Senior Manager, Grid Planning

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Posting Date: Jul 29, 2026

Location: Toronto, ON, CA

Expected Salary Range: $132403 - $165504 Annually

Target Variable Performance Pay: 25%

The salary range shown above reflects the expected compensation for this position. The final salary offered will be determined based on a holistic assessment of the candidate’s experience, education, training, and alignment with the role’s requirements. For positions covered by a collective agreement, placement within the range will follow the applicable step or classification.

The Senior Manager, Grid Planning is responsible for owning and integrating the outcomes of the utility’s system and capacity planning strategy to ensure the safe, reliable, sustainable and cost-effective delivery of electricity services to customers in the city of Toronto.

The role provides enterprise-wide accountability for aligning and reconciling inputs across asset capital investment planning, distribution system planning, capacity planning, grid modernization, and electrification readiness into a single, integrated system plan and capital strategy.

Reporting to the Director of Investment Planning, the Senior Manager, Grid Planning synthesizes and consolidates evidence-based inputs from across planning, innovation, asset management, and operational functions into integrated recommendations that align asset investments with system and customer needs, regulatory requirements, municipal growth objectives, corporate strategy, and emerging trends. This position is accountable for ensuring the consolidated system plan positions the utility’s distribution system to support future growth, transportation electrification, decarbonization initiatives, changing customer expectations, and evolving technologies while optimizing lifecycle costs and asset performance.

The role leads a multidisciplinary team of engineers, planners, analysts, and technical specialists and acts as the primary advisor to senior leadership on integrated infrastructure investment decisions, trade-offs, and prioritization and regulatory submissions.

The incumbent is expected to behave ethically and follow the established code of business conduct, policies and internal control procedures, laws and regulations governing Toronto Hydro.

The posting is for an existing vacancy.

KEY RESPONSIBILITIES:

• Own and provide final accountability for the integration and delivery of the utility’s short- and medium-term distribution system plans, capacity plans and infrastructure investment strategies.
• Integrate inputs from the Long-term planning team to establish planning horizons and scenarios to support future customer demand, electrification, and large load connections.
• Deliver a single, consolidated system plan that align asset management, system reliability, customer growth, and corporate strategies.
• Identify future system constraints, risks, and investment requirements and determine recommended mitigation strategies across competing priorities.
• Develop the narrative for the 5-Year Distribution System Plan, incorporating inputs from asset management functions.
• Integrate and reconcile inputs from Long-Term Gid Planning and Grid Strategy team on the continuous improvement of enterprise asset management and asset life-cycle practices.
• Ensure final investment recommendations appropriately reflect asset condition, criticality, performance, and asset investment prioritization frameworks.
• Ensure alignment with applicable asset management standards and industry best practices through integrated planning outputs.
• Integrate grid modernization and innovation inputs into system planning outcomes in alignment with the digital and modernization strategy roadmap.
• Incorporate evaluations of emerging technologies (including smart grid technologies) into investment decision-making.
• Review and integrate business cases supporting innovative investments and modernization programs into broader system priorities.
• Assess opportunities to improve system flexibility, resilience, reliability, and operational efficiency and prioritize within the overall system plan.
• Oversee integration of system study…