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Salary: USD 185,000 - 255,000 / annual
Panthalassa is a renewable energy and ocean technology company developing devices that capture energy from the ocean for applications including computing and renewable fuels. The company is a public benefit corporation backed by leading venture capitalists, philanthropic investors, and university endowments, headquartered in Portland, Oregon.
You will establish and lead Panthalassa's owner-side capital project delivery function as the company's physical footprint and technical operations expand. Initially, you will personally lead major projects and perform planning, project control, owner's representation, and cross-functional coordination activities. As the portfolio grows, you will define how the function scales and build the internal team and delivery model through a combination of internal capabilities and external partners.
You will deliver new facilities, major renovations, power and utility upgrades, industrial infrastructure, and specialized R&D, test, prototyping, integration, and manufacturing environments through definition, design, permitting, construction, commissioning, and turnover.
Key responsibilities include:
**Capital Portfolio and Team Leadership:** Lead and prioritize a portfolio of concurrent facility, infrastructure, and technical-environment projects. Set each project's delivery strategy, scope, budget, schedule, risk profile, staffing approach, and acceptance criteria. Build and lead the capital projects team, beginning with Project Engineer and Project Coordinator capability and scaling as needed. Establish practical delivery standards and maintain clear portfolio-level reporting on priorities, staffing, progress, cost, schedule, risk, decisions, and dependencies.
**Power and Utility Infrastructure:** Lead construction execution, field coordination, energization, commissioning, and closeout for electrical service expansions and utility infrastructure projects. Coordinate with utilities, landlords, authorities, engineers, contractors, and internal technical owners. Direct construction and integration of substations, transformers, switchgear, distribution, standby power, metering, controls, cooling, and process utilities. Manage long-lead equipment, utility commitments, permitting dependencies, shutdowns, and energization milestones.
**Project Delivery:** Confirm that approved scope, design documents, permits, budget, schedule, contracts, risks, and operational acceptance criteria are ready for construction handoff. Serve as the accountable owner-side lead from construction mobilization through commissioning, turnover, and closeout, with regular presence at active project sites. Lead contractors, consultants, vendors, and commissioning providers. Manage field progress, safety, quality, sequencing, logistics, RFIs, submittals, changes, pay applications, schedules, punch lists, and material decisions. Ensure construction aligns with approved design documents, requirements, budget, and schedule. Resolve field conditions and coordinate design clarifications. Plan work in active facilities to protect people, equipment, and operations. Lead inspections, startup, functional testing, training, documentation, final acceptance, and operational transition.
**Cost, Schedule, Risk, and Change Control:** Manage project budgets, schedules, forecasts, contingencies, risk registers, cash flow, commitments, and estimated cost at completion. Evaluate changes for cost, schedule, and operational impact. Partner with Finance and Procurement on contracting, forecasting, accruals, invoicing, and capital reporting.
You should be comfortable moving between strategy and the field—shaping the delivery approach, challenging incomplete designs, managing cost and schedule, holding partners accountable, and resolving issues in active operating environments. You bring sound judgment, field credibility, and the ability to scale both projects and people without creating unnecessary bureaucracy. You thrive in a creative, scrappy, and collaborative environment in which the best ideas change the company's direction on a regular basis.
Regular on-site presence at Panthalassa's Portland, Oregon, and Vancouver, Washington, operations is required, with travel to other project and operating locations as needed. You must be able to periodically support critical installations, shutdowns, utility cutovers, and commissioning outside standard business hours, work safely in active industrial, fabrication, construction, marine, and field environments, and intermittently work longer hours and weekends to support critical needs.
**REQUIREMENTS:**
- Approximately 12 or more years of progressive experience delivering complex capital projects, industrial construction, advanced manufacturing facilities, technical laboratories, infrastructure, or similarly demanding built environments
- Demonstrated experience as an accountable owner-side project lead through definition, design, permitting, construction, commissioning, turnover, and closeout
- Strong record delivering multiple concurrent projects with meaningful capital exposure, complex stakeholder requirements, and hard operational deadlines
- Experience building or scaling a project-delivery capability, including hiring or leading Project Engineers, Project Coordinators, Project Managers, owner's representatives, or external construction-management resources
- Experience delivering electrical service or utility upgrades
- Strong field-execution, construction-administration, and project-controls experience, including budgets, schedules, forecasts, contracts, changes, pay applications, and closeout
- Ability to read and challenge drawings, specifications, estimates, schedules, proposals, contracts, and change requests across major building and infrastructure disciplines
- Experience delivering new construction or renovations within active manufacturing, engineering, laboratory, office, or other operating environments
- Strong judgment, direct communication, and ability to translate complex project conditions into clear decisions, trade-offs, and recommendations
**DESIRED QUALIFICATIONS:**
- Background in advanced manufacturing, aerospace, maritime, robotics, energy, semiconductor, data infrastructure, defense, automotive, heavy industrial, or another high-consequence technical environment
- Greenfield construction, major brownfield conversion, or large-scale manufacturing-facility buildouts
- Large electrical-service, substation, utility interconnection, cooling, process-infrastructure, heavy-equipment, or specialized testing projects
- Fast-track delivery experience where design, permitting, procurement, utility coordination, and construction overlap
- Site due diligence, technical lease review, facility-condition assessment, or geographically distributed project delivery
- Bachelor's degree in engineering, architecture, construction management, or related field (equivalent practical experience considered; professional credentials useful but practical judgment, ownership, field credibility, people leadership, and demonstrated project delivery matter more)
