ABOUT THE ROLE

The Estimating Manager is responsible for leading the development of accurate and competitive cost estimates for utility-scale solar, storage, and related high-voltage infrastructure projects across all phases of development and construction. You will be involved in creating and managing the estimating process, coordinating with internal teams and external vendors, and ensuring alignment with project scope, schedule, and financial targets.

WHAT YOU'LL DO

• Lead the end-to-end estimating process for utility-scale solar projects, from conceptual design through final bid submission and change order accuracy.
• Develop detailed cost breakdowns for all project components, including civil, structural, electrical, and interconnection scopes.
• Collaborate with engineering, supply chain, and construction teams to ensure estimates align with design specifications and construction methodologies.
• Analyze project drawings, technical documents, and scope narratives to identify cost drivers, risks, and opportunities.
• Solicit and evaluate quotes from contractors and vendors, ensuring competitive pricing and scope alignment.
• Maintain and continuously improve historical cost databases, unit pricing libraries, and benchmarking tools.
• Prepare and present estimate summaries, variance analyses, and cost models to senior leadership and project stakeholders.
• Support the development of bid strategies, value engineering options, and alternative delivery methods to optimize project economics.
• Monitor market trends, labor rates, material costs, and supply chain dynamics to inform estimating assumptions.
• Participate in post-award reviews and cost reconciliation efforts to compare actual costs against estimates and improve future accuracy.
• Collaborate with individual department, as well as cross-functionally with other departments within the organization.
• Maintain organizational excellence in terms of project timelines and deliverables.
• Demonstrates the Clēnera Core Values of Caring, Committed, and Courageous.
• Other duties as assigned.

MINIMUM REQUIREMENTS

• Education: Bachelor’s degree in construction management, engineering, finance, or related field or equivalent.
• Experience:
  • Minimum of 8 years of experience in construction estimating.
  • Minimum of 5 years of experience in estimating utility-scale renewable energy projects or other large infrastructure projects.
• Technology: Proficiency with estimating softwares, Procore, and Microsoft Office Suite, and an ability to learn company-specific software programs, tools, processes, and machines.
• Skills/Attributes:
  • Advanced knowledge of construction estimating principles and cost modeling techniques.
  • Proficiency in estimating software (e.g., HeavyBid, RSMeans, Excel-based tools).
  • Strong analytical skills and attention to detail in reviewing land maps, Google Earth project related data, technical documents and cost data.
  • Ability to interpret engineering drawings, specifications, and scopes of work.
  • Excellent communication and presentation skills for cross-functional collaboration.
  • Familiarity with solar PV systems, electrical infrastructure, and civil construction practices.
  • Self-motivated to work through complex problems and competing priorities, including a high level of detail and organization.
  • Effective verbal and written communication skills.
• Travel: 15%

BENEFITS

• Clēnera pays 100% of employee and dependent premiums for a suite of medical, dental, and vision coverages.
• Hybrid Work Environment
• HSA and FSA Plans Available
• Employee Assistance Program
• Retirement Plan with Employer Match
• Life Insurance (Basic, Voluntary, and AD&D
• Paid Time Off (Vacation and Public Holidays)
• Incentive Pay and RSU Plans

*Recruiting agencies, we are not currently accepting unsolicited referrals for this or any open role. We will not pay any fee associated with unsolicited referrals. 

ABOUT THE ROLE

The Director of Construction – Solar & BESS is responsible for leading the successful delivery of utility-scale solar and energy storage projects. You will oversee project execution from late term development through final completion and hand off to Portfolio Operations, ensuring contract compliance, budget adherence, schedule performance, scope accuracy, and stakeholder alignment. The position plays a critical role in driving a portfolio of project governance, identifying and mitigating risks, resolving escalated issues, and ensuring consistent execution practices across the national portfolio.

Please Note: Most of the Construction team is based in the Boise HQ, so we have a strong preference of having this person in Boise. However, we are open to considering remote arrangements for exceptionally qualified individuals. 

WHAT YOU'LL DO

• Report directly to the VP of Construction on portfolio health and associated risks. Provide weekly reports sufficient to be shared with executive leadership.
• Lead and manage a team of owner’s project managers, providing strategic direction, mentorship, and performance oversight across multiple concurrent projects.
• Oversee the successful execution of EPC and subcontractor contracts, ensuring compliance with commercial terms, scope, schedule, and quality expectations.
• Serve as the primary escalation point for solar project issues, facilitating resolution through collaboration with internal departments and external partners.
• Develop and implement solar project execution strategies that align with corporate objectives and drive consistency, efficiency, and risk mitigation.
• Monitor project performance metrics, budgets, and schedules, and provide executive-level reporting on regional portfolio health.
• Coordinate with development, engineering, supply chain, pre-construction and legal teams to ensure seamless project handoffs and execution readiness.
• Support change order management and claims resolution in collaboration with legal and commercial teams.
• Foster strong relationships with key stakeholders, including utilities, local authorities, and community representatives.
• Ensure adherence to corporate governance, safety, and environmental standards across all regional projects.
• Contribute to continuous improvement initiatives by identifying process gaps and implementing best practices in project delivery.
• Responsible for aspects of hiring, training, mentoring and developing employees, holding weekly project review meetings and team meetings.
• Creating standardization processes, work plans, and tools for successful project delivery.
• Responsible for managing the department’s budget and project level change orders.
• Collaborate with cross-functional teams and represent the department as the main point of contact.
• Maintain organizational excellence in terms of project timelines and deliverables.
• Demonstrates the Clēnera Core Values of Caring, Committed, and Courageous.
• Other duties as assigned.

MINIMUM REQUIREMENTS

• Education: Bachelor’s degree in construction management, engineering, architecture, business, public administration, or related field, or equivalent work experience.
• Experience: Minimum of 10 years of experience managing the construction of utility-scale solar and energy storage projects.
• Technology: Proficiency with Microsoft Office Suite, Procore, P6, and an ability to learn company-specific software programs, tools, processes, and machines.
• Skills/Attributes:
  • Proven experience assessing, understanding the potential impacts to the project, reporting project risks, and providing strategic recommendations to executive level leadership.
  • Deep understanding of contract estimates, change order negotiation, schedule and budget for utility-scale solar and storage projects, and has extensive experience leading the strategy around scheduling and budgeting inputs during execution.
  • Strategically makes contractual decisions associated with the EPC Agreement, and has a deep understanding of the innerworkings between project agreements.
  • Strong existing relationships with EPCs, subcontractors, Unions and other regional contractors.
  • Deep understanding of cost, schedule, and scope of the project and has the ability to see, understand, and communicate to project teams how company-level strategy impacts project-level decisions.
  • Knowledge of construction deliverables, including the ability to interpret requirements and support project teams in executing deliverables and compliance.
  • Experienced in providing effective leadership, guiding teams towards shared goals with clear direction, support, and motivation.
  • Proven ability to build, navigate, and manage complex interpersonal relationships and conflicts, fostering collaborative relationships internally and externally.
  • Deep understanding of contractual obligations across the project lifecycle to foresee potential conflicts.
  • Self-motivated to work through complex problems and competing priorities, including a high level of detail and organization.
  • Effective verbal and written communication skills.
• Travel: 25%

BENEFITS

• Clēnera pays 100% of employee and dependent premiums for a suite of medical, dental, and vision coverages.
• Hybrid Work Environment
• HSA and FSA Plans Available
• Employee Assistance Program
• Retirement Plan with Employer Match
• Life Insurance (Basic, Voluntary, and AD&D
• Paid Time Off (Vacation and Public Holidays)
• Incentive Pay and RSU Plans

*Recruiting agencies, we are not currently accepting unsolicited referrals for this or any open role. We will not pay any fee associated with unsolicited referrals. 

ABOUT THE ROLE

The HV & Commissioning Project Manager represents the Owner (IPP) and leads all high-voltage (HV), protection & controls (P&C), SCADA/communications, testing, and commissioning activities for utility-scale solar  and energy storage assets. This role owns cost, schedule, scope, quality, and risk for the HV build and commissioning phases from pre-functional checks through energization, interconnection testing, COD, and turnover to Operations. Functions as the primary interface with utilities, Owner’s engineers, EPCs, testing/commissioning vendors, and internal stakeholders, ensuring systems are safe, compliant, utility-approved, and reliable for long-term operations.

WHAT YOU'LL DO

• Own end-to-end HV and site wide commissioning project planning and control, establishing the WBS, baseline schedule, cash flow forecasts, procurement milestones, and resource plans.
• Drive weekly schedule reviews, recovery planning, and critical path management with EPC and site leadership.
• Lead HV and site wide commissioning cost management and forecasting, including monthly EAC/EVA updates, change order pricing validation, contingency management, pay application review/approval, and alignment of financial reporting with Project Controls and Finance.
• Direct contract administration, ensuring scope clarity, deliverable compliance, and change management discipline; draft, negotiate, and recommend change orders and claims with clear schedule/cost impact analyses.
• Coordinate cross-functional execution to ensure design completeness, permitting compliance, interconnection readiness, and QA/QC adherence.
• Execute risk management throughout the lifecycle, maintaining the risk register, quantifying impacts, implementing mitigations, and escalating strategic risks to senior leadership with recommended actions.
• Drive site safety culture and compliance, integrating HSSE requirements into schedules and work plans and ensuring EPC adherence to safety KPIs and incident reporting.
• Manage external stakeholder relationships, including utilities, AHJs, landowners, third party inspectors, and lenders’ engineers, ensuring timely reviews, approvals, and alignment on critical path items.
• Produce executive ready reports and presentations, summarizing progress, risks, cash flow, and forecasted outcomes for internal leadership and, when applicable, board-level review.
• Mentor and guide other members of the project team, delegating workstreams, providing technical direction, and building execution discipline across the project team.
• Lead lessons learned and continuous improvement, capturing insights during closeout and feeding back process and contract improvement recommendations to Construction leadership.
• Collaborate with individual departments, as well as cross-functionally with other departments within the organization.
• Maintain organizational excellence in terms of project timelines and deliverables.
• Demonstrates the Clēnera Core Values of Caring, Committed, and Courageous.
• Other duties as assigned.

MINIMUM REQUIREMENTS

• Education: Bachelor’s degree in construction management, electrical engineering, , business, or related field experience.
• Experience:
  • Minimum of 5 years of experience in HV construction and commissioning project management.
  • Minimum of 2 years of experience executing utility-scale renewable energy projects.
• Technology: Proficiency with Microsoft Office Suite, and an ability to learn company-specific software programs, tools, processes, and machines.
• Skills/Attributes:
  • Strong understanding of schedule and cost controls, including critical path analysis, recovery planning, earned value, EAC forecasting, and cash flow management.
  • Strong EPC contract administration and negotiation skills, capable of structuring clear change orders, resolving claims, and driving accountability to contractual obligations.
  • Technical fluency in utility scale HV, construction, including civil works, MV/HV systems, SCADA, protection/controls, energy storage technology and commissioning sequences.
  • Adept at identifying systemic and emergent risks, quantifying impacts, and implementing mitigation actions that protect COD and budget objectives.
  • Ability to build trust and effectively coordinate with utilities, AHJs, inspectors, lenders’ engineers, and EPC executives to clear critical path issues.
  • Clear, persuasive communication, producing concise, decision ready reporting for senior leadership and guiding the project team toward shared outcomes.
  • Demonstrated ability to lead highly effective teams, both internally and externally.
  • Self-motivated to work through complex problems and competing priorities, including a high level of detail and organization.
  • Effective verbal and written communication skills.
• Travel: 25%

BENEFITS

• Clēnera pays 100% of employee and dependent premiums for a suite of medical, dental, and vision coverages.
• Hybrid Work Environment
• HSA and FSA Plans Available
• Employee Assistance Program
• Retirement Plan with Employer Match
• Life Insurance (Basic, Voluntary, and AD&D
• Paid Time Off (Vacation and Public Holidays)
• Incentive Pay and RSU Plans

*Recruiting agencies, we are not currently accepting unsolicited referrals for this or any open role. We will not pay any fee associated with unsolicited referrals. 

ABOUT THE ROLE

The Commissioning Manager is responsible for creating and overseeing the commissioning process of utility-scale high-voltage, solar, and energy storage projects, ensuring all systems are tested, verified, and fully operational prior to project handover. You will be responsible for coordinating with internal teams and external stakeholders to validate system performance, troubleshoot issues, and ensure compliance with technical specifications and safety standards. The position requires extensive fieldwork and technical expertise in photovoltaic systems, energy storage systems, high-voltage systems, SCADA and associated infrastructure.

WHAT YOU'LL DO

• Develop and manage commissioning contract exhibits, plans, schedules, and procedures for photovoltaic systems, energy storage systems, high-voltage systems, SCADA, and associated infrastructure.
• Coordinate with engineering, construction, and operations teams to ensure seamless transition from construction to operational status.
• Manage on-site Commissioning Managers and vendors to lead on-site testing and verification of electrical, mechanical, and communications systems, including inverters, transformers, SCADA, trackers, energy storage systems and all substation point-to-point testing with utilities and other AHJs.
• Coordinate, produce, and communicate accurate test energy schedules to the utility.
• Review and validate installation quality and system performance against design specifications and industry standards.
• Contract and manage third-party testing and inspection activities, ensuring compliance with regulatory and contractual requirements.
• Create a Commissioning plan and Clenera LOTO process
• Review and monitor all EPC lock out, tag out (LOTO) processes and ensure acceptance by external stakeholders.
• Troubleshoot and resolve technical issues during commissioning, escalating as needed to engineering or vendor support.
• Document commissioning results, punch lists, and final acceptance criteria; ensure all deficiencies are tracked and resolved.
• Maintain accurate records of commissioning activities, including test reports, certifications, and as-built documentation.
• Ensure safety protocols are followed during all commissioning activities.
• Support training and handover processes for operations and maintenance teams.
• Collaborate with individual department, as well as cross-functionally with other departments within the organization.
• Maintain organizational excellence in terms of project timelines and deliverables.
• Demonstrates the Clēnera Core Values of Caring, Committed, and Courageous.
• Other duties as assigned.

MINIMUM REQUIREMENTS

• Education: Bachelor’s degree in construction management, engineering (electrical or mechanical), or related field, or equivalent years of commissioning experience.
• Experience: Minimum of 8 years of experience in commissioning utility-scale renewable energy projects.
• Licensure/Certification: OSHA 30, NETA III
• Technology: Proficiency with Microsoft Office Suite, Procore and an ability to learn company-specific software programs, tools, processes, and machines.
• Skills/Attributes:
  • Strong understanding of photovoltaic systems, energy storage systems, high-voltage systems, protection and control, SCADA and associated infrastructure.
  • Excellent project management and organizational skills.
  • Ability to interpret engineering drawings, specifications, and technical manuals.
  • Proficiency in commissioning software and data analysis tools.
  • Familiarity with NERC, NEC, IEEE, and other relevant standards.
  • Self-motivated to work through complex problems and competing priorities, including a high level of detail and organization.
  • Excellent commissioning knowledge of all equipment used for Solar, BESS and HV. Vendor pitfalls and shortcomings are an additional plus.
  • Longstanding relationship with vendor commissioning teams.
  • Effective verbal and written communication skills.
• Travel: Up to 40% during commissioning.

BENEFITS

• Clēnera pays 100% of employee and dependent premiums for a suite of medical, dental, and vision coverages.
• Hybrid Work Environment
• HSA and FSA Plans Available
• Employee Assistance Program
• Retirement Plan with Employer Match
• Life Insurance (Basic, Voluntary, and AD&D
• Paid Time Off (Vacation and Public Holidays)
• Incentive Pay and RSU Plans

*Recruiting agencies, we are not currently accepting unsolicited referrals for this or any open role. We will not pay any fee associated with unsolicited referrals.