Project Manager V
CannonDesign
Director or Sr. Director, Development
Sanity
full-time
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Origin: • 🇺🇸 United States • California
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💰 $174,050 - $204,765 per year
Job Level
Senior
About the role
- Greenfield development of utility-scale renewable power generation facilities.
- Ability to communicate and sync cross functionally on a regular basis to minimize project risks.
- Direct and manage tax abatements, land use agreements, mitigation settlements, interconnection agreements, offtake agreements and various other agreements
- Direct and manage project budgets, objectives, schedules, and deliverables for assigned development projects.
- Travel to site locations to evaluate sites.
- Engage community, local and state institutions for project support.
- Manage contractors, vendors, and consultants to maintain project timeline and budget.
- Assist with permitting and environmental compliance throughout the construction and operation of projects.
- Work with the finance and optimization departments during financial feasibility analysis, evaluation, and finance.
- Ability to independently lead development project initiatives or programs.
- Ability to independently run a project from start to finish.
- Lead task forces and initiatives.
- Project ownership: sole responsibility of lead developer
- Project economic explanation (key drivers, changes)
- Challenge project team for result
- Sign-off on project pricing and all inputs
- Promotes all executive committee discussions / approvals
- Cash flow approval
- Approves project cash flow forecast including project spend approvals
- Owns project schedule
- May manage a team of 0-2 Analysts, Associates or Managers.
- Act as trusted collaborator with broader development team for continuous improvement.
Requirements
- Extensive knowledge of the full-cycle of utility-scale renewable power generation development and marketing.
- Extensive knowledge of interconnection, permitting, real estate, state/federal regulation, utility procurement goals, politics, law and other issues that impact development of renewable energy projects in the eastern energy markets.
- Detailed understanding of the interconnection process (study process, contracting, utility requirements, financial obligations, and scope execution by utilities) to both site projects optimally and to advance them through COD.
- Solid understanding of economic drivers for renewable energy projects.
- Concisely frame issues by providing context, analysis, recommendations, and risk/benefit tradeoffs, both in written and verbal format, to project teams and to senior management.
- Create control and influence over the costs, terms, and schedules of key project milestones that are heavily dependent on external counterparties, often without strong commercial recourse.
- Strong understanding of the relationships within a project schedule to prioritize teams’ resource allocation.
- Highly resourceful and able to design processes for the advancement of project milestones and navigate through key risks where little structure is established.
- Has taken a leadership role in development projects from start to finish, on task forces or other initiatives.
- Highly proficient in MS Excel (advanced proficiency required), Project, Word, and PowerPoint, as well as Google Earth.
- Independent self-starter who can meet deadlines and deliver quality products with minimal oversight.
- Substantial ability to recognize opportunities, identify and evaluate risks in a development context as well as effectively communicate the foregoing.
- Demonstrated ability to translate contracts and financing agreements into concise financial and economic analysis.
- Ability to manage a large workload, often providing support to processes managed by colleagues, while prioritizing tasks and effectively juggling competing deadlines.
- Detail-oriented with a strong sense of personal responsibility and ownership of work product.
- Excellent personal organizational and pattern recognition skills.
