Manager, Project Development – Renewables; Solar & Wind

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

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 – Renewables (Solar & Wind) will lead the development of projects that 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 manage all aspects of renewable energy project development, with particular attention to the unique requirements of solar and wind facilities: land acquisition and lease negotiation, solar resource and wind resource assessments, environmental and avian/wildlife studies, interconnection for variable generation resources, and local land-use permitting. Responsibilities include site identification and land control, environmental and land‑use permitting, coordinating resource assessments and engineering studies, managing the ERCOT or applicable RTO/ISO interconnection process, overseeing development budgets and schedules, and shepherding projects from concept through construction handoff.

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 renewable energy expertise to qualify and advance utility-scale solar PV and wind generation projects, including standalone, hybrid, and co-located battery storage configurations.
• Develop conceptual renewable energy service plans, energy yield estimates, plant layout concepts, and other high-level technical documents to support project scoping and customer proposals.
• Develop and manage project development schedules and budgets.
• Lead project meetings with internal and external stakeholders.
• Manage contract obligations in key project documents.
• Lead environmental and land‑use permitting for solar and wind projects, including NEPA review, avian and wildlife impact studies, FAA obstruction evaluations (for wind), wetlands and waters‑of‑the‑US assessments, local zoning and conditional use permits, and presenting at public hearings as required.
• Coordinate delivery of site and resource studies including solar irradiance and wind resource assessments, geotechnical reports, Phase I/II environmental site assessments, avian and wildlife surveys, noise studies, shadow flicker analyses (for wind), and ALTA surveys and Title commitments.
• Coordinate for delivery of ALTA Surveys and Title Reports.
• Lead the ERCOT or applicable RTO/ISO interconnection process for variable generation resources, from Interconnection Application through Generation Interconnection Study, Facilities Study, and Interconnection…