Construction Performance Engineer

DEPCOM Power, a Koch Engineered Solutions company, is seeking a Construction Performance Engineer to drive data-informed decision making across utility-scale solar construction projects. This role plays a critical part in improving project outcomes by delivering actionable insights into productivity, cost, and schedule performance—enabling field teams to proactively address risks and optimize execution across the jobsite.

Current Project Site Opportunities:
Potential Locations: Georgia, Nebraska, Texas, Virginia
Location subject to change depending on business needs
Travel Requirements: This is a full-time, site-based position that includes daily per diem and monthly home rotations.

About the Team

You will join the Project Controls and Scheduling team within the Project and Construction Management organization. This team partners closely with field construction teams to provide visibility into project performance, enabling better decisions that improve productivity, schedule adherence, and overall project outcomes.

Responsibilities

• Analyze construction performance data to identify productivity trends, risks, and opportunities across utility-scale solar projects.
• Develop and deliver actionable reporting and dashboards that provide real-time visibility into installation progress, productivity, labor performance, and project execution.
• Track labor productivity, installation rates, labor costs, and workforce utilization across subcontracted and self-perform scopes to support informed decision-making.
• Ensure accurate labor charging, timekeeping, progress tracking, and project data integrity to strengthen cost and performance visibility.
• Build forecasts and predictive analytics that identify emerging schedule, productivity, staffing, and cost risks, enabling proactive mitigation.
• Apply Earned Value Management (EVM) principles to evaluate cost and schedule performance and support project controls activities.
• Conduct time studies, workflow assessments, and continuous improvement initiatives to identify inefficiencies and drive productivity gains.
• Partner with project management, construction, field engineering, and project controls teams to improve forecasting accuracy, reporting quality, and operational transparency.
• Train and coach field personnel on productivity measurement, reporting tools, and performance management best practices.
• Standardize performance reporting processes and best practices to drive consistency, scalability, and continuous improvement across projects.

Requirements

• Experience in construction, project controls, estimating, scheduling, or project management within industrial, infrastructure, or energy projects
• Experience performing data analysis using Microsoft Excel or similar tools (e.g., formulas, pivot tables, or data summarization techniques)
• Experience interpreting construction or project data (e.g., productivity, labor hours, installation rates, or quantities) to support decision making
• Valid U.S. driver’s license

Qualifications (Preferred)

• Background in utility-scale construction or renewable energy projects, including field-based roles (e.g., Field Engineer, Superintendent, Project Engineer)
• Experience applying Earned Value Management (EVM) and developing forecasting models or predictive analytics to identify schedule, productivity, and cost risks
• Experience using construction or project controls software (e.g., Procore, P6, Power BI, SmartSheet, InEight)
• Experience leveraging data to drive process improvements, performance optimization, and better project outcomes

About the Company

As a Koch Engineered Solutions company, DEPCOM Power is a leading energy solutions partner for the utility solar and broader energy industries, providing project development support, engineering, procurement and construction, energy storage, repowering and operations and maintenance services. Our highly skilled team of conventional and renewable power industry experts work to deliver the lowest cost of energy and the highest rate of return. At Koch, employees are empowered to do what they do best to make life better.

Benefits

Our goal is for each employee, and their families, to live fulfilling and healthy lives. We provide essential resources and support to build and maintain physical, financial, and emotional strength—focusing on overall wellbeing so you can focus on what matters most. Our benefits plan includes:

• Medical, dental, vision, flexible spending and health savings accounts
• Life insurance, ADD, disability
• Retirement plans
• Paid vacation/time off, educational assistance
• May also include infertility assistance, paid parental leave and adoption assistance

Specific eligibility criteria is set by the applicable Summary Plan Description, policy or guideline and benefits may vary by geographic region.

Pay

Any compensation range provided for a role is an estimate determined by available market data. The actual amount may be higher or lower than the range provided considering each candidate's knowledge, skills, abilities, and geographic location.