# Infrastructure Development Lead - Australia

**Company**: Fuse Energy
**Location**: Perth, Western Australia
**Work arrangement**: hybrid
**Experience**: senior
**Job type**: Full-time
**Category**: Operations
**Industry**: Energy

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## Description

Fuse Energy is seeking an Infrastructure Development Lead to find, win, and take new energy projects from first opportunity through to construction readiness. The successful candidate will sit in the Development team and report to the Head of Projects, owning the work across data centres, BESS, wind, rooftop, carport, and ground-mounted solar.

Responsibilities:

- Own Renewable Energy and Data Centre development in Australia end-to-end: from market entry strategy and early-stage opportunity through Ready-to-Build and energisation

- Evaluate and prioritise markets across Australia based on power availability and price, grid connection timelines, land, fibre connectivity, climate, planning regimes, and incentives

- Identify and assess new opportunities from technical, planning, power, and infrastructure perspectives

- Source and secure late-stage and Ready-to-Build projects through proactive market engagement, and lead commercial negotiations

- Build and maintain a strong local network of landholders, developers, IPPs, utilities, advisors, local councils, state government agencies, and industrial clients

- Structure PPAs with commercial and industrial clients and respond to tenders

- Secure land and lease agreements for selected sites

- Structure and support development financing: capital planning, project finance, and working with investors and lenders to fund development through delivery

- Lead planning, approvals, environmental assessment, feasibility studies, and community and stakeholder engagement

- Run due diligence with internal teams to support investment decisions, and maintain a live pipeline aligned with company growth strategy

- Manage pre-construction, including risk assessment, procurement tenders, and EPC contract negotiation support

- Mitigate technical, commercial, and development risks

- Ensure projects are deliverable, scalable, and aligned with construction requirements

Requirements:

- Experience developing data centres or large-scale infrastructure projects in Australia

- Deep knowledge of key Australian regions and why they matter

- Strong understanding of Australian planning and grid connection processes

- Strong technical understanding of data centre infrastructure

- Understanding of development financing for infrastructure projects

- Commercial and transactional experience

- Strong interpersonal and communication skills

- Highly analytical, self-directed, and comfortable with significant ownership

- Willingness to travel across Australia

Benefits:

- Competitive salary and eligibility for equity

- Biannual bonus scheme

- Fully expensed tech to match your needs

- Private health insurance

- Breakfast and dinner allowance for office-based employees

## Skills

### Required
- energy project development
- data centre infrastructure
- grid connection processes
- development financing
- commercial negotiations
- project management

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