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Iron Mountain is seeking a commercially and operationally driven Grid Interconnection & Power Delivery Manager to join our Global Data Centers team.
In this role, your primary objective is to secure access to power for our expanding data center portfolio. As the commercial and process orchestrator for our grid connections, you will focus on negotiating grid access agreements with transmission or distribution system operators, translating utility contracts into clear businessimpacts, and driving the end-to-end timeline to ensure internal teams and project managers execute perfectly.
What You'll Do (Responsibilities)
- Determine the Pathway to Power for new sites: Know the system connection process for target markets, the responsible parties and the technical criteria for meeting new site needs. This includes a general understanding of system upgrade processes, power redundancy practices, system voltages and components necessary to deliver power.
- Commercial Negotiation & Translation: Lead the negotiation of grid connection agreements (ESAs) with local utilities. You will translate these complex utility contracts and grid constraints into clear operational and commercial realities for IMDC projects and our end customers. This includes validating the technical aspects of power design and delivery to the site, including upstream system resources.
- Process Orchestration: Own the master timeline for power delivery. You will coordinate "who does what and when," ensuring that local Project Managers for new and existing data center locations hit critical verification, submission, and operational milestones at exactly the right moment.
- Contract Lifecycle Management: Deeply understand the ongoing requirements of our grid access contracts. You will manage the lifetime of the contract, ensuring we meet utilization thresholds, mitigate commercial risk, and maintain compliance long after the initial agreement is signed.
- Cross-Functional & 3rd Party Leadership: Act as the central node between our external technical consultants, utilities, sales teams, and construction teams. You will ensure technical data is seamlessly handed off and applied to the commercial strategy.
- Risk & Timeline Alignment: Actively monitor utility requirements against reality. You will track critical thresholds (such as underutilization clauses or customer ramp-up timelines) to ensure our capacity commitments align with actual customer deployment.
What You'll Bring (Skills & Qualifications)
- Technical Understanding: Knowledge of electrical system components and voltages sufficient to ensure contracts deliver power aligned to the needs of our new facilities.
- Commercial & Operational Rigor: You are a meticulous process manager and a strongcommercial negotiator. You know how to hold cross-functional teams and external utilities accountable to strict timelines.
- Cross-Functional Teamwork: You are highly comfortable and effective at working across different teams. You build solid relationships naturally and can bridge the communication gaps between technical engineers, commercial sales teams, and external utility partners
- Industry & Utility Expertise: Demonstrable experience in energy procurement, utility relations, or infrastructure project management for energy-intensive consumers. You must have a track record of negotiating directly with utilities or system operators.
- Contractual Fluency: You must be able to read a complex grid connection contract and immediately understand what it means for the project's construction timeline and the customer's ramp-up schedule.
- Location: Must be based in the US.
- Education: Bachelor's degree in business, electrical engineering, project management, or an energy-related discipline.
What We Offer (Benefits)
- Competitive compensation and benefits aligned with the experience.
- Flexible work options to support work-life balance.
- Comprehensive health, wellness, and retirement plans.
- Opportunities for continuous learning and professional growth.
Ready to power the future of digital infrastructure? Apply today to join Iron Mountain and help build what's next.
Reasonably expected salary range: $123,500.00 - $164,700.00Please note that an employee's starting salary may vary based on a variety of factors. Where State, Municipal, Provincial, Territorial or other legal minimum wages exceed the federal minimum wage, employees are entitled to the higher rate.
Category: Real Estate & FacilitiesSkills Required
- Experience in energy procurement, utility relations, or infrastructure project management for energy-intensive consumers
- Track record of negotiating directly with utilities or system operators
- Knowledge of electrical system components and voltages sufficient to evaluate power delivery contracts
- Commercial negotiation and process management experience
- Ability to interpret complex grid connection contracts and assess construction and customer ramp-up impacts
- Bachelor's degree in business, electrical engineering, project management, or an energy-related discipline
- Must be based in the United States
- Cross-functional collaboration and third-party relationship management skills
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Healthcare Strength — Multiple national medical plan options are outlined, along with care navigation, virtual primary care, and pharmacy coverage. Additional wellbeing support is described via EAP services and structured wellbeing programming.
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What We Do
Iron Mountain Incorporated (NYSE: IRM) is the global leader for storage and information management services. Trusted by more than 220,000 organizations around the world, Iron Mountain boasts a real estate network of more than 80 million square feet across more than 1,350 facilities in 45 countries dedicated to protecting and preserving what matters most for its customers. Iron Mountain’s solutions portfolio includes records management, data management, document management, data centers, art storage and logistics, and secure shredding help organizations to lower storage costs, comply with regulations, recover from disaster, and better use their information. Founded in 1951, Iron Mountain stores and protects billions of information assets, including critical business documents, electronic information, medical data and cultural and historical artifacts.
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