Project Development Manager

Freshwater Group is seeking a Project Development Manager in Manly, NSW for managing renewable energy projects, including wind and battery energy storage systems. The role involves overseeing project development from initial stages to financial closure, coordinating with stakeholders, and requires experience in the Australian renewable energy market. The position offers career growth opportunities and requires occasional travel. A bachelor's degree and strong analytical skills are necessary.
Project Development Manager

FWG49001

Sydney (Manly), NSW

This global renewable energy company, with a 6GW portfolio, operates across the renewables value chain, including development, financing, construction, and asset management of wind, solar, and storage projects. Their main strategy involves partnering with original developers, taking equity stakes and offering expertise in project development, EPC contracts, project financing, and grid connections. The majority ownership positions they take gives clear ownership that allows a simple decision-making process that is not driven by short-term objectives to generate capital gains but is guided by a long-term and integrated vision of the value chain.

In Australia, they are co-developing a number of large wind farm and BESS projects. They also have a number of greenfield wind and BESS opportunities they are looking to develop themselves. The Project Development Manager will initially be tasked with converting these leads to options to initiate early development works and then manage them through further development stages.

This role is a career growth opportunity to enable progression to Senior Project Development Manager taking on late-stage development of joint development opportunities.

Responsibilities
• Directly manage the development of several projects from initial greenfield prospection to securing the land, planning obtention, secondary approvals, EPC/OEM selection, up to financial close.
• Coordinate with all project stakeholders including landowners, consultants, public administrations, communities, as well as internal stakeholders.
• Coordinate the work of technical specialists internally and externally at each stage of development.
• Report on the projects’ status: risks, budget, schedule.

Requirements
• Bachelor’s degree in engineering, business or similar.
• Previous experience in renewable energy project development within the Australian market is essential, with the capability to take full ownership of responsibilities within a few weeks.
• Understanding of the key financial concepts behind project development including IRR/NPV.
• Excellent verbal communication skills, both written and spoken.
• Strong analytical skills.
• Well-developed business acumen and organisational capabilities.
• A hands-on approach and a collaborative team player.
• Able, and willing, to travel to regional areas as well as interstate, and occasionally internationally to the HQ.
• An Australian citizen or permanent resident.

Freshwater Group

Freshwater Group is a best practice renewable energy recruitment business that focuses on all renewable and low carbon emission, energy efficiency and disruptive clean technology businesses as well as energy infrastructure, storage, and management.

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