Manager, Construct Portfolio Delivery

Manager, Construct Portfolio Delivery What we do

At Terabase Energy, we believe that digitalization and automation will drive the next wave of innovation and cost reduction in large scale solar. To fully unlock the potential of this opportunity, Terabase is developing an interconnected software and construction automation platform. We work alongside project developers, owners, and engineering & construction firms to support the design, optimization, and construction of huge solar projects around the world. Our team is a blend of solar industry veterans and newbies, thought-leaders, dreamers, software, electrical and mechanical engineers, coders, product managers, project managers, and sales and marketing professionals. We are based in Northern California, with several other offices in the United States and around the world and operate as a remotely distributed team

Job Description

As the Manager, Portfolio Delivery within the Terabase Construct Operations organization, you will report to the Director, Operations & Delivery and lead a team of Project Managers at various experience levels and Project Coordinators responsible for successful customer delivery across a portfolio of utility-scale solar projects.

This role is accountable for the overall health, execution quality, operational consistency, and scalability of the Project Management function.

You will oversee team performance, customer outcomes, portfolio governance, perform resource planning, enable process maturity, and ensure cross-functional execution excellence across Product, Data Operations, Capture Technology, Sales, Finance, and Customer Success.

Success in this role requires balancing strategic thinking with operational rigor: developing people while ensuring predictable execution, high-quality delivery, scalable processes, and strong customer partnerships.

Responsibilities

Team Leadership & Organizational Development

• Lead, coach, and develop a team of diversely experienced Project Managers and Project Coordinators.

• Establish career ladders, development plans, succession planning, and performance expectations.

• Conduct regular performance reviews, coaching sessions, and calibration exercises.

• Drive accountability through measurable team goals and operational KPIs.

Lead hiring, onboarding, workforce planning, and organizational design.

• Foster a culture of ownership, execution excellence, collaboration, and continuous

improvement.

Portfolio Governance & Delivery Excellence

• Establish and drive metrics on portfolio-level health across schedule, delivery quality,

customer satisfaction, utilization, and financial performance utilizing the TBE preferred

PPM platform.

• Ensure projects are appropriately staffed and balanced across PM levels.

• Establish operating rhythms for project reviews, escalation management, and decisionmaking.

• Define portfolio reporting and visibility into project status, risks, capacity, and forecasts.

• Serve as escalation point for delivery issues and customer concerns.

• Partner with PMs to resolve complex execution blockers.

Customer Delivery & Strategic Partnerships

• Ensure delivery teams maintain exceptional customer engagement throughout project

lifecycle.

• Support executive customer relationships and participate in strategic customer

discussions where required.

• Drive consistency in customer communications, project governance, and delivery

standards.

• Identify opportunities to expand services and strengthen account health in partnership

with Sales.

• Represent customer priorities as the voice of the customer to Product and Operations

leadership to enable a feedback loop.

Operational Excellence & Process Standardization

• Develop and maintain PM standards, workflows, templates, and governance frameworks.

• Improve project lifecycle processes from intake through closeout.

• Establish quality controls across project setup, reporting, change management,

documentation, and customer deliverables.

• Partner with Operations and Product teams to identify automation opportunities and

reduce operational burden.

• Drive implementation and adoption of delivery tooling and systems.

Cross-Functional Execution

• Align delivery strategy with product roadmap, Data Operations, Capture Technology, and

Customer Success initiatives.

• Coordinate execution priorities across functions and remove organizational friction.

Support deployment of new products, workflows, and service offerings.

• Lead retrospectives and institutionalize lessons learned.

Business Operations & Planning

• Support annual planning, forecasting, and budget development.

• Monitor team utilization, delivery capacity, and hiring needs.

• Define operational metrics and dashboards to improve predictability and execution.

• Contribute to organizational strategy and long-term scaling initiatives.

Minimum Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in Engineering, Business, Construction Management, Energy, Operations, or related field.

• 8-10+ years of experience in project delivery, operations, construction technology, renewable energy, or adjacent industries.

• 3+ years of direct people leadership experience managing PMs or equivalent delivery organizations.

• Demonstrated success leading distributed or cross-functional teams.

• Strong experience managing portfolios rather than solely individual projects.

• Experience with project management and collaboration tools (JIRA, Confluence, Primavera P6, Cora, Wrike, Project Insight, or equivalent).

• Excellent communication, stakeholder management, and executive presentation skills.

• Ability to manage competing priorities across multiple customers and programs.

• Willingness to travel up to 30% of the year, primarily domestic to customer project sites and HQ offices.

Preferred Qualifications

• Master’s degree in engineering, project management, operations, or related field.

• PMP, PgMP, PMI-ACP, or equivalent certification.

• Experience in PMO, delivery, or customer operations functions.

• Experience supporting utility-scale solar, construction technology, GIS, remote sensing data, or data delivery environments.

• Familiarity with financial planning, resource forecasting, and operational KPIs.