Danna P.
Project Manager
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Experience7 yrs
EnglishC1
CityBogotá
InterviewOn request
ProcoreMS ProjectSmartsheet
⚡ AI-equipped · Submittal/RFI agent
Solar & Energy Operations
Nearshore Utility-Scale Project Manager for Energy Storage & Utility-Scale & Grid teams
Execution and delivery support for utility-scale and C&I projects: schedules, submittals, RFIs, procurement tracking and owner reporting.
A nearshore utility-scale project manager is a trained, English-fluent professional based in Latin America who works U.S. hours inside your tools. Kurios City recruits, trains and deploys them in about 21 days, at 30–60% lower cost than a U.S.-based hire — the range published for LatAm back-office operations, with free replacement if the person doesn't perform.
What this role owns
- Master schedule and look-aheads
- Submittal and RFI logs
- Procurement and delivery tracking
- Weekly owner / EPC reporting
- Change-order documentation
Stack we train on
ProcoreMS ProjectPrimavera P6SmartsheetBluebeam
Cost comparison
Hiring in the U.S.
$12,000/mo
$144,000 per year
- Salary$86,400
- Mandatory benefits & payroll taxes$25,960
- Social Security + Medicare, FUTA/SUTA, workers' comp, health insurance, 401(k), PTO
- Tools, management & recruiting$31,640
- AI licenceYou pay it
- If they don't work outYou start over
vs
Hiring with Kurios
$4,750/mo
$57,000 per year
- One monthly fee$4,750
- Mandatory benefits & payroll taxes$0
- Handled in-country. None of it lands on your payroll.
- Recruiting, training, managementIncluded
- Claude or Codex licenceIncluded
- If they don't work outFree replacement
You keep, every year$87,000
60% lower · $261,000 over three years
Example figures for a Utility-Scale Project Manager. The U.S. side is fully loaded — what the role actually costs your company, not the salary line. Your real numbers come out of the first call.
| U.S. hire | Kurios nearshore | |
|---|---|---|
| Monthly cost | USD 10,000–14,000 | USD 4,000–5,500 |
| Time to fill | 45–90 days | 21 days |
| Training on your stack | Your team's time | Included |
| Replacement | New search | Free |
| Time-zone overlap | Full | Full (UTC−5 / −6) |
Ranges are indicative. Final figures are scoped per market, role and seniority.
What the first 90 days look like
Week 1–4
Takes over schedule maintenance and the submittal log on one live project. Sits in on every owner and EPC call without speaking, which is how they learn where your project politics actually are.
Month 2–3
Owns RFIs, submittals and the weekly owner report. Chases the long-lead items and flags slippage before it appears in the schedule.
Month 4+
Runs coordination across multiple projects and owns the monthly reporting package. The metric is how many surprises reach your desk, and it should trend toward zero.
How to tell a good utility-scale project manager from a cheap one
Project management for utility-scale work is mostly document control and relentless follow-up, not Gantt chart artistry. Ask a candidate what they did the last time a supplier missed a delivery date by three weeks — the good answer is specific and unglamorous. Do not hire someone who has only managed commercial rooftop and expects utility-scale to be the same thing larger; interconnection, permitting and procurement operate on entirely different timelines.
How this role is measured
Surprises reaching your desk. Coordination is invisible when it works. The measurable version is how often a problem arrives as news rather than as a flag raised three weeks earlier.
| What we track | Why it is the right number |
|---|---|
| Schedule variance against baseline | Flagged, not silently absorbed |
| RFI turnaround | Including the ones that went quiet and had to be chased |
| Submittal log accuracy | Against the approval matrix, reconciled weekly |
| Long-lead items at risk | Transformers and HV equipment, flagged before the slip |
These are the numbers we report back to you, not internal vanity metrics. If one of them stops moving, that is the conversation to have in the weekly check-in.
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Frequently asked
Can they be on site?
No — this is a remote execution role. It removes the paperwork and coordination load from your on-site PMs.
Do they replace our on-site superintendent?
No. This role handles the coordination, documentation and reporting that currently eats your superintendent's evenings. Field execution stays on site; the paperwork that follows it does not have to.
How do they handle time-sensitive coordination across contractors?
Full U.S.-hours overlap is the whole point. A coordinator in the same time zone can get three contractors on a call the same afternoon. That is not possible on a Manila night shift, and it is the main reason this specific role is a poor fit for offshore.