Per-MW pricing, regional variance, and cost drivers for owners scoping hyperscale & AI builds.
Salary benchmarks across the 14 mission-critical disciplines.
Hire Power Plant Construction Managers who deliver generation — gas peakers, combined-cycle blocks, battery energy storage, and repowering scopes — with systems-based turnover discipline, clean mechanical completion, and a commissioning handoff that startup teams sign without a fight. Completion records verified by reference, not claimed.
A structured process for the plant CM hire — where mechanical completion dates carry liquidated damages and turnover quality decides the startup schedule.
30-minute call. Align on technology (frame or aero peakers, CCGT, BESS, repowering), delivery model (EPC direct-hire or owner’s team), turnover philosophy, schedule pressure, and start date.
Within 2 weeks we introduce 3–5 Power Plant Construction Managers with technology-matched build history. References from owners and startup managers included — we ask how mechanical completion held and how turnover packages were received, not just whether the plant got built.
Every placement carries a replacement guarantee. If the hire doesn’t stick, we replace them — that’s true across every engagement model we offer.
We reference-check MC dates against plan on each candidate’s recent builds — punch categorization, systems-based turnover packages, and whether care, custody, and control transferred clean or turned into a fight.
The best plant CMs build turnover discipline from the first weld — system boundaries drawn early, walkdowns scheduled, packages complete. We verify with the startup and commissioning teams who received their systems.
Frame and aero peakers, HRSG-heavy combined cycle, and BESS scopes build differently — storage especially, where AHJ and fire-marshal interfaces and a commissioning-heavy back end reshape the plan. We match the technology, not just the megawatts.
Verified build history across gas peakers, CCGT blocks, BESS, and repowering or brownfield scopes — matched to your program.
System boundaries, turnover packages, walkdown records, A/B punch categorization, and care-custody-control transfer — verified on delivered plants.
First fire, steam blows, chemical-cleaning support, and grid synchronization awareness — working under startup’s schedule without losing construction production.
Capacity and heat-rate testing context, contract performance guarantees, and the construction quality that protects them.
OSHA record verified by reference, plus critical-lift planning on turbine sets, transformers, and HRSG modules — and craft ramp management at peak.
EPC lump-sum discipline, milestone and liquidated-damages awareness, change and claims posture, and honest forecasting — confirmed with owners.
Technology, delivery model, and turnover philosophy decide it. We’ll help you scope the seat on the call — then shortlist to match.
Time to shortlist is typically 2 weeks. Total time to placement is typically 3–4 weeks. Plant CMs with clean completion records are usually committed a build ahead, so most of our shortlist comes from direct outreach to passive candidates.
Pricing depends on engagement model. Direct-hire search runs a 20% success fee with no upfront fee on single roles. For multi-hire programs, embedded recruiting and RPO price as a monthly volume-based fee plus a success fee — typically well below stacked contingency fees at volume. Leadership and executive searches route through executive search.
Most US generation programs run $160,000–$210,000 base for plant CM seats, with site uplifts, per-diem, and completion incentives on top. CCGT block leads and multi-site program managers price above that.
We reference the people who received the plant — startup managers and commissioning leads — and ask specifics: turnover package completeness, walkdown quality, punch discipline, and whether systems came back. It’s the sharpest single signal on a plant CM.
Yes. Storage builds concentrate risk differently — battery logistics and staging, AHJ and fire-marshal interfaces, energization sequencing, and a commissioning-heavy back end. We shortlist CMs who have delivered BESS scope, not just adjacent generation.
Yes. Every placement carries a replacement guarantee, regardless of engagement model. If a placement doesn’t work out inside the guarantee window, we rerun the search and replace them at no additional placement fee.
Yes. Plant CMs, superintendents, startup and commissioning leads, QA/QC, and field engineers route through our power & grid construction recruiting practice — with embedded recruiting or RPO pricing when you’re hiring at volume.
30-minute scoping conversation. We’ll review technology, delivery model, turnover philosophy, and schedule — then start sourcing Power Plant Construction Managers whose completion records hold up.
