Associate Wind Developer

The AES Corporation

Associate Developer leading wind project development for AES's Eastern Wind Development region. Collaborating with cross-functional teams to drive project success while maintaining landowner relationships.

Posted 5/14/2026full-timeNew York City • Colorado, New York • 🇺🇸 United StatesJuniorMid-Level💰 $91,500 - $109,650 per yearWebsite

About the role

Key responsibilities & impact

Own day‑to‑day landowner relationships across eastern wind development projects, particularly in New York.
Serve as a primary point of contact for landowners, responsible for maintaining trust, responsiveness, and continuity throughout development.
Lead and execute lease negotiations, extensions, and amendments, in coordination with land, legal, and project leadership.
Develop and deliver consistent, professional project status updates for landowners and local stakeholders.
Independently manage landowner communications, track commitments, and resolve routine issues while escalating higher‑risk matters as appropriate.
Coordinate landowner meetings, site visits, and outreach efforts, representing AES professionally in external engagements.
Maintain ownership of defined development workstreams, with responsibility for advancing tasks from assignment through completion.
Support development activities including environmental studies, surveys, permitting coordination, real estate diligence, and documentation.
Track and manage development schedules, milestones, and risks within assigned scopes.
Coordinate with internal teams including land acquisition, permitting, real estate, interconnection, engineering, external affairs, finance, and legal.
Participate actively in internal and external project meetings, contributing to problem solving and execution strategy.
Support internal reporting, pipeline tracking, and project documentation with accuracy and accountability.

Requirements

What you’ll need

Ideally 2-4 years of project development experience in renewable energy development, real estate development, infrastructure, or a closely related field.
Bachelor’s degree, preferably in renewable energy, urban planning, logistics, finance, business, engineering, project/construction management or related field.
Excellent organizational skills, attention to detail and ability to meet deadlines.
Strong interpersonal and communication skills, with experience working directly with landowners, external stakeholders, or similarly relationship‑driven counterparts.
Knowledge of renewable energy technologies, project development, utilities, interconnection, permitting, and real estate.
Self-starter, very self-reliant and capable of operating with minimum supervision.
Willingness and ability to travel 30% on average but more as required by projects.
Comfortable managing multiple priorities in a fast-paced environment.

Benefits

Comp & perks

medical, dental, and vision coverage
life insurance
401(k) eligibility
paid time off (including vacation, sick leave time, and parental leave)

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Hard Skills & Tools

project developmentreal estate developmentenvironmental studiespermitting coordinationlease negotiationsdocumentationpipeline trackingrisk managementinterconnectionutilities

Soft Skills

organizational skillsattention to detailcommunication skillsinterpersonal skillsproblem solvingself-starterability to meet deadlinesrelationship managementcapable of operating with minimum supervisionability to manage multiple priorities

Certifications

Bachelor’s degree