DER Project Management Analyst (I-Sr)
About The Position
Georgia Power is committed to delivering clean, safe, reliable, and affordable energy to customers across the state. As customer adoption of behind-the-meter (BTM) solar and energy storage continues to grow, ensuring timely, accurate, and compliant witness testing has become increasingly critical to meeting customer expectations and maintaining system reliability. Witness testing is on-site inspection conducted by the utility to verify that a distributed energy resource (DER) safely and correctly interacts with the electrical grid before granting permission to operate. The BTM Witness Testing Coordinator will play a pivotal role in supporting Georgia Power’s DER efforts, ensuring safe interconnection of customer-owned solar and solar plus storage systems. This position will oversee the end-to-end coordination of BTM witness testing activities for power delivery, including scheduling, contractor coordination, workflow execution, data analysis, and communications with customers, installers, and internal stakeholders. This role is essential to ensuring Georgia Power can meet rising demand, address new testing complexities introduced by BTM solutions, and maintain high standards for accuracy and compliance.
Requirements
- Bachelor’s degree required (engineering, business, technology, management systems, operations, or related field)
- Strong organizational and analytical skills to manage complex scheduling, resource coordination, and procedural compliance
- Ability to deliver data-driven decisions and summarize efforts through key performance metrics
- Ability to generate field data-based reports with actionable insights to address gaps
- Excellent listening, written and verbal communication skills and strong capabilities to interface with and solve problems for internal and external stakeholders and customers
- Ability and willingness to prioritize safety in operations for themselves and contractors
Nice To Haves
- Experience in project management, distributed generation, power delivery, or data management preferred
- Ability to interpret technical procedures and testing results to ensure accurate reporting and to support decision-making preferred
Responsibilities
- Coordinate and schedule a high volume of BTM witness testing
- Coordinate and oversee a team of contractors who will perform witness testing across the state
- Oversee the allocation and utilization of resources to meet customer timelines
- Maintain clear communication with internal and external stakeholders, including customers, solar installers, and contractors
- Support workflow enhancements and operational efficiencies, leverage data and automation to enhance efforts and insights
- Onboard and train new contractors as the need arises
Benefits
- Southern Company invests in the well-being of its employees and their families through a comprehensive total rewards strategy that includes competitive base salary, annual incentive awards for eligible employees and health, welfare and retirement benefits designed to support physical, financial, and emotional/social well-being.
- This position may also be eligible for additional compensation, such as an incentive program, with the amount of any bonus/awards subject to the terms and conditions of the applicable incentive plan(s).
- A summary of the benefits offered for this position can be found here https://seo.nlx.org/southernco/pdf/SOCO-Benefits.pdf
- Additional and specific details about total compensation and benefits will also be provided during the hiring process.
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What This Job Offers
Job Type
Full-time
Career Level
Entry Level
