Interconnection Project Manager DG
New Leaf EnergyChicago, Illinois
Full Time
Posted December 11, 2025
$113k - $131k
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Job Description
The Interconnection Project Manager DG at New Leaf Energy is responsible for managing utility interconnection processes, coordinating stakeholder communications, and ensuring smooth project development for renewable energy sites, with a focus on technical, financial, and strategic aspects of utility interconnections.
Key Responsibilities
- Coordinate interconnection efforts between Engineering, Project Finance, Accounting, and Operations.
- Lead utility communications, interactions, and conflict resolution.
- Manage the full interconnection lifecycle, including application submittals, reviews, and approvals.
- Interpret utility requirements, feedback, and tariffs; communicate risks to development teams.
- Monitor utility performance, identify risks, escalate issues, and negotiate outcomes.
- Serve as the utility interconnection subject matter expert and internal consultant.
- Handle project-level disputes and negotiate positive resolutions with utilities.
- Create and maintain project management tools, trackers, and reports for interconnection processes.
- Coordinate signatures, approvals, payments, and documentation for interconnection activities.
- Forecast cash flow, manage payment processes, and understand utility payment policies.
Requirements
- Four years of relevant experience with preference given to those with energy and direct electric utility experience.
- Bachelor's degree required.
- Strong project management, reporting, and technical skills, preferably in Salesforce and Smartsheet.
- Experience with Microsoft Project.
- Ability to interpret utility feedback and understand implications on development, engineering, and construction efforts.
- Ability to build and maintain relationships with key stakeholders in the markets.
- Exceptional organizational and project management skills, with the ability to coordinate interconnection-related efforts between Engineering, Project Finance, Accounting, and Operations.
- Ability to represent the company as the primary point of contact for all utility communications and lead utility interactions and meetings, including conflict resolutions.
- Experience leading interconnection due diligence and research for new market entry process implementation, dynamic entrepreneurial problem solving, and relationship building.
- Experience creating and maintaining utility region-specific project management infrastructure, trackers, reports, and other project management tools.
- Ownership of the full interconnection lifecycle, including interpreting and organizing utility requirements and feedback, and communicating risks to cross-functional teams.
- Proactive monitoring of utility performance to identify risks to the critical path, autonomously escalating issues, and negotiating positive outcomes.
- Serving as the interconnection process subject matter expert on utility behavior and tariff guidelines, and acting as an internal consultant for strategic decision-making.
- Handling project-level disputes and successfully negotiating positive outcomes with utilities.
- Owning the interconnection application submittal packages, coordinating with internal teams and external consultants.
- Managing cash flow forecasting, payment amounts, target due dates, and required payment forms, requiring a strong understanding of financial accounting, cost-benefit analysis, and utility payment policies.
- Evaluating, onboarding, and managing third-party consultants.
- Developing and maintaining records as each project navigates the interconnection process lifecycle, including coordinating signatures, approvals, payments for applications, impact studies, and interconnection agreements.
- Comfort with ambiguity and a willingness to build, experiment, and iterate when the path forward is undefined.
- Excitement about growing along with a fast-paced, dynamic company.
- Ability to work in a hybrid environment, working in the office at least two out of every Tuesday, Wednesday, and Thursday, and from home or office on other days.
Benefits & Perks
Market-competitive base salary
Above-market variable compensation
Equity-like ownership program
Comprehensive medical, dental, and vision benefits
401k plan with immediate vesting and company match
Open and self-managed paid time-off policy
Hybrid work location policy supporting remote work
Parental leave policy for birthing and non-birthing parents
Professional development and education assistance
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