Transmission Manager

Employer: Ørsted North America Inc.

Job Title: Transmission Manager

Salary Range: $123,000 to $140,000 per year + Benefits (https://us.orsted.com/careers/united-states)

Location: 401 North Michigan Avenue, Chicago, IL 60611

Duties:

• Drive the interconnection process and transmission evaluation for utility scale renewable energy projects such as Wind, Solar, and Storage within a specified regional transmission organization (RTO) or broader interconnection region.

• Assist Engineering and Construction teams with understanding interconnection requirements, costs, limitations, schedules, and fatal flaw analysis.

• Support mergers and acquisitions (M&A) and greenfield development of prospective projects and divestments, including congestion risk and transmission interconnections.

• Develop interconnection relationships and market awareness for Wind and Solar assets into commercial operations throughout life of asset.

• Provide expertise for one or more regions' RTO and independent system operator (ISO) tariffs, guides, and working groups that cover both technical regulatory and power market regulatory issues.

• Submit and support generation interconnection queue requests representing the company's portfolio.

• Support Engineering and Construction of projects through execution phase.

• Partner with Asset Management in ongoing operational activities of completed projects.

• Provide assistance to Origination in offtake negotiations and timelines related to interconnection.

• Provide ad hoc assessments of potential acquisitions and divestments.

• Requires up to 30% domestic travel.

Requirements:

• Master's degree (or foreign equivalent) in electrical engineering, energy systems engineering, or related field; plus 3 years of experience in job offered or as an interconnection/network planning engineer.

• Bachelor's degree and 5 years of experience accepted in the alternative.

• Experience with Powerflow software (PSS/E, PowerWorld, and/or PSLF); and power system studies for connecting new projects to the electric grid, including power flow and/or short circuit.

Apply: https://us.orsted.com/careers.