Project Developer

Rondo Energy • Richmond, VA

2d • Onsite

About The Position

Rondo is seeking an experienced Project Developer to lead the development of large-scale industrial energy projects across Australia. Working within the Australian Commercial team, the role takes qualified opportunities through development to final investment decision (FID) and structured handover to Delivery. It is particularly important to Rondo’s Heat-as-a-Service model, which develops energy infrastructure to provide reliable, cost-competitive industrial heat to major customers.

The Project Developer owns the integrated development pathway and project readiness, bringing together grid, land, approvals, engineering, commercial, schedule, and cost workstreams. The role is based in Richmond, Victoria, and involves travel to project sites and stakeholder meetings as required.

Requirements

• At least 7 years of relevant experience in energy, infrastructure, or major-project development, including meaningful responsibility for projects prior to FID.
• Demonstrated record of progressing complex projects across multiple development workstreams and resolving issues between an opportunity and an investment decision.
• Experience with large electrical connections, network businesses, and/or major energy infrastructure, and practical understanding of land, planning, environmental approvals, and development pathways.
• Experience coordinating engineering studies, pre-FEED/FEED or equivalent project-definition activities, and managing multidisciplinary external consultants and advisers.
• Experience managing schedules, development budgets, cost estimates, and programmes, with proficiency in project planning and management tools.
• Strong commercial judgement and understanding of how development decisions affect project economics, contractual positions, and investment readiness.
• Strong stakeholder-management, communication, and negotiation skills across customers, utilities, government, engineering, and executive stakeholders; ability to lead multidisciplinary work without relying on formal reporting lines.
• Analytical, proactive, and self-motivated approach; ability to learn quickly, work with incomplete information, and independently drive progress as project requirements evolve.
• Willingness to travel to project sites and stakeholder meetings as required.
• Relevant qualifications in engineering, commerce, economics, planning, project management, or a related discipline; demonstrated success developing complex energy or infrastructure projects is more important than a particular degree.

Nice To Haves

• Experience in renewable energy, BESS, transmission or major-load connections, data centres, industrial energy, thermal energy storage, or project-financed infrastructure.
• Experience developing projects within the NEM, working with major industrial customers, or developing long-term energy-as-a-service or offtake arrangements.
• Experience working internationally or in a growing business deploying novel technologies at scale.

Responsibilities

• Establish and drive integrated development plans, critical paths, budgets, resource requirements, and decision gates from opportunity qualification through FID.
• Lead grid-connection and major electrical-infrastructure development, coordinating network service providers, connection advisers, engineering consultants, and internal specialists.
• Establish land and site-control requirements and coordinate planning, environmental, heritage, geotechnical, and other statutory pathways; scope and manage specialist external advisers.
• Coordinate feasibility studies, pre-FEED, FEED, balance-of-plant, and site-infrastructure activities, integrating technical requirements, cost estimates, and schedules as project definition matures.
• Ensure electricity procurement, network tariffs, customer and contractual requirements, financing requirements, and applicable incentives are reflected in the development plan and investment case.
• Identify, assess, and mitigate risks, dependencies, and unresolved assumptions; coordinate interfaces among customers, utilities, consultants, contractors, vendors, and internal teams, and escalate decisions needed to protect schedule, budget, and project viability.
• Report milestones, development expenditure, risks, and decisions; prepare recommendations supported by technical and commercial evidence.
• Establish project-readiness criteria and coordinate structured handover to Delivery, including scope, cost and schedule baselines, assumptions, approvals, commitments, and external interfaces.
• Improve development processes, tools, and governance so constraints are resolved early and projects reach investment and delivery decisions with greater confidence.

Benefits

• Opportunity to make a significant positive impact on industrial decarbonisation.
• Ownership of the development pathway for major Australian industrial energy projects.
• Collaboration with multidisciplinary Australian and global teams commercialising thermal energy storage.

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Senior
• Education Level: No Education Listed