Project Manager, Project Delivery

BrightNight is a renewable power developer and Independent Power Producer. The Project Manager owns end-to-end execution of clean energy projects from financial close through COD, coordinating cross-functional teams and managing schedule, cost, safety, quality, compliance, and handover to O&M.

Responsibilities:

• Safe, compliant, on-schedule, on-budget delivery of the project through COD
• One integrated view of all contractual dates and obligations: EPCA, PPA, BTA, LGIA, permits, financing, and equipment supply
• Prudent management of BrightNight and EPC obligations within the EPCA and its exhibit structure
• Landing Zone performance and transparent, fact-based reporting to internal and external stakeholders
• A clean, evidence-based handoff in (from the PDT at Stage 5) and out (to O&M at asset transfer)
• Own project management for assigned projects through Stage 6, including Landing Zone management, and drive decisions across the EPC contractor, Engineering, Procurement, Interconnection, Finance, Legal, and Project Controls
• Adopt and run the standard PDT Project Management Dashboard and the BrightNight standard toolset (schedule, risk register, cost and cash forecast, weekly report) to carry momentum from Stage 5 into execution
• Define and confirm the reporting process for each major internal stakeholder and each major external stakeholder (EPC, offtaker, transmission provider, lenders and tax equity, OEMs)
• Lead the weekly and monthly status meeting cadence. Confirm internal meeting frequency and leadership around key commercial milestones, and ensure all stakeholders are aligned and coordinated
• Manage a portfolio of projects at different stages with clear prioritization, backup coverage, and defined escalation routes
• Maintain a firm understanding of every commercial relationship, commitment, and requirement needed to deliver best-in-class returns
• Hold a firm understanding of milestone obligations within the PPA, BTA, and EPCA, and the timing BrightNight must meet them: backfeed, mechanical completion, substantial completion, placed in service, and COD
• Manage EPC commercial terms: scope, owner obligations, notices, change orders, claims, forecast, contingency, and cash. Recommend positions and execute approved decisions
• Support term loan conversion and tax equity funding near substantial completion, and support asset transfer at the key milestone under the BTA (MC or SC depending on structure)
• Take ownership of internal schedule milestones and track external schedule milestones across the EPC, offtaker, interconnection provider, and finance parties
• Own the integrated critical path, recovery plans, and early warning on schedule risk. Focus on changes that move overall project outcomes rather than every minor date slip
• Support and implement the compliance program built during the PDT stage: project agreements and contracts (full spectrum), project permits, milestone oversight, and notification and follow-up on actions needed to fulfill contractual obligations
• Accept the compliance handover from Development and PDT (executed agreements, LNTP and NTP with payment history on a need-to-know basis, executed change orders, compliance task list, permits, drawings, mitigation plans, financing certificates, land agreements, and project file locations), and keep the compliance action list current through execution to COD
• Track and monitor all BrightNight permits and obligations, and ensure the EPC is in compliance with its own permits and obligations
• Maintain the bridge and PM protocols that take over the relationship with the utility transmission team. BrightNight has transmission SMEs, but the Project Manager is responsible for overall progress and accountability
• Serve as lead BrightNight representative at monthly utility transmission meetings for IA, IC facilities, auxiliary power, and communications as needed for full plant operation
• Manage and coordinate with gen-tie entities as required for project obligations
• Align and coordinate all BrightNight-furnished equipment with the EPC schedule
• Track high-risk OEMs and long-lead deliveries against required-on-site dates, recovery plans, and contractual remedies
• Coordinate engineering interfaces across PV, BESS, HV, T-line, and SCADA / metering / RTU, including all things metering, controls, test power, and operational and COD readiness
• Manage utility-facing engineering items such as material modifications (inverters or other equipment) and design and metering validation against RTO, PPA, and BTA requirements
• Support and manage project as-builts in advance of tax equity, term conversion, or asset sale requirements, and align timing so as-builts are available at mechanical completion when needed
• Confirm safety and quality controls are working in the field and that every obligation has an accountable owner
• Anticipate and resolve technical, commercial, and legal challenges with speed and precision. Analyze complex real-world situations (tariffs, technology changes, contractual disputes), recommend the optimal outcome, and execute the approved plan
• Coordinate commissioning, turnover, and asset transfer to the BrightNight O&M team
• Capture lessons learned and feed them back into bnPLC checklists, templates, and training
• Provide general support for Q&A and problem solving as issues arise
• Authority to escalate and recommend schedule recovery, resequencing, or commercial positions to executive leadership
• Lead project reviews, gate readiness reviews, and the weekly project review format
• Lead and leverage the matrix organization to bring functional departments together and remove roadblocks
• Provide transparent, concise, fact-based recommendations to BrightNight executive leadership

Requirements:

• You've spent years delivering renewable energy projects
• You know what it takes to solve the hard problems and take a project from Notice to Proceed to COD and beyond
• Candidates must be legally authorized to work in the United States without current or future employer sponsorship unless otherwise stated