Director, Transmission Growth & Development

Invenergy LLC; Chicago (IL); On-site; USD 185,000 - 235,000; Full time

Job summary

Invenergy LLC, headquartered in Chicago, seeks a Director, Transmission Development to lead the end-to-end development of new transmission projects across multiple regions. You will guide engineering, grid planning, finance, environmental review, routing, and regulatory workstreams toward executable proposals.

The role requires a senior leader with 10+ years in energy project development, strong analytical and communication skills, and a proven ability to manage budgets, schedules, and external

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree or higher in Economics, Engineering, Finance, or other relevant field.
• 10+ years of experience or more in transmission or energy project development, construction, or engineering.
• Experience managing large projects and/or teams.
• Experience with economic analysis of complex projects or businesses.
• Demonstrated ability to manage multiple complex priorities, budgets, schedules, and deadlines.
• High degree of comfort with ambiguity; ability to effectively navigate uncertainty.
• Ability to thrive in a fast-paced, entrepreneurial environment while meeting deadlines and completing time-sensitive projects.
• Strong interpersonal skills.
• Excellent analytical and critical thinking skills with the ability to identify and drive solutions to complex problems.
• Strong written and verbal communication skills, with the ability to succinctly communicate complex issues, recommendations, and decisions.
• Experience managing external consultants, contractors, counsel, engineering firms, or development partners.
• Familiarity with transmission planning, permitting, routing, interconnection, or regulatory approval processes.
• Ability to prepare and present executive-level recommendations, business cases, and decision materials.
• Ability to use discretion in handling confidential information.
• Ability to support occasional travel to project, partner, or stakeholder locations as needed, anticipated <10% of the time.
• Eligible to work in the United States without employer visa sponsorship now or in the future.

Responsibilities

• Lead the identification, evaluation, development, and advancement of new transmission opportunities across multiple regions and business models.
• Develop and execute project strategies from early-stage identification through proposal development, stakeholder engagement, permitting, and execution.
• Lead and align internal and external stakeholders across engineering, grid planning, financial analysis, environmental review, routing, permitting, public affairs, regulatory, legal, and commercial workstreams.
• Lead the preparation of complex transmission proposals, development plans, business cases, work scopes, contractor bids, and decision materials for senior leadership and external counterparties to support successful project outcomes.
• Mentor and develop a team of direct reports, providing clear expectations, coaching, feedback, and opportunities for professional growth while supporting strong individual and team performance.
• Represent Invenergy Transmission with utilities, customers, landowners, community leaders, local and state officials, Tribal Nations, regulators, industry participants, and other key stakeholders.
• Build and maintain strong partnerships with external counterparties, consultants, contractors, community stakeholders, and other organizations that support successful project development and long-term business growth.
• Identify, manage, and communicate key project risks, including routing, permitting, stakeholder, interconnection, engineering, commercial, financial, schedule, and execution risks.
• Synthesize technical, commercial, financial, legal, and market input into clear, actionable recommendations that support project strategy, development-stage investment decisions, and senior leadership alignment.
• Drive project advancement according to budgets, schedules, milestones, and development objectives, including management of internal resources and external technical, legal, engineering, environmental, routing, and public engagement support.
• Monitor transmission market developments, competitor projects, policy and regulatory changes, and regional planning processes to identify new business opportunities and inform Invenergy Transmission’s growth strategy.
• Supervise the effective handling of confidential, commercially sensitive, and project-specific information.

Skills

Leadership

Project management

Economic analysis

Communication skills

Analytical thinking

Stakeholder engagement

Budget & scheduling management

Team mentoring

Decision making

Interpersonal skills

Education

Bachelor’s degree or higher (Economics/Engineering/Finance)

Job description

Invenergy LLC, headquartered in Chicago, seeks a Director, Transmission Development to lead the end-to-end development of new transmission projects across multiple regions. You will guide engineering, grid planning, finance, environmental review, routing, and regulatory workstreams toward executable proposals.

The role requires a senior leader with 10+ years in energy project development, strong analytical and communication skills, and a proven ability to manage budgets, schedules, and external