Director, Air Permitting & Compliance

Company Overview

Mainspring Energy is revolutionizing power generation with the world’s most flexible and adaptable onsite power generator, the Mainspring Linear Generator. Commercial, industrial, and utility leaders are choosing Mainspring over traditional options like engines, turbines, and fuel cells to quickly and reliably deliver local power for EV charging, commercial facilities, data centers, and grid-scale operations. The Mainspring Linear Generator is fuel flexible, ramps up and down to meet demand, and utilizes a flameless technology with near-zero NOx emissions.

Backed by top-tier investors such as Khosla Ventures, Bill Gates, American Electric Power, and Lightrock, Mainspring designs, manufactures and delivers its products to customers across the U.S. today, and we’re quickly scaling for international expansion.

Inspired by our vision of the affordable, reliable, net-zero carbon grid, Mainspring is rapidly expanding within the $816B global electricity equipment market, and we’re hiring the best talent to meet growing customer demand around the globe. We welcome a broad range of backgrounds, experiences, and talents to bring fresh perspectives and ongoing innovation to our customers.

We are looking to build relationships with people who share our values:

• Pragmatic Optimism. Building a new category of world-class power generation requires the optimism of ambition and creativity, balanced with practicality to solve problems efficiently. The challenges that arise are opportunities for growth.

• Excellence without Ego. We bring expertise and commitment to creating the best customer experience, from sales to deployment and service, just as we apply deep technical rigor to building and delivering world-class products. We strive for excellence and behave as leaders with the humility to acknowledge our challenges, both collectively and as individual contributors.

• Proactive Collaboration. The integration and cross-disciplinary nature of Mainspring’s business requires intentionally seeking out others who bring different skills, perspectives, and priorities. Our culture of inclusion and respect extends beyond our team to interactions with our partners and customers.

Mainspring is based in Menlo Park and has partnered with top-tier investors and utilities such as Khosla Ventures, Bill Gates, NextEra, and American Electric Power. More information can be found at www.mainspringenergy.com.

Responsibilities

We are seeking a dynamic person who can manage and drive the air permitting and compliance strategy and execution across our growing and expanding project portfolio. You will work cross functionally with our commercial, project delivery, public affairs, and product teams to ensure project success across the United States. As a key leader in the organization, you will be responsible for interpreting permitting rules and policies, meeting with air permitting authorities to educate them about the linear generator, and determining and documenting best practices to obtain successful and timely permits. This role will work closely with our Public Affairs team to advocate for equitable and updated permitting rules and policies and to build relationships with key state and local agency stakeholders.

The Director of Air Permitting & Compliance will:

• Lead internal cross-functional team to support successfully driving short and long term air permitting goals that enable Linear Generator deployment across multiple states and jurisdictions

• Research and interpret permitting rules/policies to develop and manage internal strategies that streamline and best ensure successful execution of authorities to construct and permissions to operate

• In collaboration with internal policy team, navigate state agency and utility organizations to educate key stakeholders about the linear generator and its capabilities, attributes, and benefits in order to proactively support air permitting

• Interview, select, and engage outside counsel and consultants to inform permitting strategies and advocate to key stakeholders

• Work with a team of internal engineers and sales/business development stakeholders to develop successful permitting strategies including internal testing programs that aid in permitting authority discussions

• Work with internal channel team to develop templates and guides to enable resellers to successfully obtain authorities to construct and permissions to operate

• Scale team with growth of the Mainspring fleet

• Manage environmental management system development and operations

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree. MS, JD, or MBA is beneficial

• 16 years of related work experience with a focus on at least 6 years of direct permitting and compliance experience across multiple states in the US

• Ability to quickly understand existing permitting rules/policies and to develop and drive strategic action

• Well versed with California-specific permitting rules and regulation (BAAQMD, SCAQMD, etc)

• Ability to develop compelling arguments that support our permitting strategies and positions with a proven track record of successful negotiations

• Ability to select and manage outside counsel and consultants to support permitting strategy development and state/local advocacy

• Strong leadership skills with experience managing and developing teams.

The Bay Area salary for this role is $170k-$200k base pre-IPO stock options benefits. This position can be remote. The salary will be adjusted to reflect local market conditions based on employee location as well as the experience of the employee.

Does your experience not meet all of our posted requirements? Studies have shown that some people are less likely to apply to positions unless they meet every listed requirement. At Mainspring, we are committed to building a diverse, inclusive, flexible, and collaborative environment, so if you want to help us transition the world to clean and affordable electricity, and don’t meet all posted requirements for a particular role, we’d still love to hear from you. Mainspring can sometimes be flexible enough to shift responsibilities for the right person, or otherwise identify open or upcoming roles that may better fit your professional background.

In more traditional words, Mainspring Energy, Inc is an Equal Opportunity Employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, or protected veteran status and will not be discriminated against on the basis of disability.

This compensation and benefits information is based on Mainspring Energy's estimate as of the date of publication and may be modified in the future. We generally do not negotiate on salary once we have made an offer. The level of pay within the range will depend on a variety of job-related factors that may include location, relevant prior experience and/or education, or particular skills and expertise. New hires joining the company tend to be paid within the starting base pay range noted above, with opportunities to increase pay over time based on development of additional skills, competencies, and company-specific knowledge.

Salary : $170,000 - $200,000