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Salary: USD 163,000 - 200,000 / annual
Antora Energy is seeking a Senior Project Manager to own the delivery of interconnection engineering, SCADA and telemetry systems, and grid infrastructure for thermal energy storage projects across multiple RTOs/ISOs (MISO, SPP, ERCOT, PJM). This is a hands-on role combining program management discipline with engineering fluency.
Key Responsibilities:
Interconnection Engineering & Infrastructure Delivery
- Manage engineering firms from concept through issued-for-construction design, covering substations, switchyards, point-of-interconnection configurations, protection and control, metering, grounding, and equipment specifications. Optimize configurations for reliability and cost.
- Ensure designs incorporate interconnection studies and GIA/LGIA/DIA obligations; resolve changes affecting design, cost, or schedule.
- Lead utility and transmission owner coordination on facilities and network upgrades, including scope, estimates, transmission-owner-built versus self-built options, engineering reviews, and milestones.
- Manage Owner's Engineer and EPC interfaces, define scope boundaries, coordinate long-lead equipment procurement and negotiations, and oversee construction with EPC and engineering teams. Deliver complete packages for construction and commissioning.
Consultant & Vendor Management
- Write statements of work and manage RFPs, technical and commercial bid evaluation, contracting, purchase orders, invoices, budgets, change management, and closeout.
- Define deliverables, dependencies, exclusions, and separately priced uncertain tasks. Assess relevant experience and gaps, enforce not-to-exceed estimates, and reject fixed-price or fixed-timeline commitments without documented precedent.
- Maintain reusable SOW templates, vendor qualification standards, and bid evaluation criteria.
Portfolio, Schedule & Cross-Functional Coordination
- Own integrated schedules, critical paths, dependencies, and milestones. Maintain one portfolio record of deliverables, technical assumptions, open issues, and RTO/transmission owner correspondence.
- Partner with interconnection/grid engineering, development, execution, product engineering, operations, commercial, legal, and finance teams to align delivery with project commitments. Communicate cost, schedule, and risk to leadership and nontechnical stakeholders; escalate critical-path exposure early.
The ideal candidate combines practical program management discipline, scope definition, cost and schedule control, and change management with enough engineering fluency to interrogate data point lists, architecture diagrams, and interface control documents and recognize what is missing.
Requirements:
- 6+ years managing capital energy or electric infrastructure projects (generation, storage, substations, or transmission) with direct accountability for vendor scope, budgets, schedules, and change management.
- Experience designing interconnection configurations, evaluating feasibility, selecting and procuring equipment, and coordinating interconnection/substation engineering with utilities and transmission owners.
- Ability to identify gaps in one-line diagrams, protection schemes, point lists, interface control documents, and architecture diagrams.
- Utility-scale generator experience with SCADA, telemetry, protection and control, or substation automation sufficient to scope work, evaluate bids, and challenge deliverables.
- Working knowledge of interconnection studies, GIA/LGIA obligations, and the scoping, costing, and construction of interconnection facilities and network upgrades.
- Strong technical writing and ability to independently manage concurrent projects across geographies and counterparties, navigate ambiguity, prioritize competing deadlines, and raise issues early.
- Bachelor's degree in Electrical Engineering, another engineering discipline, or equivalent practical experience.
Desired Qualifications:
- Exposure to ICCP, RTU integration, or RTO telemetry validation, and to resource integration or ICCP modeling teams.
- Experience with synchronous generator telemetry, settlement-quality metering, and co-located, hybrid, or surplus interconnection configurations.
- Utility, transmission owner, IPP, or developer-side delivery experience.
