[Hiring] Commercial Project Controls & Coordination Manager @SunStrong Management

Role Description

SunStrong Management is seeking a remote Commercial Project Controls & Coordination Manager. SunStrong delivers technical asset management and operations for a renewable portfolio spanning solar, battery energy storage, wind, and EV infrastructure. The Manager of Project Controls & Coordination owns the integrity of the information the delivery organization runs on — schedule, cost, change, contract terms — and the operating discipline of the registers that trace every commitment and every open item to closure.

The role deliberately combines two distinct bodies of work:

• An analytical function that independently baselines, recalculates, and reports variance.
• A coordination function that maintains the registers, the document vault, and the meeting and reporting cadence.

This is a single role by design at current portfolio scale, with a defined trigger for splitting it. The candidate profile is analytical first — coordination discipline can be taught to an analyst; analytical judgment cannot be taught to a coordinator.

Qualifications

• Five or more years in project controls, cost engineering, or scheduling within construction, energy, or infrastructure.
• Demonstrated ownership of schedule baselines and earned value reporting on capital projects.
• Working command of EPC contract commercial terms and their controls implications — milestone payment, retainage, liquidated damages, and change authority.
• Advanced Excel; scheduling software proficiency (Primavera P6 or MS Project).
• Demonstrated ability to report an unfavorable variance accurately to the person whose project it is.
• Willingness to perform coordination and document control work personally at current scale.
• Bachelor's degree in engineering, construction management, finance, or a related field, or equivalent demonstrated experience.

Requirements

• Analytical — Schedule Control
• Establish and maintain the integrated project schedule baseline; control all baseline changes through a documented change process.
• Review EPC-submitted schedules for logic integrity — open ends, constraints, negative float, excessive lags, and critical path credibility.
• Maintain the portfolio milestone and gate forecast; identify projected slip against COD, lender, tax equity, and host commitments early enough.
• Perform schedule variance and trend analysis; distinguish recoverable slip from structural slip.
• Verify that three-week lookaheads reconcile to the master schedule.
• Analytical — Cost Control
• Own the project cost baseline, commitment tracking, actual cost capture, and cost-to-complete forecasting.
• Maintain earned value methodology across the portfolio; report SPI, CPI, and forecast at completion.
• Review EPC payment applications against verified physical progress, milestone achievement, and retainage terms before release.
• Maintain the retainage and punchlist hold register.
• Support capital forecasting and cash flow projection with Finance and Asset Management.
• Analytical — Change Control
• Own the change order log from request through disposition, with schedule and cost impact independently assessed.
• Analyze each change against the contracted scope.
• Track cumulative change against delegated authority thresholds.
• Maintain change trend analysis by contractor.
• Analytical — Contract Abstraction
• Abstract every EPC agreement into the standard term register within fifteen business days of intake.
• Identify and log Baseline Exposures where the contract as written falls short of the SSM acceptance standard.
• Maintain the warranty register with expiration tracking and claim window alerting.
• Maintain the delivery risk register with quantified exposure and mitigation status.
• Coordination — Registers and Document Control
• Own the punchlist register system — structure, field standards, data integrity, aging reporting, and completeness of closure evidence.
• Maintain register hygiene.
• Drive aging follow-up across punchlist, RFI, submittal, and nonconformance logs.
• Own the project document vault — filing standard, naming convention, version control, access control.
• Maintain the equipment register as construction data lands.
• Coordination — Cadence and Reporting Production
• Produce the monthly owner project review package and the weekly gate and variance reporting.
• Coordinate the weekly internal delivery standup and the monthly owner project review.
• Track action items from all delivery forums to closure.
• Support lender, tax equity, and host milestone certification with defensible documentation.
• Systems and Data Standards
• Define and enforce data standards.
• Build and maintain reporting tooling and dashboards.
• Automate recurring coordination tasks.
• Build durable tooling within the constraints of the actual environment.

Benefits

• PPO and HDHP Medical Plans, buy-up plans for both Dental and Vision.
• Ancillaries such as Accident, Critical illness, Hospital indemnity, Employer sponsored Short Term and Long-Term Disability, Voluntary Life, and Legal services along with multiple add-ons.
• 401(k) Package includes a Safe Harbor Match of 100% up to the first 4% and 50% on the next 2% with immediate vesting.