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
;
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

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