Senior Onsite Power & Energy Solutions Lead

Equinix; Chicago (IL); On-site; USD 171,000 - 257,000; Full time

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Employee Assistance Program

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Job summary

Equinix is seeking a Senior Manager, Onsite Power Generation to lead the commercial evaluation of onsite and co-sited power generation opportunities across the data center portfolio. You will identify, diligence, structure, and negotiate PPAs, tolling, leases, and other arrangements while coordinating with Global Design & Construction, Site Operations and Energy teams.

You will evaluate technologies like fuel cells, gas turbines, battery storage, and demand response; craft risk-adjusted

Qualifications

• Typically 8+ years of experience in energy project development, power generation, distributed energy resources, energy origination, utility / IPP business development, power procurement, engineering, or related infrastructure fields

Responsibilities

• Opportunity origination and screening: Identify, evaluate, and prioritize onsite, co-sited, and distributed generation opportunities that can support Equinix capacity, resiliency, cost, sustainability, or bridge-power objectives
• Transaction structuring: Develop commercial structures for PPAs, tolling arrangements, capacity agreements, leases, and other transaction types that fit the technical use case and risk profile
• Vendor and developer negotiations: Serve as the primary commercial interface with vendors, developers, IPPs, OEMs, and other external partners from opportunity development through execution
• Risk allocation and governance: Partner with Legal and internal stakeholders to negotiate contract protections, including availability guarantees, liquidated damages, credit support, performance security, termination rights, change-in-law treatment, outage remedies, milestone obligations, and handoff requirements
• Business case development: Build and pressure-test commercial analysis, including energy cost, capacity value, non-energy costs, incentives, environmental attributes, fuel costs, standby charges, and customer / revenue impacts
• Execution handoff: Partner with the Energy Asset Management team after agreement execution to ensure vendor obligations, operational assumptions, performance metrics, and issue-escalation pathways are clearly documented and transitioned
• Market and technology strategy: Maintain a point of view on emerging onsite generation technologies, vendor capabilities, and opportunities to standardize repeatable commercial frameworks
• Executive communication: Prepare clear recommendations and decision materials for senior leadership, translating complex technical, commercial, regulatory, and operational issues into practical business decisions

Job description

Equinix is seeking a Senior Manager, Onsite Power Generation to lead the commercial evaluation of onsite and co-sited power generation opportunities across the data center portfolio. You will identify, diligence, structure, and negotiate PPAs, tolling, leases, and other arrangements while coordinating with Global Design & Construction, Site Operations and Energy teams.

You will evaluate technologies like fuel cells, gas turbines, battery storage, and demand response; craft risk-adjusted