# Mgr, Interconnections Planning & Policy **Company**: Georgia Power **Location**: Atlanta, GA **Experience**: senior **Job type**: full-time **Category**: Policy & Public Affairs **Industry**: Energy **Apply**: https://emje.fa.us6.oraclecloud.com/hcmUI/CandidateExperience/en/sites/SouthernCompanyJobs/job/22277?utm_source=yubhub.co&utm_medium=jobs_feed&utm_campaign=apply **Canonical**: https://yubhub.co/jobs/job_ddf3d9b9-e22 ## Description At Georgia Power, we are making historic investments to support unprecedented load growth while maintaining a clean, safe, reliable, and affordable electric system. The Manager, Interconnections Planning & Policy is a strategic leadership role responsible for the end-to-end integration of generation onto the Georgia Power system, including distribution- and transmission-connected generation resources across all technology types such as gas, renewables, battery storage, and others. **Responsibilities** This position will have responsibilities across four primary focus areas. - **Strategic Vision for Interconnections Processes and Strategy** - Own generation interconnections strategy, governance, and enterprise accountability, including clear escalation paths and readiness criteria. - Lead cross-functional alignment and communication across Southern Company functions and with external stakeholders to coordinate cradle-to-grave solutions development and execution for all generation interconnections to protect grid reliability. - Set the strategy for interconnections policy and process needs to enable compliance through continued successful interconnection of all types of generation assets to the grid, including opportunities to integrate technologies and analytics into work practices. - Through close coordination with enterprise partner organizations and external stakeholders, identify and execute opportunities to ensure timely, reliable, and accurate project solution identification and reduce delays and risk of project scope changes. - **Transmission Interconnections** - Provide the strategy and direction for transmission interconnections leadership in concert with partner organizations and ensure senior leaders remain informed and provide input as needed, including executives. - There have been and continue to be numerous RFPs to procure generation capacity resources that increase generation in Georgia. - Continue to inform and coordinate with large load interconnections process and the development of projects to ensure consistency with transmission interconnections policies as well as project engineering and cost allocation methodologies. - **Distribution Interconnections** - Provide the strategy and direction for distribution interconnections leadership in concert with partner organizations and ensure senior leaders remain informed and provide input as needed, including executives. - There are a growing number of DER assets and technology types seeking to interconnect to the grid. - Lead strategy to address the increasing complexity of distribution interconnections. - **Policy Leadership and Stakeholder Engagement** - Represent Georgia Power and Southern Company professionally with customers, regulators, industry groups, and external stakeholders. - Regular communications and coordination with senior leaders at Georgia Power and Southern Company, including executives. - Own compliance and governance for all interconnections projects to comply with Southern Company, Georgia Power, and other regulatory or industry interconnection requirements and other applicable planning/operational requirements prior to energization. **Qualifications** - Bachelor’s degree in Engineering, Business, or a related field. - 10+ years of experience in the energy sector, utilities, infrastructure, or large-scale project delivery. - 3+ years of people leadership or team management experience. - 2+ years as a leader-of-leaders is a plus. - Demonstrated experience coordinating complex, enterprise & cross-functional initiatives with significant safety and reliability implications. - Strong understanding of transmission and distribution systems, grid operations, and generation interconnection processes and requirements. - Experience with regulatory policies in the energy industry is preferred. **Skills, Abilities & Leadership Attributes** - Strong focus on safety with preferred field experience in transmission and distribution, control/communication schemes, legal/contracts, knowledge of DER capabilities, and regulatory policy. - Creativity and strategy development, ability to lead evolving requirements, building a strong learning culture that is not afraid to make mistakes and learn quickly, and comfortable in working in a fast-changing environment. - Proven ability to lead teams, develop strategy, and execute in a highly regulated, safety-critical environment to balance customer growth with grid reliability and compliance. - Excellent written and verbal communication skills, capable of engaging executives, technical teams, and external stakeholders. - Ability to build consensus, manage conflict, and drive decisions across organizational boundaries. - High judgment, accountability, and comfort operating with ambiguity during rapid growth. ## Skills ### Required - Transmission and Distribution Systems - Grid Operations - Generation Interconnection Processes - Regulatory Policies - Leadership - Communication - Strategy Development ### Nice to have - DER capabilities - regulatory policy - control/communication schemes - legal/contracts --- Source: [Apply at emje.fa.us6.oraclecloud.com](https://emje.fa.us6.oraclecloud.com/hcmUI/CandidateExperience/en/sites/SouthernCompanyJobs/job/22277?utm_source=yubhub.co&utm_medium=jobs_feed&utm_campaign=apply)