Senior Manager - Interconnections

Sr Manager - Interconnections Location: Rochester, Binghamton, Lancaster or Brewster, NY Reports to: Sr Director - Integrated System Planning Work Type: Office, 5 Days

The salary range for this position is based on experience and location:

Rochester, Binghamton, or Lancaster: $140,000 to $176,000 plus up to 16% bonus Brewster: $155,000 to $194,000 plus up toR 16% bonus

What We Offer: Competitive benefits and growth opportunities Generous performance‑based bonuses 12% 401(k) match Comprehensive health, dental, and vision insurance Tuition reimbursement Professional development and clear career advancement pathways For more information please visit: Benefits - Avangrid

Position Overview: The Senior Manager - Interconnections provides strategic leadership and technical oversight for the interconnection of renewable energy projects and new customer loads to the electric grid. This role leads the interconnections team, which comprises internal staff and external contracting resources, and is accountable for study quality, technical recommendations for system upgrades, customer responsiveness, NYPSC regulatory compliance, and the timely progression of projects from initial feasibility through the start of project execution. The role also collaborates with and provides direction to internal stakeholders across multiple business areas, including System Operations, Projects, and Economic Development and Business Relations. The Senior Manager exercises independent judgment on complex interconnection matters, resolves escalated technical issues with internal and external stakeholders, and aligns recommendations with Company priorities and grid reliability requirements. In partnership with Business Relations leaders, the Senior Manager serves as a senior technical representative of the Company to customers and developers, participating in in-person meetings to help establish and strengthen customer relationships. The role also represents the Company in interactions with regulatory bodies, NYISO, Joint Utilities, and other external stakeholders to support an efficient and consistent interconnection process.

Key Responsibilities

• Project Management: Provide strategic oversight of the interconnection portfolio from initial feasibility through the commencement of project execution. Establish priorities, address schedule and resource conflicts, manage escalations, and ensure internal processes support customer commitments, regulatory requirements, proposed deadlines, and budget constraints.
• Technical Expertise: Serve as a senior technical authority for transmission and distribution interconnection studies, including power flow, voltage, thermal, short circuit, and stability analyses. Approve study scope and key assumptions, validate recommendations, exercise independent engineering judgment, and lead the resolution of complex or escalated technical issues to ensure the grid can reliably accommodate renewable resources and new load interconnections.
• Team Leadership: Set strategic direction, priorities, and performance expectations for the interconnections team. Establish accountability for technical quality, timely delivery, regulatory compliance, and consistent application of interconnection practices. Develop technical and leadership capabilities through mentorship, succession planning, and continuous improvement.
• Customer Collaboration: In partnership with Business Relations leaders, serve as a senior customer-facing technical representative of the Company. Lead responses to complex or escalated technical inquiries and clearly explain study assumptions, system capabilities, constraints, alternatives, cost responsibilities, and required infrastructure improvements. Participate in in-person customer and developer meetings alongside Business Relations leaders to provide technical support and help establish and strengthen customer relationships throughout the interconnection process.
• Regulatory Compliance: Ensure all interconnection activities comply with applicable federal, state, and local requirements, tariffs, and procedures, including those associated with FERC, NERC, NYISO, and the New York State Public Service Commission. Represent the Company in regulatory discussions and support responses to complex inquiries, audits, filings, and stakeholder matters.
• Internal & External Coordination: Lead cross-functional alignment with system operations, Business Relations, key accounts, substation engineering, transmission planning, distribution planning, project management, and Investment Planning to resolve complex interconnection issues and support successful project implementation. Coordinate Company participation in NYISO and Joint Utilities working groups, ensure compliance with applicable tariffs and procedures, and lead strategies to improve the efficiency and effectiveness of the interconnection process. Provide senior-level direction on cost allocation determinations and other matters requiring consistent Company positions.
• Process Improvement: Lead the development and implementation of consistent interconnection processes, governance, quality controls, and performance measures. Monitor study delivery, technical quality, customer responsiveness, and regulatory commitments, and drive improvements that streamline activities, improve data quality, reduce costs, and enhance customer satisfaction.

Required Qualifications

• BSEE /Degree in Electrical Engineering required. Candidates from other engineering disciplines may be considered depending on relevant work experience.
• 10+ years of industry-related experience with demonstrated technical leadership and the ability to lead complex, cross-functional interconnection matters.
• Practical Engineering Experience/Application: Planning, Operations and Engineering Design, Construction (e.g. field experience, standardization, developing the business case and defending in front of stakeholders)
• Knowledge of Regulatory and Compliance Environment: Local, State and Federal Regulatory Standards and Requirements (Tariff 119 and 19, NERC, NPCC, NYISO, etc.)
• Power System Studies - Knowledge & Interpretation of Study Assumptions and Results (e.g., Comprehensive Area Studies, Power Flow, DER, Voltage, Contingency, Stability, Power Factor Correction, Short Circuit, EMT, Reliability, Capacity, etc.)
• Excellent communication and presentation skills, including the ability to represent the Company in complex technical discussions with customers, developers, regulators, and external stakeholders; explain engineering constraints and alternatives to nontechnical audiences; and present and defend recommendations to senior leadership.

Preferred Qualifications

• Strong preference given to applicants with advanced degrees or certifications (e.g. MSEE, PE, etc.)
• Previous experience as a Principal Engineer or prior direct supervisory experience strongly preferred.
• Software Proficiency - Power System Analytics (e.g., CYME, PSSE, ASPEN, etc.)

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Avangrid employees may be assigned a system emergency role and in the event of a system emergency, may be required to work outside of their regular schedule/job duties. This is applicable to employees that will work in Connecticut, Maine, Massachusetts, and New York within Avangrid Network and Corporate functions. This does not include those that will work for Avangrid Power.

Avangrid employees may also be assigned a NERC Reliability Standards compliance role supporting Critical Infrastructure Protection (CIP) and/or Operations and Planning (O&P) responsibilities. This is applicable to employees that will work in electric transmission, operations, and cyber security business areas in Connecticut, Maine, Massachusetts, and New York within Avangrid Network and Corporate business areas. NERC Reliability Standards compliance roles and responsibilities may include additional access protections, training, audit engagement, and required evidence retention, and will be communicated by the employee’s management.

Job Posting End Date: December-31-2026