Director of Project Development
Blue Energy
full-time
Posted on:
Location Type: Hybrid
Location: Chevy Chase • 🇺🇸 United States
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Lead
Tech Stack
RTOS
About the role
- Own the site development lifecycle: lead diligence, negotiation, execution, and active management of permits and agreements related to land rights, state and local permitting, interconnection – from initial screening to financial close and construction start – for multiple nuclear project sites.
- Lead site acquisition: Drive identification, screening, and acquisition of new sites, including land diligence, negotiations, execution of land rights, and early-stage evaluation to expand Blue Energy’s portfolio of nuclear project sites.
- Own the Project Cost and Schedule: Establish and execute process to define clear workflows, metrics, and decision gates to track site progression de-risking and identify and manage risks early across multiple sites.
- Align with Commercial Coordination: Closely align with commercial and leadership teams to ensure project meets internal project development and commercial requirements.
- Align with Finance: partner with the finance organization to ensure cost, schedule, and risk inputs are accurately reflected in financial models, forecasts, and investment decisions.
- Align with Engineering & Manufacturing: collaborate closely with engineering, product, and manufacturing teams to ensure site-specific technical requirements are clearly defined, coordinated, and integrated into project scope, design, and delivery plans; provide site-driven inputs that support manufacturability, module design, and engineering assumptions.
- Manage and mentor developers: build and oversee a small, high-performing pod of project developers, ensuring consistent execution and alignment with company objectives.
- Engage stakeholders: build credibility and trust with landowners, regulators, and data center and industrial clients.
- Provide leadership updates: synthesize progress and risks into actionable insights for senior leadership, ensuring visibility and accountability.
- Drive external partnerships: coordinate with utilities, permitting agencies, consultants, and engineering partners to accelerate project readiness.
- Continuously improve: refine processes and tools to scale site development efforts as the company’s project pipeline expands.
Requirements
- 10+ years’ experience in utility-scale project development, ideally within energy, infrastructure, or data center projects.
- Proven project and process management skills with experience establishing frameworks for complex, multi-stakeholder programs.
- Demonstrated ability to execute - track record of driving projects from concept to financial close and construction start meeting critical de-risking milestones under tight timelines.
- Excellent communication and presentation skills; able to translate technical and regulatory work into concise leadership updates.
- Credibility working with both engineering and commercial stakeholders, including landowners, vendors, OEMs, RTOs/ISOs, transmission operators, utilities, and customers.
Applicant Tracking System Keywords
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Hard skills
project developmentprocess managementrisk managementfinancial modelingsite acquisitionland diligencenegotiationworkflow definitionmetrics trackingconstruction management
Soft skills
leadershipcommunicationpresentationstakeholder engagementmentoringcollaborationcredibilitytrust buildingactionable insightscontinuous improvement