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Senior Project Development Manager - Energy Storage Technologies at Ferrovial

Senior Project Development Manager - Energy Storage Technologies

Ferrovial · Austin, TX, US

2 weeks ago

Senior Project Development Manager - Energy Storage Technologies

Ferrovial · Austin, TX, US

20 days ago
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About the Role

The Senior Project Development Manager – Energy Storage Technologies role is responsible for originating, developing, evaluating, acquiring, and advancing utility-scale energy storage opportunities across the U.S. and Canada. The role will focus on a broad range of storage technologies and support various applications aligned with Ferrovial Energy’s growth objectives.

Responsibilities

  • Serve as project lead for standalone energy storage, hybrid renewable-plus-storage, and data center-related energy infrastructure opportunities, coordinating internal cross-functional teams and external consultants.
  • Originate, screen, and advance energy storage projects across multiple technologies.
  • Evaluate market applications for storage projects.
  • Lead site identification and project development activities, including land control, permitting strategy, environmental review, stakeholder outreach, community engagement, utility coordination, interconnection strategy, transmission review, and project schedule management.
  • Support commercial, technical, and financial modeling for storage projects.
  • Prepare executive-level briefings, business updates, investment committee materials, project memoranda, risk assessments, and strategic recommendations for senior and executive management.
  • Support M&A, project acquisition, co-development, and joint venture opportunities.
  • Develop and manage strategic partnerships with technology suppliers, developers, utilities, load-serving entities, data center customers, EPC contractors, engineering firms, consultants, landowners, public agencies, and financial partners.
  • Prepare, review, and manage requests for information, proposals, bids, technology evaluations, owner’s engineer scopes, and consultant work products related to energy storage development and execution.
  • Coordinate project handoff and continuity from development into financing, procurement, construction, commissioning, operations, asset management, and long-term performance monitoring.
  • Track storage technology trends, policy developments, ISO/RTO market rules, utility requirements, interconnection reforms, data center load growth, and evolving commercial structures for short-duration and long-duration storage.
  • Participate in industry conferences, technology roundtables, customer meetings, and partner discussions to build market intelligence, identify opportunities, and strengthen Ferrovial Energy’s visibility in the storage sector.
  • Manage assigned project budgets, objectives, schedules, development milestones, risk registers, consultant scopes, and internal reporting obligations.
  • Support, mentor, and coordinate more junior development managers, associates, analysts, and consultants working on assigned projects and strategic initiatives.
  • Promote a culture of safety, integrity, respect, accountability, collaboration, and commercial discipline across all project activities.

Requirements

  • Engineering, finance, economics, business, environmental, or other relevant degree preferred; equivalent experience in energy storage, power infrastructure, project development, or investment analysis will be considered.
  • Minimum of 6 to 9 years of relevant experience in energy storage, renewable energy, power generation, infrastructure development, IPP, utility, EPC, consulting, investment, or project acquisition roles.
  • Required experience with utility-scale energy storage development, including standalone storage and hybrid renewable-plus-storage projects; experience with data center energy infrastructure, behind-the-meter solutions, microgrids, or large-load power solutions preferred.
  • Strong understanding of short-duration and long-duration energy storage technologies, including lithium-ion BESS, thermal storage, iron-based storage, vanadium redox flow batteries, and other emerging storage technologies.
  • Experience developing, acquiring, financing, or evaluating storage projects across the full lifecycle, from origination, market screening, land, interconnection, permitting, and stakeholder outreach through financing, construction readiness, commissioning, and operations support.
  • Demonstrated ability to prepare and interpret project financial models, market models, dispatch scenarios, lifecycle cost comparisons, revenue forecasts, sensitivity analyses, and investment materials for storage assets.
  • Required experience supporting M&A, project acquisitions, co-development structures, joint ventures, partnerships, or strategic investments in energy storage, renewables, data centers, or adjacent energy infrastructure sectors.
  • Ability to prepare clear, concise, and commercially oriented materials for executive management, including investment committee presentations, management updates, project approvals, risk summaries, and strategic recommendations.
  • Strong knowledge of U.S. interconnection and transmission processes across multiple ISO/RTO and utility markets.
  • Established network with storage technology providers, project developers, utilities, load-serving entities, commercial off-takers, data center customers, EPC contractors, consultants, land agents, public agencies, and financial partners preferred.
  • Strong stakeholder outreach and communication skills, with the ability to engage various parties.
  • Commercially astute, proactive, collaborative, autonomous, flexible, and solutions-oriented, with the ability to manage competing priorities, anticipate risks, and drive projects forward in a dynamic market environment.
  • Available to travel as required for project development, stakeholder meetings, technology diligence, partner engagement, site visits, conferences, and transaction-related activities.

Skills

  • Energy storage technologies
  • Lithium-ion battery storage
  • Thermal storage
  • Iron-based storage
  • Vanadium redox flow batteries
  • Emerging short-duration and long-duration energy storage solutions
  • Standalone storage
  • Renewable-plus-storage hybrid projects
  • Behind-the-meter applications
  • Front-of-the-meter applications
  • Data center energy infrastructure solutions
  • Project development
  • Site identification
  • Technology evaluation
  • Market opportunity evaluation
  • Commercial due diligence
  • Technical due diligence
  • Acquisitions
  • Partnership structures
  • Relationship building with technology providers and developers
  • Executive-level material preparation
  • Investment decisions
  • Business planning
  • Management updates
  • Grid reliability
  • Renewable integration
  • Customer load growth
  • Data center power needs
  • Long-term value creation
  • Interconnection
  • Permitting
  • Land control
  • Environmental review
  • Stakeholder outreach
  • Community engagement
  • Utility coordination
  • Transmission review
  • Project schedule management
  • Financial modeling
  • Revenue forecasts
  • Dispatch assumptions
  • Market participation strategies
  • Degradation and augmentation assumptions
  • Lifecycle cost analysis
  • CAPEX/OPEX estimates
  • Tax credit sensitivity
  • Investment case preparation
  • M&A support
  • Project acquisition support
  • Co-development support
  • Joint venture support
  • Valuation inputs
  • Transaction structuring
  • Development risk assessment
  • Technology review
  • Negotiation support
  • Strategic partnerships
  • Requests for information (RFI)
  • Requests for proposal (RFP)
  • Bid preparation
  • Technology evaluations
  • Owner's engineer scopes
  • Consultant work product management
  • Project handoff
  • Financing
  • Procurement
  • Construction
  • Commissioning
  • Operations
  • Asset management
  • Performance monitoring
  • Storage technology trends
  • Policy developments
  • ISO/RTO market rules
  • Utility requirements
  • Interconnection reforms
  • Data center load growth
  • Commercial structures
  • Industry conferences
  • Technology roundtables
  • Customer meetings
  • Partner discussions
  • Market intelligence
  • Project budget management
  • Project objectives management
  • Development milestones management
  • Risk register management
  • Consultant scope management
  • Internal reporting
  • Mentoring junior staff
  • Coordination of junior staff

Location

  • Austin, TX

Work Type

  • Full-time

Experience Level

  • Senior
  • 6 to 9 years

Education Level

  • Engineering degree preferred
  • Finance degree preferred
  • Economics degree preferred
  • Business degree preferred
  • Environmental degree preferred
  • Other relevant degree preferred

Benefits

  • Comprehensive benefits package
  • Employee wellbeing initiatives
  • Support for physical and psychological health
  • Productivity tools like Microsoft Copilot

About the Company

  • Ferrovial is a global leader in infrastructure solving complex problems and generating a positive outcome on people’s lives.
  • Listed on two major stock markets: Nasdaq - 100 Index (US) and IBEX 35 (Spain).
  • Member of the Dow Jones Sustainability Index and FTSE4Good.
  • Operates in more than 15 countries with a workforce of over 22,000 professionals worldwide.
  • Business units include Highways, Airports, Construction, and Energy.
  • The Energy business unit promotes the transition to a more sustainable and clean economy.
  • Focuses on providing innovative solutions for the development, construction, and operation of renewable energy generation, storage, and transmission infrastructures.
  • Offers energy efficiency solutions for both public and private clients.
  • Global presence, local impact.
  • Collaborative excellence.
  • Inclusive Culture.
  • Career growth opportunities with global and cross-business unit mobility.
  • Innovative, creative, respectful, and diverse company culture.

Equal Opportunity

  • Ferrovial is an equal opportunity employer.
  • We treat all jobs applications equally, regardless of gender, color, race, ethnicity, religion, national origin, age, disability, pregnancy, sexual orientation, gender identity and expression, covered veteran status or protected genetic information (each, a “Protected Class”), or any other protected class in accordance with applicable laws.