Senior Director of Grid Operations
industrial_energy_operations › Energy Grid · M6 — M6 — Vice President · Management
Senior executive manager overseeing grid balancing, demand forecasting, and rate-setting functions across the utility.
Median pay · United States · annual
$241,631 USD
▲ +182.2% vs M1 on this ladder
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pay@2 · 2026-07
What this role is
Senior executive manager overseeing grid balancing, demand forecasting, and rate-setting functions across the utility. At the Vice President (M6) level, the role owns a major function or division, enterprise priorities and external factors, and drives division-wide / organization-wide. Leads the leadership of a division.
What this level does
- Oversee multiple grid operations and planning functions across divisions through senior managers, setting long-term strategy for how the fleet and network interconnect with the regional grid operator
- Define the long-term grid-integration strategy coordinating on-site/distributed generation resources with utility grid services and regional-operator (e.g. PJM) requirements
- Negotiate with executives and regional-market/regulatory bodies on critical grid-reliability, interconnection and procurement matters that have long-term effect on company success
- Resolve abstract, cross-functional problems spanning operations, engineering, markets and compliance to secure the grid's multi-year reliability and resiliency roadmap
- Shape policy influencing capital direction for grid infrastructure buildout, electrification and DER across the operating footprint
- Knowledge applied
- Defines long-term grid-integration and reliability strategy across divisions, shaping how the fleet/network interconnects with the regional grid operator.
- Complexity & problem solving
- Tackles abstract, cross-functional problems spanning operations, engineering, markets and compliance over multi-year horizons.
- Collaboration & interaction
- Negotiates with executives and regional-market/regulatory bodies on critical matters; influences policy and capital direction.
- Typical experience
- 12-15+ years, with 8+ in power-systems planning/interconnection and deep leadership across departments or divisions.
Skills at this level
- Regulatory and reliability-standard compliance
- — Manages operations against the compliance framework spanning regulatory, operations, engineering, EMS, SCADA and cyber-security requirements, ensuring NERC and grid-interconnection standards are met across control-room and planning teams.
- Real-time control-room desk operation
- — Directs the running of NOC desks — Balance & Interchange Operator, Scheduling and Dispatch — monitoring the grid in real time and coordinating hourly interchange transactions and reporting.
- Forward-looking grid planning
- — Leads utility forecasting, grid-infrastructure buildout, distributed energy resource integration, load flexibility/demand response, and vehicle/building electrification planning to sustain reliability and resiliency.
- Energy-market and grid-services optimization
- — Optimizes participation in energy markets, demand-response programs and grid services, evaluating power-procurement structures and fuel-supply resilience strategies alongside interconnection coordination.
- Grid-integration strategy
- — Owns coordination between on-site/distributed generation resources and utility grid services, designing integrated solutions and shaping how a fleet interconnects with a regional grid operator (e.g. PJM).
- Control Center systems oversight
- — Ensures high availability and reliability of critical applications and systems used within the Control Center, directing troubleshooting and maintenance through technical staff.
- Operations data analysis and reporting
- — Directs extraction and analysis of operations data — using Excel, VBA, MS Access, SQL and SSIS — to support leadership decisions, ad hoc requests and process improvement in grid operations.
- Emergency operations management
- — Manages and directs grid emergency operations, ensuring teams can forecast, escalate and respond under tight deadlines and contingency conditions while assuring reliability-standard compliance.
- Renewables forecasting and scheduling
- — Applies knowledge of wind and renewable generation challenges to forecasting and scheduling decisions, balancing variable resources against real-time reliability needs.
- Operations team leadership and budgeting
- — Builds, staffs and develops grid operations teams and manages their operating budgets, scaling from supervising individual contributors to directing through department managers across divisions.
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