Project Manager, EV/BESS Portfolio

Highland Electric Fleets provides electrification-as-a-service solutions that help communities transition to cleaner, quieter, and healthier electric fleets. The Project Manager will build and deliver a large portfolio of EV charging, battery energy storage, and edge compute projects from construction-ready status through energization, commissioning, and operational handoff while managing contractors, budgets, schedules, quality, and safety.

Responsibilities:

• Drive construction delivery of a portfolio of EV charging, BESS, and edge compute projects from construction-ready to energized and operational
• Take handoff of build-ready sites from the Development team and mobilize construction quickly
• Select, contract, and manage general contractors, EPCs, and specialty subcontractors
• Own construction budgets, schedules, quality, and safety across the portfolio
• Coordinate utility construction, inspections, commissioning, and energization (permission to operate)
• Manage change orders, resolve field issues, and clear roadblocks to keep projects on schedule
• Prepare each project for a clean handoff to the operations and Customer Success teams
• Contribute installed-cost actuals to support a repeatable unit-cost installation model

Requirements:

• Bachelor's degree, or 4+ years of directly related professional experience
• Experience managing the construction of infrastructure, energy, or electrical projects, including managing general contractors and subcontractors
• Experience owning construction budgets and schedules across multiple concurrent projects
• Project management experience in construction and/or engineering environments
• Experience delivering EV charging, BESS, solar, or edge compute / data center construction
• Experience with utility construction coordination, inspections, commissioning, and energization / permission to operate (PTO)
• Experience working with permitting authorities having jurisdiction (AHJs)
• Familiarity with project management and field software (Procore, Bluebeam)
• Construction safety knowledge (OSHA) and/or PMP or equivalent certification