Renewable Energy Project Manager

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. 

Your day-to-day responsibilities will include: 

Project Management 

• 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. 

Contract Management 

• 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 counterparties, review and approve contract expenditures at the request of the Director, and ensure Scout's and counterparties' compliance with the contract. Among other things, this includes having tough conversations to hold counterparties accountable for promised timelines and expected qualities of work and putting pressure on when necessary to get the needed results. 

Finance and Commercial Matters 

• 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. 

Stakeholder relationships and Real Estate