Senior Project Lead, Late-Stage Projects

Job Description

Job Description

Geronimo Power (formerly National Grid Renewables) develops, owns and operates large-scale power assets throughout America’s Heartland, including solar, wind and energy storage. As a farmer-founded and community-focused business, Geronimo Power equips landowners and rural communities with sustainable revenue to ignite local economic growth. Geronimo Power is a portfolio company managed by Brookfield Asset Management. To learn more about Geronimo Power, visit geronimopower.com or follow the company on LinkedIn.

Position Description:

The Senior Lead of Late‑Stage Projects advances portfolios and individual projects toward financial investment through proactive risk management, schedule and budget management, and coordination of stakeholders across internal teams, external partners, and consultants. Portfolios may vary in size and complexity. Project types include solar, wind, battery energy storage systems, natural gas, and data center developments.

Core Responsibilities:

• Lead and champion complex portfolios of projects and/or projects to align schedules, budgets, risk management, and investment approvals.
• Manage >$800 million in investment budgets where capital investment will vary depending on size and type of the project(s).
• Appropriately manage, understand, and articulate portfolio and project risks as it relates to development, design, schedule, project economics, and constructability, offering creative solutions to mitigate risks.
• Work collaboratively and closely with project finance teams to ensure accuracy in the project’s investment budget, historical development costs, securing any remaining tax abatements available to the project, and forecasting cash flow needed up to financial investment.
• Lead the engineering, procurement and construction teams to ensure that projects are deliverable, considerate of site characteristics, on-budget, and optimized from an equipment standpoint.
• Proactively engage and participate with the Transmission department on project specific interconnection calls as it relates to schedule and design.
• Represent Geronimo Power with federal, state and local officials, regulators, utilities, transmission operators, and other stakeholders as necessary to bring the project to construction. This could include direct management and/or proper delegation to ensure stakeholder relationships are maintained.
• Proactively review, analyze, and comprehend key information from purchase options, lease options, and easements. Determine if additional agreements, amendments, or extensions are necessary for project viability, and obtain through direct management and/or proper delegation.
• Manage and leverage external consultants and/or contractors to advance the project to investment.
• Proficient collaboration and assistance with various internal departments such as project deliverables and gating requirements are met in a timely manner for investment.
• Successfully negotiate and secure Road Use and Maintenance Agreements through collaboration with external stakeholders and internal team members.
• Proactively obtain necessary documentation for project financing such as legal memorandums or third-party verification reports.
• Supervise a portfolio of early to mid-stage projects with limited direct involvement.
• Update internal and external data for reports, run project calls, create presentations, and maintain project schedules.
• Author written or verbal reports to management including updates on project status and changes to regulations.
• Travel approximately 15% of the time.
• Other duties as assigned.

Skills of a Sr. Project Lead, Project Delivery Include:

• Accomplished project management skills and excellent organization.
• Strong written and verbal communication skills.
• Demonstrated track record of project ownership.
• Ability to self-prioritize and plan work effectively.
• Ability to work independently and part of a team.
• Relationship management skills include but not limited to conflict resolution, negotiation, relationship building, stakeholder engagement, and emotional intelligence.
• Innovative in ability to analyze and present solutions to problems.
• Ability to drive process improvement for projects and departments.
• Demonstrated Leadership.

What You Bring to the Role:

• Bachelor’s degree in business, engineering, environmental policy/sciences, or related field, or equivalent work experience.
  • 5-8+ years of project development experience in renewable energy, including project management experience, or a relatable industry (energy, real estate, commercial development, etc.)
  • Demonstrated knowledge of energy markets is required.
  • Demonstrated ability to deliver late-stage large scale utility energy development projects is required.
  • Willingness to work with and manage relationships with landowners and other stakeholders is required.
  • Intermediate to advanced understanding of project schedules is required.
  • Prior experience with executive reporting is highly preferred.
  • Intermediate to advanced understanding of real property interests is preferred.
  • Intermediate to advanced understanding of project models and budgets is preferred.
  • Advanced understanding of project constraints and conceptual engineering design is preferred.
  • Prior experience with public speaking or presentations is preferred.
  • Experience using Microsoft Office Suite (Teams; Sharepoint; Word; Excel; PowerPoint.)
  • Experience with Procore.
  • Valid Drivers License.

Pay Range for the posted level: Minimum of $145,000-172,000.00

We offer a comprehensive benefit package, including Medical, Dental, 401(k) and disability benefits.