Job Title
Solar Sales/Project Manager
About the Company
We are a local solar energy contracting firm located in Moss Landing, CA that provides solar and battery solutions for commercial, agricultural and residential clients on the Central Coast.
About the role
We are looking for a talented Solar Sales/Project Manager to assist us with our Sales team and Installation Team at Bright Future Solar Energy.
The position we are looking to fill will require the following but is not limited to:
Job Responsibilities:
- This is a full-time role and it’s expected that you will be in our Moss Landing office with the exception of when visiting job sites.
- Developing and working solar leads that come in directly to the business as well as those that you develop on your own.
- Assist with sales and marketing efforts for the company to improve lead generation.
- Preparing for and leading ongoing sales meetings with the team for updates to leads, opportunities and ongoing projects.
- Continuous management of all leads and opportunities in CRM tool Insightly, including providing ongoing pipeline updates to the CEO.
- Creation of residential and commercial solar proposals using Energy Tool Base and other associated tools such as Sketchup, including involvement on high complexity projects.
- Securing all contractual and addendum/change order related documents.
- Completion of accurate site surveys/audits and all required site survey documentation.
- Responsible for communicating changes to the overall plan w/ design team.
- Ensuring all aspects of the project are accounted for and planned accordingly, including specialty parts specified by the client and/or contractor.
- Management of customer expectations and relations.
- Main contact between the client and installation, accounting, and other teams.
- Responsible for visiting the project site at least at the kick off, at least once in the middle and the final handoff/walkthrough with the customer. Looking for quality issues to insure plans line up with install, to confirm customer is happy, and bring installation team good tidings and/or lunch or refreshments.
- Assist with and lead the Monday construction meeting in partnership with the lead foreman for current and new projects.
- Understand and Lead with vision in mind of bigger picture design, system goals, and end product delivery.
- First point of contact for all sales related questions.
Skills and Requirements:
- Sales in any capacity for a minimum of 3-5 years (in solar industry would be preferred)
- Excellent communication and detailed oriented skills.
- Solid understanding of CRM and proposal creation tools.
- Experience with managing a Sales Team and construction projects.
Licenses / Certifications
We consider ourselves a very flexible, employee and family friendly company to work for. At Bright Future Solar Energy we recognize and reward our employees as frequently as possible. We also encourage and help subsidize additional education, training and certifications that benefit our team members and company.
Compensation
- $30 an hour or $62,400 salary
- 4% commission on project sales
- Annual sales expectations: 25 residential projects (average $40,000 each project) or $1,000,000 of sales
Benefits
- Fully covered Medical, Vision and Dental for the employee
- Paid time off
- Paid company holidays
- 401k retirement plan (starts after 1 year of employment)
- Education Tuition Reimbursement (starts after 1 year of employment)
- Company vehicle to use when driving to jobs (stays at office)
