Progeco NeXT (www.progeconext.com), born as an evolution of the company Progeco s.r.l., later PES s.r.l., is an international group active on the market since 1979 in the Oil & Gas, Green Energy and Petrochemical sectors. The company operates with direct branches in over 13 countries, with over 200 employees and its main customers include international companies including Enel, Eni, GE, Snam, Saipem, Technip, Ansaldo, Siemens, EDF, Baker Hughes.

Progeco NeXT offers high added value services in the following areas:

• Multidisciplinary engineering
• Project management and field assistance
• Inspection and shipping
• Training and Progeco NeXT Academy
• Technical recruitment
• Operation and maintenance
• Wind energy

Our main goal is to better support our customers, becoming together with their protagonists in the energy transition process, involving the best resources in our team, aware of the quality of a company measured by the excellence and passion of the people who they are an integral part of it.

The role involves working in two areas: i) building on the project pipeline, ii) managing the projects in the current pipeline

Furthermore, your responsibilities shall include 3-fold:

• Origination

Identifying and conducting pipeline due diligence and projects viability assessment, including business planning ;

Proactively identifying and securing solar onshore project development opportunities (including repowering) in the country;

Taking ownership of and managing the development of the assigned projects within budget from any stage to get them to a ready to build state, including dealing with any appeal process, managing landowners and negotiating land option/lease agreements with or without land agents and discharge of relevant planning conditions;

• Development

Coordinate project team (internal & external) activities insuring key milestones are met for the above tasks up to the Ready to Build project milestone

Interacting with planning authorities;

Preparing, managing and reporting on budget and timing to achieve the targets/project(s);

Performing risk assessments and corresponding mitigation strategies as applicable related to the projects to inform business decisions.

• Partnerships

Liaising and nurturing relationships with technical and commercial partners;

Land negotiation with land owner and farmers;

Leveraging your potential partner network to grow business and initiate & manage joint development agreements.

Key requirements:

• 1 - 2 years of experience in solar PV system design, commercial and industrial or utility scale.
• University Degree in Engineering/Sciences;
• Experience of solar project development process;
• Experience designing rooftop and ground mounted solar PV plants.
• Experience of land/deal negotiations;
• Experience and knowledge of relevant Italian design codes, regulations and incentive policy.
• A thorough understanding of the commercial/environmental/regulatory challenges facing all stages of solar project development and the renewable energy industry;
• Appropriate skills to negotiate and deal with people is required;
• Public relations experience/ good presentation skills;
• Hosting expertise to deliver on time and prioritize;
• Experience in sustainability approaches is appreciated;
• Knowledge of GIS or similar tools is useful.

Location: Bologna