Manager, Engineering (Long Term Grid Planning)

Expected Salary Range: $124055 - $155069 Annually

Target Variable Performance Pay: 15%

The salary range shown above reflects the expected compensation for this position. The final salary offered will be determined based on a holistic assessment of the candidate’s experience, education, training, and alignment with the role’s requirements. For positions covered by a collective agreement, placement within the range will follow the applicable step or classification.

Reporting to the Director, Investment Planning, the Manager, Engineering (Long-Term Grid Planning) leads the development of evidence-based long-term plans for the distribution system. The role provides technical direction to planning staff and consultants and ensures that recommendations are grounded in sound power-system analysis, credible demand forecasts, practical planning criteria, and risk-based investment decisions.

The Manager identifies future capacity, reliability, resilience, and infrastructure needs arising from customer growth, electrification, distributed energy resources, large-load connections, asset renewal, and evolving regional and regulatory requirements. The role translates these needs into integrated system plans and sequenced capital investment recommendations.

The position contributes to the development of capital investment plans and serves as a key resource in regulatory and stakeholder engagement activities and serves as a key coordinator of the utility’s participation in Regional Planning activities.

This posting is for an existing vacancy.

KEY RESPONSIBILITIES:

• Lead the development, maintenance, and continuous improvement of long-term distribution system plans, capacity plans, and supporting investment roadmaps.
• Establish planning horizons, assumptions, scenarios, and study criteria in coordination with short- and medium-term planning teams.
• Lead long-term load forecasting and spatial demand analysis, including the effects of growth, electrification, electric vehicles, distributed energy resources, energy storage, and major customer connections.
• Direct power-system studies and capacity assessments to identify constraints, performance risks, and timing of system needs.
• Develop and compare technically viable planning alternatives, including non-wires solutions where appropriate, and recommend preferred options using engineering, risk, cost, operability, and constructability considerations.
• Integrate station, feeder, and area-system requirements into coordinated long-term plans that align customer growth, reliability, asset renewal, resilience, and corporate priorities.
• Translate planning studies into clear project need statements, scopes, timing, dependencies, and investment rationales for capital portfolio development.
• Provide planning direction for large-load and complex customer connections where long-term system impacts or major infrastructure are involved.
• Coordinate the utility’s technical participation in Regional Planning and maintain effective planning interfaces with the Independent Electricity System Operator, Hydro One, the City of Toronto, and other relevant stakeholders.
• Support regulatory applications, rate proceedings, business cases, and stakeholder engagements by providing defensible planning evidence, assumptions, and documentation.
• Establish planning performance measures, quality controls, documentation standards, and governance to improve consistency, transparency, and repeatability of planning decisions.
• Lead, coach, and develop a team of planning professionals and oversee consultant assignments, technical deliverables, schedules, and budgets.
• Manage departmental activities in accordance with applicable environmental, health and safety requirements, organizational policies, and collective agreements.

REQUIREMENTS:

• Undergraduate degree in Electrical Engineering or a closely related engineering discipline.
• Professional Engineer (P.Eng.) in the Province of Ontario.
• Seven (7) to ten (10) years of progressive professional engineering experience, with substantial direct experience in electric-utility system planning.
• Minimum three (3) years of hands-on experience in distribution system planning, including load forecasting, capacity assessment, power-system studies, needs identification, and development of planning alternatives.
• Four (4) or more years of progressive supervisory or people-leadership experience in an engineering or technical environment.
• Demonstrated experience leading complex planning studies and converting study findings into practical, prioritized, and defensible investment recommendations.
• Long-range forecasting and scenario planning: Ability to develop, challenge, and apply demand forecasts and planning scenarios under uncertainty, including growth, electrification, DER, storage, and large-load assumptions.
• Distribution planning and system studies: Strong knowledge of distribution-system planning principles and the application of power flow, voltage, thermal capacity, contingency, reliability, and other relevant studies to identify needs and evaluate solutions.
• Integrated needs assessment: Ability to connect station, feeder, area, asset, customer, operational, and regional considerations into a coherent view of future system requirements.
• Options analysis and investment timing: Ability to define alternatives, assess trade-offs, stage investments, and recommend when action is required while accounting for risk, uncertainty, dependencies, and flexibility.
• Planning criteria and technical governance: Ability to establish clear study assumptions, criteria, methods, documentation, and quality controls that support consistent and auditable planning outcomes.
• Capital planning and business-case development: Ability to translate technical needs into project definitions, cost and risk considerations, investment rationales, and portfolio priorities.
• Regional and regulatory planning: Strong understanding of Ontario electricity-sector planning interfaces and the relationship among utility planning, Regional Planning, regulatory evidence, and stakeholder commitments.
• Technical leadership: Ability to direct multidisciplinary studies, review and challenge technical work, make decisions with incomplete information, and clearly communicate planning recommendations to technical and executive audiences.
• Stakeholder integration: Ability to work effectively across engineering, operations, asset management, finance, regulatory, customer, municipal, and external planning organizations.
• Planning tools and data: Proficiency with utility planning data and power-system analysis tools; working familiarity with GIS, asset information, customer/load data, and methods used to support spatial forecasting and capacity planning.
• Planning for grid modernization, electrification, distributed energy resources, energy storage, climate resilience, or other emerging utility needs.
• Planning complex station or area-system investments and coordinating dependencies across multiple capital programs.
• Supporting regulatory filings, Regional Planning activities, or major customer connection assessments.
• Leading consultants or cross-functional teams through technically complex studies with competing objectives and uncertain inputs.
• Communicates complex technical findings clearly, concisely, and credibly in written reports, presentations, and decision materials.
• Uses sound engineering judgment, remains effective under pressure, and makes transparent decisions in complex or uncertain conditions.
• Builds a high-performing planning team through clear accountabilities, coaching, technical development, and constructive review.
• Demonstrates ownership of planning outcomes and delivers work within established scope, schedule, and budget expectations.
• Travel between work centres, as required.

TOTAL REWARDS:

To support the overall well-being and success of our employees, Toronto Hydro provides a comprehensive total rewards package which includes:

• 100% employer paid Health & Dental benefits
• 24/7 access to Employee & Family Assistance Program and Virtual Healthcare
• Company-paid life insurance and long term disability
• Spending account to support fitness goals (e.g. gym memberships)
• Competitive paid time off (including vacation and parental leave)
• Defined Benefits Pension Plan through OMERS
• Career development and tuition reimbursement
• Exciting employee engagement and appreciation events throughout the year

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These positions are based in a hybrid environment allowing for remote work two days per week, based on business needs. Employees will be required to come onsite Tuesday to Thursday. You are expected to live in Ontario and within reasonable commuting distance of the office.

Toronto Hydro is committed to leveraging new technologies to support an efficient and inclusive recruitment process. As part of this, artificial intelligence (AI) systems may be used to assist in screening, assessing, or selecting applicants for this position. These tools are used in combination with human decision-making to ensure fairness and consistency.

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