Senior Development Director, Clean Energy

Requisition ID: 269180

• Relocation Authorized: National - Family
• Telework Type: Hybrid
• Work Location: Reston, VA

About Bechtel

Bechtel is a premier global engineering, construction, and project management company with over 20,000 employees worldwide and 2022 revenue of $18 billion. Since 1898, Bechtel has completed more than 25,000 projects in 160 countries in power, energy, civil infrastructure, and mining & metals.

Bechtel Enterprises is the project development, investment, and financing arm of Bechtel. We develop projects, lead M&A and project acquisition activities, provide project financing services, and invest in the development of new technologies across power, energy, transportation, and other sectors. We have developed or co-developed over 70 projects ($46 billion in project costs) and have helped arrange over $54 billion in financing for Bechtel projects, including over 18,000MW of power projects across 10 countries. Bechtel Enterprises is headquartered in Reston, Virginia and has offices in Houston, New York, London, Singapore, and Washington, D.C.

Our Global Clean Energy Business

Bechtel has played a pivotal role in clean energy for decades, delivering more than 100,000MW of nuclear and hydro generation capacity globally, as well as landmark renewable energy projects such as Ivanpah Solar and California Valley Solar Ranch. Today, the foundation of our clean energy strategy is developing and building core renewables projects (solar PV, wind, and solar + battery storage), in addition to continuing our work in nuclear, hydro and newer technologies (clean hydrogen, carbon capture, long duration storage).

CleanGen – Bechtel’s Clean Energy Development Company

To drive Bechtel’s clean energy strategy, in 2021 we formed a new company called CleanGen. CleanGen is Bechtel’s wholly owned clean energy development platform, currently focused on developing greenfield utility-scale solar, onshore wind, and hybrid projects in the U.S.. By combining the development expertise of CleanGen with Bechtel’s EPC capabilities, our mission is to efficiently and safely create (e.g. develop, engineer, construct) high quality and market competitive clean energy assets for electricity buyers and owner/operators around the world.

Position Summary

Joining the CleanGen team as a Senior Development Director, you would report to the Head of CleanGen, lead CleanGen’s project development activities and directly manage the internal CleanGen project development team.

The position is an opportunity to lead and expand a team that is working on a strategic, fast growing, and highly visible new business venture within a large and well-funded corporation. We are looking for a talented and energetic leader to oversee utility-scale solar, onshore wind, and solar + storage project development across the US. The position will also help guide the project development strategy for new energy transition markets such as green hydrogen, carbon capture, and long duration storage.

The position will be responsible for overseeing the development team across the full suite of development activities for existing projects in the CleanGen portfolio and new projects (new greenfield sites and acquisition targets). This will include leading site identification and site control, interconnection and transmission work, project permitting, and community engagement. The position will work closely with our internal power marketing/origination, project finance, legal, and engineering, procurement, and construction (EPC) teams through a project’s final notice to proceed.

Primary Responsibilities:

• Oversee and directly manage the development team to advance existing CleanGen projects from early-, mid-, and/or late-stage development to construction-ready status according to, and with accountability for, budget and schedule.
• Oversee strategy to identify new development prospects and opportunities (greenfield sites and/or acquisition targets), including conducting market assessments, fatal flaw analyses, and in-person site reconnaissance.
• Develop and expand project development team’s capabilities through hiring and talent development.
• Share the candidate’s extensive renewables project development knowledge/experience throughout the CleanGen development team (and broader Bechtel organization).
• Interface with Bechtel senior management and executives to update status, progress, and financial requirements to support CleanGen.
• Put in place new management tools, processes, and procedures required to operate and expand a nationwide renewable energy development portfolio.
• Work collaboratively with internal power marketing team, financial modeling team, and engineering/procurement/construction team.
• As they arise, support international renewables opportunities and/or next generation decarbonization projects (e.g. green hydrogen, green ammonia, long-duration storage etc.).

Key Qualifications:

• 10-15 years of progressively responsible experience in utility-scale solar and/or wind project development
• Experience directly managing and growing a development team
• Track record of successful US solar or wind project development
• Strong communication and interpersonal skills, including with senior management/executives
• Experience identifying prospects and opportunities (e.g. greenfield sites and acquisitions)
• Experience managing key development workstreams simultaneously
• Experience interfacing directly with external parties such as landowners, government officials, and consultants
• Strong organization, networking, time management, and accounting skills
• Willingness to travel as necessary
• Bachelor’s Degree, preferably in technical/engineering or business/finance related field

Preferred Qualifications

• Candidate has both solar and wind project development experience (battery storage a plus)
• Experience working directly with project engineering and EPC teams
• Experience in multiple U.S. markets such as ERCOT, MISO, PJM, and SPP
• Master’s Degree or MBA

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Shaping tomorrow together

Bechtel is one of the most respected global engineering, construction, and project management companies. Together with our customers, we deliver landmark projects that foster long-term progress and economic growth. Since 1898, we’ve completed more than 25,000 extraordinary projects across 160 countries on all seven continents. We operate through four global businesses: Infrastructure; Nuclear, Security & Environmental; Energy; and Mining & Metals. Our company and our culture are built on more than a century of leadership and a relentless adherence to our values, the core of which are safety, quality, ethics, and integrity. These values are what we believe, what we expect, what we deliver, and what we live.
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