ESSENTIAL FUNCTIONS:
Responsibilities, include, but not limited to:
*Work closely with departments within the Business Development group, including Project Development, Environmental & Permitting, Meteorology, Real Estate and Acquisitions & Structuring.
*Provide GIS and cartographic support to Business Development, including the generation of production quality maps.
*Create and edit accurate GIS data and maintain spatial databases.
*Research and evaluate public and private datasets to inform the siting of renewable energy.
*Perform formal and informal research regarding industry competition projects, interconnection request filings, ownership stakes, and energy markets; environmental and site-specific constraints; zoning & permitting requirements at the city/county/state level; transmission capacity and energy pricing.
*Research government records and online databases to determine land interests.
*Integrate research findings into GIS and tabular databases for analysis.
*Analyze research findings to determine status and maturity of renewable energy projects in the market.
*Prepare products and deliverables for regular presentation to decision-makers and decision-making bodies.
*Import and review data submitted by development managers and land acquisition agents related to trusts, probates, corporate entities, and conveyance documents, to determine and confirm execution authority of contracts.
*Work with a software development team to assist in testing applications and tools that assist in automating workflows.
REQUIREMENTS
*Bachelor's degree in GIS, Geography, Geology, Environmental Science, Renewable Energy, Computer Science, Engineering or other applicable area.
*Strong skills with Esri ArcGIS desktop software, ArcGIS Online, ArcPro and Portal.
*Minimum of 3 years of GIS work experience using GIS applications such as ArcGIS and related extensions, relational databases, with a broad knowledge of GIS capabilities.
*Experience in renewable energy development, project level evaluation, siting, regional transmission grids, real estate and land records, local and state permitting, environmental studies, economics is preferred.
*Experience with design, development and debugging is preferred.