{"schemaVersion":"jobsearcher.job.v1","id":"ca84b7020b4ebdf1d9b5e6d2","url":"https://jobsearcher.com/jobs/ca84b7020b4ebdf1d9b5e6d2","canonicalUrl":"https://jobsearcher.com/jobs/ca84b7020b4ebdf1d9b5e6d2","title":"Sr. Project Developer - Power & Infrastructure Projects","description":"Position\n\nSenior Developer\n\nLocation\n\nBloomington, MN (HQ)\n\nAbout Us\n\nGeronimo Power develops, owns, and operates large-scale power and affiliated digital infrastructure projects throughout America's Heartland, including solar, wind, energy storage, and powered data parks. As a farmer-founded and community-focused business, Geronimo Power equips landowners and rural communities with sustainable revenue to ignite local economic growth. To learn more about Geronimo Power, visit www.geronimopower.com or follow the company on LinkedIn.\n\nAbout This Role\n\nGeronimo Power's Development team originates, advances, and executes utility-scale energy and digital infrastructure projects across key U.S. markets. The Senior Developer is a senior individual contributor who independently advances a portfolio of early to mid-stage projects and supports select late-stage projects across solar, wind, battery energy storage, powered data parks, natural gas, and other emerging technologies. The role evaluates market and site opportunities, leads greenfield development, coordinates cross-functional inputs, manages development budgets and schedules, and identifies and mitigates project risk.\n\nThis position does not have direct people-management responsibility. The Senior Developer provides informal leadership to cross-functional project teams and works with internal subject matter experts, external consultants, landowners, utilities, regulators, and community stakeholders. Success requires sound judgment, clear escalation of risk, and the ability to move projects forward with limited oversight while maintaining alignment with company priorities, budgets, schedules, stage-gate requirements, and development milestones.\n\nResponsibilities\n\nManage the budgets, schedules, risks, documentation, stage-gate requirements, and advancement of approximately 4-6 early to mid-stage projects across multiple technologies, while supporting approximately 1-2 late-stage projects as needed. Annual development budgets are generally expected to range from approximately $2 million to $7 million, depending on project type and stage.\nSupport market evaluation, project origination, greenfield development, mergers and acquisitions diligence, and partnership opportunities.\nEvaluate project viability based on land, interconnection, permitting, stakeholder, market, economic, constructability, and strategic considerations.\nLead negotiations and execution of purchase options, lease options, easements, extensions, and related real estate agreements, balancing operational, financial, legal, and constructability considerations across the project lifecycle.\nBuild the greenfield development pipeline by identifying new market opportunities, evaluating development constraints and commercial drivers, and creating practical pathways to project viability.\nRepresent Geronimo Power with landowners, local officials, utilities, regulators, transmission providers, and community stakeholders, and maintain relationships necessary to advance projects.\nCoordinate with Transmission, Engineering, Construction, Permitting, Real Estate, Legal, Finance, Commercial, Strategy, Community Engagement, and Procurement teams; provide informal leadership by clarifying ownership, driving accountability, and advancing deliverables.\nIdentify, assess, manage, and escalate project risks, and recommend practical mitigation strategies and decision points.\nPartner with internal technical teams on interconnection and transmission activities, including schedule, cost, design, project-readiness impacts, and preparation of applicable interconnection materials.\nPartner with Engineering and Construction on site layouts, design assumptions, constructability, equipment needs, cost-effective development strategies, and accurate identification of project constraints.\nWork with the Permitting team to coordinate federal, state, and local permitting and approval processes for generation and load projects.\nPrepare project updates, budgets, forecasts, schedules, investment materials, and leadership reporting that clearly communicate status, decisions, risks, and required actions.\nManage external consultants and contractors to ensure timely, accurate, and fit-for-purpose deliverables.\nLead or support negotiation and execution of development agreements, service agreements, real estate documents, local agreements, and other project contracts.\nTravel approximately 40% of the time.\nPerform other duties as assigned.\n\nWhat You’ll Bring\n\nRequired Experience\n\nBachelor's degree in business, engineering, environmental policy or science, ora relatedfield, or equivalent relevant work experience.\nAt least 4 years of experience in renewable energy project development ora relatedfield such as energy, real estate, infrastructure, commercial development, land development, or project management.\nStrong understanding of utility-scale project development processes and working knowledge of energy markets, project economics, interconnection, permitting, land acquisition, stakeholder engagement, and project execution.\nExperience managing landowner relationships, community engagement, and external stakeholder communications.\nDemonstrated ability to independently manage development work streams, deadlines, budgets, cross-functional dependencies, and competing priorities.\nAbility to identify project risks, develop mitigation strategies, make recommendations, and escalate matters using sound judgment.\nExperience coordinating with finance, commercial, real estate, legal, permitting, engineering, construction, transmission, and other cross-functional partners.\nStrong written, verbal, analytical, negotiation, and presentation skills, including the ability to prepare clear project updates and executive materials.\nEntrepreneurial mindset and demonstrated ability to identify greenfield opportunities, navigate ambiguity, and advance new concepts from idea to an actionable development path.\nStrong organization, follow-through, accountability, and ability to work independently while remaining aligned with team and company priorities.\nValid driver's license.\n\nPreferred Experience\n\nDevelopment experience with utility-scale solar, wind, battery energy storage, powered data parks or data centers, or natural gas projects.\nFamiliarity with regional transmission organizations or independent system operators, especially MISO.\nExperience with project origination, market screening, land acquisition, interconnection applications, or M&A diligence.\nExposure to project finance, project sale processes, commercial structuring, or investment approvals.\nExperience presenting to senior leaders, public officials, community groups, landowners, or other external stakeholders.\nProficiency with Microsoft 365 applications, including Teams, SharePoint, Word, Excel, and PowerPoint; experience with Procore or comparable project-management systems is a plus.\n\nSuccess in This Role Looks Like\n\nAssigned projects advance through defined development milestones with current schedules, disciplined budgets, complete documentation, and clear ownership of next steps.\nMaterial development risks and constraints areidentifiedearly, supported by practical mitigation plans, and escalated with clear recommendations when decisions are needed.\nNew greenfield opportunities are screened thoughtfully and converted into actionable development pathways aligned with company strategy and return expectations.\nCross-functional partners and external stakeholders receive timely, accurate information and understand required decisions, deliverables, and accountabilities.\nLand, interconnection, permitting, and community workstreams remain coordinated so that projects are positioned for successful transition to later-stage development and execution.\n\nWhat You’ll Get\n\nCompetitive compensation and performance-based incentives\n401(k) retirement plan\nComprehensive health, dental, and vision coverage\nPaid time off and holidays\nTuition assistance and ongoing professional development\nEmployeeassistanceprogram (EAP) and wellness resources\nPet insurance and employee discount programs\n\nPay Range for the posted level: $142,000 – $178,000 plus target annual bonus opportunity of 15%. Actual compensation may vary based on experience, skills, and demonstrated market-relevant expertise\n\nOur Commitment\n\nGeronimo Power is committed to building a diverse, inclusive, and high-performing workplace where employees feel valued, supported, and energized to do their best work. We believe strong teams and strong communities drive better outcomes.\n\nWe are proud to be an Equal Opportunity Employer and provide equal employment opportunities to all qualified applicants.","company":"Geronimo Power","rawCompany":"geronimo power","city":"Bloomington","state":"MN","isRemote":false,"isActive":false,"createdAt":"2026-09-19T10:02:20.856Z","occupations":[{"code":"13-1082.00","title":"Project Management Specialists","slug":"project-management-specialists"},{"code":"11-9199.10","title":"Wind Energy Development Managers","slug":"wind-energy-development-managers"},{"code":"15-1252.00","title":"Software Developers","slug":"software-developers"}],"industries":[{"code":"221118","title":"Other Electric Power Generation","slug":"other-electric-power-generation"},{"code":"221115","title":"Wind Electric Power Generation","slug":"wind-electric-power-generation"},{"code":"221114","title":"Solar Electric Power Generation","slug":"solar-electric-power-generation"}],"jobPosting":{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"JobPosting","title":"Sr. Project Developer - Power & Infrastructure Projects","description":"Position\n\nSenior Developer\n\nLocation\n\nBloomington, MN (HQ)\n\nAbout Us\n\nGeronimo Power develops, owns, and operates large-scale power and affiliated digital infrastructure projects throughout America's Heartland, including solar, wind, energy storage, and powered data parks. As a farmer-founded and community-focused business, Geronimo Power equips landowners and rural communities with sustainable revenue to ignite local economic growth. To learn more about Geronimo Power, visit www.geronimopower.com or follow the company on LinkedIn.\n\nAbout This Role\n\nGeronimo Power's Development team originates, advances, and executes utility-scale energy and digital infrastructure projects across key U.S. markets. The Senior Developer is a senior individual contributor who independently advances a portfolio of early to mid-stage projects and supports select late-stage projects across solar, wind, battery energy storage, powered data parks, natural gas, and other emerging technologies. The role evaluates market and site opportunities, leads greenfield development, coordinates cross-functional inputs, manages development budgets and schedules, and identifies and mitigates project risk.\n\nThis position does not have direct people-management responsibility. The Senior Developer provides informal leadership to cross-functional project teams and works with internal subject matter experts, external consultants, landowners, utilities, regulators, and community stakeholders. Success requires sound judgment, clear escalation of risk, and the ability to move projects forward with limited oversight while maintaining alignment with company priorities, budgets, schedules, stage-gate requirements, and development milestones.\n\nResponsibilities\n\nManage the budgets, schedules, risks, documentation, stage-gate requirements, and advancement of approximately 4-6 early to mid-stage projects across multiple technologies, while supporting approximately 1-2 late-stage projects as needed. Annual development budgets are generally expected to range from approximately $2 million to $7 million, depending on project type and stage.\nSupport market evaluation, project origination, greenfield development, mergers and acquisitions diligence, and partnership opportunities.\nEvaluate project viability based on land, interconnection, permitting, stakeholder, market, economic, constructability, and strategic considerations.\nLead negotiations and execution of purchase options, lease options, easements, extensions, and related real estate agreements, balancing operational, financial, legal, and constructability considerations across the project lifecycle.\nBuild the greenfield development pipeline by identifying new market opportunities, evaluating development constraints and commercial drivers, and creating practical pathways to project viability.\nRepresent Geronimo Power with landowners, local officials, utilities, regulators, transmission providers, and community stakeholders, and maintain relationships necessary to advance projects.\nCoordinate with Transmission, Engineering, Construction, Permitting, Real Estate, Legal, Finance, Commercial, Strategy, Community Engagement, and Procurement teams; provide informal leadership by clarifying ownership, driving accountability, and advancing deliverables.\nIdentify, assess, manage, and escalate project risks, and recommend practical mitigation strategies and decision points.\nPartner with internal technical teams on interconnection and transmission activities, including schedule, cost, design, project-readiness impacts, and preparation of applicable interconnection materials.\nPartner with Engineering and Construction on site layouts, design assumptions, constructability, equipment needs, cost-effective development strategies, and accurate identification of project constraints.\nWork with the Permitting team to coordinate federal, state, and local permitting and approval processes for generation and load projects.\nPrepare project updates, budgets, forecasts, schedules, investment materials, and leadership reporting that clearly communicate status, decisions, risks, and required actions.\nManage external consultants and contractors to ensure timely, accurate, and fit-for-purpose deliverables.\nLead or support negotiation and execution of development agreements, service agreements, real estate documents, local agreements, and other project contracts.\nTravel approximately 40% of the time.\nPerform other duties as assigned.\n\nWhat You’ll Bring\n\nRequired Experience\n\nBachelor's degree in business, engineering, environmental policy or science, ora relatedfield, or equivalent relevant work experience.\nAt least 4 years of experience in renewable energy project development ora relatedfield such as energy, real estate, infrastructure, commercial development, land development, or project management.\nStrong understanding of utility-scale project development processes and working knowledge of energy markets, project economics, interconnection, permitting, land acquisition, stakeholder engagement, and project execution.\nExperience managing landowner relationships, community engagement, and external stakeholder communications.\nDemonstrated ability to independently manage development work streams, deadlines, budgets, cross-functional dependencies, and competing priorities.\nAbility to identify project risks, develop mitigation strategies, make recommendations, and escalate matters using sound judgment.\nExperience coordinating with finance, commercial, real estate, legal, permitting, engineering, construction, transmission, and other cross-functional partners.\nStrong written, verbal, analytical, negotiation, and presentation skills, including the ability to prepare clear project updates and executive materials.\nEntrepreneurial mindset and demonstrated ability to identify greenfield opportunities, navigate ambiguity, and advance new concepts from idea to an actionable development path.\nStrong organization, follow-through, accountability, and ability to work independently while remaining aligned with team and company priorities.\nValid driver's license.\n\nPreferred Experience\n\nDevelopment experience with utility-scale solar, wind, battery energy storage, powered data parks or data centers, or natural gas projects.\nFamiliarity with regional transmission organizations or independent system operators, especially MISO.\nExperience with project origination, market screening, land acquisition, interconnection applications, or M&A diligence.\nExposure to project finance, project sale processes, commercial structuring, or investment approvals.\nExperience presenting to senior leaders, public officials, community groups, landowners, or other external stakeholders.\nProficiency with Microsoft 365 applications, including Teams, SharePoint, Word, Excel, and PowerPoint; experience with Procore or comparable project-management systems is a plus.\n\nSuccess in This Role Looks Like\n\nAssigned projects advance through defined development milestones with current schedules, disciplined budgets, complete documentation, and clear ownership of next steps.\nMaterial development risks and constraints areidentifiedearly, supported by practical mitigation plans, and escalated with clear recommendations when decisions are needed.\nNew greenfield opportunities are screened thoughtfully and converted into actionable development pathways aligned with company strategy and return expectations.\nCross-functional partners and external stakeholders receive timely, accurate information and understand required decisions, deliverables, and accountabilities.\nLand, interconnection, permitting, and community workstreams remain coordinated so that projects are positioned for successful transition to later-stage development and execution.\n\nWhat You’ll Get\n\nCompetitive compensation and performance-based incentives\n401(k) retirement plan\nComprehensive health, dental, and vision coverage\nPaid time off and holidays\nTuition assistance and ongoing professional development\nEmployeeassistanceprogram (EAP) and wellness resources\nPet insurance and employee discount programs\n\nPay Range for the posted level: $142,000 – $178,000 plus target annual bonus opportunity of 15%. Actual compensation may vary based on experience, skills, and demonstrated market-relevant expertise\n\nOur Commitment\n\nGeronimo Power is committed to building a diverse, inclusive, and high-performing workplace where employees feel valued, supported, and energized to do their best work. We believe strong teams and strong communities drive better outcomes.\n\nWe are proud to be an Equal Opportunity Employer and provide equal employment opportunities to all qualified applicants.","datePosted":"2026-09-19T10:02:20.856Z","dateModified":"2026-09-19T10:02:20.856Z","hiringOrganization":{"@type":"Organization","name":"Geronimo Power","sameAs":"https://jobsearcher.com"},"jobLocation":{"@type":"Place","address":{"@type":"PostalAddress","addressLocality":"Bloomington","addressRegion":"MN","addressCountry":"US"}},"identifier":{"@type":"PropertyValue","name":"JobSearcher","value":"ca84b7020b4ebdf1d9b5e6d2"},"url":"https://jobsearcher.com/jobs/ca84b7020b4ebdf1d9b5e6d2"}}