Development Project Manager Italy

Permanent employee, Full-time · London

Elgin Values
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Agility We Lead with Agility  
Integrity We Act with Integrity
Excellence We Empower Excellence
CareWe Value Care
 
Integration of our three core values into our employment processes and frameworks allows Elgin to recognise and respect individual employees for their personal contributions to their roles, their colleagues, stakeholders, and ultimately to the renewable energy sector. We see sustainability as every employee’s responsibility and weaving sustainable practices into our values is paramount to the culture we seek to create.
Job Description
The role:
Manage the development and delivery of utility scale solar PV and storage projects from site origination through to fully consented and ready-to-build phases. Engagement with co-developers and key 
stakeholders in the development process and management of all project matters relating to development including land, planning, and grid connection.
You will be:
Site Origination
• Assessing suitable sites for solar PV and BESS development through various mapping tools, site 
feasibility studies, project budget and cash flow analysis.
• Engaging with Network Operators and other industry bodies such as local municipalities and 
Environmental consultants to identify opportunities for solar and storage development.
• Supporting other team members in the identification of projects and assessment of opportunities.

Project Development
• Managing co-developers, hosting weekly calls, following the day to day of each pipeline, liaising 
with the internal teams - engineering, legal and finance - to check/update project documents.
• Engaging with landowners regarding securing land for solar and storage.
• Negotiating agreements including landowner agreements, consultancy contracts, and input to 
commercial decisions, ensuring optimum value is achieved in all such negotiations.
• Manage key project deliverables including overseeing timely delivery of Heads of Terms, and 
project management of due diligence, legal documentation, and investment approval processes.
• Managing specialist consultants throughout the planning application process.
• Managing projects through the grid connection process with the relevant network operator.
• Engaging with external stakeholders (e.g. local authorities, system operators, statutory consultees, planning & grid consultants and co-developers) while representing the company in a professional 
manner.
• Consulting on project proposals with stakeholders local to the project area.
• Engage cross-functionally with the pre-construction, grid, finance and legal teams in developing a 
robust business case and ensure all project risks are captured
• Managing and reporting on all project risks, ensuring management is kept fully abreast of any 
significant developments

General
• We encourage new ideas and innovation building on the existing strengths within Elgin.
• Continuing to evolve and build existing knowledge and understanding of the renewable energy 
industry keeping a watching brief on energy policy development and media, and networking 
through attendance at industry conferences where relevant or required to inform decision making 
within the development team
• Driving and motivating the project development team and progress their professional 
development through staff mentorship, knowledge sharing, and identification of training 
opportunities.
• Driving and promoting the corporate values of Elgin within the workplace.
• Actively foster, in cooperation with other staff, an ethos and culture of inclusiveness and openness
• Supporting other duties as required and directed by the relevant Manager or other Officer 
appointed by the Board of Directors.
Your profile
Our Ideal Candidate will have:

• Fluent Italian speaking
• Will ideally come from a development, planning, engineering or consultancy background and have 
2-5 years of project management experience in the renewable energy sector or related field. 
• Bachelor's degree in business, Environmental science, Planning, Engineering, or a related field
• Excellent communication and organisational skills.
• A high level of motivation and a friendly manner to enable effective and positive engagement with 
colleagues, and key stakeholders.
• The ability to work proactively and within a team.
• A flexible approach to work to be undertaken.


About us

Elgin Energy is a full-service, utility scale, solar+storage platform bringing projects from origination through to energisation. Elgin is active across the project lifecycle from project origination through to construction management and operational asset management. The company has over 12GW of solar and storage projects across our three key markets of the UK, Australia, and Ireland.


As of 2022, Elgin Energy agreed to sell the UK’s largest solar PV transaction to date consisting of a portfolio of 12 projects with a combined capacity of 519MW of projects including 70MW of collocated energy storage capacity to Scottish Power Renewables (UK) Limited, a wholly-owned subsidiary of global utility Iberdrola Group.

In 2021, Elgin Energy secured financing with Berenberg Green Energy Fund for the development of solar PV projects totalling 1.36GW in the UK and Ireland and also raised £25 million via Focus Capital Partners to fund its growth strategy across its core markets. In 2020, the company partnered, in separate transactions, with both Foresight Group and Metka-EGN in relation to two portfolios to deliver a total of 276MW of UK solar development projects and was successful with two Irish solar projects in Ireland’s first solar auction, RESS-1 – Renewable Energy Support Scheme (RESS). In addition to the above, Elgin Energy delivered 21 solar projects, totalling 230MW, before the UK Government’s Renewables Obligation (ROCs) scheme ended in 2017.


Elgin Energy works with long-term strategic partners to deliver projects to the energization and provides asset management services through their operational life. The company has expanded internationally over the last 14 years with a professional team of engineers, accountants, and lawyers located in its London, Dublin, and Sydney offices. Elgin has a 98% success rate through planning across all its markets.


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