Project Manager

The Universal Kraft group has been actively developing renewable energy solutions for over 20 years. Our projects span from small hydro, wind, and solar to waste-to-energy, water treatment, and energy storage solutions, including green Hydrogen and green Ammonia. With offices in the United Kingdom, Spain, Portugal, and Sweden, we are continuously expanding, along with our team.

PROFILE:

- Effective communication, organizational, and interpersonal skills.
- Accountability, commitment, and a strong work ethic
- Complex problem-solving skills.
- Strong attention to detail.
- Focus on accuracy, consistency, and quality of work, high degree of integrity & reliability.
- Ability to prioritize and manage multiple tasks and flexibility in terms of assignments.
- Functions well within a team environment.
- Highly motivated.
- Reliable.

**REQUIREMENTS**:

- Minimum Engineering degree in Electrical, Industrial, or a combination of Civil and Industrial Engineering.
- Minimum 5 years of direct experience in renewable energy construction or development, focusing on heavy electrical, collection systems, substations, commissioning, and interconnection.
- Experience with commercial contracts, including long and short-form contracts, with a focus on heavy electrical and a good understanding of subsidiary works in civil and mechanical competencies.
- Experience with transmission lines or grid works is a plus.
- Eligible to work in Canada without sponsorship.
- Willingness to travel and support business development activities, approximately 25-30% of the time.Fluent in English & French (Knowledge of Spanish & Portuguese is a plus)

RESPONSIBILITIES:

- Identify, and engage with emerging clients, lead strategic decisions on which clients to pursue/not to pursue and contribute to a healthy pipeline of opportunities.
- Contribute to greenfield efforts for new projects and conduct due diligence on acquisition opportunities for multiple projects across Canada.
- Collaborate with the team to identify market opportunities and Provide strategic evaluation of project economics and perform scenarios analysis.
- Actively participate in stakeholder interactions and engagement and hold assigned key client relationships. Managing stakeholder relations including consultation activities with local communities.
- Serve as the point of contact for discussions with landowners and negotiations. Organize, manage and attend project open houses and landowner group meetings.

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- Manage the permitting process, community outreach, land acquisition, resource assessment, GIS mapping, project design and engineering, and interconnection process for renewable energy projects while supporting the PPA origination, equipment procurement, technical and legal aspects of project development.
- Oversee third party contractors (including environmental baseline, permitting, resource assessment, engineering design, interconnection studies, etc.) for various workstreams to deliver a fully developed, construction ready project in accordance with the project budget and schedule.
- Lead the process for submissions of Request for Qualifications, Request for Proposals, and other bids/auctions, while working closely with PPA origination, investment management, construction, and engineering teams.
- Create and track project development plans and budgets for development projects and manage project progress towards task deadlines while identifying critical path challenges, project resource constraints and requirements.
- Develop and provide project development status and milestone, project schedule and project budget updates.
- Identify and gather project risks and prepare proposed mitigation measures. Develop and maintain a project risk register for each project.
- Manage and negotiate interconnection agreements with electric utilities to ensure reasonable and practical interconnection requirements.
- Actively participate in power purchase agreement contracts with corporate and utility off takers for electric power, ancillary services, and renewable energy credits
- Support with analysis and strategic value in key markets, Perform analysis on various utility tariff and utility structures, Market analysis of ISO/RTO market structures, Renewable Energy Credit markets and their impact to the business, Tax incentives for renewable energy

WE OFFER:

- Competitive salary and benefits package according to experience.
- Opportunity to work in the fast-growing renewable energy sector
- Integration on a young, motivated team
- Multicultural and international working environment
- Professional development and growth opportunities within the company
- Collaborative and supportive work environment
- Chance to make a positive impact on combating climate change

**Language**:

- French (required)
- English (required)