Operations & Maintenance Substation Specialist

Operations & Maintenance Substation Specialist

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Company: Black & Veatch Corporation

Req : 112240

Opportunity Type: Staff

Relocation eligible: No

Full time/Part time: Full-Time

Project Only Hire: No

Visa Sponsorship Available: No

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As an employee-owned company, our people are Black & Veatch. We put them at the center of everything we do and empower them to grow, explore new possibilities and use their diverse talents and perspectives to solve humanity's biggest challenges in an ever-evolving world. With over 100 years of innovation in sustainable infrastructure and our expertise in engineering, procurement, consulting and construction, together we are building a world of difference.

Black & Veatch allows you to lend your talent and perspective to humanity’s biggest challenges in a flexible environment where you are empowered to grow and explore new possibilities. We offer competitive compensation; 401K match and benefits that start day 1. Our hybrid environment allows you to balance your work and personal life.
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The O&M Substation specialist is responsible for providing technical support to the substation O&M program, and general technical support to all O&M services. The role has two primary goals, the first, to provide technical support to substation efforts including maintenance planning and estimation. The second is to provide rapid technical support in emergency field settings, including coordinating and driving responses to emergency situations in coordination with the project manager.

Ancillary duties include electrical and controls technical support and estimating support to other O&M services including solar generation and battery energy storage.

Black & Veight’s Infrastructure Advisory Business provides a portfolio of solutions focused on the asset lifecycle, including Asset Management & Operations & Maintenance, Infrastructure Technology, Cybersecurity Solutions, Planning and Transactions. In this role you will be part of the Delivery Team supporting Solutions.

You will be working with Infrastructure Advisory’s Strategic Asset Management Solution to deliver a wide range of projects and solutions, including asset management plans, gap assessments, asset management strategies, investment plans, risk and resilience assessments, and maintenance strategies.

• Provide technical support and oversight to substation maintenance activities.
• Develop maintenance schedules and estimates for substations and other technologies as able.
• Provide emergency onsite field support and work oversight for substation and distribution systems repairs and remediation.
• Act as the substation technical lead for the Substation Operation and Maintenance.
• Ensure all maintenance activities comply with safety regulations, industry standards, and company policies.
• Support oversight of testing calibration and troubleshooting of substation systems including reviews of means and methods for repairs and testing.
• Provide general electrical technical support to operations and maintenance efforts for other power generation and storage systems (solar, BESS, etc.).
• Oversee estimating of substation maintenance activities, and BOP activities, including maintenance schedule development, execution strategy, labor, equipment, materials.
• Provide technical support to other service areas as such as solar and battery energy storage as able.
• Provide technical and onsite oversight in emergency/emergent situations for substation projects.
• Mentor junior engineers and technicians in substation Operations and Maintenance execution.

Acts as a project manager. Among responsibilities is management of a project team. The…