Senior Asset Management Engineer

OPPD's Senior Asset Management Engineer serves as a technical leader responsible for shaping long-term asset strategies for critical substation infrastructure. Rooted in OPPD's mission to deliver safe, reliable, and affordable energy, this role leads enterprise-level engineering decision-making, drives technical strategy, and advances innovative practices that improve system performance and operational resilience. The role includes oversight of complex project work streams and strategic budget responsibilities.

OPPD's Senior Asset Management Engineer serves as a technical leader responsible for shaping long-term asset strategies for critical substation infrastructure. Rooted in OPPD's mission to deliver safe, reliable, and affordable energy, this role leads enterprise-level engineering decision-making, drives technical strategy, and advances innovative practices that improve system performance and operational resilience. The role includes oversight of complex project work streams and strategic budget responsibilities.

• Produce high-volume, high-quality engineering output while solving complex technical challenges and improving workflows.
• Lead technical strategy and decision-making for long-term asset solutions and complex engineering challenges.
• Manage engineering work streams across multiple disciplines, ensuring integrated planning and delivery.
• Advance organizational technical capability by developing innovative approaches, tools, or methodologies.
• Champion reliability and operational risk mitigation through identification and proactive management of technical risks.
• Serve as a mentor and coach to engineering staff, fostering development and knowledge transfer.
• Direct operational excellence efforts by guiding organization-wide adoption of OPPD's Asset Management roadmap.
• Lead identification and interpretation of reliability risks and failure modes to support long-term operational reliability.
• Oversee enterprise reliability initiatives, maintenance strategy alignment, and risk-based decision-making.
• Strengthen high-reliability culture by reinforcing disciplined practices and sound operational judgment.
• Refine and review financial analyses supporting prioritization of near-term work and long-term investment planning; serve as SME for governing bodies such as BURCs and RPCs.

• Demonstrated ability to successfully complete essential duties with or without reasonable accommodation.
• Registration as a Professional Engineer in the State of Nebraska or ability to obtain Nebraska registration within 6 months through reciprocity and relevant experience.

• Bachelor's degree in engineering or closely related field.
• Eight or more years of engineering experience with demonstrated leadership in asset management or utility operations.
• Expertise in complex engineering evaluation and long-term asset strategy development.
• Strong project leadership skills across multi-disciplinary teams.
• Ability to mentor others and elevate overall team capability.
• Strong financial and analytical skills supporting capital and maintenance planning.
• Leadership experience in utility asset management, reliability engineering, or maintenance strategy.
• Development of enterprise-level engineering tools, processes, or methodologies.
• Experience engaging with governance bodies and presenting investment justification or ROI related analysis.

Grade: S6
Minimum: $109,942
Midpoint: $137,428

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