Vice President, EPC Tenders

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Summary
The Vice President is responsible for execution of Lightsource BP’s largest projects or multiple medium to large, high profile, and/or complex projects of the company. He or she will manage the procurement and EPC contracts, oversee the Lightsource BP field management team, and manage the interconnection technical and commissioning activities to ensure the project successfully achieves commercial operation.  The Vice President also works closely with internal stake holders such as project finance and development and shall support the construction organization on non-project specific work such as internal reporting, hiring, process improvement, and strategic initiatives. 
Duties and Responsibilities
Project Development Support
•    Support the sales, development, and finance teams during the early, mid, and late-stage development of projects. This may include generating preliminary project schedules, budgets, attending site walks, supporting estimates, reviewing off-taker RFP documentation, or evaluating permitting requirements.
•    Attend interviews with off-take/PPA counterparties as part of RFP solicitation to represent the company and present the Construction team’s organization and capabilities.

Pre-Construction Phase Activities
•    Support pre-construction efforts including buyout, review, and execution of due diligence studies.
•    Review preliminary designs and engineering to ensure compliance with other project agreements, permits, etc.
•    Coordinate with interconnection and engineering teams to review and negotiate draft interconnection agreements.
•    Attend weekly development meetings to provide updates on pre-construction activities and keep up to date on development and financing timelines.
•    Attend regular project finance meetings and support project finance activities including answering financier technical and construction diligence questions.
•    Develop bid packages for turn-key EPC Contracts, attend bid-walks, evaluate bids, develop scopes, and ultimately work with legal teams to negotiate and execute the contracts. 
•    Support project finance and management with construction information, slides for presentations to executive management to receive approval for executing key project agreements and expenditures.
•    Coordinate with procurement teams on equipment delivery schedules, logistics details, and other key negotiated terms for module supply agreements.
•    Work with internal engineering and consultants to create specification for main power transformers, go out to bid, and procure the transformer.
•    Develop and maintain a comprehensive and logic-linked project schedule encompassing schedules from others (EPC contractor, module suppliers, interconnection process, permit timelines, etc.) to track project status and forecast impacts to completion dates.
Construction Phase Activities
•    OFFTAKE CONTRACT MANAGEMENT - Track Off-take contract deliverables to ensure that all requirements applicable to the engineering and construction project are incorporated and implemented. 
•    PERMIT COMPLIANCE- Ensure project compliance with all applicable permits. Support submission of documents to authorities, scheduling of consultants, sharing of permit requirements amongst stakeholders, tracking compliance, payment of fees, etc. 
•    INTERCONNECTION MANAGEMENT - Ensure that the requirements of the project Generator Interconnection Agreement are fully satisfied within the required timelines. Establish regular communication with utility counterparts to manage interconnection process activities including technical submissions, construction tie in points, and commissioning tests and inspections. 
•    MANAGEMENT OF INTERNAL TEAM - Manage junior employees/direct reports, providing day-to-day supervision as required. Provide direction to project field teams. 
•    MANAGEMENT OF CONSULTANTS - Manage consultants who may be supporting the execution of the project such as interconnection processes, owner’s engineers, environmental, or others. Source, contract, schedule, and ensure payment. 
•    PERMANENT TELECOM PROCUREMENT – Engage telecom providers