Application Guide
How to Apply for Preconstruction Manager
at BoxPower Inc.
🏢 About BoxPower Inc.
BoxPower is a climate-tech company that combines software (EASI), modular hardware kits, and EPC + O&M services to deploy microgrids as clean alternatives to diesel generators. They serve utilities, communities, and critical infrastructure, making distributed energy repeatable and scalable. Working here means directly contributing to the energy transition with a product-focused, execution-driven team.
About This Role
As Preconstruction Manager, you own the critical pre-NTP phase: leading sales-to-delivery handoffs, negotiating contracts with customers and subcontractors, selecting and pricing subcontractors, and de-risking projects to protect margin. You bridge sales promises and delivery reality, ensuring engineering, procurement, and operations start with a clean, validated scope. Your work directly impacts project profitability and BoxPower's ability to scale deployments.
💡 A Day in the Life
You might start by reviewing a new award's sales handoff documents, then lead a call with engineering and procurement to validate scope and assumptions. Later, you'd negotiate pricing with a subcontractor, update risk registers, and prepare a handoff package for delivery. Expect frequent cross-functional coordination and occasional travel to project sites.
🚀 Application Tools
🎯 Who BoxPower Inc. Is Looking For
- 5+ years in preconstruction, project development, or construction management for distributed energy, microgrids, or electrical infrastructure projects.
- Proven experience negotiating EPC contracts, subcontracts, and managing sales-to-delivery handoffs in a remote, cross-functional environment.
- Strong commercial acumen with ability to validate scope, assumptions, exclusions, and pricing to protect margin.
- Familiarity with DER technologies, utility interconnection, and modular construction; self-starter comfortable with remote work and travel to sites as needed.
📝 Tips for Applying to BoxPower Inc.
Highlight specific examples of pre-NTP work you've led, including contract negotiation outcomes and margin protection metrics.
Emphasize experience with microgrids, solar+storage, or diesel generator alternatives—BoxPower's core market.
Show familiarity with BoxPower's EASI software and modular hardware by referencing how you'd integrate them into preconstruction workflows.
Demonstrate remote work success: mention tools and processes you've used to manage cross-functional handoffs across time zones.
Quantify risk mitigation: describe how you reduced surprises or change orders through structured de-risking in past projects.
✉️ What to Emphasize in Your Cover Letter
['Your hands-on experience leading sales-to-delivery handoffs and standardizing processes for repeatable DER deployments.', 'A concrete example of negotiating a complex subcontract or customer contract that protected margin and reduced project risk.', "How you've used data and structured de-risking to give delivery teams a clean start, ideally in a remote setting.", 'Your motivation to work at BoxPower specifically: passion for clean energy, modular microgrids, and scaling solutions for utilities and critical infrastructure.']
Generate Cover Letter →🔍 Research Before Applying
To stand out, make sure you've researched:
- → Study BoxPower's product offerings: EASI software, modular microgrid kits, and EPC + O&M services—understand how they fit together.
- → Review recent BoxPower projects or case studies, especially with utilities or critical infrastructure, to speak their language.
- → Research the microgrid and DER market, including common preconstruction challenges like interconnection and permitting.
- → Look up BoxPower's leadership and company culture on LinkedIn or their website to tailor your questions about team dynamics.
💬 Prepare for These Interview Topics
Based on this role, you may be asked about:
⚠️ Common Mistakes to Avoid
- Focusing only on construction execution rather than pre-NTP commercial and operational work—this role is about de-risking before delivery starts.
- Ignoring the remote aspect: failing to show how you've successfully managed remote handoffs and collaboration.
- Being vague about contract negotiation experience—hiring managers want specific examples of terms you've negotiated and outcomes.
📅 Application Timeline
This position is open until filled. However, we recommend applying as soon as possible as roles at mission-driven organizations tend to fill quickly.
Typical hiring timeline:
Application Review
1-2 weeks
Initial Screening
Phone call or written assessment
Interviews
1-2 rounds, usually virtual
Offer
Congratulations!