Director of Operations & Field Safety

Responsible for the overall management of SVEC’s operations department, including strategic planning, organization, coordination and communication in order to provide the safest, most reliable service at the best value to members while achieving cooperative and departmental goals and objectives within established guidelines. Responsible for execution of SVEC’s field safety programming in coordination with the cooperative safety department in order to aid continuous safety improvements and develop a culture that supports safety excellence.

Reports to: Vice President of Engineering & Operations – Chief Operations Officer

Directs: Operation Supervisors, Field Safety & Training Coordinator

Safety and Training
:

• Collaborate with cooperative safety to foster a safe, properly trained and successful workforce.
• Administer field safety programming in coordination with the director of safety & compliance.
• Understand and enforce cooperative safety and security procedures and resolve potentially unsafe conditions.
• Advise, direct and help as needed on safety-related issues.
• Administer SVEC’s field inspection programming and other related items. Perform field visits to observe construction-related activities, safe work habits and quality control.
• Provides orientation and on-the-job training for employees, ensuring that the authority, duties, accountability, expectations and responsibilities for each position are clearly defined and understood.
• Identifies and develops ongoing and new training needs for operations department.
• Coaches and directs subsequent learning through direct involvement.
• Provide assistance, expertise and support for liability and loss control events.

Operations
:

• Responsible for electric facilities operation including maintenance, capital and service restoration work on energized and de-energized overhead and underground electric system facilities during normal hours and after hours.
• Enforces standard operating procedures for safe, proper, efficient and effective distribution system operations.
• Consistent and accurate implementation of operating practices found in employee policy manual, safety manual, and switching tagging manual. Provide expertise and assistance in maintaining and updating both.
• Responsible for acquiring, organizing and synthesizing information on complex subjects in order to provide support, guidance and decision authority to direct reports.
• Provide support to operations supervisors for:
  • Employee issues, time keeping, pay, annual evaluations and other matters as they arise.
  • Planning, organizing, coordinating and controlling operations and construction.
  • Develop and ensure uniform operations and procedures among all districts.
  • Analyze production, workloads, schedules and procedures to improve efficiency.
  • Project management
  • Vehicle equipment and tooling use and need.
• Works to build excellent working relationships with all department employees and ensure expectations and accountability for each employee's responsibilities are communicated and understood.
• Work cooperatively with the director of operations support and director of cooperative safety to manage large scale outage restoration efforts.
• Coordinates with cross-functional teams to complete inspections, maintenance and construction projects, ensuring adherence to quality standards and schedule requirements.
• Monitor system performance metrics and implement improvements to improve reliability indices (SAIDI/SAIFI).

Leadership and Administrative
:

• Demonstrate adaptable, compatible and effective leadership for operations department.
• Provide organized, clear and consistent communication with department.
• Responsible for proper recordation, organization and retention of all documentation associated with…