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• Managing project management operations of an engineering firm, supporting oversight of high number of projects.
• Leadership in an engineering firm, personally supporting a team of 250+ people.
• Managing nationally distributed teams and functions.
• Balancing the coordination of fast-paced daily priorities with important, longer-term strategic efforts.
• Excellent project management and organization skills.
• A successful track record in setting priorities; keen analytic, organization and complex problem-solving skills which support and enable sound decision making, with the desire to brainstorm future-thinking ideas.
• Assisting HR with hiring, developing, and retaining top talent.
• Coaching and giving feedback, developing employees’ hard and soft skills.
• A solid technical foundation. You feel comfortable diving into details and interacting with engineers at all levels of seniority as required.
• Excellent communication and relationship building skills with the ability to convey technical complexity to non-technical team members.
• Ability to unlock insights into the organization’s capacity and demand, managing risks, and providing data informed analyses and issue resolution.
• Involvement with rolling out 3rd party engineering software products or relationships.
• Ideally looking for a minimum of 15 years of relevant work experience, including 5+ years in a senior management role supporting teams of 250+.
• Soft Skills: Exceptional leadership qualities, including motivation, conflict-management, & high EQ.
• Energized by change and change management. Ready to bring in new ideas and fresh perspectives on how we approach our work from initiation to execution.

• Senior leader overseeing a significant portion of the company from a process, operations, and people management perspective.
• Provide leadership in a manner which will continue to ensure a cohesive and collaborative environment consistent with PPE’s culture & values.
• Sets the tone for day-to-day inner workings, manages expectations of internal teams and client, and ultimately ensures a positive, productive atmosphere.

• Developing project budgets & prices.
• Scoping and Staffing – Ensuring we have the right people and the right action plan in place for success.
• Scheduling & resource management.
• Delegation (in-house & externally).
• Cross-team & department collaboration & communication.
• Time & Budget Management - help model and train their team to identify and escalate issues to mitigate financial risk.
• Billing, Scope Creep, Change Orders.
• Reporting.

• Provide strategic input to the leadership team.
• Develop short and long-term strategic plans and share ownership of performance against those plans.
• Define/refine operational KPIs that drive bottom line growth; drive accountability of performance against metrics.

• Set priorities, gather quantitative and qualitative data, and review to guide decisions.
• Drive the team’s project management practices in a way that ensures project profitability & best-in-class service.
• Developing, implementing, and overseeing project management excellence across the organization.

• These exist but require a refreshed perspective to ensure all teams understand that strong standards lead to success. We need consistency and rigor, but also the ability to think creatively about improvements.
• Implement cross-functional standard operating procedures (SOP).
• Plan, develop, launch, and train new SOPs.
• Hold engineering teams accountable for following SOPs.
• Provide mentorship on the governance of all projects managed by the Project Management teams (i.e., ensuring compliance with firm’s standards AND client standards)

• Maintain clear communications with staff regarding operational practices, goals and objectives, & performance.
• Liaison between the President and Team Leads while maintaining a clear organizational reporting structure detailing the relationships and responsibilities of all departments and positions consistent with the strategic growth of the Company, while holding the team accountable for execution.
• Establish an effective daily, weekly, monthly, quarterly, and annual meeting Rhythm to keep everyone in the loop.

• Collaborate with the operations, accounting, and business development team leads, sharing knowledge and resources.
• Ensure seamless communication and clearly defined teamwork across departments.
• Work with sales team to understand sales performance and forecasts and ensure manpower is available to complete projects with a focus on customer service and quality.

• Analyze a variety of operational reports to identify trends in all areas of the business to include market trends, project & financial reports, employee staffing levels, and organizational growth.
• Develop and implement processes to monitor and track overall project and portfolio status.

• Mentoring and training for all levels of PM staff and in all aspects of their function but as importantly, growing our team into strong leaders.
• Helping to expand the size and capabilities of the teams by building, training, and developing a team of A players in all levels of the engineering teams.
• This includes talent acquisition, performance management activities, and ongoing career development.
• Observe managers’ performance using qualitative and quantitative measures.
• Identify high performing staff members and provide career path and advancement plans.
• Develop training programs for hard & soft skills.

• Work in a fast growing, exciting, & innovative industry.
• Have a career with purpose and impact on the environment.
• Contribute to the best and largest firm in the solar industry with a great reputation built over the past 10 years.
• Take pride in the fact that our services really are the best in the industry. There is no “fake it until you make it” here.

• 10+ years experience in Project Management.
• 15+ years at a consulting engineering firm. Experience with a Solar or MEP firm is a plus, but not required.
• Degree in engineering concentration or technical field and/or experience as an engineer or working for an engineering company.