Director of Development, Repower

RWE Clean Energy, LLC

Functional area: Project Development 

Remuneration: Exempt

The Director, Repower is responsible for preparing existing wind energy projects to be repowered, either partially, through the replacement of original components with new ones (component repower), or completely, through replacement of the original wind turbines with new ones (brownfield repower).

Responsibilities: 

• Prepare a repower development plan and schedule
• Create a project team of internal and external stakeholders
• Proactively manage the following workstreams needed to deliver a fully construction-ready project, including, but not limited to:
  • Permitting 
  • Environmental
  • Legal/Real Estate
  • Resource Assessment
  • Transmission/Interconnection
  • Electrical/Civil Engineering
  • Procurement
  • Valuation
  • Preconstruction
  • Construction
  • Operations
• Proactively manage, mitigate, and eliminate issues that would delay the project schedule or impact the project budget  
• Effectively communicate project expectations to team members and stakeholders and provide them with appropriate direction and focus to ensure alignment of project goals and objectives in accomplishing tasks and activities
• Solve problems, drive issues to resolution, and close out projects
• Motivate a team, provide leadership, and communicate effectively to internal and external stakeholders

Qualifications: 

• Minimum 6 years of relevant work experience in renewable energy (wind, solar, and storage)  project development
• Experience, and high comfort level in communicating and problem-solving with landowners
• Bachelor's Degree from an accredited university
• Very strong financial, analytical, conceptual and project management skills
• Flexibility and ability to work professionally and accurately under pressure
• Strong interpersonal, presentation and communication skills
• Excellent planning and organizational skills
• Highly collaborative team player
• Project Management Professional (PMP) Certification is a plus

Benefits offered: Medical, Dental, Vision, Life Insurance, Short-Term Disability, Long-Term Disability, 401(k) match, Flexible Spending Accounts, EAP, Education Assistance, Parental Leave, Paid time off, and Holidays. Eligible employees also participate in short-term incentives, in addition to salary.
RWE is an Equal Opportunity Employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability or protected veteran status.

For 125 years RWE has been the source of energy for millions of people across the globe. Now we’re making all that energy green. This decade alone we’re investing €50bn into renewables and will be carbon neutral by 2040 – ten years earlier than most other global targets. This is a chance to play a key role on our journey.

Join our renewables specialists, working across the clean energy spectrum to grow our operations to 50 GW by 2030 – with some of the world’s largest on and offshore wind farms and industry-leading hydrogen initiatives. We’re also considered innovators in solar development including floating photovoltaics and agri-photovoltaics. Or add your expertise to our supply and trading operations, brokering renewable electricity, green gas, commodities, and CO2 emission allowances from one of our advanced energy trading floors.

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