Project Manager - Guelph, Canada - Canadian Solar

Canadian Solar

Verified Company

Guelph, Canada

3 weeks ago

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Sophia Lee

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Description

Canadian Solar aims to power the world with solar energy and to create a cleaner Earth for future generations. Our culture and people are our most important assets and a key source of our competitive advantage.

We strive to "Make the Difference" in our work by cultivating a corporate culture of equity, diversity, and inclusion, and creating a lasting positive impact on society and the communities where we operate.

Position Title:
Project Manager

Department:
Project Implementation and Operations

Entity:
CS e-STORAGE

Reports To:
Project Director

Location:
Hybrid, Waterloo, ON Canada or Project Site

Position Summary:

The Project Manager will be responsible for managing the execution of BESS projects from Limited Notice to Proceed activities through to Final Completion.

This will include managing and coordinating all related activities with various stakeholders, including internal departments, the client / owner, equipment vendors, EPCs and general contractors and various subcontractors to provide a 'turn-key' BESS project.

A significant amount of project management and EPC construction experience is required as well as demonstrated influence, negotiation, and conflict resolution skills.

Responsibilities:

Overall:

Manage the execution of one or more crossfunctional projects of medium to high complexity (quality, scope, schedule, cost, communication, resource issues, risks and customer satisfaction).
Serves as primary pointofcontact by establishing, maintaining and managing customer, subcontractor, and joint venture partner's expectations (where applicable) relating to project performance.
Responsible for assembling project plans and teamwork assignments, directing and monitoring work efforts on a daily basis, identifying resource needs, performing quality review, and escalating functionality, quality, timeline issues appropriately.
Coordinates communication with all areas of the organization that impacts the scope, budget, risk and resources of the work effort being managed.
Determine and assess need for additional staff and/or consultants and make the appropriate recruitments if necessary during project cycle.
Determine the frequency and content of status reports from the project team, analyze results, and troubleshoot problem areas.
Define project success criteria and disseminate them to involved parties throughout project life cycle.
Coach, mentor, motivate and supervise project team members and contractors, and influence them to take positive action and accountability for their assigned work.
Build, develop, and grow any business relationships vital to the success of the project.
Conduct project post mortems and create a recommendations report in order to identify successful and unsuccessful project elements.
Develop best practices and tools for project execution and management.
Ensure all environmental, health and safety policies and procedures are assigned.
Complete other duties and projects as

LNTP:

Support Sales and Application Engineering team with due diligence of Storage project opportunities.
Work in conjunction with inhouse system designers as well as subcontractors to prepare projectspecific system design plans that take into account customer site

- and project considerations as well as pertinent local codes and regulations.

Assist in estimation of project costs and development of project schedules.
Prepare, negotiate and manage surveying, geotech or other such work scopes to support project execution activities.
Develop and manage project requirements, division of responsibility, request for proposals and make procurement recommendation for construction and various supporting subcontractors.
Support commercial and legal team in preparing and negotiating EPC contracts.

Engineering:

Prepare, negotiate and manage design engineering contracts.
Manage construction permitting activities and ensure that all required construction permits have been obtained.
Schedules due dates for drawings, specifications, software, technical manuals, and other documents required to complete technical proposals.
Direct and support the Project Engineer in leading the engineering activities.

Procurement and Construction:

Oversee project execution to ensure that all systems are installed exactly according to plan and that there are no technical installation errors committed that would decrease system performance or lifespan or cause potential system failure.
Develop fullscale project plans and associated communications documents.
Identify and manage project dependencies and critical
Set and continually manage project expectations with team members and other stakeholders.
Delegate tasks and responsibilities to appropriate personnel.
Direct and support Project Coordinator in coordinating day to day project management activities.
Identify and resolve issues and conflicts within the project team.
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