Senior Director, Energy Capital & Strategy

The Senior Director Energy Capital & Strategy owns and governs the companys energy capital and power readiness strategy ensuring alignment with longrange growth plans capital allocation priorities and enterprise risk appetite. This role establishes and enforces utility risk tiering power readiness gates and earlywarning indicators to proactively identify mitigate and escalate utility regulatory capacity and execution risks that could impact cost schedule or customer commitments. Acting as a crossfunctional integrator and strategic advisor to executive leadership the Senior Director drives disciplined decisionmaking consistent standards and scalable governance across the enterprise energy portfolio.

What You Will Do: (Job Responsibilities)

Enterprise Energy Strategy & Capital Governance

• Own and govern the enterprise energy capital and power readiness strategy ensuring alignment with longrange growth plans capital allocation priorities and risk appetite.
• Establish a structured framework to evaluate prioritize and sequence powerrelated investments across markets and development stages.
• Serve as a strategic advisor to executive leadership on energyrelated 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 decisionmaking.

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 earlywarning 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.

CrossFunctional Leadership

• Lead crossfunctional teams spanning Energy Strategy Utility Engagement Development Investments Finance Legal Procurement and Operations.
• Drive alignment across stakeholders to ensure disciplined execution consistent standards and enterpriselevel 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)

• Bachelors 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 crossfunctional teams and influencing decisionmaking across Development Energy Utilities Investments Finance Legal and Operations.
• Proven ability to drive strategic planning governance frameworks and business growth in capitalintensive or infrastructuredependent environments.
  • Masterss 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

Nice to Have: (Preferred Qualifications Education Experience Certifications)

• 15 or more years of professional experiencewith 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 utilityspecific inputs into enterpriselevel strategy and capital decisions.
• Experience designing and operating stagegate models readiness frameworks and earlywarning indicators.
• Executivelevel communication skills with comfort presenting complex risk and capital tradeoffs to senior leadership and governance forums.

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• Bachelors 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 crossfunctional teams and influencing decisionmaking across Development Energy Utilities Investments Finance Legal and Operations.
• Proven ability to drive strategic planning governance frameworks and business growth in capitalintensive or infrastructuredependent environments.
  • Masterss 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

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