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Project Development DG – Manager

NewEdge Power

New York, NY, NY(remote)

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JOB DETAILS
JOB TYPE
Full-time
SKILLS
Alternative Energy, Analysis Skills, Budget Management, Budgeting, Business Growth, Community Development, Community Relations, Contract Approval, Cross-Functional, Detail Oriented, Economics, Energy Engineering, Entrepreneurship, Finance, Financial Policies, Geographic Information Systems (GIS), Investor Relations, Land Development, Legal, Metrics, Microsoft Excel, Microsoft PowerPoint, NTP, Negotiation Skills, Policy Analysis, Project Development, Project Management Professional (PMP), Project Management Software, Project/Program Management, Risk Analysis, Software Administration, Team Player, Technical/Engineering Design, Willing to Travel
LOCATION
New York, NY, NY
POSTED
30+ days ago
Position: Project Development DG – Manager 
Location: Remote EST (Candidates must live in NY, PA, NJ,  MD/VA, New England, or NC)  
Reports To:Chief Distributed Generation Officer
Exemption Status: Exempt

About NewEdge Power
NewEdge Power is a pure-play clean energy development platform focused on developing high return utility-scale and distributed power solutions across the United States. NewEdge is a dynamic, high-growth, and entrepreneurial company. As a nimble and geographically dispersed team, the company is committed to fostering an environment of inclusion, teamwork, and delivering high impact for both the business and the communities it serves.

NewEdge seeks an ambitious, detail-oriented professional with proven skills, experience, and emotional intelligence to successfully contribute to and be a key catalyst of the growth of the distributed generation business. The Project Development DG – Manager / Senior Associate position requires a strong commitment to maintaining a cross functional skill set in project management, financial understanding, policy understanding, and project origination.

Your Core Responsibilities
  • Project Development Management Support execution (site control through to NTP) of a subset of the distributed generation business’ pipeline of projects by contributing to the management of vendors, tasks, timelines, managing budget, and other activities necessary to drive a project to completion.
  • Project Reporting: Manage key monthly and quarterly reporting metrics (budgets, timelines, risk assessments) for internal and investor relations.
  • Market & Pipeline Growth: Support the distributed generation team’s ongoing growth initiatives in existing and new DG markets across the United States via policy tracking and analysis, negotiating and closing land control agreements, and identifying and reviewing suitable opportunities for development.
  • Permitting and Community Engagement: Attend in-person permitting and community relationship meetings to support pipeline advancement as necessary.
  • Other: NewEdge is a rapidly growing organization. Job duties may evolve over time to best support the continued growth of the business.

Experience Qualifiers
  • Manager:6+ years of relevant experience in distributed generation (community solar, small utility scale, or C&I) renewable energy development and/or origination.

Required Experience
  • Bachelor’s degree in a technical or business-related field including, but not limited to, economics, business, finance, pre-law, or community development.
  • Strong understanding of the United States community solar and distributed generation industry.
  • At least two years prior experience of successfully completing projects in Maryland, New York, Illinois, and/or other community solar markets in the Eastern United States.
  • Understanding of common renewable energy development contracts (land agreements, PPAs, PILOTs, MIPAs)
  • Understanding of basic renewable energy engineering and technical design considerations for solar and battery storage projects.
  • Ability to travel 25%-30% of the time for project related activities, often at short notice (e.g. landowner meetings, permitting meetings, etc.)
  • Highly analytical mindset with a curiosity to figure new things out.
  • Strong understanding of Excel, PowerPoint, project management software/methods, GIS, and Helioscope
  • Team player with a willingness to engage across the organization
  • High degree of emotional intelligence and respect for others.
  • Self-starter with a strong passion for the clean energy industry.
Preferred Differentiators
  • Prior experience in an entrepreneurial environment and/or working for a small-to-medium size project development company (<20 people).
  • Prior experience supporting the building of software-based systems to support project development.
  • PMP Certification or similar
  • Master’s Degree

Life and Benefits at NewEdge
NewEdge believes that team members are its greatest asset and is committed to fostering an environment where employees can be the best version of their professional selves while helping grow the platform.
Benefits at NewEdge include:
  • Competitive base salary
  • Annual performance based bonus
  • Remote first environment
  • In-person team summits
  • 401(k) plan
  • Company equity program
  • Unlimited PTO and paid holidays
  • Health, Dental, and Vision insurance benefits
  • Life and disability insurance benefits

If you do not see yourself fitting 100% of the above qualifications, but see yourself contributing, please apply. NewEdge provides equal employment opportunities to all employees and applicants for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, national origin, age, disability, sexual orientation, gender identification or expression, or veteran status.

Note to Recruiters: NewEdge does not accept unsolicited resumes from third-party recruiters or staffing firms. Resumes will only be considered from those entities if a signed agreement is in place and NewEdge specifically authorizes external recruiting assistance for a specific position. Any unsolicited resumes received will be deemed the property of NewEdge. We want to emphasize that NewEdge is not liable for any fees associated with unsolicited resumes.  

Please apply on our career’s website at www.newedgepower.com. Only applications that apply through our careers site will be considered.

We look forward to hearing from you.

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