Manager, Project Development – Renewables (Solar & Wind)
HybridArlington, Texas, United States
Job Summary
Lead utility-scale solar and wind project development from site identification through construction handoff, managing land acquisition, environmental permitting, and ERCOT interconnection processes. Develop conceptual service plans, energy yield estimates, and technical documents to support customer proposals while overseeing development budgets and schedules. Coordinate resource assessments, engineering studies, and contractor selection, presenting findings to internal stakeholders and external consultants. Handoff fully developed projects to construction management and provide analysis for business development pipeline reporting.
Required Qualifications
- At least 10 (ten) years of project development and/or project management experience in utility-scale renewable energy
- Meaningful hands-on experience in solar PV and/or wind generation project development from site control through construction commencement
- Bachelor of Science in Engineering
- Thorough familiarity with utility-scale solar PV and wind generation technologies
- Knowledge of energy resource assessment methodologies
- Knowledge of plant performance fundamentals
- Knowledge of multiple RTOs/ISOs (particularly ERCOT) and associated transmission service providers
- Excellent organizational skills
- Attention to detail
- Ability to meet deadlines
- Strong working knowledge of thermal generation plant systems including fuel handling, combustion, emissions controls, cooling water, and auxiliary electrical systems
- Excellent oral and written communication skills
- Public speaking and/or platform skills for executive management presentations
- Self-starter, very self-reliant and capable of operating with minimum supervision
- Ability to work within a cross-functional team environment for project development and execution
- Ability to manage client expectations within the context of project development and execution
- Ability to effectively address and either manage or participate in the resolution of conflicts with clients or other project stakeholders which may arise throughout the course of project development
- Willingness and ability to travel 25 - 50% on average but more as required by projects
Desired Qualifications
- Professional Engineering licensing or ability to obtain
- Demonstration of sufficient expertise in renewables (solar and wind) and storage (BESS/ESS) systems
- Experience in renewable energy project development including land lease negotiation, NEPA and environmental permitting, avian/wildlife studies, local land-use entitlements, and variable generation interconnection processing in ERCOT or other RTOs/ISOs
- Experience with co-located battery energy storage systems (BESS), hybrid solar-plus-storage or wind-plus-storage project development, and offtake structuring (PPAs, behind-the-meter, virtual PPAs)
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