The Senior Project Developer will lead Rhynland Energy’s battery energy storage project development activities across New York and New England.
Working as a key member of the development team, the successful candidate will have a wide range of responsibilities including due diligence, engineering and design, and securing interconnection and permitting rights of projects as they advance from inception to construction.
Responsibilities
General:
- Support all project development efforts
- At the project level, you will either coordinate among the team or drive directly including:
- Land and Real Estate
- Permitting
- Transmission Interconnection
- Engineering & Design
- Financial Modeling support
- Manage external consultants with strict adherence to scope / schedule / budgets for assigned development projects
- Prepare and manage scope / schedule / budgets for the assigned development projects Coordinate, review, and perform interconnection studies and interface with ISO to coordinate electric transmission system studies and plans.
Land and Real Estate:
- Manage all matters related to real estate from initial site control to issuance of the final title policy. This includes:
- Obtain initial title commitments, perform all require title curative to achieve the proforma policy in a form acceptable to the financier;
- Manage closing final title policy with required endorsements;
- Manage all changes to the ALTA survey to provide a survey acceptable to the financier and the title companyReview and manage all lease/purchase agreements as well as any required amendments acceptable to the financing parties, easments, rights of way and subdivisions
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- Manage key landowner relationships.
Permitting:
- Acquire all permits needed to construct and operate battery energy storage projects. This includes, but is not limited to:
- Obtain all local land use approvals from the Authority Having Jurisdiction (AHJ), such as Conditional Use Permits, Zoning Authorizations, etc.;
- Obtain required State siting and or facilities permits, such as Certificates of Public Necessity (CPCN), EFSB and DPU Permits etc.;
- Hearing preparation and lead face for the project at all Local and State land use hearings;
- Manage historic and cultural resource studies and obtain clearance from the State (SHPO) as required;
- Manage wetland surveys, filing of Preliminary and/or Approved Wetland
Transmission Interconnection:
- Manage interconnection applications through the process until commercial operation. This includes, but is not limited to:
- Working knowledge of the ISO/RTO interconnection processes for filing interconnection applications including
- Manage relationship with the utility and RTO/ISO from application to COD;
- Manage internal and external resources to provide engineering support for the process;
- Make all required security postings and payments in a timely manner;
- Review and solicit comments from consultants and internal team on the feasibility, system impact, and facilities studies;
- Negotiate all agreements needed to construct the facilities including Interconnection agreements, engineering and procurement, and construction agreements;
Engineering and Design
- Manage internal and external resources to provide engineering support of civil site plan packages, electrical plan packages and interconnection packages
Qualifications – Required
- Bachelor’s degree required;
- Minimum of three (3) to five (5) years of relevant industry experience in project development, permitting, design / engineering or construction of renewable energy or large infrastructure projects
- Strong analytical, organizational, project management and problem-solving skills
- Excellent communication skills, both verbally and in writing.
- Ability to work in fast-paced environment with multiple and evolving priorities
- Experience with permitting battery storage technologies preferred
- Ability to identify problems and discrepancies, independently perform research and analysis of causes, and recommend corrective actions.
- Must be detail and results-oriented with an ability to work in a cross-functional, fast paced, and constantly evolving environment.
- Readily accessible to Northeast sites
