What you’ll do
As Senior Manager, Project Development, you will drive sites from site selection through shovel-ready. This is not a permitting coordination role. You will be hands-on across entitlements, utilities, and environmental work. Reporting to development leadership, you will work alongside the development team and local jurisdictions to move each site forward as fast as possible.
This role is ideal for someone who thrives under real schedule pressure, likes owning the details, and thinks in terms of parallel workstreams and creative problem solving rather than sequential checklists.
Where you’ll work
If based outside of our Houston, Long Beach or San Francisco hubs, this role will be based remotely from your home office
Responsibilities
Entitlements & Permitting
Manage zoning, land use approvals, conditional use permits, and variances through local and state agencies
Build and maintain working relationships with agency staff before they are needed
Prepare, submit, and track permit applications, and manage responses to agency comments
Find opportunities to run regulatory pathways in parallel and bring them to leadership
Flag permit schedule risk early and clearly
Work with Engineering and Construction to keep sites on the fastest path to shovel-ready
Utility & Infrastructure Coordination
Manage day-to-day coordination with power providers, water districts, and telecom utilities, and support leadership in negotiations
Coordinate civil, structural, and electrical engineers to produce complete and accurate permit packages
Environmental & Due Diligence
Manage Phase I/II environmental assessments, wetlands determinations, and other site constraints
Coordinate environmental consultants and track agency approvals through to clearance
Stakeholder & Community Engagement
Prepare materials for public hearings, neighborhood meetings, and agency presentations, and present alongside leadership
Build community relationships that support current and future projects
Process & Schedule Management
Build and maintain detailed development schedules tracking every entitlement, utility, and permit milestone
Track critical path items, escalate risks early, and solve problems before they affect delivery
Requirements
Bachelor’s degree in Engineering, Planning, Construction Management, or a related field
5+ years working on complex, multi-agency development or infrastructure projects. Experience in energy or data center development is a plus
Hands-on experience with entitlements, permitting, and/or utility coordination
Strong technical literacy: comfortable working directly with civil, electrical, and structural engineers
Strong relationship-building skills with government agencies, utilities, and community stakeholders
Experience building and managing detailed project schedules and critical path dependencies
Highly organized, detail-oriented, and comfortable in fast-paced, ambiguous environments with shifting priorities
Bonus Points
Background in hyperscale data center or other large-scale industrial development
Experience in oil & gas, LNG, or petrochemical permitting
Previous experience on the owner’s side of development
Familiarity with utility interconnection processes
Experience managing projects in more than one state or jurisdiction