Key Responsibilities
Project Management: Provide strategic oversight of the interconnection portfolio from initial feasibility through the commencement of project execution. Establish priorities, address schedule and resource conflicts, manage escalations, and ensure internal processes support customer commitments, regulatory requirements, proposed deadlines, and budget constraints.
Technical Expertise: Serve as a senior technical authority for transmission and distribution interconnection studies, including power flow, voltage, thermal, short circuit, and stability analyses. Approve study scope and key assumptions, validate recommendations, exercise independent engineering judgment, and lead the resolution of complex or escalated technical issues to ensure the grid can reliably accommodate renewable resources and new load interconnections.
Team Leadership: Set strategic direction, priorities, and performance expectations for the interconnections team. Establish accountability for technical quality, timely delivery, regulatory compliance, and consistent application of interconnection practices. Develop technical and leadership capabilities through mentorship, succession planning, and continuous improvement.
Customer Collaboration: In partnership with Business Relations leaders, serve as a senior customer-facing technical representative of the Company. Lead responses to complex or escalated technical inquiries and clearly explain study assumptions, system capabilities, constraints, alternatives, cost responsibilities, and required infrastructure improvements. Participate in in-person customer and developer meetings alongside Business Relations leaders to provide technical support and help establish and strengthen customer relationships throughout the interconnection process.
Regulatory Compliance: Ensure all interconnection activities comply with applicable federal, state, and local requirements, tariffs, and procedures, including those associated with FERC, NERC, NYISO, and the New York State Public Service Commission. Represent the Company in regulatory discussions and support responses to complex inquiries, audits, filings, and stakeholder matters.
Internal & External Coordination: Lead cross-functional alignment with system operations, Business Relations, key accounts, substation engineering, transmission planning, distribution planning, project management, and Investment Planning to resolve complex interconnection issues and support successful project implementation. Coordinate Company participation in NYISO and Joint Utilities working groups, ensure compliance with applicable tariffs and procedures, and lead strategies to improve the efficiency and effectiveness of the interconnection process. Provide senior-level direction on cost allocation determinations and other matters requiring consistent Company positions.
Process Improvement: Lead the development and implementation of consistent interconnection processes, governance, quality controls, and performance measures. Monitor study delivery, technical quality, customer responsiveness, and regulatory commitments, and drive improvements that streamline activities, improve data quality, reduce costs, and enhance customer satisfaction.
