What are the responsibilities and job description for the Origination Manager position at Blue Power Partners?
Blue Power Partners is a global consultancy and project development company dedicated to developing renewable energy. Blue Power Partners is supporting worldwide leading developers, investors, and technology companies within origination, development, construction, and performance optimization of onshore/offshore wind, solar, PtX, and storage projects.
Being part of Blue Power Partners means working in an open-minded environment that values freedom and responsibility. Our culture is based on trust, teamwork, and flexibility, and we encourage our employees to maintain a healthy professional & personal life balance to stay fulfilled and motivated at work. We promote a context in which individuals can flourish and thrive, delivering the highest quality outputs to our colleagues and clients, leveraging each professional’s experience and expertise.
We proudly provide best-in-class advisory services and need new team members to help us expand the workforce. We are looking for a dedicated Origination Manager to join the Origination Department with deep technical and commercial knowledge of the US & Canada Power Market.
How will you contribute to our team.
As an Origination Manager, your primary responsibilities will encompass:
As an Origination Manager, you are responsible for identifying project opportunities based on requirements from investors. These may include IRR requirements, risk profile, offtake (tenure, volumes), timeline, CAPEX requirements, including equity deployment requirements, and project types, including technology type and whether it is looking at greenfield, repowering or acquisitions. You job will be to work with the existing highly skilled Origination team to translate investment requirements into investment opportunities and present these to our investors. This will include:
Like the rest of us, you are passionate about developing renewable power, and you thrive in an international, multicultural environment where agility, flexibility, and adaptability are vital drivers.
It is expected that you bring leadership capacity and hard skills that allow you to get ‘your hands dirty’, whether it being GIS work to identify sites, analyzing utility RFP’s, assessing interconnection options or gathering and analyzing market data to define target regions.
You are a team player, open-minded, willing to adapt to a changing environment, and set the bar high when it comes to creating results. With the right balance of professional skills and a personal mindset, you will get a unique opportunity to grow and develop with our team.
Qualifications & Experience:
Blue Power Partners provides a comprehensive benefits package that encompasses insurance (medical, dental, basic life, short-term and long-term disability, vision), a 401K Savings plan and employer match; paid time off/holidays; a flexible work schedule; and a hybrid work arrangement. The salary is negotiable and will be determined by relevant skills and experience.
Why join Blue Power Partners:
Our people are the foundation of our success. We aim to foster an entrepreneurial and sustainable working environment with a strong balance and healthy working habits to retain and attract talented people. We recruit talented people based on our values that do not just live in the hallways but in our people’s hearts, Trust, Entrepreneurship & Balance. To succeed in realizing our vision and mission, we must grow and develop as individuals and as a company. We invest in our people, and we are dedicated to helping you reach your full potential – when you grow, we grow.
Joining our company means entering a flat organization, where we strive to make a F-A-S-T environment that supports our people to stay flexible and agile. Your well-being matters to us, and we provide a supportive community to ensure you feel valued and trusted. When you join us, you are a partner in our journey, and your contributions make a difference that matters.
Blue Power Partners was founded/established in Denmark, Europe, in 2016, where our HQ is situated. Since then, we have been fast- growing and have opened entities in Spain, India, Australia, Mexico and US. Our office is The Woodlands, TX.
Being part of Blue Power Partners means working in an open-minded environment that values freedom and responsibility. Our culture is based on trust, teamwork, and flexibility, and we encourage our employees to maintain a healthy professional & personal life balance to stay fulfilled and motivated at work. We promote a context in which individuals can flourish and thrive, delivering the highest quality outputs to our colleagues and clients, leveraging each professional’s experience and expertise.
We proudly provide best-in-class advisory services and need new team members to help us expand the workforce. We are looking for a dedicated Origination Manager to join the Origination Department with deep technical and commercial knowledge of the US & Canada Power Market.
How will you contribute to our team.
As an Origination Manager, your primary responsibilities will encompass:
- Driving greenfield renewables project origination initiatives on wind, solar, and storage projects.
- Conducting market monitoring and intelligence gathering and analysis to identify project investment opportunities tailored to client needs.
- Managing client relationships and engaging in dialogue to identify and define investment criteria and communicating project opportunities tailored to these investment criteria.
- Presenting final project envelopes to investment managers for approval.
As an Origination Manager, you are responsible for identifying project opportunities based on requirements from investors. These may include IRR requirements, risk profile, offtake (tenure, volumes), timeline, CAPEX requirements, including equity deployment requirements, and project types, including technology type and whether it is looking at greenfield, repowering or acquisitions. You job will be to work with the existing highly skilled Origination team to translate investment requirements into investment opportunities and present these to our investors. This will include:
- Conduct analysis and review project fundamentals, including:
- Screen for suitable sites to host a wind, solar and battery projects.
- Review environmental, permitting and land risks and potential obstacles.
- Assess and define project economics and financial metrics, such as LCoE, IRR, capture prices, CAPEX/OPEX etc.
- Analyze interconnection options and review risks of congestion and curtailment.
- Work with specialists from other departments to assess project fundamentals in detail.
- Create reporting and presentation materials about project opportunities and present these to investors.
- Contribute to a positive work environment within the department.
- Categorize and monitor origination leads to ensure a sufficient pipeline of projects is always available.
- Collaborate with development directors and investment managers to define project opportunities and ensure alignment on the types of projects to be originated.
- Manage a stage gate process for the generated project leads.
- Support the handover to the development department, who will progress the project though development until the FID.
Like the rest of us, you are passionate about developing renewable power, and you thrive in an international, multicultural environment where agility, flexibility, and adaptability are vital drivers.
It is expected that you bring leadership capacity and hard skills that allow you to get ‘your hands dirty’, whether it being GIS work to identify sites, analyzing utility RFP’s, assessing interconnection options or gathering and analyzing market data to define target regions.
You are a team player, open-minded, willing to adapt to a changing environment, and set the bar high when it comes to creating results. With the right balance of professional skills and a personal mindset, you will get a unique opportunity to grow and develop with our team.
Qualifications & Experience:
- 5-10 years of development or origination experience within the US or Canada.
- Technical skills to directly contribute to project identification efforts.
- Bachelor’s degree in engineering, Environmental Science, Business Administration, or Economics (preferred).
- Knowledge of development methodology for large-scale renewable projects.
- Excellent presentation skills for diverse audiences, including landowners, government officials, and corporate stakeholders.
- Effective collaboration with geographically dispersed, cross-functional teams in a high-demand environment.
- Independent problem-solving abilities for client requests and tasks.
- Strong communication skills and a diplomatic mindset.
- High value on teamwork.
- Valid work authorization.
Blue Power Partners provides a comprehensive benefits package that encompasses insurance (medical, dental, basic life, short-term and long-term disability, vision), a 401K Savings plan and employer match; paid time off/holidays; a flexible work schedule; and a hybrid work arrangement. The salary is negotiable and will be determined by relevant skills and experience.
Why join Blue Power Partners:
Our people are the foundation of our success. We aim to foster an entrepreneurial and sustainable working environment with a strong balance and healthy working habits to retain and attract talented people. We recruit talented people based on our values that do not just live in the hallways but in our people’s hearts, Trust, Entrepreneurship & Balance. To succeed in realizing our vision and mission, we must grow and develop as individuals and as a company. We invest in our people, and we are dedicated to helping you reach your full potential – when you grow, we grow.
Joining our company means entering a flat organization, where we strive to make a F-A-S-T environment that supports our people to stay flexible and agile. Your well-being matters to us, and we provide a supportive community to ensure you feel valued and trusted. When you join us, you are a partner in our journey, and your contributions make a difference that matters.
Blue Power Partners was founded/established in Denmark, Europe, in 2016, where our HQ is situated. Since then, we have been fast- growing and have opened entities in Spain, India, Australia, Mexico and US. Our office is The Woodlands, TX.
