A utility-scale solar plant with battery storage, built to supply a mining operation with reliable, lower-carbon power. The site is remote, the supply chain runs through three continents, and the plant must integrate with the mine’s existing power system.
Our role: Senior Project Manager leading end-to-end EPC delivery, reporting to the COO.
What we did
- Directed a 20-strong project team across engineering, procurement, logistics, subcontracting, insurance and commercial workstreams.
- Negotiated the principal Supply and Installation Agreements with the client’s legal and commercial teams, settling positions on commissioning liability, retention and delivery risk.
- Structured and negotiated multi-million dollar subcontracts for civil, mechanical and electrical scopes, from first redline to counter-signature.
- Mobilised a site workforce of 450.
- Ran international logistics for 41 shipments and more than 170 containers of modules, mounting structures, inverters and battery units.
- Set up shipment tracking, goods receipt inspection protocols and supplier performance controls to protect the commissioning critical path.
- Prepared variation orders for client approval and managed formal instructions to subcontractors.
