Renewable Energy - Asset Manager - Chicago
Michael Page
- Chicago, IL
- $150,000-190,000 per year
- Permanent
- Full-time
- Management of third-party O&M Providers and Asset Managers contracted through the Project Companies to ensure performance in line with company expectations and contracts.
- Administering and overseeing compliance of all project level agreements including O&M, EPC, & Financing Agreements, ensuring all filings and reports are completed accurately and on-time, and delivering recommendations to senior management and investors related to any dispute or noncompliance within the agreements.
- Management of relationships with key project-level stakeholders including Managing Members, Tax Equity Investors, local stakeholders (e.g. landowners) and third party providers
- Leading cross-functional teams in the resolution of material issues affecting assigned assets (e.g. commercial disputes, warranty claims, environmental or regulatory violations, and tax matters)
- Monitoring wind and solar plant operational performance by working closely with the operations teams to identify and prioritize improvement initiatives as well as ensuring significant offline events are remedied in a timely fashion.
- Monitoring of project level profit & loss (P&L) activities to ensure that the projects are delivering expected financial returns.
- Ensuring the management framework that's been developed, is implemented consistently across all projects in the assigned portfolio.
- Identifying and executing on opportunities to generate incremental value from existing assets.
- Providing Operational knowledge and expertise to the Investment and Investment Management teams to support new project acquisition and project divestment activities.
- Acting as the SME in all Operational and Commercial discussions related to the Operating portfolio, communicating clearly and succinctly to investment team to inform major decisions that affect investor returns.
- Bachelor's degree within a relevant commercial or engineering field of studies.
- 6+ years of a blend of Technical (Engineering, Project Management, etc) and Asset Management experience. All of most of this in Renewable Energy.
- Must demonstrate experience and aptitude in both the technical and commercial aspects of Asset Management - communicating with and distilling information from project-level partners (e.g. O&M Providers) and applying operational knowledge to complex legal agreements.
- Excellent communication and stakeholder management skills.
- Ability to lead a team of cross-functional 3rd parties towards a common goal of optimizing operational performance.
- Be based in, or relocate to IL.
- Base salary up to $190k, dependent on experience.
- Annual bonus 25%.
- Very strong benefits and great company culture.