Director of Capture
NIKA Technologies, Inc.
Director, Project Development
Pivot Energy
full-time
Posted on:
Location Type: Hybrid
Location: Denver • Colorado, Illinois, Maryland • 🇺🇸 United States
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💰 $120,000 - $150,000 per year
Job Level
Lead
About the role
- Serve as the PD-E lead for all built-environment projects—including carports, rooftop solar, and energy storage—following LOI or contract execution
- Support the evolution of PD-E’s built-environment/storage execution team, including mentoring, process-building, and eventual direct people management responsibilities.
- Co-lead development kick-off meetings with clients in conjunction with CCES
- Manage and execute the full scope of development tasks post-handoff from CCES, ensuring projects remain on schedule, de-risked, and ready for construction
- Conduct and coordinate site-specific due diligence, including structural analyses, title review, ALTA/site surveys, floodplain studies, FAA/SHPO reviews, and zoning assessments
- Develop permitting strategies tailored to urban and infrastructure-adjacent settings; prepare and submit for zoning permits, administrative approvals, and discretionary land use permits
- Lead coordination with municipal permitting departments, zoning officials, property managers, and other local authorities
- Oversee third-party consultants responsible for geotech, structural, civil, and electrical assessments, ensuring scopes are aligned with urban deployment requirements
- Identify and address long-lead permitting or interconnection items to reduce schedule delays
- Maintain accurate project schedules and documentation using Pivot’s project management platforms (e.g., Smartsheet, Sitetracker)
- Represent Pivot at internal and external handoff meetings, translating project requirements clearly between CCES, Engineering, Preconstruction, Project Management, and other stakeholders
- Own the development-to-construction handoff process, ensuring all diligence and permitting deliverables are complete, organized, and actionable
- Support the development of standardized processes and internal documentation for urban project execution, helping scale institutional knowledge across the PD-E team
Requirements
- 4+ years of direct experience in urban-setting renewable energy development (rooftop, carport, or similar), with demonstrated experience in developing BESS projects (either standalone or storage-coupled)
- Excellent communication and public relations skills, and a positive attitude to enhance the company’s reputation through interpersonal interactions
- Experience managing or mentoring junior developers or consultants, with the ability to build out and lead a team as the function grows.
- Comfort speaking in public while presenting Pivot project concepts to recommending and decision-making bodies
- Strong understanding of municipal planning, land use/zoning, and permitting processes
- Comfort in ambiguity, particularly in settings in which no obvious solution or path forward exists
- Naturally persuasive personality, ability to quickly develop strong personal rapport, and willingness to lead partners to solutions even when there isn’t a consensus on the best path forward
- Relentless drive and focus on solutions; ability to chart a path forward when others would give up
- Ability to anticipate project requirements and address long-lead time items to limit schedule slip
- Strong verbal and written communication skills, and ability to communicate complex concepts within and outside of Pivot, including to C-Suite executives
Benefits
- Excellent health/dental/vision insurance benefits with up to 100% of premiums covered by the company
- Four weeks of vacation plus employment milestone bonus vacations
- Company paid life insurance and short- & long-term disability coverage
- Generous parental leave
- 401(k) matching
- Work from home stipend for new employees
- Public transit reimbursement
- PTO for volunteering in the community
- Charitable donation matching up to $500/year
- Professional development and educational reimbursements
Applicant Tracking System Keywords
Tip: use these terms in your resume and cover letter to boost ATS matches.
Hard skills
urban renewable energy developmentBESS project developmentpermitting strategiesstructural analysiszoning assessmentssite-specific due diligenceproject managementdocumentation managementprocess-buildingteam management
Soft skills
communication skillspublic relationsmentoringteam leadershippersuasivenessproblem-solvinginterpersonal skillsadaptabilitypositive attitudeability to work in ambiguity
