About us:

Founded in 1990, LS Power is a premier development, investment, and operating company focused on the North American power and energy infrastructure sector, with leading platforms across generation, transmission and energy transition solutions. Since inception, LS Power has developed or acquired over 50,000 MW of power generation, including utility-scale solar, wind, hydro, battery energy storage, and natural gas-fired facilities. Through LS Power Grid, the Firm has built and operates approximately 780 miles of high-voltage transmission with another 350+ miles and multiple grid infrastructure projects currently under construction or development. Across its efforts, LS Power actively invests in and scales businesses that are accelerating the energy transition, including electric vehicle charging, demand response, microgrids, renewable fuels and waste-to-energy platforms. Over the years, LS Power has raised $65 billion in debt and equity capital to support North American infrastructure.

Our Purpose, Mission, & Values:

Our Purpose is to solve complex energy problems that improve the world

Our Mission is to make lives better by developing a cleaner and more reliable energy ecosystem

Our Values are the willingness to participate in and help strengthen our culture of Integrity, Innovation, Teamwork, and Taking Ownership

Our People create value and are our Most Valuable asset.  We take our values of Integrity, Innovation, Teamwork and Taking Ownership seriously and ask candidates to think about how they can help us further enhance our culture with their specific skillsets, capabilities and experiences.

Benefits

We provide our team the opportunity to share their unique perspectives, solve new challenges, and continue in their career growth. We are committed to supporting employees’ happiness, healthiness, and overall well-being by providing comprehensive benefits that include 100% employer paid premium healthcare, paid parental leave and more.

About the Role:

LS Power is seeking a Manager, Project Development who will have day-to-day responsibility for developing a portfolio of hyperscale data center projects and associated infrastructure. Responsibilities would include project conceptualization, site selection/acquisition/diligence, project design and engineering management, public relations, stakeholder management, environmental/regulatory permitting, utility interface, contract negotiations, and oversight of internal and external resources and activities to ensure project advancement. An ideal candidate is one who is willing to dig into, and ultimately take responsibility for, all facets of multiple development projects at once

What you will do:

• Manage development of greenfield and brownfield data center projects and associated infrastructure through to start of construction
• Prepare presentations related to current projects, new opportunities, and key focus areas
• Evaluate business cases and estimate capital costs, returns, schedules, budgets, and cashflows
• Serve as the primary point of contact with electric utilities and lead projects through the interconnection process
• Identify and manage third-party engineers and consultants that will support the project’s development
• Serve as the primary point of contact with local, state, and federal permitting and regulatory agencies
• Collaborate with internal resources, external consultants, utility contacts and OEMs to achieve various project milestones
• Make recommendations to senior management with respect to development spend and opportunities to maximize project value

We want you on our team because you…

• Have a Bachelor’s Degree or higher in engineering, business, environmental science or a related field
• Have approximately 5 years’ experience in developing utility scale infrastructure projects, where individual projects have a capital investment requirement in excess of $500 million
• Understand Project Finance and have experience modeling project cashflows
• Are highly organized, detail-oriented, and resourceful
• Have developed and managed project development budgets and spend
• Have experience preparing, negotiating and closing commercial agreements including development agreements, real estate agreements, consulting and professional services agreements, interconnection agreements, etc.
• Have project management experience with an ability to drive a schedule forward and avoid delays
• Have a professional interest in understanding and working on projects across a variety of technology platforms
• Are proficient in Microsoft Word, PowerPoint, Project, and Excel, as well as GIS
• Have an independent work ethic with a demonstrated ability to manage multiple projects simultaneously
• Are an analytical, solutions-focused team player with the ability to collaborate effectively across a diverse team
• Have excellent written and verbal communication and interpersonal skills

Ideally you also have..

• Experience working at a hyperscale data center end-user, infrastructure developer, or an engineering firm supporting large-scale data centers or other infrastructure projects
• Technical expertise across a variety of technologies, including data centers, gas-fired power generation, water treatment, battery energy storage systems, electric transmission systems, and/or carbon capture and sequestration
• Experience reviewing or developing single line diagrams and other engineering drawings
• Knowledge of the power generation and electric utility industries, transmission tariffs, interconnection processes, energy and capacity markets, and ISO/RTO functions and operations
• Successfully completed land acquisition and environmental due diligence activities
• Experience working with ERCOT or PJM