Vendor Delivery Management
Manager · Project Manager · Remote · United States
- Company
- Renewable energy developer in district heating · 5,000+ employeesCL-87496 · based in Charleston
- Where
- Remote · United States
- Format
- Regular role
- Time needed
- 4–8 h a week
- Start
- Starts within 7 days
- Level
- Manager · 7-12 years
- When you work
- Weekday evenings
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About this task
This renewable energy developer in district heating (5,000+ employees) is looking for a manager Project Manager for an ongoing part-time engagement of 4–8 h a week. Keeps an outside team on scope and schedule.
Workload peaks and dips, so a few fixed hours a week fit better than a full-time seat. It is an energy business with strict compliance and reporting cycles.
The work is fully remote. Any location in United States works, with a few hours of overlap with the team's day. Most people do this on weekday evenings; replies inside the working day are not expected.
What you deliver
- Manage an agency building a website, run weekly reviews and track change requests.
- A written update every Thursday with what was done, what is next and anything blocked
- A short handover note when the engagement pauses or ends
- Questions collected in one thread, answered within one working day
What a week looks like
- Friday: pick up the queue and confirm priorities
- Midweek: two short working sessions of one to two hours
- Thursday: update sent before the company's end of day
Duration: 16 weeks, renewable. Accepted after the walkthrough. Edits requested within three working days are part of the price.
Tools
Who fits
- 7-12 years of hands-on work as a Project Manager, or the equivalent mix of roles
- Comfortable working in Jira and Slack
- Your own work history stays private; the company sees a first name, your field and a rate
Nice to have
- Has worked with a distributed team across time zones
- Comfortable explaining numbers or decisions to a non-specialist reader
Not included
- Work outside the scope written in the brief; extra items are quoted separately
- Travel or work at a fixed location
- Anything that needs a signature in your own name unless the brief says so
How you get paid
- The company prepays Deftridge before your first hour, so payment does not depend on a late invoice.
- Deftridge pays you in USD after the company confirms the hours or the deliverable. The payment date is written in your task agreement.
- You work as an independent contractor: you report your own income, and your recruiter sends the statements your accountant needs.
- You never chase the company. Questions about money go to Deftridge.
What happens after you say you're interested
- Within one working dayA recruiter writes to you to confirm your hours and the rate you want.
- You agree the rateYou and the recruiter fix an exact rate inside the company's range. You decide whether to go ahead.
- With your written OKThe company sees the anonymous profile below. Most companies answer within three working days.
- StartYou sign the task agreement and the company's confidentiality terms through Deftridge, and begin on the date above.
What the company sees about you
First name, field, experience, tools and the hours you offer. Not your surname, your employer or your contact details.
- Experience
- 7-12 years in operations & assistance
- Tools
- Jira, Slack
- Offers
- 6 hours a week, weekday evenings
- Rate
- $110 an hour, agreed with the recruiter
How this rate compares
The midpoint of this range, $110 an hour, is above the median manager Project Manager rate in the United States ($100). The shaded band is the 25th to 75th percentile of the market.
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Questions about pay and privacy
The rules are the same for every task. Pricing explains the 15% fee, prepayment and when you are paid; How it works covers matching, what the company sees and side work next to a job.
CL-87496 is the Deftridge code for this company. Its name is shared only after you agree to an introduction, and you decide whether to go ahead.