Project Finance Associate
AES Clean Energy
Louisville, CO
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JOB DETAILS
LOCATION
Louisville, CO
POSTED
30+ days ago
Conduct Due Diligence for M&A Projects: Perform thorough reviews of potential merger and acquisition projects or portfolios, assessing risks, opportunities, and overall feasibility; Lead Project Planning and Development: Oversee and coordinate the early stages of project development, including feasibility studies, site selection, and preliminary design to ensure alignment with strategic goals and profitability targets; Provide Constructability Guidance: Offer expert support to the prospecting team by evaluating project designs for constructability, ensuring practical and efficient execution; Develop Preliminary Balance of Plant (BOP) Designs: Create initial designs for site civil work, turbine foundations, electrical collection systems, substations, and generation tie-lines; Perform Micro-Siting Activities: Optimize placement of turbines, road layouts, electrical collection routes, and substation/switchyard locations to enhance efficiency and reduce costs; Review and Negotiate Contracts: Lead the negotiation of BOP and Turbine Supply Agreements (TSA), ensuring favorable terms and conditions for project success; Conduct Design and Change Order Reviews: Review BOP and switchyard designs, evaluate contractor change order requests, and provide oversight to maintain project quality and compliance; Ensure Safe and High-Quality Project Execution: Guide construction efforts to ensure work is performed safely, meets quality standards, remains within budget, and is completed on or ahead of schedule.
REQUIREMENTS: Job requires Bachelor's degree in Engineering or related field and 3 years of experience in wind system design, development, construction and analysis.
Job requires OSHA 10-hr or comparable job-site safety certification; EIT qualification requiring passing the Fundamental of Engineering (FE) exam and application to the state board OR PE qualifications requiring passing the FE exam, or 3 years and a graduate program. The position also requires 3 years of experience in each of the following: Substation layout, planning, Civil and Structural Design using AutoCAD, ArcGIS or Civil 3D software, High voltage Equipment, Protection and control design, Power System Studies using ETAP, PSSE & PSCAD software, Project Management and co-ordination using Microsoft Tools or Primavera; Experience with electrical design, trenching and cable laying, MV cable testing, termination and energization of MV collection, design, construction, and operations of MV collection, Substation, Gen-Tie, Interconnection Switchyard, Site Civil, Turbine Foundation, Geotechnical for the wind projects; Experience with Gen-Tie line design using PLSS CAD software, permitting and environmental consideration, overhead and underground line construction, testing and commissioning; Experience with roadway design, drainage and erosion control using Civil 3D, ArcGIS or AutoCAD and crane pad construction; Experience with foundation design, geotechnical investigation, concrete construction, foundation testing.
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