<div>Antora Energy delivers affordable, reliable energy to industry, data centers, and the grid. Our thermal batteries turn low-cost electricity into always-on heat and power, without supply-constrained critical minerals or multi-year construction timelines.We are growing our company with people who put team and mission first, value connection through laughter and joy, and work with humility and openness. We are committed to building a diverse, passionate, and creative team dedicated to a future powered by abundant, clean, low-cost energy.</div>  Position Summary Antora is seeking a Manager, Interconnection Projects &amp; Grid Infrastructure Delivery to own the delivery of interconnection engineering and grid infrastructure for Antora’s thermal energy storage projects across multiple RTOs/ISOs. This is a hands-on role: the person in this seat will write/validate the statements of work, hold the budget, set the schedule, and hold consultants, Owner’s Engineers and EPC firms to deliverables that are technically defensible.The ideal candidate combines practical program management discipline, scope definition, cost and schedule control, change management with enough engineering fluency to interrogate a data point list, an architecture diagram or an interface control document and recognize what is missing. The role works across Antora’s portfolio in MISO, SPP, ERCOT and PJM, and partners closely with interconnection and grid engineering, project development, product engineering, legal and finance.  Roles &amp; Responsibilities<ul><li style="font-weight:400;"><h3>Interconnection Engineering &amp; Infrastructure Delivery</h3><ul><li>Manage engineering firms from concept through issued-for-construction design, covering substations, switchyards, POI configurations, protection and control, metering, grounding, and equipment specifications. Optimize configurations for reliability and cost.</li><li>Ensure designs incorporate interconnection studies and GIA/LGIA/DIA obligations; resolve changes affecting design, cost, or schedule.</li><li>Lead utility and transmission owner coordination on facilities and network upgrades, including scope, estimates, transmission-owner-built versus self-built options, engineering reviews, and milestones.</li><li>Manage Owner’s Engineer and EPC interfaces, define scope boundaries, coordinate long-lead equipment procurement and negotiations, and oversee construction with EPC and engineering teams. Deliver complete packages for construction and commissioning.</li></ul><h3>Consultant &amp; Vendor Management</h3><ul><li>Write SOWs and manage RFPs, technical and commercial bid evaluation, contracting, purchase orders, invoices, budgets, change management, and closeout.</li><li>Define deliverables, dependencies, exclusions, and separately priced uncertain tasks. Assess relevant experience and gaps, enforce not-to-exceed estimates, and reject fixed-price or fixed-timeline commitments without documented precedent.</li><li>Maintain reusable SOW templates, vendor qualification standards, and bid evaluation criteria.</li></ul><h3>Portfolio, Schedule &amp; Cross-Functional Coordination</h3><ul><li>Own integrated schedules, critical paths, dependencies, and milestones. Maintain one portfolio record of deliverables, technical assumptions, open issues, and RTO/TO correspondence.</li><li>Partner with interconnection/grid engineering, development, execution, product engineering, operations, commercial, legal, and finance teams to align delivery with project commitments. Communicate cost, schedule, and risk to leadership and nontechnical stakeholders; escalate critical-path exposure early.</li></ul></li></ul> Key Qualifications <ul><li>6+ years managing capital energy or electric infrastructure projects: generation, storage, substations, or transmission—with direct accountability for vendor scope, budgets, schedules, and change management.</li><li>Experience designing interconnection configurations, evaluating feasibility, selecting and procuring equipment, and coordinating interconnection/substation engineering with utilities and transmission owners.</li><li>Ability to identify gaps in one-line diagrams, protection schemes, point lists, interface control documents, and architecture diagrams.</li><li>Working knowledge of interconnection studies, GIA/LGIA obligations, and the scoping, costing, and construction of interconnection facilities and network upgrades.</li><li>Strong technical writing and ability to independently manage concurrent projects across geographies and counterparties, navigate ambiguity, prioritize competing deadlines, and raise issues early.</li><li>Bachelor’s degree in Electrical Engineering, another engineering discipline, or equivalent practical experience.</li></ul> Additional Qualifications Desired <ul><li>Exposure to ICCP, RTU integration, or RTO telemetry validation, and to resource integration or ICCP modeling teams.</li><li>Experience with synchronous generator telemetry, settlement-quality metering, and co-located, hybrid, or surplus interconnection configurations.</li><li>Utility, transmission owner, IPP, or developer-side delivery experience.</li></ul> Work Location:  Remote, USASalary Range:  $163,000 USD - $200,000 USDSalary Basis:  AnnualPlease note that the salary range listed above reflects Antora Energy's estimated pay for this position. The actual salary offered will be within the posted range and determined based on several factors including but not limited to a candidate's experiences, credentials and expertise, as they pertain to the position's requirements.In addition to a competitive base salary, Antora Energy’s Total Rewards program includes equity compensation in the form of stock options, a premium health benefits package with life and disability insurance, a 401K plan with employer contributions, flexible spending accounts, and an industry leading paid-time-off policy that features flexible and inclusive holiday observance, as well as paid volunteer time off.#LI-Onsite<div><img style="max-width:100%;"> <a href="https://diversityjobs.com/employer/top-diversity-employers?utm_campaign=TopEmployer&amp;utm_medium=badge"> <img src="https://diversityjobs.com/imglib/employer-images/employer-member.png" style="max-width:100%;"></a>  When it comes to stopping climate change, we need everyone. We believe that having a diversity of backgrounds and experiences strengthens all of us, and we strive to create an environment where every one of us is empowered to create meaningful change.  </div>

Antora Energy&nbsp;builds and deploys American-made thermal batteries to power always-on industrial operations with low-cost renewable energy.

Sr. Project Manager, Interconnection Projects & Grid Infrastructure Delivery

<div>Antora Energy delivers affordable, reliable energy to industry, data centers, and the grid. Our thermal batteries turn low-cost electricity into always-on heat and power, without supply-constrained critical minerals or multi-year construction timelines.We are growing our company with people who put team and mission first, value connection through laughter and joy, and work with humility and openness. We are committed to building a diverse, passionate, and creative team dedicated to a future powered by abundant, clean, low-cost energy.</div>  Position Summary Antora is seeking a Manager, Interconnection Projects &amp; Grid Infrastructure Delivery to own the delivery of interconnection engineering and grid infrastructure for Antora’s thermal energy storage projects across multiple RTOs/ISOs. This is a hands-on role: the person in this seat will write/validate the statements of work, hold the budget, set the schedule, and hold consultants, Owner’s Engineers and EPC firms to deliverables that are technically defensible.The ideal candidate combines practical program management discipline, scope definition, cost and schedule control, change management with enough engineering fluency to interrogate a data point list, an architecture diagram or an interface control document and recognize what is missing. The role works across Antora’s portfolio in MISO, SPP, ERCOT and PJM, and partners closely with interconnection and grid engineering, project development, product engineering, legal and finance.  Roles &amp; Responsibilities<ul><li><h3>Interconnection Engineering &amp; Infrastructure Delivery</h3><ul><li>Manage engineering firms from concept through issued-for-construction design, covering substations, switchyards, POI configurations, protection and control, metering, grounding, and equipment specifications. Optimize configurations for reliability and cost.</li><li>Ensure designs incorporate interconnection studies and GIA/LGIA/DIA obligations; resolve changes affecting design, cost, or schedule.</li><li>Lead utility and transmission owner coordination on facilities and network upgrades, including scope, estimates, transmission-owner-built versus self-built options, engineering reviews, and milestones.</li><li>Manage Owner’s Engineer and EPC interfaces, define scope boundaries, coordinate long-lead equipment procurement and negotiations, and oversee construction with EPC and engineering teams. Deliver complete packages for construction and commissioning.</li></ul><h3>Consultant &amp; Vendor Management</h3><ul><li>Write SOWs and manage RFPs, technical and commercial bid evaluation, contracting, purchase orders, invoices, budgets, change management, and closeout.</li><li>Define deliverables, dependencies, exclusions, and separately priced uncertain tasks. Assess relevant experience and gaps, enforce not-to-exceed estimates, and reject fixed-price or fixed-timeline commitments without documented precedent.</li><li>Maintain reusable SOW templates, vendor qualification standards, and bid evaluation criteria.</li></ul><h3>Portfolio, Schedule &amp; Cross-Functional Coordination</h3><ul><li>Own integrated schedules, critical paths, dependencies, and milestones. Maintain one portfolio record of deliverables, technical assumptions, open issues, and RTO/TO correspondence.</li><li>Partner with interconnection/grid engineering, development, execution, product engineering, operations, commercial, legal, and finance teams to align delivery with project commitments. Communicate cost, schedule, and risk to leadership and nontechnical stakeholders; escalate critical-path exposure early.</li></ul></li></ul> Key Qualifications <ul><li>6+ years managing capital energy or electric infrastructure projects: generation, storage, substations, or transmission—with direct accountability for vendor scope, budgets, schedules, and change management.</li><li>Experience designing interconnection configurations, evaluating feasibility, selecting and procuring equipment, and coordinating interconnection/substation engineering with utilities and transmission owners.</li><li>Ability to identify gaps in one-line diagrams, protection schemes, point lists, interface control documents, and architecture diagrams.</li><li>Working knowledge of interconnection studies, GIA/LGIA obligations, and the scoping, costing, and construction of interconnection facilities and network upgrades.</li><li>Strong technical writing and ability to independently manage concurrent projects across geographies and counterparties, navigate ambiguity, prioritize competing deadlines, and raise issues early.</li><li>Bachelor’s degree in Electrical Engineering, another engineering discipline, or equivalent practical experience.</li></ul> Additional Qualifications Desired <ul><li>Exposure to ICCP, RTU integration, or RTO telemetry validation, and to resource integration or ICCP modeling teams.</li><li>Experience with synchronous generator telemetry, settlement-quality metering, and co-located, hybrid, or surplus interconnection configurations.</li><li>Utility, transmission owner, IPP, or developer-side delivery experience.</li></ul> Work Location:  Remote, USASalary Range:  $163,000 USD - $200,000 USDSalary Basis:  AnnualPlease note that the salary range listed above reflects Antora Energy's estimated pay for this position. The actual salary offered will be within the posted range and determined based on several factors including but not limited to a candidate's experiences, credentials and expertise, as they pertain to the position's requirements.In addition to a competitive base salary, Antora Energy’s Total Rewards program includes equity compensation in the form of stock options, a premium health benefits package with life and disability insurance, a 401K plan with employer contributions, flexible spending accounts, and an industry leading paid-time-off policy that features flexible and inclusive holiday observance, as well as paid volunteer time off.#LI-Onsite<div> <a href="https://diversityjobs.com/employer/top-diversity-employers?utm_campaign=TopEmployer&amp;utm_medium=badge"> </a>  When it comes to stopping climate change, we need everyone. We believe that having a diversity of backgrounds and experiences strengthens all of us, and we strive to create an environment where every one of us is empowered to create meaningful change.  </div>

Sr. Project Manager, Interconnection Projects & Grid Infrastructure Delivery

About the Job

About the Company

Antora Energy

Similar Jobs

Manager, Project Development – Grid Solutions & Early-Stage Engineering

Manager, Project Development – Grid Solutions & Early-Stage Engineering

Sr. Director Project Development, Infrastructure

Sr. Director Project Development, Infrastructure

Senior Commissioning Manager, Portfolio Delivery (Remote)

Senior Commissioning Manager, Portfolio Delivery (Remote)

Sr. Project Engineer

Sr. Project Engineer

Project Executive

Project Executive

HV Preconstruction Project Manager (Remote)

HV Preconstruction Project Manager (Remote)

Lead Substation Engineer

Lead Substation Engineer

Staff Project Engineer - Grid Scale

Staff Project Engineer - Grid Scale

Senior Engineer, Power Systems

Senior Engineer, Power Systems

Senior Lead Substation Engineer - Transmission and Distribution

Senior Lead Substation Engineer - Transmission and Distribution