Interconnection Delivery Manager

About the role

We are seeking a US-based Interconnection Manager to join DESRI’s Grid Integration function. Grid Integration is the portfolio-level technical authority for interconnection execution, integration, and COD readiness across DESRI’s solar, BESS, and hybrid portfolio. This role owns the interconnection-agreement (IA) obligation tracker as a portfolio instrument and drives the execution-side tracking, deliverable management, material modification coordination, and cross-functional alignment required to carry projects from financial close through COD and into compliant operations.

What you'll do

• Interconnection Tracking & Agreement Compliance
• Track executed interconnection agreements (LGIA/GIA) and amendments for projects approaching financial close and through construction, ensuring all milestones, obligations, and compliance requirements are understood and monitored
• Own and maintain a portfolio IA-obligation tracker, meshing with development-stage interconnection trackers so obligations transfer cleanly from the dev-stage into construction and operations
• Maintain a current, accurate view of each late stage development and construction project's interconnection status, open items, and upcoming deadlines across the portfolio
• As projects approach FNTP, conduct a comprehensive review of all Network Upgrades (NUs), Affected Systems studies, and related interconnection scope to confirm cost, schedule, and design assumptions prior to construction commitment
• Monitor and communicate NRIS (Network Resource Interconnection Service) timing expectations and flag risks
• Track IA-required physical construction work (utility and transmission owner scope) from commencement through completion, maintaining up-to-date status on milestones, dependencies, and critical path impacts
• Serve as the primary interconnection coordination and execution-tracking resource for Project Delivery Leads, ensuring alignment with EPC schedules, energization plans, and commissioning activities
• Provide design information for pre-construction and project delivery to ensure design compliance with IA requirements and grid codes, including hybrid and co-located configuration constraints — combined-POI capacity limits, NRIS vs. ERIS positioning
• Deliverable Capacity
• Track required financial assurance postings and proactively manage the ICAP deferral process — or equivalent ISO/RTO mechanisms — to protect each project's deliverable capacity position when network upgrades are delayed
• Develop and maintain a clear process for evaluating deferral eligibility, filing timelines, and required documentation across relevant markets
• Cookordination with internal teams (development, commercial, PDLs) to ensure deferral strategies are executed on schedule and aligned with project milestones
• Material Modification Management
• Serve as project manager for all material modification request workstreams post-FNTP, ensuring requests are scoped, contracted and submitted on time
• Track study assumptions against evolving interconnection conditions and flag material changes for commercial or design review
• Cookordinate material modification filings with EPCs, OEMs, and third-party study consultants, and translate study results into schedule and cost impacts for project delivery and commercial teams
• Operations Phase Support & Asset Management Interface
• Support the Asset Management team as projects transition from COD into operations, ensuring interconnection compliance obligations are handed off clearly and tracked through the operating life of the asset
• Monitor ongoing ISO/RTO and utility obligations for operating assets, including periodic reporting requirements, NERC/FERC compliance items, and any post-COD IA amendment activity
• Cookperate with Asset Management in evaluating interconnection-related operational issues and any required restudy or amendment processes
• Cookordinate ISO/RTO registration, resource-type configuration, and dispatch/telemetry onboarding requirements with internal market operations and asset management teams to ensure interconnection-side market readiness ahead of COD
• Self-Build Evaluation & Commercial Collaboration
• Evaluate compliance considerations for self-build opportunities for applicable upgrades, coordinating with engineering and procurement teams to assess feasibility, cost, and schedule trade-offs relative to utility-constructed alternatives
• Risk Management & Tracking
• Maintain project-specific interconnection risk registers and dashboards, with particular focus on:
• Network upgrade construction delays and cost uncertainty
• NRIS timing risk and deliverable capacity exposure
• Material modification status
• Provide regular status reporting to PDLs, Asset Management, and leadership on interconnection execution and risk posture across the post-FNTP portfolio

Qualifications

• Bachelor's or Master's degree in Electrical Engineering, Power Systems, or related field
• 5–10+ years of experience in interconnection, transmission planning, grid integration, or asset operations
• Direct experience tracking IA/LGIA obligations, network upgrade execution, and construction-phase interconnection coordination
• Familiarity with operating asset interconnection compliance, including post-COD IA obligations and NERC/FERC requirements
• Familiarity with ISO/RTO processes, market rules, and deliverable capacity mechanisms
• Familiarity with BESS, standalone storage, and hybrid interconnection requirements — including protection, reactive capability, frequency response, telemetry/dispatch obligations, and combined-POI / NRIS-vs-ERIS configurations — strongly preferred
• Demonstrated ability to manage multiple concurrent workstreams and external study teams in a structured, process-oriented manner
• Familiarity with power system tools (PSSE, PSLF, PSCAD, etc.) is required
• Ability to translate technical outputs into cost and schedule impacts