Grid United

Manager

• Manage and progress environmental compliance, permitting, pre-construction, and construction for multiple major infrastructure projects across the desert southwest
• Plan, manage, and monitor environmental aspects of multidisciplinary transmission projects, including permit applications, siting, layout planning, environmental studies, agency consultations, tribal meetings, and stakeholder engagement
• Support transmission line routing with expertise related to environmental sensitivities, policy, permitting requirements, and linear siting best practices
• Manage third-party technical and environmental consultants, including scoping, directing, and reviewing work products
• Support or oversee environmental due diligence for project identification and development plans, permitting strategy, and emerging policy
• Support schedule and budget development and track project performance
• Determine technical and environmental study needs, oversee studies and reports, and interpret and disseminate results
• Interpret, summarize, discuss, and implement environmental policies and regulations
• Coordinate environmental compliance documentation for federal and state agency permit decisions, including NEPA and state environmental policy compliance
• Prepare and manage construction and operations environmental compliance, management, and mitigation documentation
• Ensure compliance with environmental permits and mitigation measures during construction and execution
• Coordinate with construction teams and contractors to integrate environmental requirements into daily operations
• Facilitate or lead meetings with contractors, third parties, regulatory agencies, Native American Tribes, and Grid United staff

Environmental Manager

• Support development of greenfield transmission projects through power flow and related planning analyses
• Lead transmission planning studies including power flow, contingency, short circuit, and voltage/reactive analyses
• Screen potential points of interconnection and inform project feasibility and design
• Develop and maintain study cases and transmission system models
• Prepare, file, and manage interconnection and transmission service requests
• Own the portfolio interconnection tracker and report milestones, readiness requirements, payment forecasts, financial security postings, decision points, and queue timeline slippage
• Serve as technical point of contact with transmission owners, utilities, and ISO/RTO interconnection staff
• Lead scoping meetings and study review calls; negotiate study assumptions, results, and mitigation
• Review, diagnose, and independently validate ISO/RTO and utility interconnection study results
• Test and propose alternative transmission mitigations to reduce cost and schedule risk
• Evaluate network upgrade cost allocation, affected system impacts, and restudy risk
• Recommend queue strategy decisions to proceed, modify, suspend, or withdraw requests
• Support negotiation and execution of interconnection agreements, facilities study agreements, and related contracts
• Interpret and apply ISO/RTO tariffs, business practice manuals, planning criteria, and FERC interconnection requirements
• Track tariff and process reforms affecting the development portfolio
• Coordinate with HVDC Engineering specialists to develop and validate interconnection analysis models
• Structure, procure, and manage consultants performing interconnection and planning studies
• Review consultant deliverables for quality and accuracy
• Participate in RTO stakeholder meetings, planning working groups, and industry forums
• Represent Grid United's positions on interconnection and planning matters
• Provide technical input on routing, sizing, point of interconnection selection, cost estimates, and acquisition due diligence
• Mentor and review Transmission & Interconnection Engineers
• Establish study standards and documentation practices for the team

Environmental Manager

Transmission & Interconnection Manager – Senior