Senior BESS Developer

The Senior Project Developer will lead Rhynland Energy’s battery energy storage project development activities across New York and New England. 

Working as a key member of the development team, the successful candidate will have a wide range of responsibilities including due diligence, engineering and design, and securing interconnection and permitting rights of projects as they advance from inception to construction.

Responsibilities

General:

• Support all project development efforts
• At the project level, you will either coordinate among the team or drive directly including:
• Land and Real Estate
• Permitting
• Transmission Interconnection
• Engineering & Design
• Financial Modeling support
• Manage external consultants with strict adherence to scope / schedule / budgets for assigned development projects
• Prepare and manage scope / schedule / budgets for the assigned development projects Coordinate, review, and perform interconnection studies and interface with ISO to coordinate electric transmission system studies and plans.

Land and Real Estate:

• Manage all matters related to real estate from initial site control to issuance of the final title policy. This includes:
• Obtain initial title commitments, perform all require title curative to achieve the proforma policy in a form acceptable to the financier;
• Manage closing final title policy with required endorsements;
• Manage all changes to the ALTA survey to provide a survey acceptable to the financier and the title companyReview and manage all lease/purchase agreements as well as any required amendments acceptable to the financing parties, easments, rights of way and subdivisions
• Manage key landowner relationships.

Permitting:

• Acquire all permits needed to construct and operate battery energy storage projects. This includes, but is not limited to:
• Obtain all local land use approvals from the Authority Having Jurisdiction (AHJ), such as Conditional Use Permits, Zoning Authorizations, etc.;
• Obtain required State siting and or facilities permits, such as Certificates of Public Necessity (CPCN), EFSB and DPU Permits etc.;
• Hearing preparation and lead face for the project at all Local and State land use hearings;
• Manage historic and cultural resource studies and obtain clearance from the State (SHPO) as required;
• Manage wetland surveys, filing of Preliminary and/or Approved Wetland

Transmission Interconnection:

• Manage interconnection applications through the process until commercial operation. This includes, but is not limited to:
• Working knowledge of the ISO/RTO interconnection processes for filing interconnection applications including 
• Manage relationship with the utility and RTO/ISO from application to COD;
• Manage internal and external resources to provide engineering support for the process;
• Make all required security postings and payments in a timely manner;
• Review and solicit comments from consultants and internal team on the feasibility, system impact, and facilities studies;
• Negotiate all agreements needed to construct the facilities including Interconnection agreements, engineering and procurement, and construction agreements;

Engineering and Design

• Manage internal and external resources to provide engineering support of civil site plan packages, electrical plan packages and interconnection packages

Qualifications – Required

• Bachelor’s degree required;
• Minimum of three (3) to five (5) years of relevant industry experience in project development, permitting, design / engineering or construction of renewable energy or large infrastructure projects
• Strong analytical, organizational, project management and problem-solving skills
• Excellent communication skills, both verbally and in writing.
• Ability to work in fast-paced environment with multiple and evolving priorities
• Experience with permitting battery storage technologies preferred
• Ability to identify problems and discrepancies, independently perform research and analysis of causes, and recommend corrective actions.
• Must be detail and results-oriented with an ability to work in a cross-functional, fast paced, and constantly evolving environment.
• Readily accessible to Northeast sites