Permit & Interconnection Coordinator

Reports to: Manager, VPP Project Delivery
Location: Onsite in Littleton, CO

 

About Emporia Energy

Emporia is a leading technology company revolutionizing home energy by providing affordable, integrated solutions that empower homeowners to optimize energy usage to reduce costs and carbon footprint. Emporia’s Home Energy Management Platform is a powerful software system that connects their Vue Home Energy Monitor, Level 2 EV Charger, Smart Plugs, Home Battery, and third-party thermostats and appliances. By automating energy use through real-time monitoring and scheduling, the platform optimizes consumption, reduces costs, and simplifies home energy management—all within one intuitive app.  With over 400,000 U.S. homes running Emporia’s energy management and EV charging hardware, we are now launching a national Third-Party Owned (TPO) home battery Virtual Power Plant — placing industrial-rated home batteries in residential homes to deliver power redundancy, utility cost savings, and grid peak demand services. By reducing energy waste and saving customers money, we’re helping create a healthier planet and a brighter future. For more information, visit emporiaenergy.com. 

Mission, Vision and Values

Emporia was founded in 2018 with a clear purpose to revolutionize home energy, generate tangible customer savings, and accelerate the transition to a lower carbon future. We are striving to become the world's leading home energy management platform and build the largest virtual power plant.

• Customers First: We deliver exceptional service with empathy and responsiveness, building lasting trust in every interaction.
• Own the Outcome: We think like owners, taking responsibility for results and holding ourselves and each other accountable.
• Win Together: We succeed together through honesty, humility and humanity.
• Grit Gets it Done: We work hard, stay passionate, and persevere through challenges.
• Better Every Day: We challenge the status quo, take smart risks and aim to improve 1% every day.

 

Role Overview

Emporia's TPO battery program is running simultaneously across multiple states with permitting, utility interconnection, VPP enrollment, and regulatory compliance all moving at once. The Manager overseeing this needs a right hand: someone who can own the administrative and coordination backbone of the program so nothing slips between AHJ calls, utility follow-ups, tracker updates, and status reporting.

This is a coordinator-level role built to grow. You'll start by taking ownership of the trackers, registers, and follow-up cadences that keep the program honest, then expand into owning discrete workstreams (a state, a vendor relationship, a compliance thread) as you build fluency. Think of it as an apprenticeship into program management for a fast-moving, multi-state regulated energy business.

 

Responsibilities

Permit & Interconnection Tracking

• Maintain daily/weekly status on permit and interconnection applications across active installs — flagging inspection failures, missing paperwork, or stalled applications before they become deployment blockers.
• Keep the state-by-state regulatory tracker (AHJ contacts, permit fees, application templates, fire code references, utility interconnection requirements) up to date and easy for the team to search.
• Own routine follow-up communication with AHJs, utilities, and vendors on outstanding items — inspection reschedules, cost-allocation questions, document requests — and escalate to the Manager when a response is overdue.

Program Administration & Reporting

• Maintain the program's action-item register with current status, owners, and due dates pulled from Slack, email, meeting notes, and Jira.
• Draft the weekly status report concise, categorized, only leadership-relevant items, pulling from the tracker and the Manager's input.
• Keep the team's internal wiki accurate proposing edits for approval before publishing and preserving existing formatting/status conventions.
• Track commitments and open questions captured from Gemini/meeting notes and Slack threads, confirming details with the Manager before treating them as final.

Cross-Functional Coordination

• Coordinate action items across internal stakeholders (compliance, marketing, ops, hardware vendors) get done, chasing owners rather than letting items go stale.
• Help prepare materials for AHJ and utility meetings (trip plans, agendas, AHJ meeting materials) alongside the Manager and Marketing.
• Take ownership of discrete workstreams as the role matures — starting with a single state or vendor relationship and expanding based on performance.
• Support field operations by streamlining communication between on-site teams and office staff, ensuring field issues, safety reports, and site documentation are processed and filed promptly.
• Support pre-construction planning by ensuring project documentation, site requirements, and permit packages are finalized and organized before field deployment begins.

 

Required Qualifications & Skills

• 2+ years of experience in program coordination, project administration, or operations support — energy, construction, solar, or a regulated industry preferred.
• Excellent written communication and highly organized; comfortable managing multiple open threads across email, Slack, and shared trackers without anything slipping.
• Proficiency with Google Workspace, spreadsheets, and collaborative wikis (Confluence or similar); comfort learning Jira.
• Genuine comfort with AI productivity tools and a track record of using them to extend personal capacity.
• AI Fluency: Demonstrated track record of using AI productivity tools to solve complex problems and significantly extend personal capacity.
• Self-starter who asks good questions, follows up without being told twice, and is comfortable escalating when something is stuck.

 

Strongly Preferred Qualifications & Skills

• Exposure to residential solar/battery permitting, utility interconnection, or AHJ processes.
• Familiarity with VPP or demand response programs.
• Prior experience supporting a program or project manager directly (executive/program assistant background).

 

What We Offer

💰 Compensation: The expected base salary range is $50,000 - $75,000, plus stock options. The offered salary will depend on numerous factors, including but not limited to work experience, skills, and internal equity considerations. The base salary does not include benefits or other incentives.

🏥 Benefits: medical/dental/vision insurance, 401(k), employee stock option program, paid holidays plus unlimited PTO, discounts on Emporia products and partner offerings.

📈 Career Growth: Be part of a fast-growing company at the forefront of home energy innovation.

Emporia Energy is an equal opportunity employer. All applicants will be considered for employment without regard to race, color, ancestry, national origin, sex, gender, sexual orientation, marital status, religion, age, disability, gender identity, results of genetic testing, service in the military, or any other characteristic protected by applicable federal, state or local laws. We will make reasonable accommodations for any qualified applicant with a disability, provided that the individual is otherwise qualified to safely perform the essential functions of the job with or without accommodation and that the accommodation would not impose an undue hardship on the operation of our business. Please let us know if you believe you require reasonable accommodation, or if you would like assistance to complete an application or to participate in an interview at the company.

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