Overview
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 47,000 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 and has 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 $54 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 Senior Project Developer who will have day-to-day responsibility for working closely with the Vice President, Development and other team members as appropriate to identify, develop, acquire and close opportunities to meet strategic and financial goals of the organization. In this role, your responsibilities include collaboration with internal resources and providing oversight of external support resources and activities to ensure project success. Project development activities include market analysis support; project conceptualization / screening; grid study oversight; technology assessment that may include gas-fired generation, batteries, wind, and solar; site evaluation; real estate acquisition or lease; environmental/regulatory permitting; public relations support; engineering interface; and contract negotiation support.
Responsibilities
What you will do:
- Develop and maintain capital cost estimates for a range of technologies
- Provide inputs for market and project specific financial modeling
- Identify locations and sites suitable for project development and support property acquisition activities
- Support or manage interconnection studies
- Support environmental permitting
- Support or lead regulatory permitting activities
- Prepare project schedules and budgets for development efforts
- Manage external consultants as necessary
- Perform a variety of collaborative and individual special projects and other duties to meet organizational goals and objectives
Qualifications
We want you on our team because you…
- Have a bachelor’s degree in engineering from an accredited university
- Have 3 to 7 years of engineering experience, preferably in a project development role or as a project engineer with an EPC contractor
- Effectively manage multiple assignments under time constraints
- Are a solutions-focused team player with the ability to collaborate effectively with a diverse team
- Have excellent time management and organizational skills
- Have excellent written and verbal communication skills
- Have strong analytical and problem-solving skills
- Work independently with direction on a regular basis
Ideally, you also have
- Experience with performance modelling and/or measurement on Brayton and Rankine thermodynamic cycles, chemical-to-electricity energy conversion, or other related experience
- Experience with transmission power flow analysis
- Experience using geospatial information system software
- Intermediate or higher-level coding experience with Python
- Coursework or experience in engineering economics or finance
- Passed the Fundamentals of Engineering (FE) exam
- Certified Project Management Professional (PMP)
- Experience with one or more of the organized wholesale electric markets in the United States
