Site Selection Lead
Leads site-selection strategy and deployment planning for powered-land and greenfield or brownfield infrastructure opportunities. The role requires 6+ years of relevant development or real-estate experience, strong financial and commercial judgment, and cross-functional leadership.
About the job
Responsibilities
- Own site-selection strategy across priority geographies, including market maps, pipeline segmentation, source refreshes, live-location tracking, and portfolio prioritization.
- Convene Power, Land, Development, Engineering, Construction, Environmental, Community, Commercial, Legal, and Finance partners to define site-quality criteria.
- Translate the shared rubric into screening criteria covering power readiness, land control, timing, scale, cost, community risk, environmental constraints, approvals, budget, schedule, and counterparty credibility.
- Coordinate Commercial, Legal, Finance, Power, and Development teams on exclusivity, initial terms, site control, funding assumptions, and deployment planning.
- Build deployment plans identifying capacity, sequencing, capital implications, critical-path approvals, risks, owners, and stage-gate decisions.
- Lead conceptual site planning and test-fit screening using maps, buildings, substations, roads, parking, laydown areas, stormwater, utility corridors, acreage, and estimated load.
- Maintain decision-support views covering pipeline stage, site health, power readiness, finance review, maps, evidence, missing data, owners, deadlines, and escalations.
- Present executive-ready advance, defer, or stop recommendations and transfer qualified sites to Development with complete screening records.
Requirements
- 6+ years of experience in site selection, infrastructure development, data center development, energy development, commercial real estate, or a related field.
- Strong strategic judgment in market intelligence, portfolio construction, site viability, counterparty credibility, and prioritization.
- Ability to lead cross-functional organizations through ambiguous decisions and align technical, commercial, legal, and finance stakeholders.
- Commercial and financial fluency sufficient to connect site quality, deal terms, capital implications, schedule, and deployment risk.
- Experience building site funnels, screening frameworks, mapping or test-fit workflows, dashboards, and executive decision materials.
Skills
Site Selection, Infrastructure Development, Data Center Development, Energy Development, Commercial Real Estate, Market Intelligence, Portfolio Management, Geospatial Mapping, Site Planning, Financial Analysis, Dashboarding, Stakeholder Management
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