Senior Utility Interconnection Lead

Highland Electric Fleets; Beverly (MA); On-site; USD 150,000 - 175,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Health insurance

Vision & Dental coverage

401(k) match

Generous PTO

Bonus program

Job summary

Highland Electric Fleets seeks a Senior Interconnection Manager to own the interconnection and new-service program across a growing portfolio of sites. You will lead utility diligence, coordinate external partners, and drive approvals on aggressive timelines to secure energized service.

The role interfaces with electric utilities, manages timelines and budgets, and mentors internal teams. Expect ~20% travel and leadership across a broad, multi-state development program.

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

Utility interconnection

Program management

Portfolio management

External partner coordination

Negotiation with utilities

PMP or equivalent

Education

Bachelor's degree or 8+ years of related experience

Job description

Highland Electric Fleets seeks a Senior Interconnection Manager to own the interconnection and new-service program across a growing portfolio of sites. You will lead utility diligence, coordinate external partners, and drive approvals on aggressive timelines to secure energized service.

The role interfaces with electric utilities, manages timelines and budgets, and mentors internal teams. Expect ~20% travel and leadership across a broad, multi-state development program.