Senior Director, Land Use & Entitlements

Overview

About us:

Founded in 1990, LS Power is a premier development, investment, and operating company focused on the North American power and energy infrastructure sector, with leading platforms across generation, transmission and energy expansion solutions. Since inception, LS Power has developed or acquired 50,000 MW of power generation, including utility-scale solar, wind, hydro, battery energy storage, and natural gas-fired facilities. Through its transmission business, LS Power Grid, the company built and operates 780+ miles of high-voltage transmission and 7 transmission utilities and has another 375+ miles currently in construction or development. LS Power actively invests in and scales businesses that are meeting the growing needs of the energy expansion, including electric vehicle charging, demand response, microgrids, renewable fuels and waste-to-energy platforms. Over the years, LS Power has raised more than $76 billion in debt and equity capital to support North American infrastructure.

 

Our Purpose, Mission, & Values:

Our Purpose is to solve complex energy problems that improve the world

Our Mission is to make lives better by developing a cleaner and more reliable energy ecosystem

Our Values are the willingness to participate in and help strengthen our culture of Integrity, Innovation, Teamwork, and Taking Ownership

 

Our People create value and are our Most Valuable asset.  We take our values of Integrity, Innovation, Teamwork and Taking Ownership seriously and ask candidates to think about how they can help us further enhance our culture with their specific skillsets, capabilities and experiences.

 

Benefits

We provide our team the opportunity to share their unique perspectives, solve new challenges, and continue in their career growth. We are committed to supporting employees’ happiness, healthiness, and overall well-being by providing comprehensive benefits that include 100% employer paid premium healthcare, paid parental leave and more.

 

About the Role:

The Senior Director, Land Use & Entitlements (“Entitlements Lead”) leads LS Power’s discretionary land use approval and entitlement workstream across the generation development portfolio. The role sits within the Site Development & Permitting department and reports to the Vice President, Site Development & Permitting.

 

The Entitlements Lead is the Company’s subject-matter authority on land use and entitlements — the strategy, standards, and execution required to make each prospective site legally developable. This includes crafting the entitlement and public-hearing strategy for each project; preparing, submitting, and prosecuting applications for the discretionary approvals a project requires — rezonings, special and conditional use permits, variances, site plan approvals, subdivisions, and development agreements; leading public-hearing preparation and representing the Company before planning commissions, zoning hearing boards, and local governing bodies; and negotiating conditions of approval and development-agreement terms that protect feasibility and financeability. The role retains and directs land use counsel, planning consultants, and technical experts (traffic, noise, visual, drainage, and similar), and partners closely with the Site Selection & Planning, Environmental Permitting, External Affairs, and Real Estate functions, as well as with Engineering & Construction, Interconnection Planning & Development, Legal, and Finance.

 

In the Company’s matrix model, the department provides line management for the land use and entitlement function and assigns the Entitlements Lead and supporting staff to project teams. On project-specific deliverables, the Project Director is accountable for overall project outcomes and directs this role’s work; the Entitlements Lead consults with, and obtains the approval of, the Project Director on any decision affecting scope, schedule, budget, risk, or entitlement commitments that could materially change project economics.

 

This role is not accountable for overall project outcomes, does not originate or screen sites, and does not secure real property rights or lead title and curative work — those responsibilities sit with the Project Directors, the Senior Director, Site Selection & Planning, and the Director, Real Estate & Entitlements, respectively. Environmental permitting and water rights are a coordinated but distinct workstream. The Entitlements Lead supports project delivery by owning the land use and entitlement strategy, standards, and execution, and by surfacing risk and required decisions early.

Responsibilities

What you will do:

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