Resource Planning Project Manager

Southern Company • Atlanta, GA

3d • Hybrid

About The Position

Georgia Power (GPC) Resource Planning team is seeking a Resource Planning Project Manager to support the company's significant economic growth. This role will be central to strategic initiatives, integrating technical, financial, regulatory, and operational perspectives to guide decisions on resources, infrastructure, and programs for Georgia's future. The position offers a unique opportunity to be involved in the planning, evaluation, and implementation of generation and transmission investments necessary for growth while ensuring reliable and affordable service. The successful candidate will collaborate with subject matter experts, company leadership, and stakeholders across Georgia Power and Southern Company to influence decisions regarding the company's generation fleet, transmission expansion, customer programs, and long-term energy strategy. This role provides substantial opportunities for developing strategic business knowledge, expanding enterprise relationships, enhancing leadership skills, and gaining exposure to regulatory, operational, and executive decision-making processes.

Requirements

• Bachelors degree is required.
• A minimum of 5-7 years of experience preferred.
• Models Southern Company Values – Safety First, Intentional Inclusion, Act with Integrity, and Superior Performance.
• Demonstrated ability to independently lead complex projects from initiation through execution.
• Expected to independently manage scope, stakeholder alignment, risk mitigation, and issue resolution.
• Serves as the primary point of coordination and leadership for assigned projects.
• Strong leadership, negotiation, analytical, and strategic thinking skills.
• Excellent communication, teamwork, and interpersonal skills with the ability to influence outcomes and build consensus.
• Commitment to fostering an inclusive and collaborative work environment.
• Strong understanding of business processes, procedures, and requirements with attention to detail in order to minimize regulatory risk and financial exposure to the Company.

Nice To Haves

• Undergraduate degree in engineering, business, finance, or economics highly preferred.
• Advanced degree(s) desirable.
• Candidates with experience in the following areas are encouraged to apply. These represent the types of expertise that can contribute to success in the role, but not all are required:
• Generation planning and analysis
• Economic evaluations
• State regulatory process
• Negotiation and management of power purchase agreements
• Transmission analysis and policy
• Generation development
• Environmental
• Planning and operations of renewable generation
• Project management
• Application of PURPA and related state requirements as applicable to GPC
• Desired areas of knowledge include marginal cost concepts, economic dispatch, the Integrated Resource Planning process, generation and transmission planning processes, generation technologies and operation, transmission interconnection and service policies, energy related federal and state legislation and regulation, renewable technologies and interconnection, financial analysis, typical power purchase agreement terms and conditions.

Responsibilities

• Leading the development of the Integrated Resource Plan (IRP) - the company’s blueprint for meeting customers’ energy needs for the next 20 years.
• Leading the regulatory process for IRP filings, including preparing witnesses for hearings and ensuring timely consideration of information requests from the Public Service Commission.
• Supporting the Request for Proposals (RFP) process to add/extend/upgrade generation resources, like solar, hydro, battery energy storage, and new natural gas generation as well as leading the regulatory process for certification of such resources.
• Coordinating with Alabama Power and Mississippi Power and supporting system initiatives through System Planning.
• Coordination of the system expansion while partnering with Generation, Power Delivery, Large Load Growth and Business Development, Environmental Affairs, Regulatory Affairs, Legal, Planning & Regulatory Support, Accounting, Finance and Treasury, and many others.
• Working across multiple organizations in the evaluation of proposed energy policies, incorporating Company strategic initiatives and developing innovative programs and services for customers, all while ensuring reliable service.
• Serves as the Georgia Power lead for assigned initiatives, providing overall project leadership, stakeholder alignment, issue resolution, executive communication, and strategic coordination across multiple organizations.
• Ensuring successful execution of complex projects from concept through regulatory approval and implementation.
• Development and implementation of the Company's Integrated Resource Plan.
• Leads Georgia Power coordination and strategic alignment for generation capacity planning initiatives, including reserve margin studies, capacity needs assessments, load flexibility requirements, unit retirement evaluations, and generation fleet transition planning.
• Procurement of long-term purchased power from independent power producers.
• Electric utility planning-related legislative and regulatory policy initiatives, planning oversight of Georgia Power's wholesale assets, and other strategic resource planning projects.
• Opportunity to assign and delegate work to team analysts.
• Leads the planning, coordination, and execution of assigned regulatory filings, data request responses, and other project deliverables, including coordination of cross-functional stakeholders, development of executive presentations, research and spreadsheet-based analysis, management of project activities, and successful completion of regulatory and business obligations.

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).
• Partial relocation assistance may be available.

What This Job Offers

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