Senior Manager of Technical Services

SR MANAGER OF TECHNICAL SERVICES–RFT

Department:
Technical Services

Location:

Palmer, AK

Grade: 17 | Annual: $140,275 Min DOE

This position is responsible for managing the technical services of the Association. Responsibilities include oversight of substation maintenance, metering, communications, relaying, and SCADA. The position will also assist with the development of substation designs and commissioning.

• Promotes a safety culture in which safety is a value. This culture is based on joint and individual engagement, ownership, and accountability regarding job safety and responsibility to perform work safely and adhere to safe work practices.
• Performs the essential functions of the position in a safe and efficient manner.
• Hires, trains, leads, informs, and motivates the Association's Technical Services employees. Selects, evaluates, encourages, coaches, and disciplines directly reporting employees. Establishes department goals and maintains performance measures of goal attainment.
• Efficiently manages technical services development and project initiatives and deliveries, including providing primary oversight for project issues, creating cross-functional teams while managing timelines and deliverables.
• Provides program management and leadership across technical services to organize and execute construction and maintenance projects and systems solutions that meet member and system requirements, while maintaining consistency with established processes, timeline and budget to reduce the Association’s risk.
• Creates periodic status reports encompassing financials, risks, mitigations, contingencies and impact to revenue and presents summaries and analysis to executive management.
• Oversees the planning, design, construction and maintenance of the Association’s electrical substations associated with the transmission, distribution, protection and control of electricity.
• Oversees development of high voltage relay settings, protection philosophies, and set point calculation sheets.
• Submits O&M and Capital budgets for approval. Maintains approved O&M and Capital budgets for Substations, Relaying, Metering and SCADA.
• Oversees schedules for maintenance, installation and rebuilds of protection, communication, and SCADA systems.
• Oversees and evaluates bid awards for contractor and professional consulting services to accomplish maintenance, installation, and rebuilds for areas of responsibility.
• Monitors and supports substation operations to ensure that cost and reliability meets all regulatory and industry standards, and member expectations.
• Analyzes reports from data obtained from AMI system and SCADA system to help ensure proper transformer loading, phase balancing on feeder circuits and volt/VAR to reduce electric line losses and increase grid efficiency.
• Monitors and supports electric metering function to include meter site installations and verifications. Assures annual records of all CT metered member’s tests and verifications are documented and archived by department personnel.
• Analyzes power supply and delivery cost and strategies that might assist the Chief Financial Officer in the development of rates and structures.
• Analyzes information and statistical data to monitor and evaluate electric system operations.
• Oversees design of and works with Operations on construction activities.
• Participates in short- and long-range planning within the Power Delivery group.
• Responds to internal/external concerns within Technical Services Department.
• Develop and improve processes by assuring consistency with the policies, procedures, practices, rules, regulations, and philosophies.
• Works with other senior managers and directors in Power Delivery to create opportunities which influence positive working relationships and collaborative, matrixed work groups.
• Identifies consultants, negotiates contracts with, oversees contract terms, measures progress, and approves billings of Technical Services Consultants and construction contractors needed by the Association.
• May participate in the negotiation of applicable collective bargaining agreements and applies and follows the negotiated terms.
• Manages…