Senior Director, Energy Capital & Strategy

The Senior Director, Energy Capital & Strategy owns and governs the company's energy capital and power readiness strategy, ensuring alignment with long-range growth plans, capital allocation priorities, and enterprise risk appetite. This role establishes and enforces utility risk tiering, power readiness gates, and early-warning indicators to proactively identify, mitigate, and escalate utility, regulatory, capacity, and execution risks that could impact cost, schedule, or customer commitments. Acting as a cross-functional integrator and strategic advisor to executive leadership, the Senior Director drives disciplined decision-making, consistent standards, and scalable governance across the enterprise energy portfolio.

What You Will Do: (Job Responsibilities)

• Own and govern the enterprise energy capital and power readiness strategy, ensuring alignment with long-range growth plans, capital allocation priorities, and risk appetite.
• Establish a structured framework to evaluate, prioritize, and sequence power-related investments across markets and development stages.
• Serve as a strategic advisor to executive leadership on energy-related risk, capital exposure, and readiness constraints.

Utility Risk Classification & Tiering

• Design and implement a utility risk tiering framework to consistently classify markets, utilities, and projects based on readiness, reliability, regulatory exposure, and execution risk.
• Ensure utility risk classifications directly inform site selection, capital planning, development pacing, and executive decision-making.

Power Readiness Gates

• Create and enforce power readiness gates across the development lifecycle, defining clear criteria for progression from early feasibility through execution and delivery.
• Ensure power readiness gating is embedded into investment approvals, development milestones, and capital committee processes.

Early Warning Indicators & Risk Management

• Develop and maintain a suite of early-warning indicators to identify emerging utility, regulatory, capacity, or execution risks before they impact schedule, cost, or customer commitments.
• Lead proactive mitigation planning and escalation for identified risks, ensuring clear ownership and accountability.

Utility Risk Review & Controls

• Chair or lead recurring utility risk review forums, providing structured oversight, consistent reporting, and decision transparency.
• Ensure risks, assumptions, and dependencies are documented, tracked, and communicated to senior leadership and governance bodies.

Cross-Functional Leadership

• Lead cross-functional teams spanning Energy Strategy, Utility Engagement, Development, Investments, Finance, Legal, Procurement, and Operations.
• Drive alignment across stakeholders to ensure disciplined execution, consistent standards, and enterprise-level risk visibility.
• Influence without direct authority while setting clear expectations, frameworks, and decision criteria.

Operating Model Maturity

• Transition the organization from informal practices to repeatable, auditable, and scalable systems for energy capital and utility risk management.
• Define metrics, dashboards, and reporting that provide leadership with clear insight into readiness, risk exposure, and portfolio health.
• Other duties as assigned.

What You Will Need to Be Successful: (Required Qualifications, Education, Experience, Certifications)

• Bachelor's degree in one of the following disciplines (or a closely related field): Engineering (Electrical, Mechanical, Civil, or Industrial), Economics, Finance, Business Administration, Data Analytics or Applied Analytics, Operations Research or Systems Engineering, or other.
• 10 or more years of professional experience with progressive responsibility in energy strategy, capital planning, infrastructure development, utility engagement, risk management, or related enterprise strategy roles.
• Demonstrated experience leading cross-functional teams and influencing decision-making across Development, Energy, Utilities, Investments, Finance, Legal, and Operations.
• Proven ability to drive strategic planning, governance frameworks, and business growth in capital-intensive or infrastructure-dependent environments.

Nice to Have: (Preferred Qualifications, Education, Experience, Certifications)

• 15 or more years of professional experience with progressive responsibility in energy strategy, capital planning, infrastructure development, utility engagement, risk management, or related enterprise strategy roles.

Other Key Skills: (KSAs)

• Strong grounding in systems thinking, risk classification, and governance models.
• Ability to translate technical, regulatory, and utility-specific inputs into enterprise-level strategy and capital decisions.
• Experience designing and operating stage-gate models, readiness frameworks, and early-warning indicators.
• Executive-level communication skills with comfort presenting complex risk and capital tradeoffs to senior leadership and governance forums.