Director, Regulatory
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Mainspring EnergyEnergy, legal
Listing location: Menlo Park, CAFull-TimeDirector
Salary233,000 - 275,000 USD per year
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Job Details
- Experience
- Director: 15+ / Senior Director: 20+ years of legal experience
Requirements
- Have 15+ years of legal experience for the Director level; the posting lists 20+ years for Senior Director.
- Bring significant experience advising on environmental, energy, utility, or regulatory law.
- Have strong knowledge of environmental permitting, energy regulation, and administrative law.
- Have familiarity with the Inflation Reduction Act, including ITC, FEOC, and domestic content requirements.
- Have a J.D. (preferred).
- Hold active membership in at least one U.S. state bar (preferred).
- Experience advising technology, manufacturing, infrastructure, or energy companies is preferred.
Responsibilities
- Develop and lead regulatory legal strategy supporting commercialization, manufacturing expansion, project deployment, and market growth.
- Identify and mitigate regulatory risks and advise on emerging policy developments.
- Advise on state and federal environmental laws and compliance for manufacturing operations, including U.S. EPA regulations, air quality, hazardous materials, waste, and permitting.
- Provide legal support for air permitting and environmental approvals for manufacturing facilities and customer deployments.
- Lead legal strategy on product regulatory requirements, certifications, emissions standards, and evolving frameworks such as NERC.
- Advise on utility regulation, interconnection requirements, tariffs, and energy market rules affecting distributed generation projects.
- Identify regulatory risks and permitting requirements for project development and siting.
- Monitor and interpret federal, state, and local legislation, regulations, and policy developments affecting distributed energy resources.
- Lead legal work on FEOC, domestic content, and other supply chain regulatory requirements.
- Coordinate with Government Affairs on advocacy and engagement with agencies, policymakers, and industry organizations; manage outside counsel and consultants as needed.
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