Solar Project Manager [Remote in NY]

EDF power solutions North America is a market-leading independent power producer providing clean energy solutions. The Solar Project Manager is responsible for leading renewable energy projects from mid-stage development through to construction and commercial operation, ensuring effective communication and project profitability while managing risks and stakeholders.

Responsibilities:

• Spearhead a diverse portfolio of renewable energy projects, establishing robust communication channels across internal (development, engineering, construction, legal, interconnection, etc.) and external stakeholders, fostering a cooperative, motivated, and successful team, and ensuring that projects are effectively resourced
• Conduct project reviews for Senior Leadership - in accordance with EDFR procedures
• Facilitate and prepare recommendations on key project decisions
• Secure investment approvals from EDF entities through active involvement and close collaboration with Management and key stakeholders. Investment approvals include Investment memos to shareholders, Project Final Investment Decision milestone and any variances requesting approval
• Oversee the construction phase of projects and contribute to major operational decisions until commercial operation
• Ensure thorough project planning by developing, maintaining, and executing comprehensive project plans, ensuring alignment with EDF overarching objectives
• Maintain a comprehensive project schedule and ensure stakeholders and activities are coordinated and integrated. Approve all schedule changes
• Proactively identify, evaluate, and mitigate project risk, ensuring projects remain on track and within approved criteria
• Consistently and proactively identify, evaluate, and monitor project risks and develop and implement risk mitigation strategies. The primary responsible person for coordinating and reporting risk analysis/management of assigned projects
• Prepare a project budget. Be accountable for monitoring project costs, cash flow schedules, and financial metrics working closely with finance team to ensure profitability, including financial commitments. Approve all changes to the established budget
• Monitor, and report on key project financial indicators, validating financial proforma model inputs, and seeking opportunities to amplify shareholder value
• Engage in strategy formulation and execution for Tax Equity financing and Divestiture & Sale of Structured Assets, ensuring the project remains financially viable
• Ensure project compliance with all contracts, agreements, and permits by reviewing and approving a clear contract and permit management responsibilities matrix established the Team, and maintaining meticulous records per EDF RE policies
• Throughout the Project lifecycle, manage Project lessons learned through the existing process, making sure they are documented
• Manage the handover of the facility, including all project-related documents, to the project owner, financing partners, or O&M (Asset Manager)
• Support internal initiatives to improve tools/processes
• Tackle other assigned duties

Requirements:

• Bachelor's degree in Business, Engineering, Architecture, or relevant field of study
• 5+ years of progressive project management experience of complex projects and/or equivalent training
• Requires in-depth knowledge of the renewable energy industry, experience in negotiations, attention to contractual details, and ability to perform quantitative and qualitative analysis in the context of project management and execution
• Ability to navigate efficiently within the organization with business acumen on key industry knowledge including development, permitting, land acquisition, strategic procurement, construction & engineering, insurance, tax equity financing, project finance
• Adaptability to new contexts, risks, and new technologies
• Ability to communicate efficiently and precisely with the executive management, provide steering recommendation to Leadership, as a 'steward of the project investment'
• Extensive experience in project management best practices including budget, schedule, and risk evaluation; statistical modeling is a plus
• Ability to handle high-stress levels and high complexity to materialize and deliver multi-hundred-million-dollar projects safely and within the approved investment criteria
• Proactively identifying risks and issues and developing a clear corrective action plan
• Skills to provide analytics and lead opportunities to capture value beyond the approved envelope
• Excellent solution-seeking, teamwork, leadership and communication skills which extend across all organizational and management levels
• Gradual experience in managing high stake projects and leading project teams, and recognized for your ability to work cooperatively and make critical decisions
• Advanced knowledge of MS Project, Visio, Word, Excel, SharePoint and PowerPoint
• Outstanding interpersonal oral and written communication skills required
• Demonstrate leadership of cross-functional teams in a matrix organization: ability to indirectly manage multiple people from all types of fields of expertise
• High energy, self-motivated, client-focused individual
• PMP certification preferred