Utility Capacity Manager - Mississauga, Canada - Tesla

Description

The Supercharger Utility Capacity Manager role entails active program coordination of deployment phases of Tesla's Supercharger projects requiring utility capacity upgrades and ongoing communication with utility partners of project pipelines, ensuring adequate future grid capacity. In this role you will work with utility partners and internal stakeholders to compress complex timelines associated with EV charging infrastructure deployment.

The ideal candidate brings high energy and an optimistic approach to completing projects in a swift and highest-quality manner. You have relevant experience working closely with utilities and ideally have worked at a utility previously. Experience working on distribution, transmission, and substation-level design projects is a plus. You will demonstrate a bias to action, logical problem solving, and mastery of project management. Excellent communication skills are paramount to this role, including proactive outreach and ongoing relationship-building with important external stakeholders.

• Proactively communicate with all major utility partners in-region regarding upcoming EV charging infrastructure projects, with specific emphasis and focus on projects that require increased grid capacity
• Ability to creatively problem solve and focus on consistently overcoming obstacles to find amenable alternative pathways toward accelerated project delivery
• Support all phases of design, entitlement, and construction of Supercharger sites where capacity upgrades are needed
• Actively manage the utility relationship for transmission and substation upgrades required to build Supercharger projects
• Facilitate field site visits for due diligence on construction, engineering, utility, and cost
• Reduce project timelines and eliminate process steps to increase build efficiencies in-region emphasizing key utility partnerships
• Serve as the liaison with utility company personnel to determine optimal routing of primary electrical service

• Ability to travel (50%) required
• Minimum 3 years' experience working in or with large electric utilities
• Must be based in the market you support, with experience and existing relationships with electric utility partners
• Working knowledge of power integration and utility design processes required; experience working on transmission and substation level projects is a plus
• Established record delivering multiple simultaneous projects ahead of schedule with an ability to identify critical path issues and institute remedies that shorten that critical path
• Commitment to proactive external communication with electric utility partners to establish improved working relationship and relieve data communication issues between parties
• Ability to operate autonomously, working independent of a support staff, without formal requirements documentation, in a fast-paced environment navigating changing priorities