Senior Permitting Associate

Company Overview 174 Power Global, headquartered in Irvine, California, is an affiliate company of Hanwha Group, a FORTUNE Global 500 firm that is among the eight largest business enterprises in South Korea. 174 Power Global designs, builds and manages solar power plant solutions. The company brings a decade of global leadership in solar PV to North America, combining best-of-world technology, processes and partnerships to deliver utility-grade solar PV solutions customized for local energy markets. 174 Power Global offers the full spectrum of PV solutions – from power plant development, design, construction, operations and maintenance. With proven capabilities across the solar value chain, 174 Power Global minimizes uncertainty and risk, and helps customers achieve a higher return on their investment in solar energy.

Position Overview

The Senior Permitting Associate will conduct and manage all aspects of environmental compliance and permitting required for energy project development across the U.S. This position will be engaged in supporting all aspects of project development including early, mid, and late (construction) stages. This position reports to the Director of Permitting. This position may be required to travel up to 20% of the time, with travel to headquarters and across North America as project needs dictate.

174 Power Global is headquartered in Irvine, California, and the ideal candidate will be within commutable distance to the Irvine office location. However, this position has the opportunity to work remotely.

Responsibilities

• Investigate local jurisdictional authorities during early-stage project development to determine permitting requirements, fees, timelines, and local public sentiment/climate related to utility scale energy development;
• Conduct primary early-stage research on environmental and regulatory considerations; this may involve obtaining scope and cost estimates from consultants for Manager approval and contracting;
• Obtain and review Transect reports for Developers and provide summary reports to Permitting Managers and Developers;
• Outline and track project environmental studies and required permits in MS Project or similar;
• Ensure early- and mid-stage development permits are obtained in an orderly and timely fashion;
• Provide oversight to EPCs to ensure late-stage (construction) ministerial permits are obtained;
• Contract highly qualified consultants with a proven track record to provide environmental and permitting support;
• Provide review of consultant deliverables with an eye to ensuring they meet 174PG standards as well as jurisdictional authority requirements;
• Provide administrative duties including purchase requests and support for financing teams;
• Interface with other departments to ensure environmental and permitting is efficiently executed and managed through all life stages of projects;
• Provide weekly summary updates to Director of Permitting of all activities, milestones, potential issues/challenges;
• Support presentations for internal budgeting;
• Perform effective public outreach, both virtually and in person;
• Work with internal teams and perform additional duties to assist in project development as required; and
• Perform all other duties and special requests, as assigned by Management.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree, preferably with a major in Natural Resources, Environmental Sciences, Environmental Policy, or another related field;
• Minimum of 10+ years of experience in environmental and regulatory compliance and local, state, and federal permitting, required;
• Minimum of 1+ years experience in utility-scale renewable development; required
• Demonstrated experience in public outreach
• Proficiency in MS Excel, MS Project, Word, and PowerPoint
• Team player attitude and mentality, required;
• High proficiency in written and oral communication
• Must be able to troubleshoot problems and find solutions, independently and within a team.
• High degree of professionalism and conduct at all times;
• Able to support five or more projects at one time, multi-task, and set priorities
• Demonstrated ability to meet deadlines;
• Confidence and ability to interact with people at all levels of the organization;
• Microsoft Office Suite (including SharePoint and Teams) proficiency required; and
• Comfortable working in a fast-moving dynamic, environment.

Attention external recruitment firms, we will not accept any unsolicited resumes at this time. Please do not contact any internal member of our company to discuss the position or to solicit candidates.

174 Power Global provides equal employment opportunities (EEO) to all employees and applicants for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, national origin, age, disability or genetics.

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