Manager, Project Development

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 680 miles of high-voltage transmission and has another 200 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 $53 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.

Compensation

The salary for this role is $130,000 - $165,000. This is the range that we in good faith anticipate relying on when setting wages for this position. We may ultimately pay more or less than the posted range and this range is only applicable for jobs to be performed in California.  This salary range may also be modified in the future.

About the Role:

LS Power is seeking a Manager of Project Development who will have day-to-day responsibility for successfully navigating the project development phase for complex utility scale decarbonization projects with a focus on greenfield wind energy. Responsibilities would include collaboration with internal resources and oversight and setting direction of external support resources and activities to ensure project success.  Project development activities include market analysis support, project conceptualization, grid study oversight, wind and solar resource assessment direction, site evaluation, site and ROW acquisition, environmental/regulatory permitting, public relations support, engineering interface and contract negotiation support.

Qualifications

We want you on our team because you…

• Have a bachelor’s degree or higher in engineering, business, environment or a related field
• Have 3 to 10 years of project development, environmental permitting or development engineering experience preferably in developing utility scale wind infrastructure projects
• Wind power development experience preferred
• 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

This position is available in our planned San Diego office or remote.  LS Power offers highly competitive compensation packages and is committed to the career development of its employees.