Senior Project Development Manager
- Posted 31 May 2024
- Salary Competitive Salary (DOE)
- LocationMilan
- Job type Permanent
- Discipline Renewable Energy & Infrastructure, Energy Storage & DSR
- ReferenceHM-SPDM-31MAY24
- Contact NameHarry Moncur
Job description
Ensure that a maximum of MWs under development reach RTB.
Lead the management of portfolio projects under co-development with Co-developers and ensure all development steps are met successfully.
Seek proactive solutions to issues met by the partners' developers/ projects, making clever use of internal and external resources at hand in order to positively solve any issue in time.
Ensure up-to-date and precise project development reporting to ensure top management's capacity to make decisions.
Be in charge of obtaining the relevant approvals from Management in due time for projects to progress positively.
Ensure that projects are delivered on time and on budget.
Be responsible for monitoring and implementing payments
Proactively support the Due Diligence regarding portfolio acquisition/ partnership negotiation, bringing in, in particular, your acute knowledge of the permitting of Solar and Wind projects to effectively assess the quality of a portfolio
Proactively participate in the expertise-building of the renewables team.
Ensure up-to-date granular knowledge of permitting and ensuring dissemination of information to the relevant departments of the RES team.
Support proactively any transversal subject impacting the overall work and expertise-building of the RES team (e.g., BESS, AgriPV, etc.)
Requirements:
Excellent up-to-date granular knowledge of Project development steps, including Permitting, land contract, grid connection, etc., from origination to ready-to-build
Continuous improvement mindset, always looking at improving the status quo proactively
Proven track record of utility-scale solar projects / Wind project development/acquisitions/Co-Dev. Partnerships
Strong project management skills, with strong attention to detail, strong attention to keeping deadlines, and managing Long-term projects on a day-to-day basis
Capacity to implement and keep up-to-date project management tools, ensuring perfect reporting on all aspects of a project, including, i.e. status of development, cashflow plans
Strong communication capacity: effectively communicates needs and wants to transversal team in an international and multicultural context.
Liaise closely with the existing business development team and the whole RES teams (technical department, contract managers, legal and finance department, asset teams, trading / PPAs, finance, others) and enabling functions
Fluent in Italian and English. Other languages are a plus.