Project Closings Manager Jobs

Summary:

Summit Ridge Energy (“SRE”) is seeking a Director of Project Closings to expand our Corporate Operations team. This role will interface internally across Summit Ridge Energy’s functional teams to forecast, vet, and ensure projects are prepared to meet key milestones for transaction closings. The Director will also hold weekly meetings with key external partners across construction lending, cash equity, tax equity, and permanent lending firms to review project status, respond to due diligence questions, and coordinate funding events. This role requires a multifaceted employee who is seeking to engage across origination, development, construction, asset management, legal, and project finance practices to ensure projects achieve core funding milestones efficiently and effectively.

About Us:

Summit Ridge Energy is the nation’s leading owner-operator of residential community solar assets. We acquire, develop, construct, and operate solar energy and energy storage projects across the United States. We are passionate go-getters who have achieved incredible growth and success through the efforts of our talented staff.

Responsibilities:

• Interface with investors and lenders to support their diligence and underwriting of investments into the company’s portfolio of solar and energy storage projects, including development and construction debt, joint venture equity, and tax equity investments
• Attend and/or lead financial closing meetings on a weekly basis
• Work with key stakeholders to identify critical path items which may inhibit projects from achieving key financing milestones and help to drive a resolution and/or mitigation plan to ensure corporate forecasts are achieved
• Manage transaction execution and financial closing process for multiple projects at various stages of the development pipeline
• Implement and follow key project management practices to ensure teams, data rooms, and closing checklists are properly coordinated across both internal and external partners to ensure reporting is prepared for senior leadership
• Coordinate with business units across the project lifecycle (origination, development, construction, finance, legal) to ensure internal processes conform to project closing requirements and schedules

Required Skills/Competencies:

• Bachelor’s degree in finance, economics, energy, sustainability, engineering, or equivalent
• Strong interpersonal communications skills
• Strong problem-solving and creative skills with an ability to exercise sound judgment and make decisions based on accurate and timely analysis
• Ability to clearly communicate development, legal & financing sensitivities to internal functional managers, senior management, and external financing partners
• 4-8 years of experience with renewable energy project finance at a developer, investor, law firm, or financial institution
• Strong project management skills, excellent organizational skills, and attention to detail
• Applied working knowledge of finance, accounting, commercial, engineering, and legal aspects of renewable energy project development and financing
• Ability to embrace innovation and change, and belief that there is always room for improvement.
• Authorization to work in the United States
• Microsoft Office proficiency; programming knowledge.
• Excellent verbal and written communication skills

Equal Opportunity Employer Statement: Summit Ridge Energy, LLC is an Equal Opportunity Employer that values and respects the importance of a diverse and inclusive workforce. It is the policy of the company to recruit, hire, train, and promote persons in all job titles without regard to race, color, religion, sex, age, national origin, veteran status, disability, genetic information, pregnancy, sexual orientation, or gender identity. We recognize that diversity and inclusion is a driving force in the success of our company.

Occupational Health and Safety: SRE provides a workplace free from recognized hazards and complies with standards, rules, and regulations issued under the OSH Act.

Work Environment: This job operates in a professional office environment. This role routinely uses standard office equipment such as computers, phones, photocopiers, printers, scanners, document projectors, filing cabinets, and fax machines.

Physical Demands: The physical demands described here are representative of those that must be met by an employee to successfully perform the essential functions of this job. While performing the duties of this job, the employee is regularly required to talk and hear. The employee is frequently required to stand; walk; use hands to finger, handle or feel; and reach with hands and arms.