Fractional leadership Solar Installers Metro Detroit
You sold the job, you are building it and you are answering the customer's texts at dinner, all at once.
A part-time project manager for solar installers who owns the schedule, the subs, the change orders and the customer updates from start to closeout.
65
Solar installers in metro detroit
Listings a customer can find here
29,633
Homes for each one
Census homes here over the solar installers serving them
9,911
Google reviews held
Across every one of them here
In Metro Detroit
Renaissance Center, Detroit
Metro Detroit
It is a Thursday night in Metro Detroit and you are sitting in your truck outside the supply house, rebuilding the schedule on your phone. The drywall crew slipped, the cabinets are late and the customer just texted asking why nobody showed up today.
A fractional project manager takes that weight off you. They own the schedule, line up the subs and deliveries, write up change orders before the work happens and send the customer a short update every week so the texts slow down.
Your jobs start finishing closer to the date you promised. Change orders get signed instead of argued, subs show up in the right order, and you get back to selling and estimating the next one.
Tap the ones that sound like your week.
65 solar installers operate in Metro Detroit. Clean numbers and steady systems are what let one of them pull ahead.
The names a customer compares you with, by Google review count.
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The share of a full-time year you use
19%
Days a month over about 21 working days. A fractional fee is quoted on that share of the work, not a full salary.
Fix this in Metro DetroitWe look at your active and upcoming jobs, how you schedule today and where things slip.
We set up schedules, change order forms and update templates in your project software.
We manage active jobs day to day, from sub scheduling to customer updates and site checks.
At closeout we compare cost and time to the estimate and feed the lessons into the next bid.
What we report every month: Finish dates hit against the schedule, Change orders signed and billed, Job cost against estimate, and Weekly updates sent to every customer.
The project manager owns the work from signed contract to final payment. That means the schedule, permits and inspections, subs and deliveries, change orders, budget and every update to the customer. On smaller teams, the owner usually does this between estimates, which is why jobs slip.
An owner's rep works for the property owner and watches the contractor on their behalf. A contractor's project manager works for the builder and runs the work. We work on the contractor side, helping your company deliver, though the same skills apply to owners managing a build.
Change orders work when they are written, priced and signed before the extra work starts, with the schedule impact spelled out. A simple form on a phone or tablet makes it easy to do on site. It protects your margin and keeps the customer from feeling surprised at the final bill.
Cost depends on how many active jobs you run at once, their size and length, how far apart the sites are and how much time on site you want. A single large build is often scoped separately from ongoing support. Either way the price is fixed, by the month or by the build, and set after a short call.
Tools like Buildertrend, JobTread, Procore or even a well-kept shared calendar can run the schedule and updates. The tool matters less than the habit of updating it daily and sharing it with subs and customers. We work in what you have or help you set one up.
No added cost, but selling, estimating and building all compete for the same hours.
The right move with steady volume, but a costly salary during slower months.
A part-time project manager who runs your active jobs and scales up or down with your workload.
Who you are dealing with
Before Rebuild Detroit, Tevin Jackson helped scale more than 100 home service brands with marketing, sales and operations. Business Services is that playbook, run for Metro Detroit solar installers with the local numbers on this page, by the team behind the Rebuild Detroit directory.
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