Engineering Manager

Job Overview

This position plans, develops, coordinates, and directs engineering projects or activities. Employees have full responsibility for interpreting, organizing, executing, and coordinating assignments.

• Manage compliance with deliverables in Purchase Power Agreement and Interconnect Agreements.
• Establish and maintain milestone plans (owners, due dates, evidence) to ensure projects meet all contractual and tariff-driven interconnection requirements on schedule.
• Own interconnection risk management, including issue resolution and escalation recommendations to protect cost, schedule, and contractual position.
• Manage team capacity and portfolio prioritization; coordinate cross‑functional resources to meet critical path schedules.
• Interface with Transmission Owners and Operators (TO) and Power Purchasing Agreement Clients to align all deliverables to physically connect, sync and achieve COD.
• Work with engineering parties to ensure technical items of PPA and IA are met in plant design.
• Own and mature interconnection standard work, templates, tools, and lessons learned; drive a culture of continuous improvement across the team.
• Monitor and communicate tariff, market rule, and regulatory changes impacting interconnection execution; brief Engineering & Construction leadership and drive required process updates.

• Working knowledge of ISO tariffs and pro‑form and non‑pro‑form contracts for multiple regions in the US
• Familiarity with NERC and FERC technical standards related to transmission and generation interconnection.
• Contract interpretation and management of deliverables
  • Purchase Power Agreement (PPA) and Interconnect Agreements (IA)
• Organizational skills to manage critical deliverables to external Transmission entities.
• Personal skills to establish professional working relationships with offtaker entities.
• Strong written and verbal communication skills, including the ability to present recommendations, tradeoffs, and risks to senior leaders.
• Management skills to foster the growth and development of the Interconnection team.
• Leadership skills to support the development and execution of Next Era’s interconnection strategy.

• Electrical Engineering preferred with an emphasis in Power Systems Engineering
• Professional experience with interconnection engineering.

• Bachelor’s degree in Engineering
• Experience:
  
  7+ years
• Supervisor/Management
  
  Experience:
  
  3+ years

Next Era Energy is an Equal Opportunity Employer. Qualified applicants are considered for employment without regard to race, color, age, national origin, religion, marital status, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, gender expression, genetics, disability, protected veteran status or any other basis prohibited by law.

Next Era Energy provides reasonable accommodation in its application and selection process for qualified individuals, including accommodations related to compliance with conditional job offer requirements, consistent with federal, state, and local laws. Supporting medical or religious documentation will be required where applicable and permitted by applicable law. To request a reasonable accommodation, please email recruiting-coordinator.sh, providing your name, telephone number and the best time for us to reach you.

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