Long Term Asset Planning Engineer

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Competition #: NLH--26-035
Status:
Permanent

Location:

Soldier’s Pond or Muskrat Falls

Our employees are at the heart of what we do. We’re looking for passionate and performance focused people – people who want to make a difference for our customers and who share our values.

We have an exciting opportunity within our Long-Term Asset Management Planning team. The Long-Term Asset Planning Engineer will lead the development and implementation of maintenance philosophies, tactics, and standards to ensure power generation and transmission equipment is maintained cost-effectively while meeting reliability requirements. The primary focus of this role will be transmission lines and associated equipment. As part of a multidisciplinary team, you will provide operational support and engineering design for live-line programs.

Other areas of focus will depend on the successful candidate’s background. In this creative, fast-paced environment, this role will help shape the future of the province’s energy sector.

• Create and maintain accurate and complete asset listing/ hierarchies with supporting detail, location, history and financial information;
• Develop and continually refresh 20+ year asset plan that reflects asset rehabilitation/overhauls to major assets; asset renewal requirements:
  • Identify what needs to be replaced,
  • When it needs to be replaced, and,
  • What it needs to be replaced with;
• Drive development 20-year capital plan inputs for assets;
• Recognizing the dynamic nature of long and short-term asset work plans and the expertise of others, obtain input from engineers, maintainers, operators/users, and consultants when developing/refreshing long-term, 5‑year and annual asset work plans;
• Translate the 20-year asset plan into detailed 5-year and annual asset work plans; and update annually;
• Develop, monitor and continuously improve preventative and predictive maintenance programs;
• Develop detailed programs for major and minor overhauls, upgrading and modification to maintain and enhance reliability of transmission line and similar assets;
• Complete risk assessment and assist with reliability monitoring;
• Develop asset performance metrics and develop/execute actions to address performance issues;
• Develop and implement condition assessment tools and monitoring techniques and incorporate results into planning activities;
• Use critical spares framework to identify critical equipment/tools spares based on criteria including acceptable downtime/service levels; impact to reliability; delivery time; failure history; and repair duration;
• Create and maintain the existing contracts for services and various pieces of equipment;
• Participate in technical councils and use technical councils to test long-term plans and promote their role in operational troubleshooting.

• Strong written and oral communication skills;
• Strong interpersonal skills to foster effective working relationships with members of various teams;
• Excellent analytical skills and problem-solving abilities.

• Completion of a bachelor’s degree in the Civil or Electrical Engineering disciplines from an accredited institution, other combinations of education and experience may be considered;
• Ideally, you have twelve (12) years of progressively responsible and relevant experience with an electrical utility, heavy industrial and/or oil and gas industry;
• This position requires understanding complex systems knowledge of utility equipment and special tools combined with outstanding judgment and technical skills;
• Able to implement strategy through interpretation of cost estimate data, project scheduling and risk analysis;
• In-depth working knowledge of maintenance tactics and cost benefit techniques;
• Proven experience as a team player, a planner, and a communicator with knowledge of line equipment;
• Must possess a good working knowledge of…