Director, Utility Engagement

Essential Duties

• Lead strategic engagement with power utilities across the North American portfolio by building and maintaining strong relationships with utilities.
• Build and lead a team responsible for power market intelligence, power site due diligence, and power capacity management (for both load ramps at new sites, and transmission capacity planning for existing sites).
• Manage power due diligence for prospective sites.
• Develop and manage utility engagement strategies for each utility.
• Execute power contracts for new and expansion capacity by negotiating interconnection agreements, tariffs, and service-level commitments.
• Support the Energy Team as required in their leadership and pursuit of energy procurement, PPAs, and sustainability goals.
• Track and report on power contract status for all North American sites.
• Collaborate with Pre-Development, Utility Delivery, Energy, Development, Legal, and Sales to secure power capacity in line with customer demands.
• Other duties as assigned.

Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree in electrical engineering, energy management, or equivalent professional experience.
• Ten (10) or more years of utility and energy projects, along with utility contract negotiations.
• Three (3) or more years of leadership experience.
• Knowledge of utility partners, including investor-owned / COOP / municipal utilities, and ISOs/RTOs.
• Experience working with Microsoft Office Suite.
• Demonstrated experience working directly with executives and collaborating effectively across all levels of the organization.
• Able to travel up to 50% of the time or as needed to support relationship building and diligence.

Qualifications

• Fifteen (15) or more years developing and fostering utility industry relationships.
• Experience leading due diligence on prospective large-scale power opportunities.
• Solid understanding of the power study and contracting process at various utilities.
• Demonstrated ability negotiating utility agreements such as ESAs and RSAs.
• Understanding of energy markets and large-load transmission planning.
• Experience managing large portfolio of work.