Technical Program Manager, Power Infrastructure, Planning and Development

In this role, you will work across our EMEA portfolio to optimize and identify opportunities to enhance data centre access to power with innovative technical projects, partnerships and transactions. You will work in partnership with stakeholders across Google’s Energy and Power team (both commercial and market development), as well as in data centre acquisition and development, data centre engineering teams, and other teams within Technical Infrastructure, Finance, and Legal.

This is a dynamic role, working closely with a worldwide network of internal stakeholders as well as strategic external partners to support the growth of Google Data Center’s Clean Energy and Power infrastructure portfolio.

You should have a strong track record with power infrastructure planning and design, utility commercial and technical due diligence process management, grid connection processes, and grid operator relationship management. You should have a strong knowledge of a variety of power generation, transmission and substation technologies, grid code requirements and emerging trends (especially for large loads), domain-specific data and analytics tools, commercial infrastructure project development, and an understanding of commercial infrastructure negotiations.

Responsibilities

• Serve as a technical subject matter expert supporting data centre power infrastructure planning and development, including supporting teams negotiating grid connection access, behind the meter generation, VPPs and direct wire structures (among others), providing insights and due diligence.
• Support the development of business cases for new power generation resources (either on, near, or offsite) and other novel approaches of capacity delivery for new large loads by providing expert engineering input and due diligence.
• Shape the development of grid operators’ technical requirements in partnership with execution teams (e.g. grid codes and other technical codes), liaising closely with engineering teams
• Oversee power system/grid modelling exercises delivered by external partners to inform new site selection, power access, and carbon-free energy supply planning.
• Support the development of novel regulatory mechanisms that can unlock power for large loads

Minimum qualifications:

• Bachelor's degree in Engineering or equivalent practical experience.
• 5 years of experience in engineering technical project/program management.
• Experience planning and conducting due diligence on power generation or transmission infrastructure projects, and contributing to capacity reservation processes.

Preferred qualifications:

• Master's Degree in Engineering.
• Experience with power systems modelling
• Experience with planning, negotiating, developing and commissioning of large-scale electric transmission or substation infrastructure projects.
• Proven track-record in a cross-functional role at the interface of engineering, commercial and market development teams.
• Deep understanding of the European grids regulatory framework, cost structure and market dynamics.