Director, Grid Modernization

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Job Description

AECOM is seeking a Director of Grid Modernization to support our growing Energy Business Line with a specific focus on grid modernization. The Director will drive growth by leading project teams and ensuring successful delivery of strategic project assignments, as well as by conducting, coordinating, and supporting the sales, marketing, research, and planning activities associated with grid modernization business development for AECOM’s Energy Business.

The main focus of our grid modernization work is to help our clients navigate and deliver through the energy transformation, mitigate greenhouse gas emissions and adapt to a changing climate. AECOM’s clients include private and public utilities; municipal, county, and state bureaus; developers; financial institutions, and other large public and private customers.

Success in this position requires a dynamic individual with high energy and motivation, an acute passion for developing solutions, a deep and current understanding of utility strategies and system operators, knowledge of the current pipeline of regional market levers and the ability to collaborate with a strategic interdisciplinary team of operations, technical experts, and business development professionals. 

We are seeking an individual with strong interpersonal, organizational, creative problem-solving, collaboration and leadership skills with a proven expertise in utility engineering strategy, business development and market strategy development and execution.

 The job responsibilities for this position will include, but may not be limited to:

• Support strategic grid modernization projects as AECOM team lead and client interface during execution and implementation
• Support the development and implementation of our multi-year growth strategy, including development of key performance metrics, client account plans, service offerings, market trend analysis and brand elevation/thought leadership
• Identify, develop, and propose new projects; negotiate partnerships and alliances; structure and close transactions; manage senior-level relationships internally and externally; and maintain a sharp focus on client satisfaction throughout project/program lifecycle
• Build collaborative solutions for clients across AECOM business lines
• Help recruit and build a team of professionals to support the growth strategy
• Establish and develop relationships with regional public utilities, investor-owned utilities, developers, contractors and state and local government
• Strong writing skills and ability to communicate complex processes or ideas

Qualifications

MINIMUM REQUIREMENTS:

• BA/BS in Engineering, Environmental Science/Policy, Design or related field+ 10 years of related experience or demonstrated equivalency of experience and/or education, including 2 years of leadership

PREFERRED QUALIFICATIONS:

• MS in Engineering, Environmental Science/Policy, Design or related field
• 11+ years of experience in demonstrated networking capabilities with public and private clients, power and energy industries, from inception through contract award and implementation
• Extensive and diversified experience and abilities, and knowledge of marketing and planning principles and practices.
• Knowledge of the financial, technical and political aspects driving both the energy efficiency, distributed energy resources, smart energy and utility industries and energy infrastructure development
• Proven ability to collaborate with a strategic interdisciplinary team of business development and project professionals.
• Strong understanding of energy policy, planning and project implementation.

Additional Information

• Sponsorship for US employment authorization is not available now or in the future for this position.