Customer Project Manager
Bloom Energy · San Jose, CA · 1 wk ago
Information Technology$200k–$288k/yrFull-time
Role and Responsibilities
- You are the single point customer project owner from pre-contract to power on for some of the largest and most ambitious energy generation projects on the planet
- You are responsible for instituting and managing an end-to-end stage gate process that aligns the customer and all internal Bloom Energy stakeholders to ensure projects happen on time and the customer is delighted with the results
- “Power On” is your north star
- You don’t just make sure risks are raised early, you make sure the risk gets buy in and closed out quickly with the right owner(s) across the organization
- You question requirements when it will increase speed, not block/slowdown the project
- Travel: you do what it takes. If boots on the ground are required, you get on a plane and go solve the problem
Skills
- You are a high EQ person
- You know how to solve problems in the real world from first principles
- You are extremely organized and can confidently communicate project status and risk mitigation strategies to CEO level leadership with little notice
- This role will require disciplined and regular report out of all aspects of customer project execution to executive leadership
- You can talk the talk with a highly technical engineering manager, then walk in to the next meeting and close out commercial contract topics with the sales team
- You have focused your career on getting things done, not playing organization politics
- You put customer and company success first, because you know that customer success leads to company success, which then leads to your success
Experience
- 15+ years of project/program management in a technical function, EPC management or relevant power/hardware/industrial capacity
- Ideally large datacenter or power infrastructure project management experience requiring long term planning and upstream alignment rather than last minute brute force
- Experience operating from scrappy startup phase to fortune 500…ideally in the same company
- Ideal B.S. Engineering: Chemical, Civil, Electrical or Mechanical Engineering
- Project Management Professional certification (PMP)
- Scheduling software programs: Microsoft Project, ERP and MRP systems
Pay
Salary Ranges: $200,100.00 - $287,900.00