Senior Resilience Strategist - Oahu

Overview

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Our employees are committed to the company's foundational values: integrity, excellence, teamwork, environmental stewardship, and community commitment. In turn, we invest in our employees, providing opportunities for challenge and advancement and offering a competitive compensation package.

Posting End Date:
This position will remain open until filled. Early applications are highly encouraged.

BRIEF POSTING

DESCRIPTION:

The P RI RELIABILITY & RESILIENCE STRATEGY Department of the P ASSET PLANNING & STRATEGY Division at Hawaiian Electric Company has 1 management vacancy available. (Role: Professional)

Leads efforts to measure, assess, develop, and update strategies, priorities, and work plans to improve electric transmission and distribution (T&D) system resilience for all operating areas (O‘ahu, Maui County, and Hawai‘i Island).

• External Resilience Initiatives and Opportunities:
  Leads efforts on external resilience initiatives and grant application development for federal and other funding opportunities.
• Work Plan Development, Prioritization, and Management:
  Leads efforts to develop multi-year work plans and priorities for projects and programs to enhance resilience. This includes determining resilience improvement project/program cost, value, sequencing/timing, and priority. It also includes ongoing work plan monitoring, management, updates, and cost/benefit tracking.
• Resilience Strategy Development:
  Leads efforts to develop/update strategies to enhance our electric T&D system's ability to anticipate, absorb, adapt to, and/or rapidly recover from potentially disruptive events (e.g., hurricanes, earthquakes, tsunamis). This includes working with external stakeholders and customers to assess vulnerabilities and risks; coordinating and integrating internal and external planning activities (particularly through the Integrated Grid Planning process and Resilience Working Group);
  
  identifying requirements, priorities, and constraints; establishing goals and objectives, determining improvement options, analyzing/modeling solutions, determining optimal/reasonable approach, and gaining necessary approvals. Supports the assessment, development, and refinement of resilience PIMs/P  metrics.
• Industry Knowledge and Leading Practices:
  Keeps abreast on industry developments and leading practices related to resilience including new technologies, applications, modeling tools/methodologies, advanced analytics, benchmarking, and reporting practices. Participates and represents Hawaiian Electric (preferably in leadership roles) on industry committees/task forces to identify and address emerging issues and opportunities.
• General Support and Improvement:
  Supports the department and division in the development of systems, processes, procedures, methods, or other means needed to facilitate the smooth and effective functioning of the department/division.
• Participates in Company emergency response activities as assigned, including any activities required to prepare for such emergency response.

Knowledge Requirements

• Bachelor of Science degree in a relevant engineering, math, science, or science-related major from an accredited school or college is highly desirable.
• Master's degree desirable, preferably in business administration (MBA) from an accredited school or college.

Thorough understanding of the following:

• Electric power system resilience
• Electric power supply, transmission, and distribution systems and components
• Electric power system operation
• Probability, statistics, and risk
• Utility information systems
• Utility financial and accounting principles
• Utility regulation

General understanding of the following:

• Electric power system reliability
• Electric power system inspection and maintenance
• Utility/Infrastructure asset management

• Critical Thinking and Decision Making:
  Ability to understand and accurately define problems, analyze and…