Mgr. Large Load Integration

Southern Company • Atlanta, GA

3h • Onsite

About The Position

The Manager, Large Load Integration is a strategic utility leadership role responsible for the end-to-end integration of large electrical loads into the Georgia Power system, including AI data centers, hyperscale customers, co-locators, and other large transmission-connected customers. This role is accountable for enterprise-level governance, technical requirement enforcement, operating readiness, risk management, customer-specific mitigation strategies, and executive-level decision support for a portfolio of large load customers. The position will be expected to assume responsibilities currently performed by the Vice President, Grid Transformation, including leading high-stakes technical negotiations, resolving cross-functional enterprise conflicts, and making recommendations that directly affect grid reliability, customer commitments, affordability, and Georgia Power’s ability to serve unprecedented growth. The role serves as the single point of accountability for large load operational readiness and the primary integration leader between customers, Transmission, Distribution, Planning, Compliance, Operations, Legal, Customer Choice, Strategic Growth, regulatory-facing teams, and external industry stakeholders. The position requires the judgment, influence, and organizational credibility to enforce technical requirements without routine VP escalation, including when requirements materially affect customer design, timeline, operating flexibility, or contractual obligations.

Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree in Engineering or a related technical field preferred. Equivalent utility leadership experience may be considered where it demonstrates strong technical judgment and the ability to lead complex grid-facing work.
• 8+ years of experience in the energy sector, utilities, infrastructure, or large scale project delivery.
• 3+ years of people leadership or team management experience.
• Demonstrated ability to lead cross-functional initiatives involving senior stakeholders and high-consequence operational, technical, regulatory, customer, or commercial decisions.
• Strong understanding of transmission and distribution systems, grid operations, interconnection requirements, reliability standards, and operational readiness, or equivalent utility leadership experience that demonstrates the ability to rapidly develop and apply this expertise.
• Executive presence and communication skills sufficient to represent Georgia Power with customer executives, senior internal leaders, peer utilities, and industry stakeholders.
• High judgment and comfort making decisions in ambiguous, fast-moving, and high-growth conditions where commercial opportunity and reliability protection must be balanced.
• Ability to enforce technical standards without compromise while maintaining constructive relationships with customers and internal partners.
• Strong systems thinking and enterprise perspective, with the ability to connect planning, operations, contracts, compliance, customer commitments, forecasting, transmission and distribution readiness, and leadership decision-making.
• Demonstrated ability to build consensus, manage conflict, drive decisions across organizational boundaries, and escalate only when issues require executive intervention.
• Strong written communication skills, including the ability to prepare executive updates, customer-facing explanations, technical summaries, readiness decisions, and governance justifications.
• Enforces technical standards and operating requirements without compromise, particularly when customer timelines or financial opportunity create pressure to move faster than system readiness allows.
• Coordinates seamlessly across organizations and resolves competing priorities in service of enterprise outcomes.
• Brings discipline, rigor, documentation, and process to an unprecedented portfolio of large load integrations.
• Enables economic growth while protecting reliability, affordability, and service quality for all customers.

Responsibilities

• Own the enterprise operating model for large load integration across Georgia Power, including governance, stage gates, readiness criteria, escalation paths, decision rights, accountabilities, documentation standards, and audit-ready workflows.
• Lead cross-functional governance to align technical, customer, operational, legal, commercial, regulatory, construction, planning, compliance, and operating needs into one execution path.
• Make strategic recommendations on whether projects should proceed to energization, continue under provisional conditions, pause for mitigation, or be escalated due to reliability or commercial risk.
• Resolve cross-functional conflicts when customer timing, system readiness, technical compliance, contractual commitments, affordability objectives, and operational needs are not aligned.
• Develop dashboards and reporting cadences for senior leadership visibility into pipeline status, customer readiness, technical compliance, open risks, escalation needs, and major decisions.
• Drive continuous improvement by identifying process gaps, inconsistent practices, documentation weaknesses, technical standard gaps, and customer communication needs without compromising reliability.
• Maintain accountability for compliance with Southern Company policies, Georgia Power Rules and Regulations, applicable Transmission Connected Large Load technical requirements, and current or emerging reliability expectations before energization, during load ramping, and through ongoing operations.
• Lead review and enforcement of customer performance requirements, including ride-through, ramp-rate limits, load volatility, oscillation exposure, customer communications, modeling data, monitoring, operational forecasting, and evolving technical requirements.
• Direct customers and internal teams toward mitigation plans when load behavior exceeds technical limits, which may include customer controls, grid upgrades, operating strategies, monitoring, testing, and operating limits.
• Hold customers accountable for showing readiness to operate within approved limits before energization or before moving beyond a provisional operating period.
• Identify, assess, escalate, and mitigate risks that could affect generation, transmission, protection schemes, balancing function, operating procedures, or system reliability.
• Coordinate with Compliance, Legal, Transmission Operations, Planning & Policy, and external industry stakeholders to ensure the integration process remains defensible, auditable, and aligned with standards.
• Apply technical requirements consistently, allowing sound engineering judgment for customer-specific operating protocols and mitigation plans.
• Serve as Georgia Power’s primary operational and technical integration leader for large load customers and external partners, engaging with senior leaders at large load customers, industry groups, peer utilities, regulators, reliability organizations, and other stakeholders.
• Lead customer discussions when technical requirements affect design, schedule, load ramp, operational flexibility, contractual commitments, cost sharing, contingency planning, provisional operating agreements, or operating protocols.
• Explain the purpose and rationale of technical requirements, evaluate mitigation options, and uphold reliability standards without routine VP intervention.
• Partner with Customers, Legal, Regulatory, Transmission, Strategic Growth, and other executive leadership to ensure integration decisions support customer commitments while protecting reliability, affordability, and existing customers.
• Evaluate and communicate the impact of technical non-compliance, delayed mitigation, late-stage design changes, uncertain end-use load behavior, load ramp uncertainty, customer timeline pressure, revenue opportunity, affordability, and system reliability.
• Reduce late surprises, rework, avoidable conflict, and unrecovered risk tied to large load energization.
• Build, lead, and develop a high-performing team of large load integration project managers, engineers, and technical specialists as business needs evolve.
• Set clear expectations, coach performance, prioritize work across a large and growing customer portfolio, reinforcing a culture aligned with Our Values.
• Create role clarity between project management, technical review, customer engagement, compliance, operational, and post-energization monitoring responsibilities.
• Develop bench strength and succession capability in a specialized and emerging area where the organization must quickly scale institutional knowledge and consistent execution.

Benefits

• Competitive base salary
• Annual incentive awards for eligible employees
• Health, welfare and retirement benefits designed to support physical, financial, and emotional/social well-being
• 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)

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Manager