Senior Transmission Manager

Senior Transmission Manager

Enel North America is a proven renewables leader delivering clean, flexible and sustainable energy solutions. As part of the Enel Group, we develop, build, own and operate renewable power plants and demand response solutions, with over 11 gigawatts (GW) of installed wind and solar capacity, over 1 GW of energy storage and nearly 5 GW of demand response in the US and Canada.

For nearly 25 years, we've reliably powered modern life and driven climate action with our people, partners and communities by putting sustainability at the center of everything we do. Enel is a top-five industry leader for clean power capacity in the US, demand response in North America and utility-scale battery storage in Texas. We are a smart and passionate team working together to build the Enel North America that we want for the long-term – one that is founded on strong financial, social and environmental values.

Being on our team means being part of lasting progress to create a thriving and more sustainable world for our climate and communities. It means valuing safety, trust, innovation, proactivity, flexibility and respect in all we do. Our vision is ambitious, and we'll get there together.

Enel is seeking a creative, passionate, and highly motivated transmission planning engineer to join our team in the role of Senior Transmission Manager. Team members are expected to demonstrate and grow in hunger for success, humility to emphasize customers, company and team over self, and people smarts to work well with others. Candidates must be able to apply their knowledge of transmission system modeling and analysis, criteria, policy, and regulation in order to manage the interconnection process for utility-scale renewable energy projects (wind, solar, energy storage, geothermal, and hydro).

Candidate will be expected to develop technical modeling data, diagnose transmission study results, identify key risks and opportunities, and create positive change through advocacy and, when necessary, litigation. The team's work on generation interconnection represents a critical and highly competitive aspect of renewable energy development and the team's recommendations support key project investment decisions for the company across the US and Canada portfolio.

Candidates must have strong written and verbal communication skills in order to provide accurate and timely feedback to the team and to build relationships with utilities and RTOs that lead to improved policies and project results.

• Manage technical, financial, legal and other aspects of interconnection process activities for various utility-scale wind, solar, energy storage, geothermal, hydro, and hydrogen projects from site selection through operation, with a primary focus on the development phase. Senior Transmission Manager must demonstrate a high level of independence in these activities and be able to effectively communicate risks and opportunities to a wide audience of internal stakeholders.

• Determines optimum strategy for interconnecting projects to the electric grid based on system impact assessments and market delivery options. Use analytical tools and methods to determine optimum plan for interconnection. Leverage knowledge of tariffs, transmission agreements, and transmission policies to evaluate and recommend project strategies and opportunities. Senior Transmission Manager must demonstrate a strong proficiency in each of these areas and an ability to identify opportunities for new projects during the daily course of his/her work.

• Assesses available grid capacity in a region by reviewing and verifying technical studies performed by transmission providers and communicate and negotiate with regional transmission providers to develop the most efficient and cost-effective plan for integrating the project into the electric power grid. Senior Transmission Manager must have demonstrated ability to perform critical analysis of interconnection studies and effectively communicate errors with Transmission Providers and Owners to produce improved results for projects, as well as communicate issues and risks to a wide variety of internal…