Head of Renewable Assets Project Development

Company Description

**KEPPEL MET Renewables **(“KMR”) is a joint venture between Keppel Infrastructure and MET Group that invests, develops, operates, and manages high-performance grid-scale renewable energy assets across Western
- and Southern Europe, the Nordics, and the United Kingdom.

By leveraging the extensive expertise of its industry leading strategic partners, KMR can effectively accelerate the growth of its renewables and low carbon energy infrastructure asset portfolio.

**Primary Objective**

KMR is developing and constructing a 1 GW, geographically and technologically diversified, portfolio of operating and ready-to-build solar PV and onshore wind renewable energy assets.

**Job Description**:
**KEPPEL MET Renewables **(“KMR”) is a joint venture between Keppel Infrastructure and MET Group that invests, develops, operates, and manages high-performance grid-scale renewable energy assets across Western
- and Southern Europe, the Nordics, and the United Kingdom.

By leveraging the extensive expertise of its industry leading strategic partners, KMR can effectively accelerate the growth of its renewables and low carbon energy infrastructure asset portfolio.

**Primary Objective**

KMR is developing and constructing a 1 GW, geographically and technologically diversified, portfolio of operating and ready-to-build solar PV and onshore wind renewable energy assets.

**Essential responsibilities**
- Own, drive, and lead
- project development (land, grid connection, permitting, power offtake) of acquired projects to ready-to-build status, and monitor progress against approved timeline, budget and quality targets
- defining, monitoring and managing project planning processes and development milestones
- the coordination of the relevant project engineering/ technical teams
- project business case optimization and risk management
- Play an active role in pre-feasibility and feasibility studies including site suitability appraisal, evaluation of suitable technologies, conceptual design and preliminary estimation of energy production
- Prepare project progress reports and presentations required for internal reporting purposes, including flagging and properly addressing key project risks and opportunities
- Develop and implement operational excellence and risk mitigation practices and processes
- Support investment/ M&A activities by originating and evaluating technical and commercial elements of investment opportunities in utility-scale renewables energy assets - solar PV and onshore wind
- Monitor market dynamics and regulatory environments
- Leadership, mentoring, and guidance of junior members of the Development team

**Qualifications**:
**Requirements**:

- MSc in Engineering from a tier 1 academic institution, MBA is an advantage
- 10+ years’ experience across the entire value chain of the renewable energy business, from development to operation, supported by strong technical know-how
- Expertise in project development including land acquisition, environmental assessment, permitting, stakeholder management, and transmission interconnection management
- Proven track record and/or exposure to renewable energy transactions is a pre-condition
- Demonstrable experience of successful project origination and progression of large-scale renewable energy projects across the various stages of development
- A good understanding of the technical, commercial, and regulatory factors applicable to asset development including interconnection, site design, regulatory requirements, supply chain, contract structures, construction, investment case development and project financing
- Excellent project management skills and ability to lead multidisciplinary teams
- Familiarity with EPC and IPP tendering processes
- Highly motivated, a solid hands-on work ethic, and appreciation for ‘getting things done’
- English plus Spanish and/ or Italian fluency required. Any other European language is a plus

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