Project Development Associate

About Us

Highland Electric Fleets’ electrification-as-a-service (EaaS) model aims to make electric school buses and other clean heavy duty vehicles attainable for every district across the US and Canada. Our turnkey solution tackles financing, vehicle procurement, infrastructure upgrade and maintenance to create a reliable and affordable fleet for our customers.

We know that cleaner buses create healthier communities and it’s our mission to eliminate the barriers to better student health and cleaner air - just 10 electric buses will reduce the pediatric asthma risk for 1,500 students!*

We are looking for candidates that want to help support this mission…

*Source: American Journal of Respiratory and Critical Care Medicine. Based on estimates for Highland customer with large fleet

Summary:

The Project Development Associate will deliver fully developed and planned projects in preparation for customer contract execution.

This role will work with the Estimation, Utility Engagement, Jurisdictional Management functions. They will partner with the commercial team to document the customer needs and Highland commitments. They will work with the Legal and Market Development Teams. They deliver projects to the Customer Success and Project Execution teams.

The role will report directly to the Senior Manager, Development and Construction and will be based in Beverly, MA with a 10% travel expectation.

Responsibilities:

• Establish fleet electrification scopes of work for projects in development
• Coordinate the project site diligence process; identifying real estate, zoning, permitting, and other development restrictions
• Develop conceptual project designs, including site plans and line diagrams
• Define all project permitting requirements and related project engineering deliverables
• Define project specific reporting requirements for all relevant electric vehicle incentive programs
• Identify utility requirements, file new service requests, and communicate with utility representatives to define utility related timelines and budgets.
• Build executable fleet electrification project implementation timelines
• Support estimation of indicative and executable budgets
• Lead handoff to project implementation team upon customer contract execution
• Contribute to work scoping methodology and documentation improvement initiatives
• Support generation of utility knowledge bank

Qualifications

• 4+ years of professional experience OR a Bachelor's degree and 2+ years of professional experience
• 1+ years of engineering and/or construction experience
• 1+ years of EV charger infrastructure experience (preferred)
• 1+ years of experience working with electric utilities
• 1+ years of experience working with permitting authorities having jurisdiction (AHJs)
• Experience estimating engineering and construction project (preferred)

What You Can Expect from Highland:

· Competitive base salary and performance-based bonus program

· A supportive, highly collaborative, team-oriented environment

· Opportunities to make a difference, be heard, add value, and be recognized

· Growth and development with a leader in this new and exciting industry

· Ability to work with bright, innovative, and forward-thinking colleagues

· Health, Vision, and Dental coverage for employees & their dependents

· Life insurance, public transportation assistance

· Generous Paid Time Off

· 401(k) program and company match

Highland Electric Fleets provides equal employment opportunities (EEO) to all employees and applicants for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, national origin, age, disability, or genetics. In addition to federal law requirements, Highland Electric Fleets complies with applicable state and local laws governing nondiscrimination in employment. This policy applies to all terms and conditions of employment, including recruiting, hiring, placement, promotion, termination, layoff, recall, transfer, leaves of absence, compensation, and training.