Project Coordinator II-Sr

Project Coordinator – DER Software, Analytics, and Product Enablement

Grid Strategy & Solutions | Georgia Power / Southern Company

Travel Frequency:
Up to 10% of the Time

This position will work a hybrid work schedule (both in-office and telecommute); currently four (4) days in-office and one (1) day telecommute (subject to adjustment).

Job Description

At Georgia Power, we are committed to making smart investments in Georgia's energy future to ensure our customers are provided with clean, safe, reliable, and affordable energy. To keep up with the growing demand for electricity, we're working to deploy emerging technologies and strategically invest in our grid to reliably and affordably serve our customers.

The Project Coordinator will support Georgia Power’s Distributed Energy Resource (DER) software, analytics, and product enablement efforts within Grid Strategy & Solutions. The position will coordinate and synthesize progress across DERMS and related technology work streams, develop clear content for technical and business stakeholders, be responsible for developing and maintaining the DER software and analytics roadmap, and apply technology project management practices to evaluate emerging solutions through structured pilots.

This position will support the Solutions & Support Manager and DER Manager, aligning priorities on new digital capabilities, system analysis, and DER capabilities. This role will bring cross-functional teams together to prioritize digital use cases, prepare data and models, align solution architectures and data flows, execute pilots, and assess results. The successful candidate will be highly organized and collaborative, with the ability to translate complex technical and business information into actionable recommendations and executive-ready communications.

Major

Job Responsibilities

• Develop and maintain the capability roadmap across DERMS and DER communications, identifying priorities, gaps, overlaps, dependencies, and risks. Additionally, this position will work closely with the DER manager to align the DERMS and DER communications capabilities with customer programs and requirements.

• Develop concise technical and business content, including executive briefings, presentations, roadmaps, decision materials, and stakeholder communications.

• Coordinate and synthesize progress, decisions, risks, and next steps across work streams.

• Develop and support responses to regulatory data requests.

• Evaluate and drive adoption of emerging software solutions to support DER management, adoption, orchestration, and scale.

• Plan and coordinate multiple software pilots, including ownership of vendor contracting, internal technology review processes, scope management, schedules, resource requirements, stakeholder engagement, vendor management, identifying dependencies and risks, and ensuring timely delivery of project milestones.

• Coordinate the data remediation, integration, quality improvements, and model development required to configure, enable, and test pilot solutions.

• Facilitate cross-functional alignment of solution architecture diagrams, system integrations, and end-to-end data flows.

• Define system- and business-driven use cases, requirements, evaluation criteria, and success measures with technical and business stakeholders.

• Assess pilot outcomes, software capabilities and limitations, scalability, operational readiness, and business value; recommend whether solutions should be refined, expanded, implemented, or discontinued.

• Respond to ad hoc requests as well as collaborate with cross-functional partners.

Preferred Experience , Skills, and Abilities

• Bachelor’s degree in Engineering, Engineering Technology, Computer Science, Data Analytics, Information Systems, or a related field is…