Renewable Energy Project Manager, West Region Development

As a Renewable Energy Project Manager within Scout’s Team, you will be fully responsible for leading your U.S.

-based wind and solar projects through all development phases with a focus on early- to mid-stage phases. You will establish land control, coordinate applications for interconnection, and facilitate environmental, permitting, and transmission reviews. You will be responsible for delivering high-quality and profitable projects that meet all project milestones.

• Develop project budgets, schedules, and documentation and review regular reports of budget and timeline status. Review budget-to-actual and planned timeline-to-actual progress and adjust plans accordingly. Manage projects in alignment with budget and timeline.
• Continually assess your projects' likelihood of success through development and operations and advise senior team members on recommended course(s) of action.
  * Specific to New Projects, this includes utilizing the Fatal Flaw Analysis matrix and the internal Prospector tool to identify and vet new project sites.

• Manage contractor relationships and ensure adherence to SOW/contract.
• Review SOWs for and manage the solicitation and negotiation process with contractors, including commercial terms and conditions
• Review final and executed contracts, serve as lead point of contact with counter parties, review and approve contract expenditures at the request of the Director, and ensure Scout's and counter parties' compliance with the contract. Among other things, this includes having tough conversations to hold counter parties accountable for promised timelines and expected qualities of work and putting pressure on when necessary to get the needed results.

• Coordinate the updates to project budgets and review of financial models with internal subject matter experts on a quarterly basis and review for accuracy and project feasibility. Utilize results of economic analyses to inform project development. Ability to identify financial model input flaws.
• Further advanced ability on negotiations for your project(s), integrating knowledge about a range of complex market and commercial issues and deploying a range of appropriate strategies and tactics in each situation. Continue to enhance negotiating skills. Lead multiple negotiations of complex commercial matters. Mentor more junior staff on negotiation and commercial matters.
• Act as the facilitator for the transaction, coordinating the flow of information between the companies.

• Develop and lead the implementation of project-wide strategies to engage landowners, community members, and community leadership to achieve project success. Mentor the junior staff in external relationship building.
• Lead a process to identify landowners, cultivate fruitful relationships, identify and mitigate risk, and secure site control agreements and planning / use permit approvals.
• Frequent travel to project sites (potential and in development) to assess opportunities and acquire valuable land rights.

• Orchestrate the use of mapping tools to address more complex issues, enlisting other Scout team members as needed. Continue to complete independent analysis as needed.

• Develop checklists and strategies for meeting location-specific permitting and tax requirements to determine if the project is feasible; oversee their implementation. Understand which tax and permitting issues are workable and which ones aren't. Develop and implement creative strategies for working around the "workable" obstacles.
• Lead project permitting. Manage the permitting and tax abatement processes via external and internal stakeholder engagement. Develop checklists and strategies to ensure the permitting/abatement timelines matches the overall project timeline. Review all materials for feasibility.
• Plan and manage the studies required to assess project viability and/or support the permitting, financing, and operation of the project. This includes, but is not limited to environmental (bird, bat) geotech, hydrology, cultural, airspace, resource monitoring, transmission capacity, congestion, public sentiment and title. Fully understand competitive landscape and advise on where your projects sit in the stack.

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