Engineering Manager

Job Responsibilities

• Manage compliance with deliverables in Purchase Power Agreement and Interconnect Agreements.
• Establish and maintain milestone plans (owners, due dates, evidence) to ensure projects meet all contractual and tariff-driven interconnection requirements on schedule.
• Own interconnection risk management, including issue resolution and escalation recommendations to protect cost, schedule, and contractual position.
• Manage team capacity and portfolio prioritization; coordinate cross-functional resources to meet critical path schedules.
• Interface with Transmission Owners and Operators (TO) and Power Purchasing Agreement Clients to align all deliverables to physically connect, sync and achieve COD.
• Work with engineering parties to ensure technical items of PPA and IA are met in plant design.
• Own and mature interconnection standard work, templates, tools, and lessons learned; drive a culture of continuous improvement across the team.
• Monitor and communicate tariff, market rule, and regulatory changes impacting interconnection execution; brief Engineering & Construction leadership and drive required process updates.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s - Engineering
• Experience: 7+ years
• Supervisor/Management Experience: 3+ years

Skills

• Working knowledge of ISO tariffs and pro forma and non pro forma contracts for multiple regions in US
• Familiarity with NERC and FERC technical standards related to transmission and generation interconnection
• Contract interpretation and management of deliverables
• Purchase Power Agreement (PPA) and Interconnect Agreements (IA)
• Organizational skills to manage critical deliverables to external Transmission entities
• Personal skills to establish professional working relationships with offtaker entities
• Strong written and verbal communication skills, including the ability to present recommendations, tradeoffs, and risks to senior leaders
• Management skills to foster the growth and development of the Interconnection team
• Leadership skills to support the development and execution of NextEra’s interconnection strategy

Preferred Background

• Electrical Engineering preferred with an emphasis in Power Systems Engineering
• Or Professional experience with interconnection engineering