Senior Manager, Advanced Grid and Controls Solutions

AES Corporation; Louisville (CO); On-site; USD 170,000 - 230,000; Full time

Job summary

The AES Corporation seeks a Senior Manager of Advanced Grid and Controls Solutions to lead a multidisciplinary engineering team responsible for defining, evaluating, validating, and deploying advanced grid-integration and control solutions across renewable, battery energy storage, hybrid, and microgrid applications.

You will drive technical direction, coordinate across project engineering, development, and operations, and ensure repeatable methods and robust plant architectures.

Qualifications

• Experience leading multidisciplinary engineering teams.
• Strong background in grid integration and advanced controls.
• Ability to coordinate across multiple stakeholders and functions.

Responsibilities

• Lead, coach, and develop a multidisciplinary engineering team focused on grid integration, advanced controls, power electronics, EMT analysis, and microgrid solutions.
• Set the team vision, annual priorities, technical roadmap, operating model, and resource plan in alignment with AES business needs.
• Assign work, balance planned and emergent demands, establish clear ownership, and monitor scope, schedule, budget, dependencies, decisions, and risk.
• Provide technical leadership to AES Commercial, Business Development, and Engineering teams during contract negotiations involving co-located systems, microgrids, and advanced controls.

Skills

Team leadership

Technical leadership

Grid integration

Power electronics

EMT analysis

Coordination

Project management

Stakeholder liaison

Tools

SCADA

Job description

Are you ready to be part of a companythat'snot just talking about the future, but actively shaping it? Join The AES Corporation, the largest US-based global power company witha teamof 8,300employees across 12 countries. AES has beenranked #1 byBloombergNEFin renewable energy sales to corporations in the US and Americas for five consecutive years, providing electricityformillions of peopleworldwide. We are proud to foster a strong workplace culture, earning prominent positions in Great Place to Work rankings across the markets where weoperate. AES was also named one of the World's Most Ethical Companies for the 13th consecutive year in 2026, highlighting our dedication to integrity, transparency, and responsible business practices.

Our spirit of innovation continues to earn industry recognition. AES is the only seven-time winner of the Edison Electric Institute's Edison Awards in the twenty-first century, a distinction honoringglobal leadership in advancing the electric power industry. If you're ready to be part of a company that's not just adapting to change, but driving it, AES is the place for you. We’re not just building a more sustainable future, we’re powering it.

The Senior Manager of Advanced Grid and Controls Solutions leads an engineering team responsible for defining, evaluating, validating, and deploying advanced grid-integration and control solutions across renewable, battery energy storage, hybrid, and microgrid applications. The role combines technical leadership, people management, portfolio prioritization, and direct support to projects and operating assets. The Senior Manager sets the team's direction, establishes repeatable engineering methods, and ensures lessons from testing, commissioning, and operations are translated into improved plant architectures, controls requirements, equipment strategies, and project execution practices.

The team's work spans grid-forming and grid-following inverter controls, plant power and energy-management controls, advanced power-electronics applications, system and control architectures, electromagnetic-transient modeling, controller and power hardware-in-the-loop testing, commissioning and witness testing, and complex event or control-interaction analysis. Success requires strong technical judgement and the ability to coordinate across project engineering, development, operations, performance engineering, interconnection, SCADA, OEMs, integrators, consultants, utilities, and customers.

Key Responsibilities

Team Leadership and Direction

• Lead, coach, and develop a multidisciplinary engineering team focused on grid integration, advanced controls, power electronics, EMT analysis, and microgrid solutions.
• Set the team vision, annual priorities, technical roadmap, operating model, and resource plan in alignment with AES business, project, and technology-strategy needs.
• Assign work, balance planned and emergent demands, establish clear ownership, and maintain visibility into scope, schedule, budget, dependencies, decisions, and technical risk.
• Provide technical leadership to AES Commercial, Business Development, and Engineering teams during contract negotiations involving co-located systems, microgrids, advanced