Director Of Project Development

About Ebb

Ebb Carbon is a climate and ocean-health restoration company. Our mission is to remove gigatons of CO2 from the air, while reducing ocean acidification to restore a healthier planet for generations to come. We remove carbon dioxide from the air by accelerating the ocean's natural ability to capture and durably store carbon dioxide. Our electrochemical approach reduces ocean acidity and has the potential to be one of the largest scale and lowest cost approaches to removing excess CO2.

Ebb is partnering with desalination, research sites and industrial plants to deploy a first-of-its-kind technology that removes gigatons of CO2 from the air while helping to address some of the pressures these industries face from the public and regulators. Our novel technology uses electrochemistry to split brine into base (NaOH) and dilute acid (HCl). The base is streamed into the ocean in controlled and safe amounts to reduce ocean acidification and facilitate CO2 drawdown, while the acid is utilized for other industrial purposes.

About The Role

Ebb is seeking a Project Development manager who will be responsible for qualifying leads, developing a pipeline of opportunities unblocking and assembling the required elements for an Ebb system to be installed and operated, and negotiating agreements with external stakeholders. Additionally, you will be responsible for creating business targets and coordinating all development efforts with stakeholders involved in co-locating with Ebb's ocean Carbon Dioxide Removal system.

Responsibilities

• Permitting, environmental regulations and entitlements
• Provide market feedback for product development or engineering
• Identify and qualify sites to increase site compatibility with Ebb's solution.
• Creatively alleviate site constraints to make projects viable including:
• Prepare and present deal updates to company management for stage gate investment decisions
• Establish relationships with local communities that may be critical community influencers of our project
• Power and water infrastructure requirements
• Manage and maintain executive-level relationships with partners complementary to Ebb
• Represent Ebb in local communities, standards-setting committees and conferences
• Negotiate partner agreement terms including pricing, interconnection power requirements, land lease agreements, liability mitigations, etc.
• Timelines, budgets, size and unit cost (levelized cost of carbon - LCOC) estimates
• Engineering and construction cost estimates
• Provide expertise in executing the company acid co-product offtake strategy, including appraisal of various offtake options, identification of financial tradeoffs and implementation plans
• Energy procurement
• With global breadth, manage the full life-cycle of project development processes from sourcing, screening, early engagements, studies, negotiation, and other required activities to progress proposals through stage gates all the way to deal closure
• Develop partnerships with industry partners who are complementary to Ebb

Qualifications

• Strong understanding of technical sales and technology involved in water and / or energy assets and markets
• Bachelor's degree in Engineering, Business, or Economics. MBA or a relevant advanced degree is strongly preferred as are relevant professional certifications
• Proven ability to build business pipeline, build relationships with clients, stakeholders, local developers, landowners, permitting authorities, grid operators, regulators
• 5+ Years' experience working in the power, desalination, chemical, refining or energy infrastructure development industries
• Proven success in international business and cross-cultural professional practices
• Proven track record of siting and developing large scale energy and/or water infrastructure projects that bring companies together as co-investors in a large project investment energy markets, utility connection, and closing/negotiation of contracts
• Proven track record of successfully developing strategies and vision to promote an emerging technology to a large well-established organization, such as international EPC firms or desalination operators