About NovaSource
NovaSource Power Services is the world's #1-ranked solar operations and maintenance (O&M) provider and insight-driven total asset optimization partner for renewables asset owners ready to fuel smart growth. With over 20 years of operating experience and a presence on 5 continents, NovaSource has the global reach and strategic capabilities to achieve our clients renewables goals around the world.
NovaSource's comprehensive approach to total asset optimization in addition to O&M services includes value engineering, performance analysis, strategic supply chain management, and advanced monitoring systems. The company operates in key global markets managing over 30GW of solar power plants. NovaSource's expertise extends beyond solar and includes battery energy storage systems (BESS), offering a complete suite of services for the evolving renewable energy landscape.
Summary Of Role
The Project Integration Manager owns the planning, coordination, and execution of mobilization and integration for solar and BESS O&M projects across NovaSource's global portfolio. This role is based in the Philippines and will primarily support clients and project teams in Australia, with occasional support to EMEA regions as business needs require.
This role manages multiple concurrent projects across time zones and serves as a direct, confident point of coordination between customers and internal teams. Success requires strong judgment, clear communication, and the ability to push back professionally when scope, timing, or risk must be managed.
This is not an order-taking role. The Project Integration Manager is expected to influence outcomes, enforce boundaries, and proactively drive action with clients and internal stakeholders in Australia and EMEA.
What This Role Is Not
- Not a passive coordination or task-tracking role
- Not a role focused only on internal support
- Not suitable for someone uncomfortable challenging clients or influencing senior stakeholders
What Success Looks Like
- Australian projects progress on schedule with minimal escalation
- Clients receive clear guidance and firm expectationsnot over-accommodation
- Internal teams trust decisions and direction coming from this role
- Risks and conflicts are surfaced early with recommended actions
- Scope, schedule, and responsibility boundaries are consistently enforced
Key Responsibilities
Project Leadership & Execution
- Lead mobilization, integration, and onboarding of solar and BESS O&M sites, primarily for Australian clients
- Manage schedules, milestones, and dependencies across multiple active projects and regions
- Proactively identify risks related to scope, timing, resourcing, or regional constraints and drive mitigation actions
Client & Stakeholder Management
- Serve as the primary point of contact for Australian clients, setting and reinforcing clear expectations
- Confidently manage challenging client requests, including pushing back when requests fall outside scope or introduce risk
- Communicate clearly and directly across time zones, cultures, and organizational levels
- Provide support to EMEA projects as required
Cross-Functional Influence
- Coordinate across Operations, Engineering, Safety, Commercial, IT, and regional teams
- Influence without authority to align stakeholders and drive execution
- Hold internal and external parties accountable to commitments and timelines
Change & Issue Management
- Evaluate change requests, clearly communicate impacts, and recommend go/no-go decisions
- Own issue resolution from identification through closure
- Escalate issues only when necessaryand always with a clear recommendation
Reporting & Continuous Improvement
- Deliver concise, decision-ready project updates for Australian and EMEA stakeholders
- Conduct post-integration reviews focused on lessons learned and process improvement
Preferred Qualifications
- Bachelor's degree required
- 58 years of hands-on project management experience managing complex, multi-stakeholder projects
- Proven ability to manage high workloads across multiple time zones
- Demonstrated experience setting boundaries with clients or senior stakeholders
- Strong independent judgment and comfort making decisions without constant escalation
- Financial literacy in budgeting, forecasting, and change management
- Clear, direct written and verbal communication skills
- Proficiency in Microsoft Office; MS Project or similar tools preferred
- Willingness to align working hours to support Australian business hours when required
Office Physical Requirements
All positions in our office require interaction with people and technology while either standing or sitting. In order to best service our customers, internal and external, all associates must be able to communicate face-to-face and on the phone with or without reasonable accommodation. NovaSource is committed to compliance with its obligations under all applicable state and federal laws prohibiting employment discrimination. In keeping with this commitment, it attempts to reasonably accommodate applicants and employees in accordance with the requirements of the disability discrimination laws. It also invites individuals with disabilities to participate in a good faith, interactive process to identify reasonable accommodations that can be made without imposing an undue hardship.
Potential candidates will meet the education and experience requirements provided on the above job description and excel in completing the listed responsibilities for this role.
