Manager, New Homes Permitting

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Overview

The Manager, New Homes Permitting is responsible for ensuring that all permits required to install for all New Homes projects are secured in a timely and cost effective manner. This leader will manage a small team of permit coordinators who develop permitting strategies at the community and lot levels, and work with builders or Sunrun permitting resources at branch locations to physically pull permits.  This leader will also be responsible for identifying where permitting can be done remotely, and seek to use outsourced resources to complete tasks at a lower cost.  This leader will establish SLAs with partner teams and measure performance against those SLAs to ensure we can deliver for our builders.  Most importantly, this leader will coordinate strategically with AHJs and builders to develop innovative approaches to meeting permit requirements for new products.

Responsibilities

• Fully responsible for ensuring Sunrun delivers permits to builders on time and cost effectively

• Collaborates with permit runners housed in SRM branches, within builder orgs, or offshore

• Develops and executes strategy to lower permitting costs for Sunrun

• Serves as the Sunrun New Homes main point of contact for all permitting needs, including managing production in high volume areas as well as scoping requirements in new markets

• Develops SLAs and performance metric targets and measures performance vs. target on both an individual and team level; makes corrective changes as needed to deliver required result

• Identifies gaps in upstream or downstream systems/processes and collaborates with peers and other functional leaders within and outside of New Homes to optimize flow

• Collaborates with builders proactively and reactively to ensure inputs are received in a timely manner and updates are provided as appropriate on status of key issues and initiatives.

• Supports development of tools that align with and support ideal process flow

Qualifications 

• Bachelor’s Degree or 10 years work experience

• 5+ years professional experience with people management

• Experience leading permitting teams New Homes Solar environment

• Deep understanding of permitting requirements from AHJs across CA & nationally

• Experience leveraging a hybrid team of onshore and offshore resources

• Experience developing reports and work queues in salesforce to manage team’s work

• Experience with working with builders and AHJs directly

Physical Demands 

• Remote work acceptable

• Up to 20% travel

Recruiter:

Please note that the compensation information that follows is a good faith estimate for this position only and is provided pursuant to acts, such as The Equal Pay Transparency Act. It assumes that the successful candidate will be located in markets within the United States that warrant the compensation listed. Candidates in locations outside this local area may have a different  starting salary range for this opportunity which may be higher or lower.  Please speak with your recruiter to learn more.

Starting salary/wage for this opportunity:

Other rewards may include annual bonus eligibility, which is based on company and individual performance, short and long term incentives, and program-specific awards.  Sunrun provides a variety of benefits to employees, including health insurance coverage, an employee wellness program, life and disability insurance, a retirement savings plan, paid holidays and paid time off (PTO). A candidate’s salary history will not be used in compensation decisions. 

This description sets forth the general nature and level of the qualifications and duties required of employees in this job classification, as well as some of the essential functions of this role.  It is not designed to be a comprehensive inventory of all essential duties and qualifications.  If you have a disability or special need that may require reasonable accommodation in order to participate in the hiring process or to perform this role if you are offered employment, please let us know by contacting us at candidateaccomodations@sunrun.com.

Sunrun is proud to be an equal opportunity employer that does not tolerate discrimination or harassment of any kind. Our commitment to Diversity, Inclusion & Belonging drives our ability to build diverse teams and develop inclusive work environments. At Sunrun, we believe that empowering people and valuing their differences are essential for our mission of connecting people to the cleanest energy on earth. We are committed to equal employment opportunities without consideration of race, color, religion, ethnicity, citizenship, political activity or affiliation, marital status, age, national origin, ancestry, disability, veteran status, sexual orientation, gender identity, gender expression, sex or gender, pregnancy or any other basis protected by law. We also consider qualified applicants with criminal convictions, consistent with applicable federal, state and local law.