Manager, Energy Origination

Founder-led and backed by Stonepeak, Montera is driven by a future-focused vision: to develop and operate hyperscale data centers essential for tomorrow’s technology.

Our mission is to deliver strategically located, scalable digital infrastructure engineered for rapid deployment and reliability.

Our team brings decades of experience in infrastructure development and operations, focusing on accelerating growth and reliability in North America.

Values:

• Client First Alignment:
  We align our solutions with our clients’ goals, applying our expertise to ensure our facilities are delivered with predictability.
• Speed with Certainty:
  Velocity matters. We deliver with urgency, backed by rigorous planning and technical precision to ensure certainty at every stage.
• Operational Excellence:
  Our team brings decades of experience in hyperscale development, design, construction, commissioning and operations. We don’t just build, we execute with purpose.
• Safety and Integrity:
  Safety is non-negotiable. We lead with integrity, transparency, and a deep respect for people and place.
• Ownership Mentality:
  We think like owners. Because we are. Every project reflects our commitment to long‑term partnership, reliability, and performance.

Position Overview:

The Manager, Energy Origination is responsible for developing and executing power strategies that support prospective data center developments. This role leads utility and power‑market due diligence, builds and manages relationships with utilities and other industry stakeholders, and identifies scalable, commercially viable power solutions. The position also originates, structures, and negotiates the utility service, energy supply, and infrastructure agreements necessary to secure those solutions across Montera’s development portfolio.

The ideal candidate brings deep utility and power‑market expertise, strong commercial acumen, and a proven ability to drive complex initiatives from strategy through execution. Success in this role is defined by the ability to develop credible power strategies, evaluate and communicate risks and opportunities, advance critical external negotiations, and deliver clear, decision‑ready recommendations that support both investment decisions and customer commitments.

Key Responsibilities and Deliverables:
Energy Origination, Site Strategy & Utility Relationships

• Lead the identification and advancement of data center sites with viable, scalable power solutions, including the negotiation and execution of related utility service, energy supply, and infrastructure contracts.
• Own site‑specific power strategies covering utility service, market supply, grid infrastructure, onsite or bridge generation, natural gas supply and pipeline access, storage, and other viable solutions.
• Lead utility and energy due diligence, establish workplans and priorities, and evaluate capacity, schedule, cost, reliability, infrastructure, interconnection pathways, and commercial risk.
• Establish and manage trusted relationships with utilities, cooperatives, transmission providers, ISO/RTO stakeholders, generators, developers, regulators, and other market participants.
• Originate, assess, and advance utility service, energy supply, infrastructure, and strategic partnership opportunities that improve speed, certainty, flexibility, or economics.
• Lead commercial evaluation and negotiation of energy service agreements, capacity commitments, large‑load tariff obligations (e.g., minimum demand charges, collateral, and exit fees), infrastructure terms, and energy supply concepts, coordinating required internal approvals.
• Direct utility applications, load requests, system studies, data submissions, responses, and milestone follow‑through for prospective sites.
• Translate utility and…