Manager - System Planning
American Transmission Co.
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Job summary
American Transmission Company (ATC) is seeking a Manager, System Planning to provide strategic, technical, and people leadership for the team responsible for planning ATC's transmission network. This role influences critical infrastructure investments and long-term grid strategy while strengthening compliance.
You will guide system studies, regulatory activities, capital forecasting, and stakeholder engagement, building a high-performing team and advancing planning excellence in a dynamic energy
Qualifications
- Bachelor of Science degree in Electrical Engineering, or equivalent experience in transmission planning or power systems.
- Eight or more years of experience in transmission system planning, transmission design, engineering, operations, maintenance, or another related technical area.
- Demonstrated ability to set priorities, manage resources, balance workloads, coach employees, and guide technical programs and projects.
- Strong understanding of electric power system reliability standards, compliance procedures, and relevant regulatory organizations.
Responsibilities
- Lead and develop a high-performing team of transmission planning professionals.
- Direct system planning studies and project development activities, including support for regulatory approval and technical testimony.
- Oversee planning programs and processes, ensuring compliance and continuous improvement.
- Support capital forecast development and prioritization of transmission investments.
- Represent System Planning in enterprise-wide discussions and collaborate with engineering, operations, asset management, and regulatory affairs.
Skills
Education
Job description
Help Build the Grid of Tomorrow At American Transmission Company (ATC), transmission planning is essential to preparing the electric grid for evolving customer needs, emerging technologies, and long-term reliability requirements. We are seeking a Manager, System Planning to provide strategic, technical, and people leadership for the team responsible for planning ATC's transmission network. This is an opportunity to influence critical infrastructure investments, advance planning excellence, strengthen compliance, and develop highly technical professionals whose work will shape the future of the grid.
You will connect technical planning, enterprise strategy, and people leadership to help ATC make informed decisions about the future of the transmission system. Your leadership will support system studies, project development, capital forecasting, regulatory activities, customer needs, and compliance with reliability standards.
Coach and empower technical professionals, align priorities and resources, and foster accountability, collaboration, innovation, and succession readiness.
Guide planning programs and studies that support transmission reliability, project decisions, regulatory needs, and long-term grid strategy.
- Inspire, coach, mentor, and develop transmission planning professionals.
- Set clear priorities, align internal talent and external consultants, and balance workloads and financial resources.
- Build a culture of accountability, collaboration, high performance, innovation, and continuous learning.
- Support the ATC Strategic Engineering Experience and Development (SEED) program.
- Oversee the design, execution, evaluation, compliance, and continuous improvement of planning programs and processes.
- Direct system planning studies and project development activities, including support for regulatory approval and technical testimony.
- Advance planning criteria, guidelines, tools, technologies, processes, and documentation.
- Support capital forecast development and the prioritization of transmission investments.
- Maintain strong governance for planning-related NERC reliability standard compliance.
- Identify planning and compliance risks early and guide appropriate corrective action.
- Ensure planning work responds to changing customer needs and transmission system reliability requirements.
- Provide leadership before, during, and after an ATC Ready event when called upon.
- Represent System Planning in enterprise-wide discussions and champion organizational initiatives.
- Partner across engineering, operations, asset management, project management, interconnection solutions, customer engagement, and regulatory affairs.
- Communicate credible planning recommendations to executives, board members, customers, regulators, and industry stakeholders.
- Bachelor of Science degree in Electrical Engineering, or equivalent experience in transmission planning or power systems.
- Eight or more years of experience in transmission system planning, transmission design, engineering, operations, maintenance, or another related technical area.
- Demonstrated ability to set priorities, manage resources, balance workloads, coach employees, and guide technical programs and projects.
- Strong understanding of electric power system reliability standards, compliance procedures, and relevant regulatory organizations.
- Progressive responsibility leading engineers, technical specialists, consultants, or complex cross-functional work.
- Experience directing transmission planning studies and supporting project justification or regulatory approval.
- Ability to explain complex technical matters clearly to executives, board members, customers, regulators, and industry stakeholders.
- Experience developing capital forecasts, allocating financial resources, or prioritizing technical portfolios.
- Exposure to FERC, NERC, MISO, PSCW, IEEE, EPRI, CEATI, EEI, NATF, or similar organizations.
We’re energized by meaningful and challenging work that contributes to the greater good, from powering everyday life to grid modernization.
We are difference makers. We lead with trust, value collaboration, and foster a supportive environment where people grow, contribute openly, and make a difference.
Our work environment encouraging autonomy, connection, and choice with accountability.
Curiosity, coaching, and engagement fuel careers. We invest in our people through cross-functional opportunities, skill-building, and assignments that stretch potential and build careers.
Compensation, benefits, and well-being offerings are thoughtfully and competitively designed to support employees’ unique needs.
Grounded in the communities we serve, we play a critical role in powering the grid, with the agility to innovate, lead, and drive progress in a time of transformational change in the industry.
We commit to creating an environment where people can do their best work, thrive, and drive success for our customers and stakeholders, delivering a lasting impact for all.
where we build and operate the power grid that enables modern life, and where every role contributes to something bigger than any one of us.
The targeted base pay for this position is $171,600 to $200,200 annually.* Base pay is one component of our comprehensive total rewards package which includes an annual incentive bonus, employer-sponsored pension plan, 401(k) match, HSA contribution, life & disability insurance, health care benefits, generous time off plans, flexible work arrangements, and much more.* The pay range is a general guideline. Employment offers are evaluated individually and consider qualifications, experience, academic achievements, internal equity, and business needs. Pay exceeding the posted range is considered for uniquely qualified candidates. Interested internal candidates, with questions, please consult your Human Resources Business Partner.
Number of Openings Available: 1
Posting Date: 2026-09-04
Time Type: Full time
Applicants have rights under employment laws. ATC is an equal opportunity employer that seeks to foster diverse teams of talented people working safely together. We respect and embrace diversity of all aspects and hire, train and promote employees without regard to race, color, religion, sex, age, national origin, sexual orientation, disability, genetics, protected veteran status, or any other characteristic protected by law. We encourage women, minorities, veterans and individuals with a disability to apply. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to any characteristic protected by law.
Family and Medical Leave Act (FMLA) Poster | U.S. Department of Labor Family and Medical Leave Act Poster Employee Polygraph Protection Act (EPPA) Poster | U.S. Department of Labor ERD-10861 Poster Honesty Testing poster WISCONSIN FAIR EMPLOYMENT LAW ATC is a transmission-only electric utility that helps keep the lights on, businesses running and communities strong in Wisconsin, Michigan, Minnesota and Illinois. As owner and operator of more than 9,530 miles of transmission lines and 530 substations, we help meet the electric needs of more than 5 million people in our service area.
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