Engineering Manager

This position is a primary leadership role responsible for managing and supporting the safe, resilient activities and operations of the Peninsula Light Company’s distribution and operational technologies systems and associated staff. Incumbent will manage the system engineering and distribution design department whose functions range from asset management of the distribution system including substations and line equipment as well as Operational Technology (OT) systems such as: advanced metering infrastructure (AMI), power quality (PQ), protective relays, Supervisory Control and Data Acquisition (SCADA), Outage Management System (OMS), OT communications, and Geographic Information System (GIS).

The incumbent will also be the Project Manager, or supervise a PM, and/or a key stakeholder during major projects that impact the entire business such as during AMI upgrades, Customer Information Systems (CIS) / Work Order / Staking or other projects of scale that result in business wide changes.

Day to day responsibilities include assigning work, ensuring coordination and cooperation on the flow of work between the all-business Departments, short-and long-range utility system planning, resource estimates and Warehouse inventory support, employee training and development, and on-site review of construction as needed. Assisting with the management and contracts for a number of long-term partnerships with consultants and vendors that support our Operational Technologies infrastructure will also be a key function for this role.

This is a supervisory position, and the incumbent may be required to serve as back-up for the Chief Operating Officer as well as the Electrical Operations Manager and/or Water Department Manager. This position reports to the Chief Operating Officer who will evaluate work through reports, briefings and observations of daily activities.

Salary Range: $,586/annually

Incumbent provides supervision to include performance reviews for direct reports but not limited to the following:
Distribution Design Supervisor, System Engineering Supervisor, System Engineer, System Engineering Specialists, and System Engineering Assistant.

Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.

• Assigns, manages, supervises, trains, and evaluates the work of assigned staff. Provides management guidance and support to subordinates as necessary
• Develops policies, procedures, standards, and other documents as needed for the Engineering and Operations (E&O) Departments.
• Reviews and provides management direction to new construction and upgrade of existing facilities through the efforts and interactions of Distribution Design Department personnel with Operations, contractors, and other utilities.
• Provides oversight of electrical system modeling and analysis, including the vision and leadership to continuously improve GIS capabilities.
• Reviews and participates in long-range system planning based on analysis of load growth/customer connections and recommends phasing of construction and capital budget outlay.
• Provides management input and coordination to the regular review of the Company’s sectionalizing and voltage control programs to ensure the highest quality of service to customers.
• Provides leadership, vision, input and coordination with Operations and Dispatch regarding SCADA/OMS/DMS, including the system integration for those systems (collectively known as “OpNet”).
• Oversees company compliance with the reliability standards of Western Electricity Coordinating Council, North American Electric Reliability Cooperation and the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (if applicable).
• In conjunction with technical input, determines when projects are feasible within existing budget limitations.
• Attends, participates and provides leadership in utility-related functions such as meetings, conferences, seminars, and workshops in order to maintain a high level of knowledge supporting an electric utility.
• Works in concert with the Chief Operating Officer’s to develop annual budget and monitors expenditures…