Vice President, Power & Infrastructure

Link Shipping Transportation & Trade Ltd.; Larkspur (CA); On-site; USD 180,000 - 240,000; Full time

Job summary

Link Logistics Real Estate, based in California, is seeking a senior Power Engineering leader to build and scale a comprehensive power program across its portfolio. You will own data foundations, audits, upgrades, on-site generation strategies, and metering efforts to optimize value creation for Leasing, Investments, and Development teams.

You will recruit and lead an in-house power engineering team, establish standards, manage budgets, and collaborate with cross-functional leaders to accelerate

Responsibilities

• Build and maintain power data foundation as the single source of truth for Leasing and Investments.
• Establish direct utility bill and data feeds through aggregators and manage the data pipeline.
• Define and govern power data standards and benchmarks across the portfolio.
• Turn raw field and utility data into decision-ready benchmarking and scoring.
• Own the enterprise field-audit program end to end.
• Prioritize audits by risk, starting with high-power sites.
• Transition from vendors to internal team while retaining IP and QA.
• Validate audit output for ingestion into the power data platform.
• Lead the Path to Power upgrade program – assessments, costs, and schedules.
• Serve as technical resource for field teams pursuing upgrades.
• Establish and manage regional electrical-contractor relationships.
• Partner on design options, capital-recovery mechanisms, and deal structures.
• Develop on-site generation strategy and toolkit.
• Lead return/risk modeling for deployments with Investments.
• Translate capability into a repeatable playbook for constrained sites.
• Stand up and scale demand metering program across portfolio.
• Evaluate metering approaches and deploy right mix.

Job description

Link Logistics Real Estate ("Link") is a leading operator of warehouses and business parks, specializing in last-mile logistics real estate. Established by Blackstone in 2019, the company connects consumption, technology, and the supply chain across its portfolio, which spans half a billion square feet. We leverage our scale, proprietary data and insights, and foundational focus on sustainability to drive success for our customers' businesses and deliver value for our stakeholders. We put our people, customers, and communities first and find ways to make a conscious, positive impact where we live and work. Every day, we work to reinvent and lead our industry forward by thinking bigger and challenging the status quo.

WHAT YOU'LL OWN:

• Power & Utility Data Acquisition
  • Build and maintain the portfolio's power data foundation - capacity, demand, and service-level attributes - as the single source of truth for Leasing, Investments, Development, and Capital Markets.
  • Establish direct utility bill and interval-data feeds through aggregators (e.g., UtilityAPI, Arcadia) and manage the LOA-driven data pipeline.
  • Define and govern power data standards and benchmarks (W/SF by automation tier) and partner with Technology to operationalize power attributes in PIM.
  • Turn raw field and utility data into decision-ready benchmarking, obsolescence-risk scoring, and site prioritization.
• Utility Power Audits
  • Own the enterprise field-audit program end to end - framework, standards, execution, and QA - producing verified, service-connection-level data and one-line diagrams across the portfolio.
  • Prioritize audits by risk, starting with large, high-power sites carrying near-term lease roll and scaling toward full portfolio coverage.
  • Transition from third-party engineering vendors to an internal team - retaining IP, quality control, and turnaround - while selectively using vendors for surge capacity.
  • Validate audit output for ingestion into the power data platform.
• Utility Power Upgrades (Tactical Intervention)
  • Lead the "Path to Power" upgrade program - advanced engineering assessments, ROM cost and schedule, and utility coordination for sites that fall below market power benchmarks.
  • Serve as the technical resource, and where needed the lead, for local field teams pursuing speculative or deal-driven power upgrades.
  • Establish and manage regional electrical-contractor relationships (MSAs) to compress lead times and standardize execution.
  • Partner with Leasing, Construction, and Market Officers on design options, capital-recovery mechanisms, and deal structures.
• On-Site Generation Strategy
  • Develop Link's on-site generation (OSG) / behind-the-meter strategy - first as an enablement lever where utility capacity is insufficient, and over time as a potential infrastructure return stream.
  • Build and maintain the BTM solution toolkit - technology options, vendor RFIs, cost structures, lead times, and PPA / ownership structures.
  • Lead return / risk modeling for OSG deployments in coordination with Investments & Underwriting.
  • Translate OSG capability into a repeatable commercial and technical playbook for constrained sites.
• Power Demand Metering
  • Stand up and scale Link's demand-metering program to capture true customer demand and load profiles - moving from pilot to portfolio.
  • Evaluate and deploy the right mix of metering approaches (utility interval data, clip-on submeters, pulse-portal meters) against scope, scalability, and risk.
  • Use demand data to detect obsolescence risk early, refine benchmarks, and inform capital allocation.

TEAM LEADERSHIP & PLATFORM BUILDING

• Recruit, onboard, and lead a dedicated in-house power engineering team, beginning with two Power Engineering Directors, and scale the organization as the program matures.
• Establish clear ownership, standards, and repeatable processes so the platform scales without re-litigating priorities on every deal.
• Manage the mix of internal and third-party engineering resources to balance cost, speed, and capability.
• Own budget, run-rate, and resource planning for the e