Senior Outage Coordinator

Senior Outage Coordinator – Springfield, Massachusetts

In this role, you will have the opportunity to work on exciting and challenging projects that make a real impact in the energy and utility sectors. You’ll be part of a dynamic, people-focused team where your expertise, ideas, and contributions will be valued and celebrated.

• Plan, schedule, and oversee all outages to support construction.
• Review the established project outage assessments & requirements. Organize and participate in outage kickoff meetings at the site or in conjunction with other planned site visits, and conduct follow-up meetings to establish the scope, conceptual work schedule, and process. Develop a high-level preliminary outage plan.
• Hold on-site and office meetings to review physical layout, work clearances, and outages required.
• Coordinate outage requirements with other areas to resolve and minimize any outage conflicts.
• Confirm the plan alignment with other ongoing projects within and outside of Eversource.
• Provide outage plan and drawings; repeat site visits and conduct smaller group meetings as necessary (expected during conceptual, detail design, construction and commissioning). Confirm plan alignment and coordination with transmission outage coordination.
• Facilitate equipment numbering throughout the engineering life cycle.
• Ensure post‑outage system reconfiguration prints, equipment numbering and operating procedures to align across departments.
• Review outage plan with all stakeholders (iterative process).
• Work with the project team to facilitate development of viable emergency restoration measures and plans, along with restoration time estimates.
• Upon project approval, provide a detailed outage plan for TOA development and submittal.
• Provide various versions of the outage plan through finalization, including forwarding to and conducting follow‑up meetings for the final run‑through.
• Conduct outage planning presentations as needed for the project team, control centers, ISO, divisions, municipalities, etc.
• Continue to refine the finalized plan as conditions change; submit to application coordinators.
• Monitor and control the outage plan. Manage changes due to sudden, unexpected events that may require resequencing and resubmittal.
• Work with cross‑functional teams, guidelines, and policies.
• Coordinate and maintain a master outage plan that gives visibility of all outage requirements for the New England Companies.
• Coordinate meetings among various work groups (operations, supervisors, MROs, etc.) and projects to create opportunities for completing work on lines and equipment affected by scheduled outages.

• A minimum of twenty (20) years of progressive related electric utility or other related industry experience, with transmission facilities construction management experience preferred. Ten (10) years in a supervisory capacity preferred.
• Bachelor’s degree in engineering, construction management, or equivalent; 10 years of relevant experience is recommended.
• Extensive knowledge of construction management practices applicable to electrical utility transmission construction and generation projects.
• Extensive knowledge of interconnected electrical system operations.
• Knowledge of government regulations, including OSHA, NESC, and industry codes affecting electric utilities.
• Knowledge of contract preparation, negotiations, and administration.
• Working knowledge of budget preparation and administration.
• Demonstrated ability to make competent decisions in emergency situations.
• Demonstrated ability to read and interpret mechanical/electrical drawings and technical manuals.
• Excellent written and verbal communications, including correspondence, reports, and other business documents.
• Working knowledge of…