Senior Project Manager - Mainspring Energy, Inc.

Company Overview

Mainspring Energy is revolutionizing power generation with the world’s most flexible and adaptable onsite power generator, the Mainspring Linear Generator. Commercial, industrial, and utility leaders are choosing Mainspring over traditional options like engines, turbines, and fuel cells to quickly and reliably deliver local power for EV charging, commercial facilities, data centers, and grid-scale operations. The Mainspring Linear Generator is fuel flexible, ramps up and down to meet demand, and utilizes a flameless technology with near-zero NOx emissions.

Backed by top-tier investors such as Khosla Ventures, Bill Gates, American Electric Power, and Lightrock, Mainspring designs, manufactures and delivers its products to customers across the U.S. today, and we’re quickly scaling for international expansion.

Inspired by our vision of the affordable, reliable, net-zero carbon grid, Mainspring is rapidly expanding within the $816B global electricity equipment market, and we’re hiring the best talent to meet growing customer demand around the globe. We welcome a broad range of backgrounds, experiences, and talents to bring fresh perspectives and ongoing innovation to our customers.

We are looking to build relationships with people who share our values:

• Pragmatic Optimism. Building a new category of world-class power generation requires the optimism of ambition and creativity, balanced with practicality to solve problems efficiently. The challenges that arise are opportunities for growth.

• Excellence without Ego. We bring expertise and commitment to creating the best customer experience, from sales to deployment and service, just as we apply deep technical rigor to building and delivering world-class products. We strive for excellence and behave as leaders with the humility to acknowledge our challenges, both collectively and as individual contributors.

• Proactive Collaboration. The integration and cross-disciplinary nature of Mainspring’s business requires intentionally seeking out others who bring different skills, perspectives, and priorities. Our culture of inclusion and respect extends beyond our team to interactions with our partners and customers.

Mainspring is based in Menlo Park and has partnered with top-tier investors and utilities such as Khosla Ventures, Bill Gates, NextEra, and American Electric Power. More information can be found at www.mainspringenergy.com.

Responsibilities

A key enabler of Mainspring’s mission is the ability of its team to deliver solutions based on our linear generator technology that solve customer problems in the cross-section of resiliency and clean power generation. This includes site due diligence, design engineering, permitting, construction operations, and commissioning.

A Senior Project Manager Will:

• Provide an excellent customer experience being the point person for customer interactions during the project lifecycle.

• Directly execute multiple projects with full turnkey solutions concurrently at customer sites.

• Manage the permitting of gas and electrical interconnection processes across several municipalities and utilities.

• Coordinate with internal and external resources, customer stakeholders, contractors, engineers, and authorities having jurisdiction to deliver these projects.

• Effectively manage critical path of the project execution schedule to ensure on time projects.

• Mitigate and resolve technical issues in design, procurement and construction to ensure these do not impact the critical path.

• Prioritize and escalate issues as necessary to maintain critical path.

• Prepare bid packages and manage the contracts for engineering and subcontractors.

• Manage, meet, and progressively reduce cost targets.

• Support site visits and job walks throughout the project lifecycle.

• Maintain records and databases to regularly report progress to customers and internal stakeholders.

• Drive a culture of safety, quality and best practices in all aspects of a project's lifecycle.

• Manage project teams consisting of but not limited to:

  • Project Engineers, Project Administrators, Permitting Consultants, Product Engineers, Construction Management, QA/QC Department, etc.

• Manage site construction manager and QA/QC processes. Oversee health and safety programs on site and ensure compliance for all relevant parties.

• Coordinate product specifications, including submittal reviews and approvals.

• Negotiate Prime and Subcontract agreements. Manage change orders.

• Direct the project turnover documentation, warranty administration, project closeout, and record keeping/retention processes and procedures.

• Support communication with City, County, Building, Fire and other AHJ’s on project related topics.

• Environmental impact risks and mitigations.

Qualifications

• Over 7 years of experience in construction/project management (experience in distributed energy, solar, batteries, fuel cells, microgrids).

• Detailed understanding of development, contracting, procurement planning, construction, logistic, scheduling, estimating, and budgeting.

• Delivery and execution of project plans, writing RFPs, leading procurement activities and negotiations.

• Ability to utilize industry tools to track cost expenditures and budget allocations.

• Strong working knowledge of Microsoft Office software (Word, Excel, Project, PowerPoint) and/or Google workplace applications.

• Project Management software (Procore).

• Strong analytical and problem-solving skills, and attention to detail.

• Ability to handle large volumes of work and multi-task in a fast-paced environment.

• Ability to problem solve, think creatively, and timely resolve personnel and project-related issues.

• Excellent organization, documentation, written and verbal communication skills.

• Demonstrated experience with and full understanding of the following:

  • Planning/Building department (AHJ) dynamics and schedule risks.

  • Electrical interconnection process/gas upgrades process with utilities.

  • Contract negotiation.

  • RFP writing/management.

  • Budget management.

  • Project management process, tools, and software.

  • Estimating.

  • Contractor qualification.

  • Safety and Quality (QA/QC).

The Bay Area salary for this role is $109k-$128k base + bonus + pre-IPO stock options + benefits. This position is remote. The salary will be adjusted to reflect local market conditions based on employee location as well as the experience of the employee.

Does your experience not meet all of our posted requirements? Studies have shown that some people are less likely to apply to positions unless they meet every listed requirement. At Mainspring, we are committed to building a diverse, inclusive, flexible, and collaborative environment, so if you want to help us transition the world to clean and affordable electricity, and don’t meet all posted requirements for a particular role, we’d still love to hear from you. Mainspring can sometimes be flexible enough to shift responsibilities for the right person, or otherwise identify open or upcoming roles that may better fit your professional background.

In more traditional words, Mainspring Energy, Inc is an Equal Opportunity Employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, or protected veteran status and will not be discriminated against on the basis of disability.

This compensation and benefits information is based on Mainspring Energy's estimate as of the date of publication and may be modified in the future. We generally do not negotiate on salary once we have made an offer. The level of pay within the range will depend on a variety of job-related factors that may include location, relevant prior experience and/or education, or particular skills and expertise. New hires joining the company tend to be paid within the starting base pay range noted above, with opportunities to increase pay over time based on development of additional skills, competencies, and company-specific knowledge.