Utility Capacity Manager, Supercharger

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.

• ·       Ability to travel (25%) 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

  ·       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