Permit & Interconnection Coordinator

Permit & Interconnection Coordinator

Littleton, Colorado

Reports to:

Manager, VPP Project Delivery

Location:

Onsite in Littleton, CO

Emporia is a leading technology company revolutionizing home energy by providing affordable, integrated solutions that empower homeowners to optimize energy usage to reduce costs and carbon footprint. Emporia's Home Energy Management Platform is a powerful software system that connects their Vue Home Energy Monitor, Level 2 EV Charger, Smart Plugs, Home Battery, and third-party thermostats and appliances. By automating energy use through real-time monitoring and scheduling, the platform optimizes consumption, reduces costs, and simplifies home energy management—all within one intuitive app.

With over 400,000 U.S. homes running Emporia's energy management and EV charging hardware, we are now launching a national Third-Party Owned (TPO) home battery Virtual Power Plant — placing industrial-rated home batteries in residential homes to deliver power redundancy, utility cost savings, and grid peak demand services. By reducing energy waste and saving customers money, we're helping create a healthier planet and a brighter future.

Emporia was founded in 2018 with a clear purpose to revolutionize home energy, generate tangible customer savings, and accelerate the transition to a lower carbon future. We are striving to become the world's leading home energy management platform and build the largest virtual power plant.

Role Overview

Emporia's TPO battery program is running simultaneously across multiple states with permitting, utility interconnection, VPP enrollment, and regulatory compliance all moving  Manager overseeing this needs a right hand: someone who can own the administrative and coordination backbone of the program so nothing slips between AHJ calls, utility follow-ups, tracker updates, and status reporting.

This is a coordinator-level role built to grow. You'll start by taking ownership of the trackers, registers, and follow-up cadences that keep the program honest, then expand into owning discrete work streams (a state, a vendor relationship, a compliance thread) as you build fluency. Think of it as an apprenticeship into program management for a fast-moving, multi-state regulated energy business.

Responsibilities

• Permit & Interconnection Tracking
• Maintain daily/weekly status on permit and interconnection applications across active installs — flagging inspection failures, missing paperwork, or stalled applications before they become deployment blockers.
• Keep the state-by-state regulatory tracker (AHJ contacts, permit fees, application templates, fire code references, utility interconnection requirements) up to date and easy for the team to search.
• Own routine follow-up communication with AHJs, utilities, and vendors on outstanding items — inspection reschedules, cost-allocation questions, document requests — and escalate to the Manager when a response is overdue.
• Program Administration & Reporting
• Maintain the program's action-item register with current status, owners, and due dates pulled from Slack, email, meeting notes, and Jira.
• Draft the weekly status report concise, categorized, only leadership-relevant items, pulling from the tracker and the Manager's input.
• Keep the team's internal wiki accurate proposing edits for approval before publishing and preserving existing formatting/status conventions.
• Track commitments and open questions captured from Gemini/meeting notes and Slack threads, confirming details with the Manager before treating them as final.
• Cross-Functional Coordination
• Coordinate action items across internal stakeholders (compliance, marketing, ops, hardware vendors) get done, chasing owners rather than letting items go stale.
• Help prepare materials for AHJ and utility meetings (trip plans, agendas, AHJ meeting materials) alongside the Manager and Marketing.
• Take ownership of discrete work streams as the role matures — starting with a single state or vendor relationship and expanding based on performance.
• Support field operations by streamlining communication between on-site teams and office staff, ensuring field issues, safety reports, and site documentation are…