Manager Transmission System Planning

Summary

Responsible for planning, communicating, implementing, and coordinating departmental projects. Supervises departmental personnel and coordinates the work of employees, ensuring assgnments meet established standards and deadlines.

What You'll Do

•    Provide oversight of planning studies and results for the annual capital budget planning process for the SRP transmission system; perform these analyses as necessary to support the objectives of the team.
•    Provide review of some or all planned transmission projects (69kV through 500kV transmission systems). 
•    Review and assignment of transmission system analyses to ensure a reliable transmission system in the future including the six year capital planning cycle and Ten Year Plan. Perform technical transmission planning analyses when necessary.
•    Provide oversight of the generation or transmission interconnection or transmission service requests studies performed either internally or through a consultant;
•    Manage, hire, train, and develope professionals and engineers, and/or business-critical subject-matter experts in the evaluation of the impacts of interconnecting new resource projects (e.g., renewable, natural gas, DER) and large industrial load projects (e.g., manufacturing, data centers) to the transmission and distribution system.
•    Provide ongoing coaching, feedback, and development opportunities to empower, engage and drive high employee performance.
•    Oversee and approve project plans and deliverables including work scopes, schedules, milestones, budgets, and customer agreements.
•    Ensure high productivity, efficiency, and quality by establishing and monitoring key performance indicator metrics for personnel and projects. 
•    Implement quality control measures to ensure accurate and timely deliverables.
•    Manage the procurement of contracted services including engineering and/or project management services with supervision of contract negotiations, administration, activities, performance, and relationships. 
•    Manage the development and negotiation of project agreements with outside entities including large customers.
•    Provide project sponsorship by effectively communicating and managing expectations and objectives to engineering personnel, supporting organizations, customers, and other stakeholders.
•    Participate and/or lead formal and informal meetings concerning projects and communicate effectively with all levels of personnel, including customers.
•    Oversee the development of the 10-Year Transmission Plan for the state regulatory agency.
•    Maintain awareness of Federal and State regulations' potential impacts to transmission system reliability and to provide policy advice for SRP management.
•    Oversee the technical review of all large scale customer requests that may impact the transmission network. 

Education

Experience

Minimum 7 years of relevant experience required. In lieu of a bachelors degree, 11 years of relevant experience or an equivalent combination of education and experience totaling 11 years may be considered.

Additional Requirements and Qualifications

Knowledge of the application and usefulness of transmission planning modeling tools; power flow, stability, and short circuit. Ability to convey highly technical information to management and/or to public, in either written or oral format. Knowledge and direction of the application of industry technical committee results for improved system modeling.