Wind Developer
Vienna, AT, 1010
ContourGlobal is an established Independent Power Producer developing, acquiring, and operating electricity generation assets worldwide. The company currently manages more than 6.2 GW of installed capacity across different generation technologies in 18 countries across Europe, Africa, Asia, North and South America. With a current share of renewables capacity of 27%, the company has committed to speed up the decarbonization of its portfolio with a sustainable transition of its thermal fleet, the repowering of existing renewable assets and the organic development of new renewable projects. ContourGlobal, a KKR company since 2022, has a track record of almost 20 years of experience in partnering with communities, institutions, and customers that benefit from its power supply through long-term contracts or innovative PPAs, coupled with energy management solutions.
Reporting to a Senior Wind Developer, the Wind Developer will be a member of the Business Development Team in the activities related to greenfield and brownfield project development as well as M&A activities until Ready to build status and COD in Austria with a focus on wind power, hybrid parks and battery storage.
Key Responsibilities
• Operational responsibility for the acquisition of land, planning, management, and implementation of projects in the field of renewable energies, in particular for wind turbines and hybrid power plants (e.g. evaluation and acquisition of land, support of municipalities, management of and negotiations with external stakeholders such as experts, engineering offices, cooperation partners, EPC service providers, preparation and coordination of the EIA approval process, etc.).
• Acquisition of cooperation partners, model designs for partnership realizations and support as well as management of co-development projects.
• Close coordination and sparring from concept development to commissioning with all departments involved, such as legal department, financial analyses, and management team.
• Clear targets in terms of budget, timeline, results with a lot of opportunity to help shape the implementation in compliance with ContourGlobal values and all relevant legal regulations.
• Management, coordination, and realization of renewable energy projects over the entire project cycle up to ready to build stage and supporting of our construction department during realization.
Commit to Lead with Our Values
• Commit to CG values as expressed in the Essential Information. Model the values in any interaction internally and externally.
• Put Health and Safety First.
• Embrace Timely Transparency.
• Model the 3Cs – Communication, Collaboration and Coordination.
• Embrace Failure analysis and continuous improvement including Five Whys.
• Seek out ways to incorporate technology and Artificial Intelligence into the company’s legal practice.
Qualification & Skills
• Completed higher technical vocational training or technical studies in the field of renewable energies, energy technology, electrical engineering, or industrial engineering or similar.
• 3 - 5 years of experience in wind project management / project development in Austria or Germany, experience in the development of solar projects is a plus.
• Sound knowledge in the planning and implementation of energy projects.
• Excellent communication skills with regard to internal and external stakeholder management.
• Pleasure, negotiating skills and persuasiveness in dealing with landowners and municipalities.
• High self-demand in terms of work organization, structure, self-management, and implementation orientation.
• Experience with project management methods and tools and planning tools such as QGIS, ArcGIS, CAD, etc.
• Willingness to take responsibility and hands-on mentality.
• Excellent knowledge of German and English
• Class B driving license.
• Travel requirements within Austria up to 50%, upon business needs.
For further information check-out our new ContourGlobal Austria website: www.contourglobal.at