The Role
Owns commercial contracting and lifecycle governance for complex electrical infrastructure, energy, EPC, and design-build projects. Supports pre-award pursuits, contract reviews, negotiations, project handoffs, commercial risk, change management, claims documentation, payment and schedule impacts, subcontract flow-downs, and closeout. Coordinates Sales, Legal, Finance, Supply Chain, Operations, Estimating, and Project Management while improving workflows, templates, dashboards, training, and contract-management tools.
Summary Generated by Built In
Position SummaryABM Energy & Power Solutions (EPS) is seeking a Program Manager - Commercial Project Lifecycle to strengthen commercial discipline across complex electrical infrastructure, energy, EPC, and design-build projects. The position supports opportunities from early pursuit and proposal development through award, execution, and final closeout.
Working across Sales, Estimating, Development, Operations, Project Management, Supply Chain, Finance, and Legal, this role provides day-to-day ownership of the commercial contracting process, translates commitments into executable requirements, and helps project teams protect scope, schedule, margin, and cash flow. Support will be prioritized using a risk-based approach so the role can maintain the pre-execution responsiveness required by Sales while providing targeted support to active projects.Essential FunctionsCommercial Strategy & Pre-Award Support
Working across Sales, Estimating, Development, Operations, Project Management, Supply Chain, Finance, and Legal, this role provides day-to-day ownership of the commercial contracting process, translates commitments into executable requirements, and helps project teams protect scope, schedule, margin, and cash flow. Support will be prioritized using a risk-based approach so the role can maintain the pre-execution responsiveness required by Sales while providing targeted support to active projects.Essential FunctionsCommercial Strategy & Pre-Award Support
- Serve as the primary day-to-day commercial contracting resource supporting Sales from receipt of a proposed agreement through execution, with accountability for process ownership, coordination, and momentum.
- Coordinate cross-functional reviews; consolidate input; and maintain redlines, open-item and risk lists, negotiation matrices, decisions, approvals, version control, and a clear audit trail.
- Identify material commercial exposures involving scope, schedule, payment, performance obligations, liquidated damages, warranties, bonding, insurance, changes, and closeout.
- Develop commercial positions and negotiation priorities, participate in customer contract discussions as appropriate, and escalate legal interpretations and approvals to Legal.
- Confirm that proposal assumptions, pricing qualifications, supplier commitments, and customer requirements are aligned before execution.
- Lead the commercial handoff from pursuit to execution, ensuring commitments, qualifications, unresolved items, and approval conditions are clearly transferred to the project team.
- Prepare concise project commercial summaries and obligation matrices covering critical notices, milestones, payment terms, schedule requirements, changes, warranties, and closeout deliverables.
- Facilitate project commercial kickoff sessions and establish risk-based tracking for material obligations, decisions, correspondence, and commercial actions.
- Maintain visibility of significant commercial risks and opportunities and escalate items requiring leadership or Legal engagement.
- Partner with Project Managers and Project Controls to identify scope changes, customer directives, delays, differing conditions, supplier impacts, and other potential entitlement events.
- Support timely notices, reservations of rights, change-order substantiation, commercial correspondence, and tracking of approved, pending, and potential changes.
- Connect commercial events with cost, schedule, forecast, billing, and cash-flow impacts; highlight aging or material exposure through monthly project reviews.
- Support alignment of major subcontract and equipment-purchase obligations with applicable prime-contract requirements, including material flow-down gaps and supplier changes.
- Assist with claims documentation, event chronologies, and commercial positions, coordinating with Legal on disputes, interpretation, and other material legal matters.
- Promote appropriate documentation and authorization before material out-of-scope work proceeds.
- Coordinate commercial closeout requirements, including final changes, reconciliation, releases, warranties, lien waivers, and outstanding deliverables.
- Capture recurring issues and lessons learned and feed them back to Sales, Estimating, Development, Operations, Supply Chain, and Legal.
- Establish and continuously improve commercial review and execution processes, workflows, templates, tools, dashboards, and training, including evaluation and implementation of appropriate contract-management software.
- Apply risk-based tiering and scalable workflows so intensive support is focused on material pursuits and high-risk projects while routine activity follows standard tools and controls.
- Bachelor's degree in Construction Management, Legal, Engineering, Business, Finance, or a related discipline, or equivalent relevant experience.
- Five (5)+ years of experience in commercial construction, preconstruction, project management, project controls, estimating, commercial operations, or a related field.
- Experience supporting electrical infrastructure, energy, EPC, design-build, or other complex capital projects.
- Working knowledge of proposal qualifications, commercial terms, change management, notices, payment provisions, schedule impacts, warranties, bonding, insurance, and project closeout.
- Ability to translate complex commercial requirements into clear decisions and actions for cross-functional teams.
- Strong commercial judgment, communication, facilitation, organization, and negotiation skills, with the ability to influence across functions and manage multiple priorities.
- Experience with power, electrical construction, BESS, distributed generation, microgrids, EV infrastructure, switchgear, or major equipment procurement.
- Familiarity with AIA, ConsensusDocs, EPC/design-build agreements, and customized owner or general-contractor forms.
- Experience with ERP, project-management, document-control, or commercial workflow systems; CCM, PMP, CPCM/NCMA, or another relevant certification is beneficial.
Skills Required
- Bachelor's degree in Construction Management, Legal, Engineering, Business, Finance, a related discipline, or equivalent relevant experience
- Five or more years of experience in commercial construction, preconstruction, project management, project controls, estimating, commercial operations, or a related field
- Experience supporting electrical infrastructure, energy, EPC, design-build, or other complex capital projects
- Working knowledge of proposal qualifications, commercial terms, change management, notices, payment provisions, schedule impacts, warranties, bonding, insurance, and project closeout
- Ability to translate complex commercial requirements into clear decisions and actions for cross-functional teams
- Strong commercial judgment, communication, facilitation, organization, and negotiation skills, with the ability to influence across functions and manage multiple priorities
- Experience with power, electrical construction, BESS, distributed generation, microgrids, EV infrastructure, switchgear, or major equipment procurement
- Familiarity with AIA, ConsensusDocs, EPC/design-build agreements, and customized owner or general-contractor forms
- Experience with ERP, project-management, document-control, or commercial workflow systems
- CCM, PMP, CPCM/NCMA, or another relevant certification
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What We Do
RavenVolt, an ABM company, is a leading nationwide provider of advanced turn-key microgrid, utility battery, and EV solutions. Specializing in engineering, procurement, and construction (EPC) management, the company delivers tailored onsite energy solutions to increase reliability and resilience for commercial, industrial, and municipal customers, utilizing an expert team to design and install solar, battery storage, and custom switchgear systems.
