Associate Director (Transmission)

About This Role

This role involves leading strategy engagements for utilities' transmission businesses, structuring problems, owning client leadership, and coordinating cross-functional teams. The Associate Director will drive the growth of E3's business through strategic project and thought leadership.

Responsibilities

• Lead the delivery of customer work through modeling, presentations, writing, and reports.
• Conduct independent research to produce appropriate solutions, even with incomplete information.
• Fulfill end-to-end project obligations.
• Deliver presentations to customers and respond to questions.
• Develop aptitude in using flagship modeling tools, gathering relevant data, and vetting results.
• Oversee the management of existing tools and implement major revisions to toolkits.
• Apply core QA/QC best practices.
• Lead proposal writing on various projects.
• Translate research and evaluations into clear visual representations.
• Head the creation or editing of client-ready spreadsheets, including developing customer solution tools.
• Proactively track and communicate own work performance against plans.
• Track and manage project team performance against established plans.
• Capture project learnings and repeatable products for future use.
• Stand up and run a Transmission Strategy PMO, establishing cadences, RACI's, decision rights, and executive steering committee.
• Map current operating models and recommend changes for resource plans, capability gaps, governance, and interfaces with stakeholders.
• Build KPI frameworks for transmission buildout and design dashboards and routines.
• Translate engineering and modeling into options, business cases, and executive-ready roadmaps.
• Lead stakeholder alignment across utility executives, ISO/RTO, regulators, communities, and delivery partners.
• 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)
• 7+ years of experience in an energy-related field with a specific focus on the electric power sector.
• 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).
• Extensive project management experience leading collaborative project efforts.
• 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.
• Demonstrated success guiding ideas, people, and projects.
• High fluency in Microsoft Excel and PowerPoint.

Qualifications

• Master's Degree or Ph.D. in engineering, economics, computer science, public policy or related field (or Bachelor's and equivalent work experience)
• 7+ years of experience in an energy-related field with a specific focus on the electric power sector.

Nice to Have

• Deep subject matter expertise specifically in energy, economics or finance, and climate change issues.
• Significant project management and leadership experience in a technical or analytical environment.
• Past experience working directly with utilities on electric transmission modeling platforms (e.g., PLEXOS, Gridview, PROMOD, PSSE, TARA).
• Extensive experience coordinating with customers on a regular basis.

Skills

* Required skills