Senior Director of Construction and Operations, IPP

Key Responsibilities

• Construction Execution Oversight: Provide leadership-level oversight of active construction execution across all active projects within the portfolio.
• Portfolio Delivery Governance: Own portfolio-level cost, schedule, and contingency management from construction kickoff through commercial operation date (COD) to ensure projects are delivered predictably and in alignment with capital plans.
• Contracting: Partner with Sr. Director of Pre-Construction to ensure EPC construction contracts are structured, negotiated, and administered to preserve project value and baseline constructability assumptions.
• Project Delivery Management: From EPC agreement execution, lead project delivery teams and direct project managers responsible for executing day-to-day site construction activities, scheduling, and commissioning milestones.
• Safety Leadership: Set clear expectations for safety leadership across all active EPCs and subcontractors, empowering project managers and field teams to strictly enforce safety protocols.
• Operating Power Plant Management Turnkey Operator Oversight: Act as the primary commercial and operational point of contact for external turnkey operators and asset management providers, establishing and monitoring Key Performance Indicators (KPIs) and Service Level Agreements (SLAs).
• Technical Plant Operations: Oversee external partners executing routine preventive, predictive, and corrective maintenance
• Warranty & Spare Parts Strategy: Direct third-party technical teams navigating complex equipment warranty claims with equipment manufacturers and battery integrators to minimize plant downtime and long-term maintenance costs.
• Asset ManagementOperational Strategy: Analyze long-term asset performance data, localized degradation, and plant availability trends to formulate the annual operational master plan.
• Budget Ownership: Co-lead the development of annual project-level operating budgets (OpEx) alongside senior leadership; analyze and defend monthly and year-end actual-vs-budget variance reporting for both construction and operational phases.
• Investor, Tax & Regulatory Compliance Governance Reporting & Compliance Oversight: Manage external financial asset managers to deliver accurate reporting for capital partners and maintain programmatic oversight over all FERC, NERC, and regional ISO/RTO regulatory compliance deadlines.
• Tax, Risk & Security Management: Coordinate project-level tax preparation and ITC recordkeeping while managing portfolio insurance renewals, bonding requirements, and auditing asset cloud security and disaster recovery protocols.

Candidate Profile & Qualifications

• Professional Experience: 10+ years of progressive renewable energy experience, combining hands-on construction project delivery or EPC management with clean energy asset operations leadership at an owner/developer level.
• Portfolio Leadership: Demonstrated success managing multi-project portfolios, EPC procurement strategies, RFP evaluations, contractor selections, and cross-functional project teams.
• Financial & Technical Literacy: Deep understanding of project finance structures, lender requirements, tax equity frameworks, independent engineer (IE) processes, operational debt covenants, and financial statements.
• Education: Bachelor’s degree in Engineering, Construction Management, Finance, Business Administration, or an equivalent technical field. Advanced business degrees (MBA) or specialized asset management certifications are highly valued.