ROLE OVERVIEW This role will manage the utility interconnection application and incentive process for solar and battery storage projects across the nation. As the primary point of contact with utilities, this position will streamline utility communications and internal reporting, ensuring projects move forward expeditiously. Pivot Energy is in an exciting growth period and is looking to expand its C&I pipeline by developing an interconnection and incentive process that is scalable for the diverse markets in which we operate. This is a position with tremendous growth potential that involves working across multiple teams. The individual hired for this role must be organized, collaborative, and goal-oriented. PRIMARY RESPONSIBILITIES Create scalable process – Create a process for regular communication with utility partners, as well as timeline and status reporting to the Pivot internal team members. Suggest process improvement, such as better software utilization. Interconnection Applications and Incentives * Submits interconnection applications and tracks routine milestones under supervision, escalating discrepancies and timeline issues to senior staff as needed. * Accurately enters and maintains data using tools like Excel and Smartsheet, initially with guidance and increasingly with autonomy. * Follows established auditing procedures and participates in basic quality control reviews. Independently manages application records and milestone statuses across multiple projects or markets. * Ensures portfolio dashboards and tracking sheets are current and accurate. Verifies payment transactions and milestone statuses with finance and project teams. * Escalates issues when timelines appear at risk or when information is missing. Updates trackers (e.g., Smartsheet, Excel, Salesforce) with milestone completions and payment status. * Collaborates with development, engineering, and finance to maintain real-time visibility into progress and risks. * Communicates proactively with internal stakeholders to ensure alignment with project timelines. * Ensures payment amounts and application formats align with utility instructions. * Communicates directly with utility contacts to clarify procedural updates.  * Prepares draft summaries or entries for internal documents under supervision. * Leads regular email or verbal updates on portfolio status, risks, and key decisions.  * Adapts communication approach to support the preferences and needs of different stakeholders to support reaching decisions * Takes ownership of assigned tasks and offers support to colleagues to meet team goals * Builds and maintains collaborative relationships across the team and organization * Tests ideas; experiments, prototypes, or pilots to validate assumptions and identify potential flaws * Iterates on and improves solutions over time * Demonstrates proficiency in data privacy and security practices, including an understanding of the importance of data privacy and security. * Possesses proficiency in tools commonly used for data tasks, such as Microsoft Excel, Google Sheets, or other entry-level data visualization tools necessary for the position. * ability to break down complex problems into manageable components, understands the relationships between different elements, and identifies patterns or trends * resourcefulness in seeking out information, tools, or support that can help address challenges effectively, and develops or documents information necessary to reduce future issues * Offers constructive feedback that encourages alignment with organizational values * Database of Interconnection and Incentive Requirements * Apply utility and incentive requirements, including document and timeline requirements for specific utilities and incentive programs. * Maintain database of utility tariffs, interconnection manuals, net metering requirements, utility service manuals, filing resources, capacity/line resources, utility points of contact, program approval timelines, and general interconnection application/study fees * Learn – Maintain professional and technical knowledge by attending educational workshops, reviewing professional publications, and participating in professional societies   REQUIRED COMPETENCIES Excellent organizational, communication, and interpersonal skills, including Document Control. Experience working on teams and independently Passion to learn new things through self-study and structured settings Demonstrated abilities to coordinate across internal and external teams PREFERRED COMPETENCIES Industry Experience: Minimum of 2 years' experience in electrical infrastructure engineering, with a focus on utility coordination and load interconnection. Technical Expertise: Strong understanding of electrical investor-owned utilities and grid interconnection processes. Utility Coordination Skills: Proven experience navigating utility processes to secure interconnection points. Knowledge of interconnection application, net metering, and incentive processes. Experience interacting with variety of utilities across the country Recruitment Agency Notice: We appreciate your interest in partnering with us; however, we are not seeking recruitment agency support for this role. ABOUT PIVOT Pivot Energy is a national renewable energy provider that develops, finances, builds, owns, and manages solar and energy storage projects that help decarbonize our nation’s electricity, increase equitable access to clean energy for local communities, and provide real cost-savings to American businesses and families.   We are fiercely dedicated to accelerating the rapid transition taking place in the energy industry to a more decentralized and cleaner approach to power generation. We are committed to positively contributing to the local communities and people we serve with more than clean energy. We believe global warming poses an existential threat to our planet and that we have a responsibility to help mitigate the threat. Our portfolio includes projects that reduce energy burden for income-limited families, create workforce pathways for under-represented groups within the solar industry, and include robust community investment opportunities.   As a Certified B Corporation and one of Denver’s “Best Places to Work”, we believe that company success is driven by a healthy environment, thriving society, and workplace where all individuals are respected. We evaluate every internal decision on environmental, social, and governance (ESG) factors to determine if our actions will result in a net positive impact on the community, our employees, customers, shareholders, and the environment. Learn more in our annual ESG Report.   At Pivot, our core values guide our work internally and externally: ·       Impact – We hold ourselves accountable to having a measurable impact on our people, communities, and the planet ·       Balance – Put family first; work hard/have fun ·       Determination – Find ways to be successful no matter how difficult the challenge ·       Professionalism – Impress everyone we touch, be a team player ·       Honesty – Be truthful and transparent, externally and internally ·       Kindness – Create an environment where kindness, empathy, and vulnerability are embraced   DIVERSITY, EQUITY, INCLUSION and JUSTICE STATEMENT   At Pivot, we are proactively developing and maintaining an inclusive culture, rooted in mutual respect, that supports a workforce of different generations, races, gender identities, sexual orientations, ability statuses, religions, and cultures to work collaboratively together for greater impact. We seek to build a team that invests in relationship building, celebrates each other’s successes, and makes space for the unique contributions and working styles people bring into Pivot.  Pivot invests in company-wide trainings, assessments, and programs to advance internal inclusion and equity practices, such as employee allyship building, cross-cultural communications, and equitable hiring and management protocols to increasingly recognize bias and ensure mutual respect and belonging.   EEO STATEMENT Pivot Energy is an Equal Opportunity Employer and is committed to increasing the diversity of its workforce. We actively work to cultivate an inclusive culture that welcomes, empowers, and enables equitable career growth for employees regardless of background.