Senior Interconnection Manager

Highland Electric Fleets; United States; Remote; USD 150.000 - 175.000; Vollzeit

Benefits dieser Stelle

Health, Vision, and Dental coverage

Generous Paid Time Off

401(k) matching

Zusammenfassung

Highland Electric Fleets seeks a Senior Interconnection Manager to own the utility interconnection and new-service program across a large battery energy storage, edge compute, and EV charging portfolio. You will coordinate with utilities and external partners to move diligence and approvals on ambitious timelines.

You will lead relations with utilities, supervise external diligence teams, and align milestones with design and permitting so energized service is delivered on schedule.

Qualifikationen

• Bachelor’s degree or 8+ years of related experience.
• Experience with electric utilities—interconnection, new service requests, and upgrades.
• Experience coordinating multiple concurrent projects with external partners.
• Ability to move utility applications forward on aggressive timelines.
• Experience negotiating interconnection agreements with utilities.

Aufgaben

• Own the utility interconnection and new-service program across development portfolio.
• Lead utility diligence to confirm buildability, capacity, upgrades, timelines, and costs.
• Prepare and manage new utility service and interconnection applications through approval.
• Serve as Highland’s main contact with electric utilities, managing timelines and budgets.
• Functionally lead and quality-check external partners performing utility diligence and applications.
• Coordinate design and permitting with utility milestones.
• Manage rate schedules and tariff selection.
• Contribute utility costs to project budgets and support unit-cost installation model.
• Build repository of utility requirements by territory to expedite engagements.
• Develop relationships and standardized interconnection playbooks with utilities.

Kenntnisse

Utilities experience

Program/portfolio management

External partner coordination

Timeline acceleration

Negotiation of interconnection

Ausbildung

Bachelor’s degree or 8+ years experience

Jobbeschreibung

About Us

Highland Electric Fleets’ mission is to make electric fleets accessible and affordable for all, enabling communities to realize the benefits of cleaner, quieter and healthier fleets. Highland is North America’s leading provider of Electrification-as-a-Service (EaaS). Founded in 2019, Highland partners with school districts, municipalities, and fleet operators to make the transition to electric fleets simple and affordable.

Highland proudly serves as the Official Electric School Bus Provider of the LA28 Olympic and Paralympic Games and Team USA. From pioneering vehicle-to-grid technology to managing some of the nation’s largest electric school bus fleets, Highland delivers reliable, cost-effective solutions that support local communities and drive the future of transportation.

Summary

The Senior Interconnection Manager owns Highland’s utility interconnection and new-service program across a large, fast-moving portfolio of battery energy storage (BESS), edge compute, and EV charging sites. Utility diligence, new service applications, and utility coordination sit on the critical path to a build-ready site — this role is accountable for moving them at portfolio scale and on an aggressive timeline.

The Senior Interconnection Manager serves as Highland’s primary interface with electric utilities, functionally leads the external partners who perform utility diligence and application work, and builds the relationships, playbooks, and standards that make utility engagement faster and more repeatable across every territory Highland develops in.This is a high-ownership program role. The portfolio is comprised of ~100 (and growing) sites in 20+ states and major utility partners include ComEd, SCE, Ameren, National Grid, NYSEG, Idaho Power, DTE, Entergy, and El Paso.

The Sr. Interconnection Manager sets the pace on utility workstreams, clears roadblocks with utilities before they threaten project schedules, and keeps utility milestones tracking in parallel with design and permitting so that new electrical service is secured when each site needs it.

This position reports to the Vice President, Development & Construction, with an expectation of approximately 20% travel.

Job Overview:

• 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.

Qualifications:

Required

• 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.

Preferred

• Experience with utility interconnection for distributed energy resources (BESS, solar) or large commercial/industrial electrical loads.
• Exposure to EV charging, edge compute/data center power, or renewable energy development.
• Familiarity with interconnection standards and utility processes (e.g., IEEE 1547, utility tariffs, and state interconnection rules).
• Experience working alongside permitting authorities having jurisdiction (AHJs) and engineering consultants.
• Prior experience at or embedded with an electric utility; PMP or equivalent certification.

$150,000 - $175,000 a year

What You Can Expect from Highland:

• Competitive base salary and performance-based bonus program
• A supportive, highly collaborative, team-oriented environment
• Ability to work with bright, innovative, and forward-thinking colleagues
• Health, Vision, and Dental coverage for employees & their dependents
• Generous Paid Time Off
• 401(k) program and company match

Highland Electric Fleets provides equal employment opportunities (EEO) to all employees and applicants for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, national origin, age, disability, or genetics. In addition to federal law requirements, Highland Electric Fleets complies with applicable state and local laws governing nondiscrimination in employment. This policy applies to all terms and conditions of employment, including recruiting, hiring, placement, promotion, termination, layoff, recall, transfer, leaves of absence, compensation, and training.