Jim Greer

About Jim Greer

Leader of high performing teams that develop, design, construct, and deliver pioneering American infrastructure projects including four first-of-a-kind (FOAK) plants: three hundred gigawatt hours of hydrogen-based energy storage for the Intermountain Power Authority and its operating agent the Los Angeles Department of Water & Power in Utah, a urea nitrogen fertilizer plant using coal gasification ammonia and captured CO2 for Basin Electric Power Cooperative in North Dakota, a pebble bed helium cooled nuclear SMR for Energy Northwest New Nuclear in Washington, and an oil sands processing unit in Utah\'s Uinta Basin. Other iconic facilities include AI capable data centers in Utah, one gigawatt of utility-scale solar power generation across Colorado/Florida/Texas/California, lithium-ion battery storage co-located at a wind power plant in California, gold ore haul truck in Nevada at the nation\'s largest gold mine, phosphate mining beneficiation facility in Utah, semiconductor memory chip manufacturing campuses in Idaho/Utah, and military airbases in Idaho and overseas. Entrepreneur with start-up venture and sustaining operations successes in numerous industries including less lethal ammunition, business plan preparation, sporting goods products, project management consulting, power gen-sets, and distributed hydrogen applications.

Experience

1. Project Director

   Black & Veatch

   Mar 2026 — Present · UT, US

   Responsible for serving the joint venture team executing the planning, design, and construction of the Cascade Advanced Energy Facility for Energy Northwest, a Joint Operating Agency in Washington State. This is an exciting and pioneering next generation pebble-bed helium cooled nuclear SMR awarded to Cascade Nuclear Partners (Design-Build joint venture of Aecon, Kiewit, and Black & Veatch). Once brought to life and operational, the facility will provide much needed firm, clean, and reliable electric generation to the Pacific Northwest.

Education

• University of Utah - David Eccles School of Business

  MBA, Entrepreneurship, Finance

  1997 — 2000

• University of Colorado Boulder

  BS Mechanical Engineering, Thermodynamics

  1988 — 1991

• Stanford University

  Certificate, Energy Innovation & Technologies

  2012 — 2013

• Massachusetts Institute of Technology

  Professional Certificate, Architecture & Systems Engineering

  2017 — 2017

• University of Michigan College of Engineering

  Professional Course, Lithium Ion Battery Manufacturing

  2019 — 2019

• University of Michigan

  Underclassman, Engineering

• University of Wyoming

  Summer Program, Engineering

Skills

• Commissioning
• Team Leadership
• Financial Analysis
• Budgets
• Process Improvement
• Cross-Functional Team Leadership
• Project Management
• Entrepreneurship
• Construction
• Marketing
• Testing
• Business Process Improvement
• Project Planning
• Construction Management
• Start-Ups
• Leadership
• Inspection
• Strategic Planning
• Strategy
• Engineering Management
• Energy
• Management
• Process Engineering
• Business Planning
• Manufacturing