At Pure Power, our PMs didn't just become leaders—they earned it from the ground up. Alexa Daly shares how every Project Manager started in the trenches as a project engineer, building the technical chops that make them exceptional managers today. They're still in CAD. They still know the code. And they're still problem-solvers you can count on.
From utility requirements to structural collaboration, Pure Power's team operates under one roof—electrical, structural, power, and owner's engineering—creating a knowledge-sharing ecosystem that eliminates handoffs and accelerates delivery.
See how our proven process templatizes large portfolios, boosts consistency, and keeps your projects moving—even when team members rotate, or requirements evolve. Because in commercial + DG solar, execution is everything. And our project managers make it happen!
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So you touch a little bit about our project managers and how their experience has really helped you, the company, your growth personally. Our senior project managers at Pure Power all started as project engineers. They were all in the same position as an entry level hire. Maybe it was called something different because we've evolved over the past ten years but they all started on the same baseline of a project engineer drafting projects. One thing that I hear a lot from younger engineers at Pure Power that's really unique is that managers are in the weeds with all the technical requirements. They're still in CAD. They've done what everybody is doing on a daily basis so they know how to manage it well. Every senior project manager and project manager have different experiences based on their clients and the specific type of projects that they've worked on. People are subject matter experts for various topics, which lends to, again, great resource sharing because if somebody has a new project that maybe their team hasn't specifically worked on I'm sure there's another team at the company who's done it and can provide excellent examples and references.We have electrical, structural, we also have have the power engineering and the owners engineering all under one roof. all under one roof. It's great because I can go walk over to the structural team and get their opinion on something. Everybody is always super accessible. It's really great for knowledge sharing. It's probably the thing we do best. So we try to really value responsiveness and even if we don't know the answer to something or don't have an immediate response, we will try to provide an update and just say, you know, received. We'll get back to you later or have a more junior engineer hop in and respond to an email. We are trying to empower our engineers to kind of feel capable to respond to clients and participate in meetings and phone calls. You're managing these projects. Obviously you need to stay consistent. Creating a template and I mentioned that Pure Power has its own template that we kind of use to evolve with the changing industry but additionally, for every large portfolio that we have we try to templatize it as best as we can. What I mean by that is we have a more senior engineer kind of design the first site of the project to create a base level design and then we'll have that design go through peer review, PM review, and then EOR review and once we have all those comments picked up and the design is complete we'll send it to the client and then we'll receive comments back from the client which we'll then address and have this set to use as a template for the remainder of the portfolio. This allows for an easy transition between projects and easy transition between engineers. If we need to do some resource sharing or if somebody is on vacation or something, we can easily have somebody else hop in and feel confident in designing the project.