Director, Capital Project Delivery

The role

The Director will establish and lead the owner-side capital delivery function. They will deliver new facilities, major renovations, power and utility upgrades, industrial infrastructure, and specialized R&D, test, prototyping, integration, and manufacturing environments.

What you will do

• Lead and prioritize a portfolio of concurrent facility, infrastructure, and technical-environment projects.
• Set project delivery strategy, scope, budget, schedule, risk profile, staffing, and acceptance criteria.
• Build and lead the capital projects team.
• Establish practical delivery standards and maintain portfolio-level reporting.
• Lead construction execution, field coordination, energization, commissioning, turnover, and closeout for electrical service and utility infrastructure.
• Coordinate with utilities, landlords, authorities, engineers, contractors, and suppliers.
• Direct construction and integration of substations, transformers, switchgear, distribution, and related site infrastructure.
• Manage long-lead equipment, utility commitments, permitting, shutdowns, and energization milestones.
• Serve as the accountable owner-side lead from construction mobilization through closeout.
• Manage project budgets, schedules, forecasts, contingencies, risk registers, and cash flow.

Required qualifications

• Approximately 12 or more years of progressive experience delivering complex capital projects, industrial construction, advanced manufacturing facilities, technical laboratories, infrastructure, or sim
• Demonstrated experience as an accountable owner-side project lead through definition, design, permitting, construction, commissioning, turnover, and closeout.
• A 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-m
• 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 the ability to translate complex project conditions into clear decisions, trade-offs, and recommendations.
• Regular on-site presence at Panthalassa's Portland, Oregon, and Vancouver, Washington, operations.
• Ability to periodically support critical installations, shutdowns, utility cutovers, and commissioning outside standard business hours.
• Ability to work safely in active industrial, fabrication, construction, marine, and field environments.

Nice to have

• 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 in which design, permitting, procurement, utility coordination, and construction overlap.
• Site due diligence, technical lease review, facility-condition assessment, or geographically distributed project delivery.
• A bachelor's degree in engineering, architecture, construction management, or a related field

Benefits

• Flexible paid time off
• Health insurance (100% paid for employees, partners, and dependents)
• Dental insurance (100% paid for employees, partners, and dependents)
• Vision insurance (100% paid for employees, partners, and dependents)
• Disability insurance (100% paid for employees, partners, and dependents)
• Ability to contribute to tax-advantaged accounts, including 401(k), health FSA, and dependent care FSA
• Relocation assistance to facilitate your move to Portland (if needed)

About the company

Panthalassa is a renewable energy and ocean technology company focused on capturing ultra-low-cost renewable energy from oceans. The company is a public benefit corporation headquartered in Portland, Oregon.