Description:
At Uniper, we are pro-actively transforming the world of energy whilst at the same time ensuring security of energy supply. As an internationally operating company, we work in very diverse teams with the greatest possible working time flexibility for our employees. Our corporate culture is characterized by equal opportunities, mutual appreciation, and respect. With us, you will be able to develop new business models, work on technological solutions for a modern, sustainable, and future-oriented energy supply as well as pro-actively help to shape changes. Interested? Then we will look forward to meeting you!
Your Responsibilities
As a PDM, you will have three main roles :
- You will ensure that a maximum of MWs under development reach RTB.
- You will lead the Management of portfolio projects under co-development with Co-developers and ensure all development steps are met successfully.
- You will seek proactive solutions to issues met by the partners' developers/ projects, making clever use of internal and external resources at hand in order to positively solve any issue in time.
- You will ensure up-to-date and precise project development reporting to ensure top management's capacity to make decisions.
- You will be in charge of obtaining the relevant approvals from Management in due time for projects to progress positively.
- You will ensure that projects are delivered on time and on budget.
- You will be responsible for monitoring and implementing payments
- You will proactively support the Due Diligence regarding portfolio acquisition/ partnership negotiation, bringing in, in particular, your acute knowledge of the permitting of Solar projects to effectively assess the quality of a portfolio
- You will proactively participate in the expertise-building of the Uniper Renewables team.
- Ensure up-to-date granular knowledge of permitting and ensuring dissemination of information to the relevant departments of the RES team.
- Support proactively any transversal subject impacting the overall work and expertise-building of the RES team (e.g., BESS, AgriPV, etc.)
Your profile
Essential
- Excellent up-to-date granular knowledge of Project development steps, including Permitting, land contract, grid connection, etc., from origination to ready-to-build
- Continuous improvement mindset, always looking at improving the status quo proactively
- Proven track record of utility-scale solar projects development/acquisitions/Co-Dev. Partnerships
- Capacity to manage team in a matricial way (management by influence)
- Strong project management skills, with strong attention to detail, strong attention to keeping deadlines, and managing Long-term projects on a day-to-day basis
- Capacity to implement and keep up-to-date project management tools (including budget and Cashflow follow-up), ensuring perfect reporting on all aspects of a project, including, for example, status of development, cashflow plans,
- Strong communication capacity: effectively communicates needs and wants to transversal team in an international and multicultural context.
- Excellent presentation skills, both oral and written
- Liaise closely with the existing Uniper business development team and the whole RES teams (technical department, contract managers, legal and finance department, asset teams, trading / PPAs, finance, others) and enabling functions
- Fluent in English. Other languages are a plus.