost, Estimate to Complete is the remaining expected cost, and Estimate at Completion is the final expected cost outcome.
• Challenge optimistic forecasts that ignore pending change events, contractor claims, productivity impacts, schedule delays, allowance exposure, or unresolved commercial issues.
• Ensure financial reporting is aligned with actual project conditions and contract obligations.

5. Quality Management

• Enforce Pivot's QA/QC standards through PM leadership, Construction Management coordination, Procore workflows, inspections, observations, NCR tracking, Action Plans, commissioning documentation, and closeout controls.
• Ensure quality issues are documented, tracked, resolved, and escalated appropriately.
• Coordinate with Construction Management, Quality Control, contractors, OE, IE, and other stakeholders to validate construction progress and quality readiness.
• Monitor energization, commissioning, performance testing, capacity testing, mechanical completion, substantial completion, and final completion readiness.
• Ensure quality documentation aligns with Pivot, client, lender, IE, O&M, Asset Management, and Revenue Operations expectations.
• Ensure lessons learned are captured and fed back into the Delivery Playbook, Preconstruction, contractor scorecards, and future execution standards.

6. Compliance Management

• Oversee project-level compliance documentation and PM accountability for environmental, safety, IRA PWA, Domestic Content, FEOC, permit, utility, interconnection, lender, and contractual compliance obligations.
• Ensure compliance requirements are visible in project controls and understood by PMs and contractors.
• Partner with Compliance, Legal, Asset Management, O&M, Revenue Operations, Procurement, and external consultants to ensure continuity from execution through COD and turnover.
• Ensure PMs understand changes in compliance requirements and integrate those requirements into contractor expectations, reporting, documentation, and project execution.
• Escalate compliance gaps early enough to protect tax, revenue, financing, safety, and operational outcomes.

7. Risk Management

• Maintain portfolio-level visibility into schedule, cost, scope, contract, quality, compliance, permitting, utility, contractor, stakeholder, and documentation risk.
• Ensure PMs maintain current project risk registers with meaningful mitigations, ownership, dates, and escalation paths.
• Conduct regular risk reviews with PMs and escalate material, systemic, or precedent-setting risks to senior leadership.
• Promote the operating expectation: identify early, act fast, communicate clearly, report accurately.
• Ensure PMs do not confuse risk awareness with risk management. Risks must be quantified, assigned, tracked, mitigated, and escalated.
• Ensure risk registers, change events, formal notices, schedule variances, financial forecasts, and executive reporting tell the same story.
• Protect Pivot from late surprises by requiring disciplined issue capture and escalation.

8. Document Management

• Enforce document-control discipline across Procore, Intacct-related financial workflows, project records, RFIs, submittals, change events, meeting minutes, formal notices, pay applications, schedule updates, closeout records, lender deliverables, commissioning documentation, and turnover packages.
• Ensure PMs maintain reliable records that support contract enforcement, financial reporting, lender diligence, compliance audits, claims defense, lessons learned, and asset turnover.
• Uphold naming conventions, version control, metadata, approval routing, and document storage expectations.
• Ensure project records are accurate enough to support executive reporting and future portfolio learning.
• Reinforce the principle that poor documentation weakens accountability, claims position, project continuity, and institutional memory.

• 10+ years of project management, construction management, project controls, EPC, IPP, renewable energy, infrastructure, or large-scale construction experience.
• 3+ years of people leadership, portfolio leadership, or programmatic project delivery leadership.
• Demonstrated experience managing multi-project portfolios or complex construction programs.
• Strong understanding of project controls integration across cost, schedule, scope, risk, contract, document, and reporting systems.
• Strong understanding of contract administration, formal notices, change management, claim avoidance, and contractor accountability.
• Working knowledge of Procore, ERP systems, Power BI or similar dashboards, and project reporting systems.
• Ability to lead through ambiguity, friction, competing stakeholder priorities, and incomplete information.
• Strong written and verbal communication skills.
• Strong judgment in escalation, prioritization, risk framing, and team leadership.