Battery Storage Asset Manager | Portfolio Oversight

Lightshift

Arlington (VA)

On-site

USD 130,000 - 150,000

Full time

3 days ago

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Benefits offered by this job

401k

Health/dental/vision insurance

Paid vacation

Paid sick leave

Paid holidays

Short‑term disability

Job summary

Lightshift Energy develops, owns, and operates battery energy storage systems (BESS) for municipal utilities, cooperatives, investor-owned utilities, and large energy users across the U.S. The Asset Manager is the owner’s representative for a portfolio of operating BESS projects, accountable for their commercial, financial, and technical performance from COD through end of life.

You will coordinate with O&M, Finance, Legal, Engineering, Development, and Commercial teams, plus external partners,

Qualifications

Bachelor’s degree in engineering, finance, business, or a related field.
3+ years in renewable energy asset management, project finance, or operations.
Working knowledge of tax equity partnership structures (partnership flip and similar), ITC rules including recapture, and project debt.
Experience administering commercial contracts: offtake, O&M or long-term service, interconnection, and leases.
Fluency with BESS performance metrics (availability, capacity, RTE, SOC, degradation) and the warranty and guarantee terms built on them.
Strong Excel and financial modeling skills; comfortable with budgets, cash flow, waterfalls, and variance analysis.
Clear writer and communicator who can report to investors and hold vendors accountable.
Willing to travel to project sites, roughly 15–25% of the time.

Responsibilities

Administer project agreements after COD, including energy storage services agreements and other offtake contracts, interconnection agreements, site leases, O&M and long-term service agreements, and insurance policies.
Maintain a covenant and obligations register for each project, tracking every recurring deliverable, notice, consent, and deadline owed by or to the project company.
Serve as day-to-day contact for offtakers, landowners, and host communities; resolve disputes and negotiate amendments, extensions, and change orders.
Coordinate dispatch and operating plans with offtakers and scheduling parties so that cycling, state of charge, and temperature stay within warranty and design limits.
Manage permit, regulatory, and interconnection compliance, and support insurance renewals and claims.
Own each project’s annual operating budget and long-term forecast; run monthly variance analysis on revenue, OPEX, and availability-driven adjustments.
Manage project-level financial operations: invoicing, receivables, vendor payments, reserve accounts, and cash distributions through the waterfall.
Act as the sponsor’s operating point of contact for tax equity investors and lenders. Prepare monthly and annual investor reports, operating budgets for approval, and compliance certificates.
Track tax equity partnership obligations: approval and consent rights, major‑decision requirements, distribution calculations, flip‑date and buyout timing, and reporting deadlines.
Protect the investment tax credit by flagging any event that could trigger recapture or adjustment, such as a casualty loss, long outage, equipment removal, change of control, or transfer, before it happens.
Provide Finance, Tax, and outside advisors with project data for K‑1s, capital accounts, depreciation, audits, and model updates. Support refinancings, portfolio financings, and diligence on project acquisitions and sales.