Wind Development Director

Day-to-day, the role moves across active wind development projects in different phases — siting, permitting, financing, interconnection, into construction — each with its own pace and stakeholder set. You're reviewing project pipelines, working through siting and permitting issues, engaging with landowners, regulators, utilities, financing partners, and EPC contractors, and being the senior voice when projects need executive escalation.

A common surprise is how political and litigation-adjacent the work has become. Many find that opposition, environmental review, transmission constraints, and the regulatory environment can stretch projects by quarters or years, and that the financing structure and PPA terms often constrain what the project can actually absorb in delays or change orders. Supply chain volatility around turbines and components has reshaped project economics significantly.

People who enjoy complex, long-arc development work where the puzzle is integrating dozens of stakeholders and constraints tend to thrive. The role often suits those who can hold financial discipline alongside the operational and political realities of large infrastructure development, and who can sustain attention across multi-year timelines. The cost is typically the cumulative pressure of sunk capital, the policy uncertainty, and the patient work of moving projects through opposition and review.