Sr. Project Developer / Renewable Energy (Solar)

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Job description

At Catalyze, we're on a mission to accelerate the nationwide transition to clean, renewable energy. If you're passionate about creating a meaningful impact on one of the greatest challenges of our time, we want you on our team!

We are seeking a Renewable Energy Project Developer to support the origination, development, and delivery of projects on-time and on-budget by collaborating closely with colleagues at all levels of the organization to guide development strategies that will have the greatest customer impact and highest commercial value. As a Project Developer, you will work collaboratively and demonstrate a high level of diplomacy with customers, utilities and local communities to create new processes and requirements that result in more effective commercial solution delivery; work in partnership with the development and sales teams to fully understand customers business goals in order to prioritize real estate portfolios for optimal renewable energy solutions; and translate ideas in the field to enhance our platform's efficiency and productivity through process automation and data analytics.

You Are:

• Experienced in developing renewable energy projects
• Keenly interested in our economy's transition to clean, renewable energy
• A driven professional seeking a career growth opportunity
• Seeking to join a small and close-knit team dedicated to delivering high-quality projects through collaboration, communication, and constant improvement
• An avid learner, curious and self-taught, eager to expand your skillset
• A critical thinker who understands and organizes information that is often technical in nature and communicates it in concise, well-written, and compelling professional language
• A direct and articulate communicator who strives to build strong relationships with colleagues based on mutual respect
  
  

You Will:

• Originate projects with existing and/or new customers
• Perform project-level development to NTP
• Develop and manage project schedule(s)
• Guide projects through the interconnection process, working with engineers, utilities, and customers
• Ensure project obtain site control and project clear title review
• Work with partners and key stakeholders to ensure that development milestones are met
• Collaborate with real estate and C&I partners and/or act individually to obtain building permits and all other non-ministerial ones
• Ensure survey work is completed and necessary permits, real estate, and grid interconnection agreements are secured
• Work closely with account managers to ensure smooth relations and development of parcels with our real estate partners
• Work collaboratively with the markets and construction teams
• Identify and suggest improvements to business processes and best practices
• Take ownership of everything you work on and be responsible for the thoroughness and quality of everything you create
  
  

What You Bring to the Team:

• Enthusiasm, passion, and a relentless desire to make great things happen
• Bachelors degree in Business, Finance, or related field preferred; MBA and/or advanced cost accounting experience a plus
• 5+ years of C&I renewable energy development experience including distributed energy projects and/or C&I behind- or in-front-of-the-meter solar projects
• Commercial real estate development experience a plus
• Demonstrated success conceptualizing and selling renewable energy solutions
• Understanding of all aspects of solar power development, including siting, interconnection, permitting, construction, and financing as well as utility/energy/grid transformation
• Direct experience in transmission-level distribution-grid level project development, obtaining site control, acquiring interconnection services agreements, and managing equipment supply chains
• Experience developing and delivering ISO-level battery energy storage systems
• Understanding of the principles and values in microgrids
• Experience in ISO-NE NY ISO or CAISO strongly preferred; PJM or others a plus
• Experience creating enterprise software requirements and participating with the software development team participation
• Proficiency in Microsoft Office Suite (Word, PowerPoint, Excel, Outlook) and/or Google Suite (Docs, Slides, Sheets, Calendar), Adobe CS, and Salesforce
• Strong writing, editing, analytical, research, communication, presentation, and organizational skills
• Strong sense of ownership and accountability
• Demonstrated success prioritizing and managing competing expectations effectively while working on multiple projects simultaneously
• Impeccable attention to detail with consistent delivery of high-quality, error-free, on-time work
• Demonstrated success both working independently with minimal supervision and collaborating with others
• Willingness and ability to travel locally and nationally 50% or more to meet with real estate partners, energy co-developers, and suppliers, and visit project sites
  
  

What Catalyze Brings to You:

• Opportunity to play a significant role in transforming the energy industry
• Growth, development, learning, and advancement opportunities
• An extremely flexible environment where your voice, thoughts, and ideas are valued and heard
• Excellent benefits (company-paid and voluntary): Health / Dental / Vision / Life / AD&D / STD / LTD / AFLAC / Pet / Legal / Commuter / 401(k) with Company Match / Paid Time Off and more!
  
  

Target Comp Range:

• $90,000 to $120,000 base salary depending on experience and location
  
  

Preferred Location(s):

• Boulder, CO or Marlborough, MA
• Remote will be considered
  
  

About Catalyze

Catalyze is a renewable energy developer and independent power producer (IPP) that also partners with medium-to-large commercial and industrial real estate groups and third party renewable energy developers. We increase property net income and tenant value with renewable, resilient, smart energy infrastructure including solar, storage, electric vehicle charging, and microgrids.

We uniquely enable our real estate customers to use that increased income as a competitive advantage to expand their property portfolios. For industrial customers, we provide both energy savings and progress toward renewable energy mandates and goals. Our proprietary origination-to-operations platform supports our partners with optimal site identification and acquisition, energy load estimation, system design, project finance, and asset management.

We believe that when people feel safe and encouraged to bring their authentic selves to the team, it brings out their best and strengthens our company as a whole. This is why we're dedicated to creating a truly inclusive workplace - one that values and promotes diversity and fosters an empowered workforce-allowing all employees, from any background or level of the company, to succeed in their jobs.

We are committed to equal employment opportunity and value the unique contributions that you can bring in terms of your education, opinions, culture, ethnicity, race, sex, gender identity and expression, nation of origin, age, languages spoken, veteran's status, color, religion, disability, sexual orientation, and beliefs.