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Director, Regional Development

Informazioni generali

Nazione
USA
Team
Renewable Energies
Anzianità
Senior (8+ anni di esperienza)
Tipo di Lavoro
Tempo indeterminato
Tipo di assunzione
Tempo pieno
Modalità di lavoro
Remoto
Data pubblicazione
13-mar-2024
Data di Scadenza
10-giu-2024
Società
Enel North America, Inc

Descrizione e Requisiti

Who We Are
Enel is a globally recognized leader in sustainable energy and is consistently named one of Fortune Magazine’s “Companies that are Changing the World.” It is also one of the largest and most trusted energy companies in the world, serving around 70 million customers in more than 30 countries across 5 continents. The Enel Group vision is about Open Power. Open Power means opening energy access to more people; opening the world of energy to new technologies; opening new ways for people to manage energy; opening new uses of energy; and opening more partnerships. These are ambitious goals and we are pursuing them with the passion of more than 65,000 people whose brilliant work is based on our values of Responsibility, Innovation, Trust and Proactivity. At Enel North America, our businesses are leading the energy transition, creating the sustainable energy solutions of the future to help individuals, businesses and communities change energy into lasting value.

The Opportunity:
Leads project development for a region of North America. Responsible for managing a team of project developers who are each managing individual wind, solar and/or storage projects within the Region.

What You'll Do at Enel North America:
• Maintain active involvement in day-to-day work as needed to ensure project success. This is included but not limited to landowner meetings, permit hearings, meetings with regulatory bodies, site visits, etc.
• Ensuring that all project management tools and reports are created and updated by the development manager – including training regarding how to complete those items, ensuring that they align with risks, strategy, critical milestone dates, and reality.
• Ensuring that project managers complete and regularly update budgets, timelines, databases (such as Horizon) and are aligning each with the project strategy.
• Attend, with some regularity, individual project team meetings, real estate meetings, PR meetings, engineering meetings, and other meetings as appropriate to ensure team is functioning well and strategy is achieved – particularly for priority projects within the region.
• Ensure that discussions are occurring with developers and subject matter experts to determine project-level budgets in concert with portfolio strategy and project level attributes – including leading such discussions, from time to time as appropriate. Increased focus on ensuring that project-level variance reports occur on a regular basis.
• Maintaining an in-depth understanding of applicable RTO processes, costs, and timelines. Balancing project-level development strategy with timing of interconnection deposits, non-refund-ability dates, critical decision points, and total project viability as it relates to project interconnection and network upgrade risk.
• Reviewing strategy with P&E team and developers, supporting as needed in local and state hearings, providing guidance to CUP/SUP/PSC processes, ensuring environmental risks are accurately managed and mitigated, including development activities as well as operational strategies and associated financial model inputs. Reviewing and approving permit applications/reports, including all exhibits/attachments, to ensure compliance with project goals, company strategy and constraints as well as minimizing risk.
• When appropriate, testify on behalf of the project at permitting hearings, including being cross-examined as a witness, while maintaining the utmost professionalism throughout such proceedings.
• Ability to professionally complete live interviews from newspaper, radio, and TV stations, as well as public speak to large, potentially unsupportive, groups of 200+ stakeholders.
• Effectively communicating regional project portfolio status, risks, and mitigation strategies to senior management executives.
• Quickly assessing new developments at projects to understand the cascading effect of those changes across the project timeline, strategy, and de-risking points – effectively working with project manager and project team to develop a mitigation and recovery plan to deliver the project successfully.
• Mentoring direct reports and ensuring that team members have resources necessary to deliver project strategies.
• Lead, from a project development perspective, review of asset sale agreements and negotiation on those agreements they pertain to development activities, ensuring that the contractual obligations of the company can be upheld with appropriate risk levels.
• Review development statuses of potential acquisition projects to ensure that the risks and project status is solidly understood, assessed, and accounted for in the project plan and acquisition documentation/pricing – effectively communicate those statuses and risks to management to make an informed recommendation for investment.
• Review all final documentation from project development for the investment committee approval process to ensure accuracy and that all costs are accounted for, make appropriate recommendations to management on the status and risks to make an informed investment decision.

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Who You Are:
• 8+ years development experience in the renewable energy industry strongly preferred.
• Extensive knowledge of regional environmental and site permitting processes required, and having been directly completed, from initiation of project to start of construction.
• Proven track record in project management including greenfield development initiation through construction.
• Supported renewable energy contract negotiations, including a combination of PPA’s, Asset Sale Agreements, Asset Purchase Agreements, Member Interest and Purchase Agreements – including performing Buyer’s or Seller’s Representative activities, including asset management.
• Proven ability to complete local or state level project.
• Proven ability to professionally and successfully engage with difficult project opposition stakeholders preferred.
• Proven ability to negotiate lease and/or purchase option agreements with difficult, complex, and/or sophisticated counterparties.
• Detailed knowledge of renewable energy industry specific regulatory and legislative frameworks
• Extensive knowledge and experience with regional RTOs, tariffs, and their requirements
• Experience with full real estate title curative efforts, including familiarity with project proforma and ALTA survey.
• Strong analytical mindset to assess project status and risks to mitigate accordingly.
• Proficiency in Microsoft Office - Excel, Word, Power-Point, etc.
• Microsoft Project, Primavera, or similar software experience required.
• Leadership experience and traits are key.
• A valid driver’s license operable in all 50 states
• Up to 40% of domestic travel.

What You've Accomplished:
• 4-year college degree or an equivalent combination of education and experience
• MBA or other advanced and/or technical degree preferred.
• Project management experience required; Project Management Professional (PMP) Certification may be beneficial.

Diversity, Equity & Inclusion:
Enel North America is dedicated to providing equal employment opportunities (EEO) to all employees and applicants for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, gender, national origin, citizenship, age, disability, sexual orientation, genetic information. We will not discriminate, in any employment decision, against any individual or group on the basis of race, color, religion, sex, gender, national origin, citizenship, age, disability, sexual orientation, genetic information, or veterans/national guard/military reserve status. This shall be done in compliance with all applicable federal, state, and local laws in every location in which Enel North America has facilities. Enel North America maintains a drug-free workplace and performs pre-employment substance abuse testing and background checks, where permitted by law. Accessibility – If you require accessibility assistance applying for open positions please contact EnelApplication@enel.com.

What Enel North America Offers You:
The hiring range for this position is $136,087.10 to $187,119.77 per year.  For remote positions, this is based on a national average base pay for this role. For positions in California this range will be specific to the location in California. The actual range may vary based on the geographic location of the chosen candidate. For all positions, the base pay actually offered will take into account various factors, including internal equity and job-related knowledge, skills and experience. At Enel, base pay is one part of your total compensation package. 

This position is eligible to participate in the Company’s Business Development Bonus Program with a target payout amount of up to 75% of eligible earnings.  Employees hired after October 1st are not eligible for a bonus for the year in which they are hired.  More information regarding the Business Development Bonus Program will be provided upon hire.

Please see below for additional information on Enel North America rewards. In addition, we offer an array of other benefits such as flexible spending accounts, tuition reimbursement and professional development allowance.
• Enel North America offers its regular full-time employees affordable, quality healthcare for you and your family, life insurance and disability benefits to provide security, and retirement benefits to help you plan for your financial future. In addition, we offer an array of other benefits such as flexible spending accounts, tuition reimbursement and professional development allowance.
• Benefits are effective as of day one!
• Some additional perks to working with Enel North America include:
o 401k with match fully vested as of day one. Enel-NA matches 100% of the first 4% that you contribute up to set IRS limits.
o Generous PTO that supports work/life balance including: 4 weeks annually of vacation as well as personal days, volunteer days, your birthday off, paid holidays, and sick time. Proration may apply during first year of employment.
o Paid leave programs
o The opportunity to grow and develop your career with the support and mentorship of senior leaders.
o The opportunity to work for one of the world’s most recognizable and respected brands in the energy industry that believes by working together we can create a new energy era in which the world can become more sustainable.
• An employee’s eligibility for these benefits shall be subject to the governing documents for such plans and programs and/or company policy. The benefits described above may be modified or eliminated with or without notice in accordance with the governing documents and applicable law.