Manager Transmission Development

About the role

Puget Sound Energy is seeking a Manager, Transmission Development to lead its new transmission development team. The team will focus on developing transmission to meet customer growth and clean energy needs, including a new roughly 130-mile dual-circuit 500 kV line running from Western to Eastern Washington across the Cascade Mountains. The role is hybrid (Washington-based) and specific work arrangements are discussed during the interview.

Key responsibilities

• Lead a team that identifies and evaluates transmission opportunities, develops project business cases and commercial strategies, and runs the end-to-end development process from concept through commercial close and transition to delivery.
• Set up stage-gate governance, risk tracking, milestone accountability and decision escalation, and establish a cross-functional rhythm with planning, engineering, operations, regulatory, legal, finance, customer, government affairs and supply chain teams.
• Define portfolio prioritization criteria and maintain a regional transmission opportunity roadmap aligned with load growth, generation access, reliability and clean energy needs.
• Oversee routing, siting, permitting, environmental review and right-of-way acquisition, and partner with External Affairs on stakeholder, Tribal, landowner and community engagement.
• Negotiate and oversee complex commercial agreements such as high-voltage transmission, capacity, construction, acquisitions, joint ownership, O&M, interconnection and service agreements.
• Prepare and manage departmental budgets and oversee financial feasibility, engineering, environmental, legal and real estate reviews.

Required profile

• Bachelor's degree in engineering, finance, economics, construction management, business administration or a closely related field.
• 10 years of increasingly responsible experience in the electric transmission industry, with an emphasis on large transmission or large infrastructure projects.
• Experience leading complex infrastructure through structured governance, executive decision-making, risk management and stage-gate approvals.
• Experience supporting or leading stakeholder engagement with communities, landowners, agencies, Tribal governments or local jurisdictions.
• Strong knowledge of FERC, NERC and compliance obligations, including Open Access Transmission Tariff concepts.
• Knowledge of Western transmission markets, regional planning, balancing authority coordination and transmission service frameworks.
• Valid driver's license required.

Required skills

• Ability to understand complex financial pro formas and give direction.
• Proficiency with the MS Office suite (word processing, presentations, spreadsheets).
• Excellent communication skills, including documenting evaluation, due diligence and negotiation work.

What we offer

• Pay range of $106,600 to $253,200, with eligibility for annual goal-based incentive bonuses.
• Medical, dental, vision, basic life and short- and long-term disability insurance, plus optional supplemental life and accidental death coverage, flexible spending accounts and an EAP.
• 401(k) and cash balance retirement plan, paid time off and paid holidays.