Development Manager, GreenGo Energy

Manager in Development of utility-scale renewable energy parks

Become responsible for the development of utility scale solar cell projects

Would you like to help change the future, develop major projects within renewable energy solutions at GreenGo Energy Group – a preferred service provider among institutional investors, infrastructure, and renewable funds? If yes, then this job might be your next position

Your primary responsibility will be to take ownership of and coordinate the development of a portfolio of large-scale solar plant projects. Your work will be related to the preparation, definition, planning, coordination, and delivery of the complete development phase incl. deliverables in compliance with GreenGo Energy Group´s standard process and different workstreams to successfully achieving, for each project, intermediate milestones, up to Financial Close of the projects:

Your work will be connected to coordinating the following areas of work:

• Site Control – securing land and development rights.
• Zoning permit – securing that the project achieves all municipality permits.
• Permitting – securing that the project achieves all other permits required.
• Surveys and studies – securing that the project has no significant constraints for success.
• Engineering – securing that the projects reach their full potential.
• EPC Preparation – securing that the EPC department receives all project information.
• Interconnection – securing the project a guaranteed Interconnection Agreement
• Securing the business case / Financial Model for each project.

You will be involved as Project Manager from the Land Origination Stage (obtain suitable areas for the solar parks), and you will have an active role in defining each of the new projects you are responsible for, preparing the project description documentation analysing the Lease Agreement terms, and supervising the preparation of the preliminary financial model.

You will be gathering team members feedback on the project sites; Such as land & permitting constraints, grid connection options, engineering approach, municipality, neighbour and potential investor expectations and you will define and optimize the new project layouts prior to the submission of key development phases & milestones.

It will also be your responsibility to plan the tasks performed by the development team for you projects and coordinate them respecting the internal and/or investor deadlines, and you will define the appropriate acceleration measures if needed. At the same time, you will permanently assess the risks of the project portfolio under your responsibility and pilot the mitigation action plan and ensure the compliance of the deliverables provided to the contract executed with the investor (Development Services Agreement).

You will prepare and lead steering committee sessions and report the progress of the development of your project portfolio to the investor(s). From start to end, you will monitor the evolution of the financial output of each of the projects and will act in order to achieve the defined targets (ie. Project IRR, or another agreed parameters).

You will engage the necessary actions and make the right decisions and arbitrations to reach the final development phase (Financial Close) and permanently secure the investor satisfaction. You will be responsible for submitting each Development Phase Completion notice to the investor for approval and transaction, to ensure payment of the milestone completions fee to GreenGo.

You will track the portfolio development budget, as well as progress reports for the GreenGo Management

You hand over the projects to the EPCM Team once the financial close has been achieved, facilitating a smooth transition.

Strong project management skills structured and technical mindset and minimum 5 years of experience working with development of complex projects

You most likely have a Master within Engineering, Business Administration or Project Management combined with a least 5 years’ development experience in renewable / energy industry or development related to the construction, infrastructure, offshore or industrial sectors with focus on complex and technical buildings. If you have a technical understanding of solar technology and the drivers in the industry it is an advantage but not a requirement.

As a person, you are structured, and you are able to plan and organize your work while managing several tasks simultanously. You have strong communication, negotiation, and collaboration skills, and you are able to adapt to different situations and audiences. You have an entrepreneurial mindset, are rigorous, autonomous, agile and a decision maker who can work hands-on when required.

Furthermore, you are known for a great drive, a positive mindset, you are robust and thrive in a fast-changing environment, where you keep focus on the targets and the customers.

You have a strong command of both written and spoken Danish and English and you are proficient with MS Excel, MS Project, MS PowerPoint, and MS Office Suite.

The position will be based at the HQ in Vedbæk, Denmark.

You will report to the Associate Director of Development.

About GreenGo Energy Group:

GreenGo’s 360 full services business model includes origination, development, engineering, construction, operations & maintenance and asset management services for project investors, our clients, tailored to the client’s needs and investment profile.

Strategic focus is transaction models that keep solar assets off balance sheet through early stage transactions in the project development cycle and, in this process, secures full cycle financing from our clients.

This differentiated partnership model with clients lowers GreenGo’s overall risk profile and ensures a highly scalable growth platform, as the funding needs over own balance sheet are limited. GreenGo revenue streams are created by milestone fee payments throughout the development and construction cycle and through the clients funding GreenGo’s internal development costs and overheads.

Typically, GreenGo develops through a 250-1,500 MWp portfolio approach per portfolio transaction, ensuring scale, diversification of risk and investment size fit for the our clients. Investor commitments through this portfolio approach are generally between EUR 150m and EUR 900m.

GreenGo has more than 7GWp of solar and storage projects in various stages of development in selected U.S. states and Northern Europe, of which more than 2GWp has achieved full cycle financing through partnership agreements.

Culture

The culture can be characterized as informal yet ambitious with a strong will to succeed and an ability to execute. Together with an agile and entrepreneurial mindset, these traits have been key elements in GreenGo Energy’s success along with a strong commercial outlook. All employees are expected to take responsibility and lead efforts to completion. Furthermore, GreenGo has the ability to act quickly and take on profitable business opportunities in a creative way. Moreover, as part of an entrepreneurial and very dynamic organization, it is key to be self-motivated, self-driven and hands-on.

The future

The paradigm going forward is the subsidy fee solar and storage solutions, zero subsidy solutions that do not rely on government subsidies or incentives. Furthermore, to tab into the massively increasing appetite in renewable assets among institutional investors, i.e. infrastructure funds, renewable funds, pension funds etc.

This zero subsidy paradigm, essential for developing a sustainable and fully scalable growth platform, is well aligned with GreenGo’s highly scalable business model. We believe that we are at the right place at the right time, and that we have the experience, the platform and track record to tab into this opportunity at significant scale. Geographic expansion is focused on Northern Europe and South/East US mid-term, going deep where we go in.

For more information, please visit www.greengoenergy.com