Project Director - Large Load Program

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Date: Mar 5, 2026

Company: Next Era Energy

Requisition : 93606

Florida Power & Light Company is the largest electric utility in the U.S., providing reliable energy to nearly 12 million Floridians. With one of the nation’s most fuel-efficient, cost-effective power generation fleets and industry-leading reliability, we’re redefining what’s possible in energy. Want to be part of something powerful? Join our outstanding team and help shape the future of energy.

Position Specific Description

The Project Director leads the cross‑functional effort to enable system growth, coordinating generation expansion, transmission expansion, pipeline capacity, and supporting development activities across the enterprise. The role ensures FPL has the cross‑functional alignment required to meet load‑growth objectives. While execution ownership resides with functional groups, this role provides critical program leadership to ensure a unified delivery plan and the enterprise remains on track.

Key Responsibilities

• Direct enterprise‑level coordination across Power Delivery, EMT, Development, Regulatory, and Origination functions.
• Oversee planning and readiness activities tied to long‑lead materials, gas transport decisions, and multi‑year transmission projects.
• Ensure cross‑functional teams meet enterprise decision windows associated with gas transport, turbine commitments, and transmission initiation.
• Provide executive reporting on large load enablement progress, risk, critical decision windows and mitigation paths.
• Track execution against key decision points and long‑lead‑time activities such as turbine procurement, pipeline capacity expansion, interconnection milestones, and long‑duration transmission builds.

Qualifications

• 10+ years of experience in utility planning, grid development, major project integration, or equivalent.
• Demonstrated success coordinating multi‑disciplinary teams.
• Ability to coordinate across technical and non‑technical teams.

• Manages all aspects of the day to day transaction process to ensure timely completion as well as a cost effective and competitive results
• Leads and coordinates key functions such as financial feasibility analyses, engineering/design, project legal review, permitting activities and financial negotiations
• Coordinates due diligence activities with other internal groups to ensure proper analysis and structuring of assigned projects
• Acts as liaison between internal and external specialists regarding procurement, contracting, permitting and interconnection
• Constructs contractual arrangements for project development
• Negotiates agreements with consultants and subcontractors
• Ensures compliance with applicable technical and regulatory requirements
• Fosters external relationships with customers, third parties and members of the community
• Identifies opportunities and negotiates power sales contracts
• Performs other job-related duties as assigned

• High School Grad /GED
• Bachelor's or Equivalent Experience
• Experience:
  
  7+ years

• None

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Employee Group: Exempt
Employee Type: Full Time
Job Category: Business Development
Organization: Florida Power & Light Company
Relocation Provided: No

Next Era Energy is an Equal Opportunity Employer. Qualified applicants are considered for employment without regard to race, color, age, national origin, religion, marital status, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, gender expression, genetics, disability, protected veteran status or any other basis prohibited by law.

Next Era Energy provides reasonable accommodation in its application and selection process for qualified individuals, including accommodations related to compliance with conditional job offer requirements, consistent with federal, state, and local laws. Supporting medical or religious documentation will be required where applicable and permitted by applicable law. To request a reasonable accommodation, please send an e-mail…