About this role
Puget Sound Energy is looking to grow our community with top talented individuals like you! With our rapidly growing, award winning energy efficiency programs, our pathway to an exciting and innovative future is now. PSE's Transmission team is looking for qualified candidates to fill an open Manager Transmission Development position! Specific details regarding the work arrangements for this position will be discussed in further detail during the interview process.
Job Description
PSE is seeking a Manager, Transmission Development to lead PSE’s new transmission development team. The Cross Cascades transmission line will serve as a vital energy bridge for the Pacific Northwest, connecting communities with the renewable resources needed to power the future. By enhancing the grid’s capacity and reliability, the project will help keep clean energy flowing throughout the region, support economic growth, and ensure future generations have access to affordable, dependable, and sustainable electricity.
This position will lead a team focused on developing transmission to meet PSE’s customer’s growth and clean energy need. The team’s portfolio will include a new approximately 130-mile dual circuit, 500 kV transmission line that will route from Western to Eastern Washington, crossing the Cascade Mountain range. This critical project will play an important role in strengthening PSE’s transmission infrastructure and enable PSE’s ability to meet Washington’s Clean Energy Transformation Act (CETA) requirements. The ideal candidate will have experience with long linear transmission projects that span multiple jurisdictions.
This role is an opportunity for someone who is not afraid of a challenge and is inspired by work that leaves a lasting impact. The successful candidate will help shape a landmark infrastructure project that will support families, strengthen communities, and enable a cleaner energy future across the Pacific Northwest. Long after construction is complete, their contributions will stand as part of a legacy that benefits the region and future generations for decades to come. All PSE employees are expected to uphold the safety compliance standards inherent in PSE’s operating and/or field procedures related to work responsibilities and promote and support a culture of total safety. Additionally, employees need to demonstrate commitment to conduct business honestly, ethically and consistent with our core values and Code of Conduct. All duties are to be performed in accordance with all regulatory compliance obligations.
- Job Responsibilities Employee Safety, Development & Team Building - Provides employees with coaching, feedback, and developmental opportunities and builds effective teams: Demonstrates a passion for safety.
- Promotes and supports a culture of total safety including eliminating at-risk behaviors by conducting safety audits and inspections, eliminating hazards and near misses, and attending safety meetings.
- Sets clear expectations and holds employees accountable for performance as well as safety goals/targets where applicable.
- Oversees training and development of employees directly and indirectly managed and makes effective staffing decisions.
- Ensures required training is successfully completed.
- Challenges and inspires employees to achieve business results.
- Accountable to ensure employees adhere to legal and operational compliance requirements, as well as safety standards.
- Conducts and ensures the completion of performance reviews and development plans.
- Provides coaching, direction, and leadership support to team members in order to achieve employee, business, customer, and safety results.
- Directs a department responsible for identifying and evaluating transmission development opportunities and developing project business cases and commercial strategies.
- Oversees the end-to-end transmission development execution model, including stage-gate governance, risk tracking, milestone accountability, decision escalation, and executive visibility from concept through commercial close and transition to delivery.
- Establishes a cross-functional operating rhythm with transmission planning, engineering, operations, regulatory, legal, finance, customer, government affairs, and supply chain teams to align transmission development priorities, decision rights, risks, and resource needs.
- Establishes portfolio prioritization criteria for transmission development opportunities, balancing strategic value, execution risk, capital requirements, timing, ownership structure, reliability, affordability, customer value, and long-term system optionality.
- Develops and maintains a forward-looking regional transmission opportunity roadmap that aligns PSE load growth, generation access, reliability needs, clean energy requirements, and regional market developments with actionable transmission investment pathways.
- Oversees development of routing, siting, permitting, environmental review, and right-of-way acquisition activities necessary to advance transmission projects.
- Partners with External Affairs to identify and develop early stakeholder, Tribal, landowner, community, and jurisdictional engagement strategies to reduce permitting risk, improve project acceptance, and anticipate social, environmental, and land-use constraints before formal project execution.
Negotiates and oversees complex commercial agreements essential to PSE's transmission and corporate growth strategy, including high-voltage transmission, transmission capacity, construction, acquisitions and development, purchase and sale, joint ownership, joint development, O&M, real estate, interconnection, service agreements, and regional partnerships. Partners with transmission planning, generation development, resource planning, and commercial teams to evaluate interconnection queue dynamics, transmission service availability, deliverability constraints, and system congestion risks that affect project viability. Prepares and manages departmental and programmatic budgets to achieve corporate objectives. Oversees financial feasibility analyses, engineering plans, operational plans, environmental strategies, legal review, and real estate review in support of project development.
Minimum Qualifications
Bachelor’s degree in engineering, finance, economics, construction management, business administration, or other closely related field. Ten (10) years of increasingly responsible experience in the electric transmission industry with an emphasis on large transmission project development or other large infrastructure development. Experience leading complex infrastructure development through structured governance, executive decision-making, risk management, and stage-gate approval processes. Experience supporting or leading stakeholder engagement for complex infrastructure projects involving communities, landowners, agencies, Tribal governments, or local jurisdictions.
Strong knowledge of FERC, NERC, and compliance obligations and processes inclusive of Open Access Transmission Tariff concepts like interconnection and transmission service. Knowledge of Western transmission markets, regional planning processes, balancing authority coordination, transmission service frameworks, and emerging market structures. Strong organizational and analytical skills to effectively and efficiently manage complex projects and a wide array of potential business challenges. Excellent interpersonal skills to develop and maintain strong working relationships with contractual counterparties, regulators, and other industry participants.
Excellent verbal and written communication skills, including ability to contemporaneously document evaluation, due diligence and negotiation initiatives for later prudence purposes. Strong organizational skills to manage complex projects. Ability to understand complex financial pro formas and provide direction. Proficient with MS Office suite of word processing, presentation and spreadsheet applications. Valid driver’s license required. Desired Qualifications MBA, related post-graduate degree, and/or license as a Professional Engineer.
Proficient with presentation software applications and experienced presentation skills. Established network of local, regional, and West-wide electric system planning and operating professional contacts and subject matter experts. Familiarity with grid-enhancing technologies, advanced conductors, dynamic line ratings, storage-as-transmission, non-wires alternatives, or other emerging approaches that can expand system capability. Additional Information At PSE, we value our employees and provide them with opportunities to excel.
We offer a competitive and comprehensive total rewards package. To learn more about why PSE is a great place to work, see our Employee Value Proposition , which highlights our commitment to employee growth, work-life balance, and meaningful career opportunities in the energy sector. The pay range for this position is $106,600.00 - $253,200.00, and this position is eligible for annual goals based incentive bonuses. PSE offers a suite of benefits to our employees. Employees are eligible for medical, dental, vision, basic life, and short- and long-term disability insurance.
There are additional voluntary options of supplemental life insurance, accidental death and dismemberment insurance, flexible spending accounts for health care and dependent daycare, and an Employee assistance program (EAP). For long term savings, PSE offers a 401(k) investment option and a cash balance retirement plan. Employees will also receive Paid Time Off (PTO) and Paid Holidays throughout the calendar year. Detailed benefit overviews can be found on our Career page - Why Work For Us (pse.com) . Families and businesses depend on PSE to provide the energy they need to pursue their dreams.
Our steadfast commitment to serving Washington communities with safe, dependable and efficient energy started in 1873. Today we're building the Northwest's energy future through efforts like our award winning energy efficiency programs and our leadership in renewable energy. Puget Sound Energy is committed to providing equal employment opportunity to all qualified applicants. We do not discriminate on the basis of race, color, religion, sex, national origin, age, sexual orientation, gender identity, marital status, veteran status or presence of a disability that with or without reasonable accommodation does not prevent performance of the essential functions of the job, or any other category prohibited by local, state or federal law. Should you have a disability that requires assistance and/or reasonable accommodation with the job application process, please contact the Human Resources Staffing department at [email protected] or 425-462-3017.