Sr Emergency Mgmt Admin

Overview

Basic Purpose Facilitates emergency preparedness throughout the Company’s service territory. Ensures response to, recovery from, and resumption of business operations after a natural or human-caused disaster or emergency. Ensures the company is an integral participant in external emergency response and recovery planning activities, and ensures lines of communication and coordination are established with local/state governments, interdependent utilities, public safety, and other agencies.

• Ensures the development, maintenance, and exercising of company readiness plans, procedures, systems, and communication capabilities to ensure corporate response to and recovery from emergency events.
• Ensures the readiness of the company s primary and alternate Emergency Operations Centers (EOC) to respond to major emergencies through training of EOC members, conducting drills and exercises, and maintaining the EOC manual and facilities.
• Ensures the company is an integral participant on various state/regional disaster recovery forums with emergency management representatives from local/state governments, utilities, and other agencies to establish and maintain external communication and coordination.
• Provides coordination with public safety and other emergency response agencies during emergency operations and events. Provides for utility agency representation, or liaison, at incident command briefings or emergency operations centers where appropriate. May request support from other departments to represent the company when specific knowledge is required.
• Conducts training and exercises to adequately test the integration and effectiveness of company emergency plans.
• Supports company compliance with local and state regulatory requirements for emergency planning and response through internal coordination and Mutual Assistance Agreements.
• Promotes employee emergency preparedness by identifying and providing to employees emergency preparedness guides and materials that will assist in their individual preparedness and enable them to perform their duties at the company in an emergency or disaster.
• Ensures all compliance aspects of the position are known and followed; understands and complies with all policies, codes, and regulations applicable to the position and the company.
• Performs related duties as assigned.

Education and Work Experience
Bachelor’s Degree in homeland security, emergency management, safety, criminal justice or related field, from an accredited school, and 3 years of related work experience in emergency planning, training, exercises, coordination, and implementation. Possess and maintain a Nevada Driver’s License (Class

C).

Candidates that do not possess an associate’s degree must have a minimum of 7 years of related work experience in emergency planning, training, exercises, coordination, and implementation. Possess and maintains a Nevada Driver’s License (Class

C).

Demonstrated Knowledge Of

• Emergency management organizational structure within the company and external, including local/state and governmental agencies, understanding of emergency planning and business recovery methodologies.
• Planning and coordinating multi-agency training (functional, tabletop, or full-scale) for business continuity.

Skills Such As

• Leading multiple departmental personnel to achieve organizational goals.
• Presentation, teamwork, customer service, organizational, and interpersonal skills.
• Oral and written communication skills to document and transmit information accurately and understandably.
• Critical thinking, analytical, problem-solving and decision-making abilities.
• Prepare policies, plans and procedures and convey information to various levels of management and employees.
• Project/program management required to facilitate the company s emergency preparedness and business recovery program.

Equipment and Applications
PCs, word processing, and spreadsheet.

General office environment.

• Note:
  
  The company may fill the position(s) at a lower level depending on qualifications of candidates.

NV Energy is an equal opportunity employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion or religious creed, age, national origin, ancestry, citizenship status (except as required by law), gender (including gender identity and expression), sex (including pregnancy), sexual orientation, genetic information, physical or mental disability, veteran or military status, familial or parental status, marital status or any other category protected by applicable local, state or U.S. federal law.

Employees must be able to perform the essential functions of the position, with or without an accommodation.