Mgr, Interconnections Planning & Policy

JOB TITLE

Manager, Interconnections Planning & Policy

LOCATION

Atlanta, GA

POSITION SUMMARY

At Georgia Power, we are making historic investments to support unprecedented load growth while maintaining a clean, safe, reliable, and affordable electric system. The Manager, Interconnections Planning & Policy is a strategic leadership role responsible for the end‑to‑end integration of generation onto the Georgia Power system, including distribution- and transmission-connected generation resources across all technology types such as gas, renewables, battery storage, and others. The scale, complexity, and speed of integrating these generation assets continues to increase to support Georgia’s clean, safe, reliable, and affordable growth. For the Transmission team, direct responsibility for origination and partnerships with other Transmission teams for the direct interconnection and upstream delivery projects. This includes capital budget approvals for initial scoping and COD, final design, support through construction, and true-up accounting at closeout.

This position leads other people-leaders and several highly-technical, industry subject matter experts. This role is responsible for leading the strategy and development of solutions that proactively enable the safe, reliable, affordable, and timely interconnection of generation assets to the grid. Additionally, this position will ensure compliance with federal and state regulatory policies including engagement with Public Service Commissioners and Public Service Commission Staff as well as other stakeholders such as generation developers. To be most effective, this manager will coordinate across a wide range of Southern Company’s enterprise functions including but not limited to Transmission, Distribution, Generation, Renewables, Resource Planning, Policy & Services, Compliance, Operations, Legal, and Customer organizations. The role serves as a single point of accountability for Georgia Power’s interconnection policies, processes, and execution to ensure Georgia continues to reliably grow capacity resources to meet increasing customer growth.

QUALIFICATIONS

- Bachelor’s degree in Engineering, Business, or a related field.
- 10+ years of experience in the energy sector, utilities, infrastructure, or large‑scale project delivery.
- 3+ years of people leadership or team management experience.
- 2+ years as a leader-of-leaders is a plus.
- Demonstrated experience coordinating complex, enterprise & cross-functional initiatives with significant safety and reliability implications.
- Strong understanding of transmission and distribution systems, grid operations, and generation interconnection processes and requirements.
- Experience with regulatory policies in the energy industry is preferred.

SKILLS, ABILITIES & LEADERSHIP ATTRIBUTES

- Strong focus on safety with preferred field experience in transmission and distribution, control/communication schemes, legal/contracts, knowledge of DER capabilities, and regulatory policy.
- Creativity and strategy development, ability to lead evolving requirements, building a strong learning culture that is not afraid to make mistakes and learn quickly, and comfortable in working in a fast-changing environment.
- Proven ability to lead teams, develop strategy, and execute in a highly regulated, safety‑critical environment to balance customer growth with grid reliability and compliance.
- Excellent written and verbal communication skills, capable of engaging executives, technical teams, and external stakeholders.
- Ability to build consensus, manage conflict, and drive decisions across organizational boundaries.
- High judgment, accountability, and comfort operating with ambiguity during rapid growth.

LEADERSHIP EXPECTATIONS

This role is expected to consistently demonstrate Southern Company leadership behaviors, including:

- Safety & Integrity – Enforces technical standards without compromise.
- One Team – Coordinates seamlessly across organizations to deliver outcomes.
- Operational Excellence – Brings discipline and rigor to large load execution.
- Customer & Community Focus – Enables growth while protecting reliability and affordability.