Senior Interconnection & Utility Diligence Lead

Highland; Beverly (MA); Hybrid; USD 150,000 - 175,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Competitive base salary

Bonus program

Health, Vision, and Dental coverage

Generous Paid Time Off

401(k) match

Job summary

Highland Electric Fleets seeks a Senior Interconnection Manager to own the utility interconnection and new-service programs across a growing portfolio of energy projects. You will coordinate diligence with utilities, manage applications, and drive approvals on aggressive timelines while shaping repeatable processes and playbooks for 20+ states.

The role partners with external vendors and internal teams, balancing budgets, schedules, and risk.

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.

Responsibilities

• 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.

Skills

Utilities experience

Program management

Interconnection knowledge

Negotiation

Timeline acceleration

Education

Bachelor's degree or 8+ years experience

Job description

Highland Electric Fleets seeks a Senior Interconnection Manager to own the utility interconnection and new-service programs across a growing portfolio of energy projects. You will coordinate diligence with utilities, manage applications, and drive approvals on aggressive timelines while shaping repeatable processes and playbooks for 20+ states.

The role partners with external vendors and internal teams, balancing budgets, schedules, and risk.