Business Program Manager

Job Category:
Administrative/Professional

Requisition Number: BUSIN
002666

• Posted :
  September 21, 2026
• Full-Time

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Ephrata Headquarters
30 C St SW
Ephrata, WA 98823, USA

Closing Date to Apply: September 28th, 2026 @ 5 pm PST

Salary: $ to $

Grant PUD posts the full salary range for each position. The midpoint is provided as a reference point and is not a guaranteed starting pay. Starting pay is based on job-related factors such as qualifications, experience, skills, internal alignment, and organizational needs. Most new hires are typically placed between the minimum and midpoint of the range.

Applicants meeting minimum qualifications may undergo further evaluation based on preferred qualifications and other job-related criteria. Only the most qualified candidates will be referred for further consideration.

Benefits: This link below will provide you with Grant PUD’s benefit that may be available if hired, different employee types are eligible for different benefits.

Grant County PUD will conduct a background check after a contingent offer of employment has been made, if selected for this position.

The District may use the applicant pool and results from this recruitment to fill additional vacancies in the same classification for up to six (6) months following the recruitment closing date, consistent with District policy and applicable law.

Position Summary

The position serves as a critical liaison across the utility with responsibility for leading enterprise-level coordination, integration, and execution efforts that support large load growth, new interconnections, system capacity planning, transmission planning, and related utility-wide priorities. The position improves visibility, alignment, accountability, and execution across interdependent projects, programs, and functional areas that affect committed customer delivery dates, electric system readiness, system capacity, anticipated revenue, and electric system resiliency.

This includes integrating customer needs, system capacity planning, asset management plans, capital project planning, transmission planning, procurement timelines, contract requirements, financial assumptions, portfolio priorities, and resource needs to support aligned execution across the utility.

Success in this role requires leadership through influence, strong program and project management discipline, strategic thinking, sound judgment, and the ability to navigate cross-functional barriers while maintaining momentum across complex utility initiatives. The position must identify schedule, resource, material, dependency, readiness, contractual, customer, financial, and regulatory risks early enough to drive timely resolution. Success is measured by improved customer value, stronger utility-wide execution, earlier risk identification, and achievement of committed project, energization, schedule, cost, and portfolio-level delivery outcomes.

Essential Functions

Essential functions, as defined under the Americans with Disabilities Act, may include any of the following representative duties, knowledge, and skills. This is not a comprehensive listing of all functions and duties performed by incumbents of this class; employees may be assigned duties which are not listed below; reasonable accommodations will be made as required. The job description does not constitute an employment agreement and is subject to change at any time by the employer.

Essential duties and responsibilities may include, but are not limited to, the following:

• Lead enterprise-level coordination, integration, and execution across programs, projects, studies, work streams, and business functions that support large customer applications, electric system readiness, system capacity planning, transmission planning, and customer energization outcomes from application through energization.
• Facilitate execution of electric system efforts including implementation of the Growth Management Strategy by supporting cross-functional coordination, strategic and operational planning, performance monitoring, program governance, and timely follow-through on decisions and actions.
• Coordinate the alignment of customer needs, customer growth assumptions, long-range plans, asset management plans, capital investment strategies, portfolio roadmaps, transmission planning activities, procurement timelines, contract requirements, financial assumptions, risk tolerance, resource availability, and strategic objectives to support utility-wide…