Development Manager (Remote)

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REMOTE POSITION

I. Job Summary Support WMRE with front-end development, planning and feasibility studies related to prospective biogas processing or renewable natural gas (RNG) facilities. The successful candidate will coordinate with contractors and stakeholders to review, analyze, and summarize key project parameters, constraints, and risks including permitting requirements, interconnect requirements, site layout, feedstock specifications, product quality specifications, and technology suitability.

II. Essential Duties and Responsibilities include the following. To perform this job successfully, an individual must be able to perform each essential duty satisfactorily. Other duties may be assigned.

• Coordinate with contractors and stakeholders to generate feasibility reports for prospective biogas processing facilities
• Interface with site personnel and air permitting specialists to determine air permitting processes and timelines
• Interface with site personnel and engineering to review fresh water and waste water interconnection and discharge requirements
• Coordinate with site personnel and engineering to determine local development approval process and drawing submission requirements
• Coordinate with site personnel, engineering, and project management to determine preferred facility location and develop preliminary site plan for processing facility
• Gather and review existing surveys, parcel maps, easements, property crossings, and land encumbrances
• Gather and review soil borings and geotechnical studies and summarize key findings
• Review historic waste disposal, gas production, and gas quality and work with gas management team to generate gas production forecast
• Interface with local electric utility to review system capacity and determine cost of electric interconnect and on-going service
• Interface with gas pipeline owners to evaluate gas takeaway capacity and develop plan and estimate for gas pipeline interconnection
• Review and summarize product gas quality requirements
• Support technology selection process with engineering, project management, and operations teams
• Assess project risks and keep a risk register
• Coordinate with project management team to generate cost estimates and project schedules
• Develop project financial summaries and pro formas
• Build project summary presentations
• Maintain detailed meeting and call notes

Other

• Completion of special assignments/tasks as required by WMRE senior management.

III. Supervisory Responsibilities

• None

IV. Qualifications

The requirements listed below are representative of the qualifications necessary to perform the job.

A. Education and Experience

Education: Bachelor's Degree (accredited), or in lieu of, HS Diploma or GED (accredited) and 5 years relevant experience required. Master's degree preferred.

Experience: Five years previous relevant experience (in addition to education requirement). Relevant experience may include experience with biogas processing, landfill operations, anaerobic digester operations, commercial construction, and/or project engineering.

B. Certificates, Licenses, Registrations or Other Requirements

None required.

C. Other Knowledge, Skills or Abilities Required

None required.

D. Travel

Travel expectations approximately 10%.

V. Work Environment

Listed below are key points regarding environmental demands and work environment of the job. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions of the job.

• Required to use motor coordination with finger dexterity (such as keyboarding, machine operation, etc) part of the work day;
• Required to exert physical effort in handling objects less than 30 pounds occasionally;
• Required to be exposed to physical occupational risks (such as cuts, burns, exposure to toxic chemicals, etc) rarely;
• Required to be exposed to physical environment which involves dirt, odors, noise, weather extremes or similar elements occasionally;
• Normal setting for this job is: office setting/landfill.

Benefits
At WM, each eligible employee receives a competitive total compensation package including Medical, Dental, Vision, Life Insurance and Short Term Disability. As well as a Stock Purchase Plan, Company match on 401K, and more! Our employees also receive Paid Vacation, Holidays, and Personal Days. Please note that benefits may vary by site.

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