Project Executive

Key Responsibilities

• Maintain executive ownership and accountability for the successful execution of all Commercial & Industrial (C&I) solar EPC projects.
• Oversee portfolio-wide performance related to safety, quality, schedule, customer satisfaction, profitability, and operational execution.
• Provide executive leadership throughout all project phases including pre-construction, engineering coordination, procurement, construction, commissioning, turnover, and warranty transition.
• Establish and maintain operational standards, project governance procedures, and execution expectations across the project organization.
• Serve as the executive escalation point for major project, customer, subcontractor, commercial, or operational issues.

• Maintain full P&L responsibility for the C&I project portfolio.
• Drive portfolio profitability through strong forecasting, cost management, subcontractor strategy, risk mitigation, and operational efficiency.
• Review and approve major project budgets, cost forecasts, contingency utilization, and cost-to-complete projections.
• Lead commercial strategy regarding change orders, claims management, schedule recovery, and contract risk mitigation.
• Evaluate, accept, reject, price, assess risk, negotiate, and align change orders with responsible parties.
• Ensure accurate revenue forecasting, margin protection, and financial reporting across all active projects.
• Track, complete, and bill project milestones, progress billings, schedule of value items, and contractual invoicing requirements in a timely manner.
• Collaborate with finance and project management teams to support accounts receivable performance, billing accuracy, invoice timing, and overall project cash management.
• Collaborate with finance and executive leadership regarding project financial performance and operational forecasting.
• Refine, validate, and continuously improve project budgeting assumptions, labor models, production rates, subcontractor pricing strategies, execution methodologies, contingency structures, and operational cost forecasting for future C&I project bids.
• Provide operational feedback and lessons learned from active and completed projects to support estimating accuracy, bid competitiveness, and margin protection.

• Serve as the executive-level customer representative for strategic accounts and major projects.
• Maintain ownership of customer satisfaction and long-term customer relationship health across the C&I portfolio.
• Lead executive project reviews, customer escalation meetings, commercial negotiations, and strategic discussions.
• Support business development and preconstruction teams by providing operational input, constructability guidance, execution strategy recommendations, and delivery planning.
• Ensure customer expectations are proactively managed and aligned throughout project execution.
• Partner closely with Sales and Marketing teams to ensure successful projects are properly documented, highlighted, and showcased to support customer advocacy, company branding, market positioning, case studies, reference development, and future business opportunities.
• Support customer relationship development initiatives by helping identify and cultivate highly satisfied customers for testimonials, referrals, repeat business opportunities, and strategic partnerships.

• Ensure consistent execution standards across project management, field operations, subcontractor coordination, and project controls.
• Drive accountability for project schedule performance, quality standards, documentation, reporting, and operational execution.
• Oversee project health reviews, schedule reviews, forecasting reviews, and operational performance metrics.
• Lead organizational initiatives focused on operational scalability, standardization, and continuous improvement.
• Collaborate cross-functionally with engineering, procurement, safety, quality, commissioning, estimating, construction leadership, sales, and marketing teams to improve execution efficiency and project outcomes.
• Assist in developing standardized project execution assumptions and operational best practices to support scalable project delivery and accurate bid development.

• Lead subcontractor strategy, procurement coordination, and subcontractor performance oversight across the C&I portfolio.
• Review and approve subcontractor agreements, scopes of work, commercial terms, and major procurement commitments.
• Review and approve subcontractor scopes of work (SOW), contractual obligations, and execution requirements to ensure operational and commercial alignment.
• Ensure subcontractor risk exposure is appropriately managed through contract structure, execution oversight, and operational controls.
• Support resolution of subcontractor disputes, performance deficiencies, and commercial negotiations.

• Ensure project-specific risk management plans are developed, maintained, and actively managed throughout the project lifecycle.
• Evaluate and proactively address project risks that could impact safety, quality, schedule, profitability, customer relationships, or company reputation.
• Support development of recovery plans, mitigation strategies, contingency planning, and contractual protections for at-risk projects.
• Collaborate with executive leadership, finance, legal, and operations teams to manage organizational project exposure and commercial risk.

• Champion a proactive safety culture and reinforce organizational safety expectations across all projects.
• Maintain executive accountability for portfolio-wide project safety performance and safety compliance.
• Ensure compliance with OSHA requirements, contractual obligations, company procedures, customer standards, and applicable regulatory requirements.
• Support and reinforce field safety initiatives, training expectations, incident prevention efforts, and corrective action implementation.
• Collaborate closely with safety leadership, construction management, subcontractors, and field personnel to continuously improve safety performance and reduce operational risk exposure.

• Maintain executive accountability for portfolio-wide quality performance across all C&I projects.
• Ensure company quality assurance and quality control (QA/QC) procedures, standards, inspections, documentation requirements, and execution processes are consistently implemented and adhered to across all projects.
• Collaborate closely with the company’s Quality Department, field teams, subcontractors, engineering, and construction leadership to drive continuous quality improvement initiatives.
• Ensure the operational feedback loop between project execution teams and the Quality Department is fully closed on all identified quality concerns, corrective actions, process improvements, lessons learned, and requested QC updates.