Director Asset Management

Overview

About us:

Founded in 1990, LS Power is a premier development, investment, and operating company focused on the North American power and energy infrastructure sector, with leading platforms across generation, transmission and energy transition solutions. Since inception, LS Power has developed or acquired over 50,000 MW of power generation, including utility-scale solar, wind, hydro, battery energy storage, and natural gas-fired facilities. Through LS Power Grid, the Firm has built and operates approximately 780 miles of high-voltage transmission with another 350+ miles and multiple grid infrastructure projects currently under construction or development. Across its efforts, LS Power actively invests in and scales businesses that are accelerating the energy transition, including electric vehicle charging, demand response, microgrids, renewable fuels and waste-to-energy platforms. Over the years, LS Power has raised $89 billion in debt and equity capital to support North American infrastructure.

Our Purpose, Mission, & Values:

Our Purpose is to solve complex energy problems that improve the world

Our Mission is to make lives better by developing a cleaner and more reliable energy ecosystem

Our Values are the willingness to participate in and help strengthen our culture of integrity, Innovation, Teamwork, and Taking Ownership

Our People create value and are our Most Valuable asset.  We take our values of Integrity, Innovation, Teamwork and Taking Ownership seriously and ask candidates to think about how they can help us further enhance our culture with their specific skillsets, capabilities and experiences.

Benefits

We provide our team the opportunity to share their unique perspectives, solve new challenges, and continue in their career growth. We are committed to supporting employees’ happiness, healthiness, and overall well-being by providing comprehensive benefits that include 100% employer paid premium healthcare, paid parental leave and more.

About the Role:

We are seeking a Director, Asset Management to oversee a portfolio of operating power generation assets and lead the development and execution of major maintenance, modernization, and upgrade projects. This role combines technical, commercial, and project management responsibilities, requiring a leader who can drive complex initiatives from concept through execution while partnering closely with plant operations, vendors, OEMs, and other stakeholders. The ideal candidate will bring deep power generation experience, strong commercial acumen, and a proactive, solutions-oriented approach to optimizing asset performance and delivering long-term value across the portfolio.

Responsibilities

What you will do:

• Manage a portfolio of operating power generation assets.
• Manage development of major maintenance projects for the operating assets.
• Manage development of power generation modernization and upgrade projects.
• Create enterprise level major maintenance models.
• Project Ownership, from creating the RFQ, through the Award and Execution phases.
• Provide technical guidance and recommendations to the operating assets.
• Provide Project Management oversite to multiple projects.
• Provide vendor management and oversite, including strategic interface with power generation OEM’s and Key Suppliers.
• Evaluate business cases, estimate returns, budgets, cash flow.
• Prepare presentations related to projects and development status.
• Act as an agent of the company with counterparties, regulatory bodies, elected officials and others as necessary.

Qualifications

We want you on our team because you…

• Bachelor or Master’s Degree in Engineering, Business, Environmental Science, or a related field
• 8-10+ years professional experience in the power generation industry preferably in the planning and execution of large-scale maintenance and upgrade projects
• Strong networking and vendor management skills, specifically with power generation OEM’s and other service and material providers
• Effectively manage multiple assignments under time constraints
• Solutions focused team player with the ability to collaborate effectively with a diverse team
• Excellent time management, organizational, and communication skills
• Strong analytical and problem solving skills
• Work independently with direction on a regular basis
• Experience preparing, negotiating and closing commercial agreements including consulting, purchase, repair and service agreements, etc.