Manager, Project Development – Grid Solutions & Early-Stage Engineering

Description

Job Location: Arlington, Midland, Houston TX Hybrid or remote (Midwest) with heavy travel

Job Openings: 2 (Two positions available)

Priority Power is the energy partner delivering the systems, expertise, and execution, required to power enterprise growth. Through our integrated multi-service offering spanning strategy, supply, infrastructure, and operations, we develop and operate mission critical energy solutions for organizations navigating today’s complex energy landscape. From greenfield to gigawatt to grid, we make power possible at the scale and speed of ambitious growth demands - meeting the needs of an energy driven future.

To be the most trusted and capable integrated energy partner in the United States - delivering strategy, infrastructure, and execution at the speed ambitious growth demands.

Priority Power delivers the strategy, infrastructure, and execution that powers enterprise growth - with the speed, transparency, and accountability our clients depend on.

The Manager, Project Development – Grid Solutions & Early-Stage Engineering will lead the development of a pipeline of utility-class, natural gas-fired power generation projects, including simple-cycle combustion turbines, combined-cycle plants, reciprocating engine facilities, and waste-heat recovery systems. These projects will deliver reliable, dispatchable generation capacity to Priority Power’s large industrial and commercial customers across market verticals including oil and gas, hyperscale data centers, crypto mining, and other power-intensive industries.

The successful candidate will lead technical evaluation and early-stage development work across a diverse project portfolio, with particular emphasis on interconnection feasibility, grid topology analysis, system resiliency and redundancy design, technology selection and comparison, Class 3–5 conceptual cost estimating, and milestone-based early-stage scheduling. This role requires the ability to rapidly assess project viability, identify risks, and develop technically credible plans that support go/no-go decisions and advance projects into full development.

This position can be based in Priority Power’s Arlington, Midland or Houston, Texas office (Hybrid) and will be expected to travel at least 25% of the time to other Priority Power offices, customer meetings, and project site visits.

The successful candidate will work on a cross functional team with new product development, origination, commercial, legal, finance, engineering, construction, and outside consultants, landowners, customers, project stakeholders and utility companies. The role requires project management knowledge and expertise with utility-class electrical infrastructure development.

• Support the Sr. Director, Development and other internal stakeholders with early-stage technical expertise to qualify and advance utility-class electrical infrastructure projects across generation, transmission, distribution, and storage technology types.
• Conduct grid topology analyses to evaluate network configuration options, identify single points of failure, and recommend resiliency and redundancy improvements including looped feeds, dual-source substations, automatic transfer schemes, and microgrid islanding capabilities.
• Develop and manage project development schedules and budgets.
• Lead project meetings with internal and external stakeholders.
• Manage contract obligations in key project documents.
• Lead technology selection processes for early-stage projects, developing technology comparison matrices, evaluating vendor capabilities, assessing equipment lead times and supply chain risk, and recommending optimal solutions based on project-specific technical and commercial requirements.
• Develop Class 3–5 conceptual cost estimates for utility-class electrical infrastructure projects, including equipment, civil, electrical, structural, labor, and owner’s cost components, with appropriate contingency levels reflective of project development stage.
• Coordinate for delivery of ALTA Surveys and Title Reports.
• Develop early-stage project schedules establishing…