AECOM is seeking a Project Manager - Large Load & Interconnection to support the rapid growth of data centers, AI infrastructure, advanced manufacturing, renewable energy, battery storage, and other large-load developments across North America.
This role combines client advisory, business development, technical due diligence, and hands-on project execution. The successful candidate will help clients navigate complex utility and transmission interconnection challenges — from early-stage site selection and power availability due diligence through utility engagement, interconnection studies, infrastructure planning, and project delivery — while building and leading a multidisciplinary team.
Working closely with developers, hyperscalers, utilities, independent power producers, and investors, this individual will serve as a trusted day-to-day technical leader throughout the project lifecycle. This is a role for someone who takes initiative without needing to be asked, is comfortable doing whatever the project actually needs — from a client pitch to a model run — reads clients and colleagues well enough to know when to lead and when to defer, and is motivated as much by building a strong team underneath them as by their own advancement.
What You'll Do
Client Engagement & Market Development
- Develop and maintain relationships with data center developers, hyperscalers, utilities, transmission owners, renewable developers, and large industrial customers.
- Identify and pursue opportunities related to grid interconnections, utility service strategy, transmission planning, and power infrastructure development.
- Own proposal development, scope definition, fee development, and client presentations.
- Represent AECOM at industry conferences, client workshops, and business development events, and bring back what's learned to sharpen the team's approach.
- Help grow AECOM's Power Interconnection practice through exceptional client service, successful project delivery, and a genuine hand in building out the team and its capabilities.
Project Management & Execution
- Manage multiple interconnection, due diligence, and power advisory projects simultaneously.
- Lead project planning, scheduling, budgeting, resource management, and client communications.
- Coordinate multidisciplinary project teams including transmission planners, electrical engineers, civil engineers, environmental specialists, and permitting professionals.
- Monitor project risks and develop mitigation strategies to maintain schedule and budget objectives.
- Deliver high-quality reports, presentations, and client recommendations, and stay close enough to the work to catch problems before the client does.
Technical Due Diligence & Siting Investigation
- Lead technical due diligence for data center and large-load site selection, evaluating power infrastructure availability, utility readiness, and transmission system accessibility.
- Direct siting investigations that weigh grid access, interconnection timelines, and infrastructure constraints alongside a site's broader technical and commercial viability.
- Advise clients on utility constraints, transmission availability, interconnection queues, network upgrades, reliability considerations, and development risks — early enough to shape a site decision, not just react to one.
- Guide clients through utility coordination, interconnection processes, and regulatory requirements across North American markets.
- Develop power strategies that align infrastructure development schedules with grid availability and project objectives.