What You’ll be Doing (Responsibilities)Engineering Design & Standards ● Define technical requirements and design standards for substations, transformers, switchgear, protection, and metering. ● Collaborate with internal and external design teams on one-line diagrams, protection schemes, and redundancy strategies (N, N+1, 2N). ● Oversee fault and reliability studies supporting substation and grid design. ● Define electrical topology and one-line requirements for on-site generation integration, including paralleling, synchronization, islanding, and black-start concepts. ● Establish protection and controls philosophy for generation integration (relaying, coordination, fault duty, grounding, synchronization, load sharing). ● Guide equipment specification for generator sets, switchgear, transformers, e-houses, and balance-of-plant, accounting for long-lead risk. Load & Generator Interconnection ● Own the preparation, submission, and technical management of load and generator interconnection applications to utilities, ISOs/RTOs, and transmission owners across the portfolio. ● Lead interconnection studies (feasibility, system impact, facilities studies) for both load interconnection and on-site/behind-the-meter generation, tracking queue positions and study timelines. ● Serve as the primary technical point of contact with utility and ISO/RTO interconnection engineering teams, resolving technical issues raised during study review. ● Coordinate interconnection agreement technical exhibits (one-lines, protection requirements, metering, telemetry) in partnership with Legal and Energy Procurement. ● Track interconnection queue risk and grid upgrade requirements, escalating schedule or cost impacts to the VP of Power Infrastructure Design and affected project teams. Team Leadership ● Lead and develop a team of Staff Engineers supporting substation and grid engineering. ● Review technical designs and ensure quality and consistency across projects. ● Support career development and technical growth of engineering staff. Project Support ● Serve as the substation and grid engineering owner for data center projects from design through energization. ● Visit sites as needed to support commissioning, troubleshooting, and design clarifications. ● Identify and mitigate technical risks related to substation and grid design. Cross-Functional Collaboration ● Partner with Utility Development and AI Load Power Strategy teams to align substation design with utility and load requirements. ● Provide technical support to the Utility Development organization on interconnection processes, grid capacity assessments, and site diligence for new and existing markets. ● Provide technical support to the Power Procurement organization on interconnection timelines, technical risk, and grid constraints that affect power supply agreements and market strategy. ● Communicate technical design trade-offs to non-technical stakeholders.