VP, Design & Cost Engineering

ABOUT AVANTUS Avantus develops, owns, and operates utility-scale clean energy projects across California and the Desert Southwest. Our development pipeline represents one of the nation's largest portfolios of solar with integrated storage, capable of providing dispatchable power to 17 million Americans, day and night. With over a decade of industry leadership and strategic investment from KKR and EIG, Avantus delivers affordable, reliable clean energy solutions that meet America’s growing energy demand. ABOUT THE POSITION The VP of Design and Cost Engineering is responsible for leading the HV Engineering, Development Engineering and Estimating teams, focused on derisking development pipeline and maximizing project value through technical and costing expertise. This role reports to our EVP, Engineering and Construction. ESSENTIAL FUNCTIONS AND RESPONSIBILITIES This role manages and is responsible for team associated with all technical design and costing needs prior to equipment selection and EPC contracting. Expertise is required across HV gen-tie and substation, PV and BESS design and costing. This role is highly cross-functional, and requires management of direct internal team, external engineering consultants and project team activities and peers. It combines depth of technical and commercial knowledge with the ability to drive design and estimating strategy in line with project and business needs. Oversees design and cost engineering work across entire pipeline, spanning full development lifecycle. Support project and site diligence, managing internal resourcing and external consultant strategy for engineering studies and drawing packages pre-EPC contracting in support of internal assessments, or LGIA or permitting processes. Ability to manage and assess projects with different layers of uncertainty, with ability to drive process and tools to accurately assess land, layout and costing considerations with limited information. Create engineering related project bud