Interconnection Program Lead for EV & BESS Rollouts

Highland-Electric-Fleets; Beverly (MA); Sur place; USD 150 000 - 175 000; Plein temps

Avantages offerts par ce poste

Competitive base salary

Performance-based bonus program

Paid time off

401(k) program and company match

Résumé du poste

Highland Electric Fleets’ Senior Manager, Interconnection owns the utility interconnection and new-service program across Highland's large, fast-moving portfolio of battery energy storage, edge compute, and EV charging sites.

This role interfaces with electric utilities, leads external partners, and builds playbooks that speed up engagement across 20+ states, with approximately 20% travel. The position reports to the Vice President, Development & Construction.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree or 8+ years of directly related professional experience.
• Substantial experience working with electric utilities — interconnection, new service requests, and service upgrades — on the developer, customer, or utility side.
• Program or portfolio management experience coordinating many concurrent projects and external partners.
• Demonstrated ability to move utility applications and approvals forward on aggressive timelines.
• Demonstrated experience negotiating phased or partial interconnection agreements with utilities.

Responsabilités

• Own the utility interconnection and new-service program across Highland's development portfolio, from early diligence through energized service.
• Lead utility diligence to confirm each site's buildability from a utility standpoint — available capacity, service voltage, required upgrades, timelines, and costs.
• Prepare and manage new utility service and interconnection applications, driving them through to approval on an aggressive, portfolio-wide schedule.
• Serve as Highland's primary point of contact with electric utilities, managing utility timelines, budgets, and escalations.
• Functionally lead and quality-check the external partners performing utility diligence and application work
• Keep utility workstreams tracking in parallel with design and permitting so that utility milestones feed the design packages on time.
• Manage rate schedule and tariff selection.
• Contribute utility upgrade and service costs to project budgets and support a repeatable unit-cost installation model.
• Build and maintain a repository of utility requirements, processes, and contacts by territory to make each new engagement faster.
• Develop relationships and standardized interconnection playbooks with the utilities Highland works with most.

Connaissances

Program/Portfolio management

Interconnection with utilities

Project coordination

Negotiation with utilities

Formation

Bachelor's degree or 8+ years experience

Outils

IEEE 1547 familiarity

PMP certification

Description du poste

Highland Electric Fleets’ Senior Manager, Interconnection owns the utility interconnection and new-service program across Highland's large, fast-moving portfolio of battery energy storage, edge compute, and EV charging sites.

This role interfaces with electric utilities, leads external partners, and builds playbooks that speed up engagement across 20+ states, with approximately 20% travel. The position reports to the Vice President, Development & Construction.