Director of Development - Renewable Energy - Remote

Overview

Avantus is shaping the future by making reliable, low-cost clean energy a global reality. Our legacy of leadership in next generation solar energy includes developing one of the nation’s largest solar clusters and one of the first projects to beat fossil fuel prices back in 2016. Today, we are expanding the boundaries of existing technologies to build one of the largest portfolios of smart power plants with integrated storage, capable of providing millions of people with affordable, zero-emission energy – day and night. Through our relentless pursuit of better, we are decarbonizing our planet at the gigaton level, and bringing the advantages of clean energy to all of us.

In Short

• Greenfield development of utility-scale solar power generation facilities.
• Communicate and synchronize cross functionally regularly 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.
• Support land use, environmental permitting applications, and preliminary engineering.
• Coordinate the real estate title curative process including diligence, supporting negotiation, and closeout with support of internal real estate team and external consultants.
• Support the interconnection process including diligence, technical review, negotiation from application through signed agreement, with support of internal interconnection team.
• Coordinate preliminary project valuation modeling with the project finance team.
• Engage community, local and state institutions for project support.

Requirements

• Strong market experience in the Southwestern, and/or CAISO markets, US.
• 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.
• Strong understanding of the relationships within a project schedule to prioritize teams’ resource allocation.
• Highly resourceful and able to navigate through key risks.
• At least 8 years of experience in the energy industry.
• Minimum four-year bachelor's degree in a relevant discipline, MBA preferred.

Benefits

• Competitive compensation with an excellent benefits package.
• 401(k) matching.
• Comprehensive medical and dental plan options.
• Flexible PTO.
• Equal-opportunity employer.