What are the responsibilities and job description for the Director, Project Development position at LS Power Development, LLC?
Overview
About us:
Founded in 1990, LS Power is a premier development, investment, and operating company focused on the North American power and energy infrastructure sector, with leading platforms across generation, transmission and energy transition solutions. Since inception, LS Power has developed or acquired over 47,000 MW of power generation, including utility-scale solar, wind, hydro, battery energy storage, and natural gas-fired facilities. Through LS Power Grid, the Firm has built and operates approximately 780 miles of high-voltage transmission and has another 350 miles and multiple grid infrastructure projects currently under construction or development. Across its efforts, LS Power actively invests in and scales businesses that are accelerating the energy transition, including electric vehicle charging, demand response, microgrids, renewable fuels and waste-to-energy platforms. Over the years, LS Power has raised $54 billion in debt and equity capital to support North American infrastructure.
Our Purpose, Mission, & Values:
Our Purpose is to solve complex energy problems that improve the world
Our Mission is to make lives better by developing a cleaner and more reliable energy ecosystem
Our Values are the willingness to participate in and help strengthen our culture of integrity, Innovation, Teamwork, and Taking Ownership
Our People create value and are our Most Valuable asset. We take our values of Integrity, Innovation, Teamwork and Taking Ownership seriously and ask candidates to think about how they can help us further enhance our culture with their specific skillsets, capabilities and experiences.
Benefits
We provide our team the opportunity to share their unique perspectives, solve new challenges, and continue in their career growth. We are committed to supporting employees’ happiness, healthiness, and overall well-being by providing comprehensive benefits that include 100% employer paid premium healthcare, paid parental leave and more.
About the Role
We currently have an opportunity for a Director, Project development based in our Bostin, MA office. As the Director, you will have overall responsibility for successfully navigating the project development phase for complex utility scale projects. Responsibilities would include oversight and setting direction of internal and external resources and activities to ensure project success. Project development activities include market analysis, project conceptualization, engineering, site evaluations/acquisition, public relations, environmental/regulatory permitting, infrastructure interfaces, and contract negotiations.
Qualifications
We want you on our team because you
- Have a Bachelor’s Degree or higher in engineering, economics, business, or a related field
- Have 10 to 15 years of engineering and/or project management experience preferably in developing utility scale infrastructure projects
- Effectively managed multiple assignments under time constraints
- Are solutions focused team player with the ability to collaborate effectively with a diverse team
- Have excellent time management and organizational skills
- Have excellent written and verbal communication skills
- Have strong analytical and problem solving skills
- Work independently with direction on a regular basis
