Supervisor Engineering - Grid Analytics & Technology Solutions

Description

• Leads team focused on advancing electric system planning tools and analytics models to address capacity requests, DER's, distributions assets, and reliability needs.
• Employee Safety, Development & Team Building - Providing employees with coaching, feedback, and developmental opportunities and building effective teams:
• Develops and administers team goals and manages/measures performance of technical team.
• Accountable to ensure employees adhere to legal and operational compliance requirements, as well as safety standards.
• Provides coaching, direction and leadership support to team members in order to achieve employee, business, customer and safety results.
• Plans and develops project budgets with appropriate documentation.
• Identifies potential areas of weakness with assigned work, and initiates corrective action.
• Ensures compliance with codes, standards, and design, operation, and maintenance requirements.
• Supports emergency response work as requested including immediate and extended restoration efforts driven by weather and other system failures.
• Represents department at team meetings.
• Facilitates solutions to unique problems by leveraging employees’ technical skills, and providing guidance with regards to PSE’s business initiatives.
• Communicates solutions to personnel possessing a wide variety of educational and employment backgrounds.
• Sets clear expectations and holds employees accountable for performance as well as safety goals/targets where applicable.
• Ensures team is strategically focused in daily duties and projects.
• Oversees training and development of employees directly and indirectly managed and makes effective staffing decisions. Ensures required training is successfully completed.
• Motivates team to achieve corporate and departmental expectations.
• Conducts and ensures the completion of performance reviews.
• Reviews the work of internal and external (consulting or contract) engineering staff.
• Demonstrates a passion for safety. Promotes and supports a culture of total safety including eliminating at-risk behaviors by conducting safety audits and inspections, eliminating hazards and near misses, and attending safety meetings.

Requirements

• Extensive experience in engineering analysis, planning, design, specification preparation, maintenance, project cost estimating and scheduling (typically achieved after 10 years’ practice as a degreed engineer).
• Synergi or CYME disribution power flow modeling experience.
• Leadership training.
• Data analytics experience.
• Possession of a Professional Engineering License.
• Experience working within the utility industry.
• Experience leading engineering projects.
• Demonstrated experience in working effectively and collaborating with a wide range of internal and external customers.
• Strong interpersonal and communication skills.
• Previous supervisory experience.
• Understanding of data structures, software architecture, and databases
• Bachelor’s degree in Electrical, Mechanical, Civil Engineering or other appropriate engineering field (a WA State Professional Engineering license may be considered in lieu of a degree).

Benefits

Training + Development

Interview process

Visa Sponsorship

Security clearance