Mgr, Interconnections Planning & Policy

Southern Company; Atlanta (GA); On-site; USD 150,000 - 190,000; Full time

Job summary

Georgia Power is making historic investments to support growth while maintaining a clean, safe, reliable, and affordable electric system. The Manager, Interconnections Planning & Policy is a strategic leader responsible for end-to-end integration of generation onto the Georgia Power system across gas, renewables, battery storage, and other resources.

This role leads other leaders and technical experts, drives policy development for safe and timely interconnections, and coordinates with

Responsibilities

• Lead end-to-end interconnection of generation assets across all tech types (gas, renewables, storage) to Georgia Power.
• Coordinate with Transmission, Distribution, Generation, Renewables, Policy & Services, Compliance, Operations, Legal, and Customer orgs.
• Ensure compliance with federal and state regulatory policies and engage with Public Service Commissioners and Staff.

Job description

JOB TITLE

Manager, Interconnections Planning & Policy

LOCATION

Atlanta, GA

POSITION SUMMARY

At Georgia Power, we are making historic investments to support unprecedented load growth while maintaining a clean, safe, reliable, and affordable electric system. The Manager, Interconnections Planning & Policy is a strategic leadership role responsible for the end‑to‑end integration of generation onto the Georgia Power system, including distribution- and transmission-connected generation resources across all technology types such as gas, renewables, battery storage, and others. The scale, complexity, and speed of integrating these generation assets continues to increase to support Georgia’s clean, safe, reliable, and affordable growth.For the Transmission team, direct responsibility for origination and partnerships with other Transmission teams for the direct interconnection and upstream delivery projects.This includes capital budget approvals for initial scoping and COD, final design, support through construction, and true-up accounting at closeout.

This position leads other people-leaders and several highly-technical, industry subject matter experts. This role is responsible for leading the strategy and development of solutions that proactively enable the safe, reliable, affordable, and timely interconnection of generation assets to the grid. Additionally, this position will ensure compliance with federal and state regulatory policies including engagement with Public Service Commissioners and Public Service Commission Staff as well as other stakeholders such as generation developers. To be most effective, this manager will coordinate across a wide range of Southern Company’s enterprise functions including but not limited to Transmission, Distribution, Generation, Renewables, Resource Planning, Policy & Services, Compliance, Operations, Legal, and Customer organizations. The role serves as a single point of accountability for Georgia Power’s interconnection policies, processes, and execution to ensure Georgia continues to reliably grow capacity resources to meet increasing customer growth.