Senior Interconnection Manager

🕒 August 21

🍂 Massachusetts – Remote

🍂 Massachusetts – Remote

💵 $150k - $175k / year

⏰ Full Time

🟠 Senior

👔 Manager

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Highland Electric Fleets

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51 - 200 employees

🚘 Automotive

📦 Logistics

🚗 Transport

Automotive • Logistics • Transport

Highland Electric Fleets is a leading provider of electric fleet services in North America. The company focuses on making the transition to electric vehicles easy, reliable, and affordable for school buses and other fleets. They offer a turnkey solution that includes planning, procuring, implementing, and optimizing electric fleets. Highland Electric Fleets is the owner/operator of the largest number of electric school buses under contract in the U. S. and is known for its commercial vehicle-to-grid program. The company has secured significant grants and incentives to support its customers in electrifying their fleets.

📋 Description

• Own the utility interconnection and new-service program across Highland's development portfolio, from early diligence through energized service • Lead utility diligence to confirm each site's buildability from a utility standpoint — available capacity, service voltage, required upgrades, timelines, and costs • Prepare and manage new utility service and interconnection applications, driving them through to approval on an aggressive, portfolio-wide schedule • Serve as Highland's primary point of contact with electric utilities, managing utility timelines, budgets, and escalations • Functionally lead and quality-check the external partners performing utility diligence and application work • Keep utility workstreams tracking in parallel with design and permitting so that utility milestones feed the design packages on time • Manage rate schedule and tariff selection • Contribute utility upgrade and service costs to project budgets and support a repeatable unit-cost installation model • Build and maintain a repository of utility requirements, processes, and contacts by territory • Develop relationships and standardized interconnection playbooks with key utilities • Clear utility roadblocks before they threaten project schedules • Report to the Vice President, Development & Construction • Travel approximately 20%

🎯 Requirements

• Bachelor's degree, or 8+ years of directly related professional experience • Substantial experience working with electric utilities — interconnection, new service requests, and service upgrades — on the developer, customer, or utility side • Program or portfolio management experience coordinating many concurrent projects and external partners • Demonstrated ability to move utility applications and approvals forward on aggressive timelines • Demonstrated experience negotiating phased or partial interconnection agreements with utilities • Experience with utility interconnection for distributed energy resources (BESS, solar) or large commercial/industrial electrical loads • Exposure to EV charging, edge compute/data center power, or renewable energy development • Familiarity with interconnection standards and utility processes (e.g., IEEE 1547, utility tariffs, and state interconnection rules) • Experience working alongside permitting authorities having jurisdiction (AHJs) and engineering consultants • Prior experience at or embedded with an electric utility; PMP or equivalent certification

🏖️ Benefits

• Competitive base salary and performance-based bonus program • A supportive, highly collaborative, team-oriented environment • Ability to work with bright, innovative, and forward-thinking colleagues • Health, Vision, and Dental coverage for employees & their dependents • Generous Paid Time Off • 401(k) program and company match