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Associate Director (Transmission)

E3
San Francisco, Canada
Full Time
Posted December 5, 2025
$160k - $270k
Transmission & Distribution
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Job Description

Why You Should Join the E3 Team

Key Responsibilities

  • Lead the delivery of customer work through client interactions, guiding analytical work streams, delivering presentations, writing and owning customer requests
  • Design and implement a Transmission Strategy for clients: work with the client to define key success factors and organization governance including decision rights, an executive steering committee, scope, schedule, and execute across work streams
  • Guide the definition of a new internal strategy and processes for transmission and guide the business processes from current state to desired state: org structure, resource plan, capability gaps, governance, and interfaces with ISO/RTO, regulatory and community stakeholders
  • Build the KPI framework for transmission buildout (e.g., miles energized per year, permit lead times, ROW acquisition progress, deliverability milestones, cost and schedule variance); design dashboards and routines to use them
  • Lead stakeholders alignment across utility executives, ISO/RTO, regulators, communities, and delivery partners, design strategies to unblock tough issues and drive to decision
  • Conduct independent research using your ingenuity and curiosity to make reasonable assumptions and produce appropriate solutions, at times with incomplete information
  • Fulfill end-to-end project obligations
  • Deliver presentations to customers and reply to questions
  • Translate results of research and evaluations into clear visual representations
  • Track and manage actual performance of project teams against the established plan, with ongoing communication to project team members
  • Capture project learnings and repeatable products and work samples for future use according to knowledge management processes
  • Assist with internal initiatives as needed

Requirements

  • Master's Degree or Ph.D. in engineering, economics, computer science, public policy or related field (or Bachelor's and equivalent work experience)
  • Demonstrated hands-on experience or extensive knowledge in, or related to our practice areas
  • 7- 10+ years of experience in transmission, substation, or generation project delivery, engineering, or construction management
  • Significant experience/subject matter expertise in electric transmission development or planning (e.g. interconnection and deliverability concepts, corridor/ROW and permitting basics, capital planning, utility regulation)
  • Experience working with or advising on transmission and substation asset delivery models
  • Strong understanding of project controls (cost, schedule, risk, and change management)
  • Experience coordinating across engineering, procurement, construction, and regulatory functions
  • Demonstrated experience working with utilities, developers, or large infrastructure projects
  • Extensive project management experience leading collaborative project efforts while helping each member of your team do their finest work
  • Aptitude to write and communicate clearly
  • Experience crafting a clear and compelling message both in writing and via presentations
  • Demonstrated experience working directly with clients, stakeholders or customers
  • Passionate about the transition to a low-carbon economy
  • Demonstrated success guiding ideas, people, and projects
  • High fluency in Microsoft Excel and PowerPoint; quantitative modeling methods and/or programming knowledge and experience are also valued
  • Desire to work in a dynamic office environment with other staff

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