Standards Strategy Director

Description

• Carrying: Occasional carrying of light objects for short distances
• Identify "standards gaps" in S&C's product portfolio, i.e areas where S&C's products and relevant standards misalign in ways that might disadvantage those products.
• Ensure S&C short-and long-term product roadmaps have appropriate "landing zones" in existing and emerging standards, which facilitate the execution of those roadmaps.
• Develop strategies and tactics with S&C team members in standards-making bodies (such as IEEE and IEC) and trade associations such as NEMA to close standards gaps and advocate for standards to meet the needs of emerging technologies .
• Build relationships within appropriate standards-making bodies to ensure S&C's perspective is represented at the committee and sub-committee level and reflected in PARs and standards initiatives.
• Collaborate with product managers to prioritize steps to address those gaps.
• Position S&C and, where appropriate, lead initiatives within standards-making bodies, to ensure electricity distribution equipment meets the needs of new and emerging applications both for utilities and C&I.

Requirements

• Excellent communication skills to work across the range of S&C stakeholders and ensure product requirements are developed with due consideration for their standards implications.
• 10 years participation in an international standards-making body, at least at the sub-committee level.
• Ability to travel frequently, including internationally to support S&C's standards strategy
• Lifting: Occasional lifting
• Undergraduate Degree within Engineering or related field
• Walking: Frequent walking throughout the campus facility
• Solid understanding of the process of standards-making, through their inception, publication and maintenance.
• Ability to work with, and influence industry stakeholders to achieve consensus around key topics which are important to S&C and support the expansion of electricity usage.

Benefits

• 8:00 am – 5:00 pm (Mon-Fri) Hybrid-Also Open to Fully Remote
• Leave Benefits: Vacation Time, Sick Time, Paid Holidays and Company Shutdown days, Short-Term Disability, Long-Term Disability, Other Leaves, Paid Parental Time and Military Leave
• Health and Welfare Benefits: Medical & Prescription, Dental, Vision, Health Care and Dependent Care Flexible Spending Accounts, , Health Savings Account (HSA), Group Life Insurance, optional Supplemental Life and AD&D Insurance, Wellbeing Resources including Employee Assistance Program and Family Forming Benefits (i.e., Adoption and Fertility support)

Training + Development

Interview process

Visa Sponsorship

Security clearance