Civil Commercial Manager - PV Solar Projects

Job Role : Manager Civil Commercial

Location : South Jakarta, Indonesia

Reports to (Job Role) : Business Development Manager (South East Asia) in Jakarta, Indonesia

Job Role : Civil Commercial (Cost Estimation, Project Coordination for Civil

Activities in Solar Projects)

Minimum Qualification :

• Bachelors degree in civil engineering or anything higher (Mandatory)
• A combination of experience in solar sector in civil costing, civil technicalities, civil design codes, project management/site engineer experience of execution, handling civil subcontractors in Solar (mandatory), transmission line and substation (preferable)
• Availability to travel up to 20-30% (within city) and 10-20% (outstation)
• Work experience/Networks with Government agencies in Indonesia relevant for Renewable projects
• To speak Bahasa Indonesia fluently and English to a level that enables them to coordinate with the global Clients/ Core internal team in India to do the jobs effectively

Relevant Experience : 08 to 12 years (Preferably in large scale ground mounted solar sector)

Additional : Candidate should be available to start immediately.

Objective / Purpose:

Shall be primarily responsible for Techno-commercial evaluation of tenders for Civil Works, Coordination with relevant internal and external stake holders, Collection of market rates / inputs, risk assessment, evaluating possible cost optimization measures and costing of tender BOQ. Additionally, coordinate with Project Sites for the initial civil set up and further, monitor the civil work progress periodically and expedite by providing necessary support to Project team.

Job Summary:

We are seeking a highly experienced and skilled Techno-commercial Civil Manager for bidding and executing solar projects with power evacuation across Indonesia with diversified experience in Cost Estimation, Civil designing, Civil Subcontractor Management, Civil Site Execution and Project planning to join our team. The successful candidate will be primarily responsible for working closely with the Business Development Manager (BDM) managing the cost estimation, budget preparation, risk analysis, subcontractor management (Installation and Erection) and cost control. Additionally, upon project award, the candidate shall be responsible for coordination with the execution team for the civil related works and provide necessary support. Responsible for coordination with project site execution teams across Indonesia (Java, Sumatra, Kalimantan, Bali, Sulawesi and other areas).

The ideal candidate will have good interpersonal skills, excellent communication, negotiation skills for finalization of order, and prior site execution experience skills.

Key Responsibilities:

• Work closely with Business Development Manager and accompany for client offices, government agencies, suppliers and subcontractors to enable order inflow in Indonesia.
• Preliminary evaluation of tender technical specifications & drawings for civil works
• Coordination with tender team & design team for detailed technical evaluation of tenders
• Identification of potential risks & raising technical query if any for the same
• Coordination with Site Visit Team for collection of site inputs & local market rates for civil costing
• Deployment of technical agencies during initial stages of Bid for preliminary activities like soil investigation / hydrology / bathymetry to ascertain the site & for competitive design.
• Evaluation of design BOQ against the tender requirements
• Evaluation of possible cost optimization measures as per the tender requirements
• Collections of quotes / offers from market/ subcontractors for critical & major items.
• Costing of tender BOQ
• Collection & evaluation of competitor technical & execution strategy.
• Maintaining cost database of tenders
• Competitor Analysis & Identification, Evaluation and Introduction of New Vendors/ sub-contractors from market
• Understanding of civil GFC drawings from design team, internal estimation of the same, identification of relevant contractors for work execution, floating of enquiries, follow-up and collection of quotations;
• Negotiation with contractors technically & commercially for finalization of unit rates for all civil works.
• Finalization of civil vendors & terms & conditions with subcontractors and preparation of Comparison statements / Management Approvals for work order initiation.
• Coordinate with project team to monitor the civil progress in site and take necessary steps for timely completion if any lag found.

Technical Expertise

Experience in tendering / costing of solar projects (mandatory), and additionally in TL, Substation (preferred)

Experience in tendering / costing of Power, Heavy civil and Infrastructure Projects

Adequate knowledge in IS/Equivalent codes/other civil codes relevant to the job profile.

Operating Network

Internally: Tendering Team, Tender Design Team, Operations Teams, Project Managers, Planning Engineer

Externally: Client Technical Team/Sub-contractors for civil works, erection activities/Government agencies

Key Value Drivers

Customer Satisfaction

Stakeholder Management

Time & Cost Management

Software Skills Required

MS Office - Word, Excel, Power point, etc

AutoCAD, Google Earth and any other civil related software knowledge shall be added advantage.

Knowledge in Project management tools preferably MSP & Primavera

Behavioral Attributes

Good interpersonal and intrapersonal skills

Negotiation skills

Logical thinking & reasoning

Good problem-solving skills.

Providing attention to details

Be Productive/ results orientated.

Good communication skills.