at Orsted North America Inc. in Chicago, Illinois, United States
Job Description
Employer: Ørsted North America Inc.
Job Title: Transmission Manager
Salary Range: $123,000 to $140,000 per year + Benefits (https://us.orsted.com/careers/united-states)
Location: 401 North Michigan Avenue, Chicago, IL 60611
Duties:
- Drive the interconnection process and transmission evaluation for utility scale renewable energy projects such as Wind, Solar, and Storage within a specified regional transmission organization (RTO) or broader interconnection region.
- Assist Engineering and Construction teams with understanding interconnection requirements, costs, limitations, schedules, and fatal flaw analysis.
- Support mergers and acquisitions (M&A) and greenfield development of prospective projects and divestments, including congestion risk and transmission interconnections.
- Develop interconnection relationships and market awareness for Wind and Solar assets into commercial operations throughout life of asset.
- Provide expertise for one or more regions’ RTO and independent system operator (ISO) tariffs, guides, and working groups that cover both technical regulatory and power market regulatory issues.
- Submit and support generation interconnection queue requests representing the company’s portfolio.
- Support Engineering and Construction of projects through execution phase.
- Partner with Asset Management in ongoing operational activities of completed projects.
- Provide assistance to Origination in offtake negotiations and timelines related to interconnection.
- Provide ad hoc assessments of potential acquisitions and divestments.
- Requires up to 30% domestic travel.
