Dayton Power & Light Company Hiring for Project Manager, O&M Strategy & Optimization at Dayton, Ohio Full Time

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AES Clean Energy is looking for a Project Manager to join our O&M Strategy & Optimization team, to support our US renewable energy fleet. This position will be a member of the US Clean Energy project team and will support the origination, scope, and management of optimization projects associated with large, grid scale, wind, solar and storage assets. The successful individual will work closely with project teams, asset managers, local and senior leadership to ensure projects are appropriately assessed, designed and drive value, as far as practical, to help optimize our operating renewable fleet. This position requires an experienced professional who can act both autonomously and as part of multi-disciplinary, cross-functional and dynamic team. You will bring experienced subject matter expertise in renewable energy and must have creative problem-solving abilities to help optimize our fleet safety, operations, and maintenance strategies. The individual will have the ability to engage effectively with local leadership, senior leadership, customers, contractors, OEM, and consultants. You will be part of a small team of experts which you will collaborate and guide not only grass roots projects, but will also be instrumental in developing solutions to problems that are systemic to an operating asset or a group of like kind assets. This includes management of RCA processes and working with a large group of performance/data engineers to identify and vet corrective actions needed. The candidate should be prepared to execute large scale retrofits, creative solution design and implementation, which includes project justification through cost/benefit analysis.
Key Accountabilities
Formally manage optimization projection from inception to completion.
Lead Execution Team: Roll out of developed solutions, retrofits, and optimization efforts.
Develop Solutions: Research, Troubleshooting, Collaboration with OEM, Strategize for long term solutions of systemic problems or obsolete components. Evolve Technology: Ensure that AES is optimizing our renewable energy fleet with the best technology available and strategy to incorporate necessary improvements in design, operations, and maintenance.
Work closely with local business leaders, O&M Leaders, and Performance Team to ensure projects are appropriately assessed and key development risks are identified.
Use project management skills to develop project schedules, outage plans, contractor management to reduce risk to PPA and manage to budget.
Develop and effectively lead site specific projects from origination to execution to optimize performance, maintenance, or safety related concerns.
Bring together, communicate, and apply lessons learned and standard methodologies to resolve complex problems.
Demonstrate agility and leverage experience, along with abilities, to drive positive change in KPI metrics throughout the renewable energy fleet.
Up to 25% travel should be expected with this role!
Education & Experience
A minimum of 5 years project management/leadership experience.
A degree and/or technical school training in related field is a plus.
Subject Matter Expert in a relatable renewable energy field a plus.
Energy Storage / Inverter Experience a plus
A good understanding of the technical, commercial, and regulatory factors applicable to wind, solar and battery technology, interconnection, site design, regulatory requirements, supply chain, contract structures, contract management, construction management, and project financing.
The ability to develop positive relationships with internal and external project collaborators e.g. partners, consultants, contractors, authorities and regul