Senior Reliability Strategist - Oahu

Senior Reliability Strategist - Oahu

Date:

Aug 21, 2026

Location:

Honolulu, Hawaii (HI), US, 96813

Company: hawaiianel

We recognize our competitive advantage -- our people. We believe in our people, who share our vision of meeting the needs of our employees, customers, and communities and who carry out the continued success of the company.

Our employees are committed to the company's foundational values: integrity, excellence, teamwork, environmental stewardship, and community commitment. In turn, we invest in our employees, providing opportunities for challenge and advancement and offering a competitive compensation package.

Posting End Date:
This position will remain open until filled. Early applications are highly encouraged.

The P RI RELIABILITY & RESILIENCE STRATEGY Department of the P ASSET PLANNING & STRATEGY Division at Hawaiian Electric Company has 1 management vacancy available. (Role: Professional)

Leads efforts to measure, assess, develop, and update strategies, priorities, and work plans to improve electric transmission and distribution (T&D) system reliability for all three operating areas (O‘ahu, Maui County, and Hawai‘i Island).

• Work Plan Development, Prioritization, and Management

• Lead efforts to develop multi-year work plans and priorities for projects and programs to enhance reliability. This includes determining reliability improvement project/program cost, value, sequencing/timing, and priority as well as on-going work plan monitoring, management, updates, and cost/benefit tracking.

• Reliability System Analyses

• Leads efforts for analyzing past outages and determines strategies to mitigate or lessen future events. Helps operating areas with requests for engineering assistance for all T&D system reliability matters and determines solutions to requests.

• Reliability Strategy Development

• Leads efforts to develop/update reliability strategies to reduce the frequency and duration of electric service interruptions to customers. This includes assessing reliability performance and risk, establishing goals and objectives, identifying improvement options, analyzing/modeling solutions, determining optimal cost/benefit approaches, and gaining necessary approvals. Supports the assessment, development, and refinement of reliability PIMs/P  metrics.

• Reliability Reporting

• Lead efforts to provide timely, accurate, and consistent reliability metric reports, forecasts, and filings. This includes developing, refining, and producing monthly, quarterly, and annual metric calculations and reports for internal stakeholders, Hawaiian Electric’s website updates, and Hawaii Public Utilities Commission submittals. It also includes efforts to enhance the automation, validation/cross-checks, and accessibility of reliability data and reports.

• Industry Knowledge and Leading Practices

• Stays abreast of industry developments and leading practices related to reliability including new technologies, applications, modeling tools/methodologies, advanced analytics, benchmarking, and reporting practices. Participates and represents Hawaiian Electric (preferably in leadership roles) on industry committees/task forces to identify and address emerging issues and opportunities.

• General Support and Improvement

• Supports the department and division in the development of systems, processes, procedures, methods, or other means needed to facilitate the smooth and effective functioning of the department/division. As assigned on a temporary basis, fills in for the department manager.

• Participates in Company emergency response activities as assigned, including any activities required to prepare for such emergency response.

  BASIC QUALIFICATIONS:

  Knowledge Requirements

• Bachelor of…