Description
What You'll Do:
The Director of Project Development - New York is a key player in our Onshore development team. You'll lead project development activities for select ventures in Northland's North American portfolio, with a major focus on our pipeline in New York. This spans early development and greenfield activities to financing and start of construction.
Frequent travel to project sites is required.
The Director of Project Development - New York is a key player in our Onshore development team. You'll lead project development activities for select ventures in Northland's North American portfolio, with a major focus on our pipeline in New York. This spans early development and greenfield activities to financing and start of construction.
Frequent travel to project sites is required.
Key Responsibilities
- Lead the permitting process, community outreach, and land acquisition for select renewable and storage projects, including negotiation of agreements that have a material impact on the project's economics.
- Support, empower and coordinate use of internal subject matter experts on interconnection, procurement, legal, cost estimating, project scheduling, project design, project finance and financial analysis.
- Manage third-party contractors (e.g., permitting, environmental, technical) for various workstreams in order to deliver a fully developed project.
- Lead the process for submissions of RFQs, RFPs and auctions for project offtake while collaborating with the broader development, origination, construction, and engineering teams.
- Create and track project development plans and budgets for development projects and manage project progress towards task deadlines while identifying critical path challenges, project resource constraints and requirements.
- Work with the Project Management Office on creating a project development plan and a stage gate model.
- Gather relevant information to identify risks on projects and subsequently prepare and propose mitigation measures to resolve.
- Monitor and manage key policy developments that impact projects, involvement with trade associations.
- Lead greenfield activities that may get assigned to you from time to time.
- Assist in conducting due diligence for potential acquisition opportunities.
Who You Are:
- A proactive self-starter: You have a desire to succeed in a fast-paced, changing environment. You have proven ability to take initiative, organize, manage, and prioritize a high volume of projects simultaneously
- Commercial experience: You have experience in and the desire to negotiate a set of conditions or commercial terms with a counterparty, whether it be a supplier, buyer or regulatory body, and to quantify the impact of that negotiation outcome on the project's economics.
- Collaborative: You are committed to our shared success above any individual achievements. You welcome the opportunity to learn from and share with other teams, countries, and regions.
- Process and project management oriented: you are organized and thorough in providing structure to projects and experienced in connecting multiple stakeholders together with aligned interest.
- Diligent: Your solid attention to detail will ensure that project documentation is accurate. You will follow up with others where needed to ensure outstanding information or actions are complete.
- A strong communicator: You have exceptional oral and written communication skills and are able to convey your message in a clear and concise manner.
Qualifications and Experience
- Completed University bachelor's degree.
- Relevant graduate-level training, such as law, engineering, MBA or other master's degree is preferred.
- 5-8+ years of direct project development experience in renewables and storage. Previous experience in New York is preferred.
- Strong understanding and experience in the project development process from land acquisition, to permitting through to financing and start of construction.
- Ability to lead a project team to achieve project objectives and key milestones
- Working knowledge of environmental and regulatory permit compliance and restrictions.
Contact
Northland Power Inc.
30 St Clair Ave W
Toronto
www.northlandpower.com
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