Principal Portfolio Manager, Infrastructure Development

Role overview

Lead the operating cadence for a large energy infrastructure investment portfolio, guiding opportunities from early development and commercial structuring through approval, closing, and readiness for delivery. This senior individual contributor role combines energy development and financial judgment with hands-on program building: establishing the governance, tools, and partnerships needed to manage a complex, multi-project pipeline.

Responsibilities

- Build integrated plans, schedules, milestone tracking, stage gates, decision processes, and escalation paths across active investments. - Coordinate origination, diligence, siting, permitting, interconnection strategy, and commercial structuring so projects can reach investment approval. - Support investment analysis and negotiate or execute energy commitments, including power purchase, capacity, service, fuel, interconnection, and utility agreements. - Track cost, schedule, risks, interdependencies, and resource constraints; surface early warnings and resolve delivery bottlenecks. - Align energy commitments with site diligence, land timelines, capacity planning, and regional infrastructure plans. - Develop reusable tools, templates, reporting, playbooks, and lessons-learned reviews to improve execution as the portfolio grows.

Requirements

- 15+ years in energy infrastructure or power development, project finance or infrastructure investing, commercial energy origination, or leadership of major capital programs. - Experience managing complex, multi-billion-dollar programs with concurrent workstreams, external partners, and long delivery horizons. - Track record of managing relationships and accountability across utilities, independent power producers, or infrastructure developers. - Direct experience structuring energy commitments and carrying them through execution. - Deep understanding of energy project development, including diligence, siting, permitting, interconnection, financing, construction, and commissioning; front-end development experience is especially relevant. - Strong finance fundamentals and the ability to coordinate across commercial, technical, legal, and infrastructure teams.

Nice to have

Experience across U.S. markets, grid operators, utilities, regulatory settings, or generation technologies such as gas and thermal power; an MBA, PMP, or related credential; investment accounting or FP&A experience; and practical use of AI tools to improve workflows, with attention to responsible use.