Manager, Substation Operations, Maintenance

Overview

Come join us at Con Edison as a Manager in Substation Operations, Maintenance, where you will provide leadership and oversight of Supervisors in SSO Maintenance to ensure the safe, timely, and efficient installation, maintenance, repair, and inspection of substation equipment. You will drive the economical and efficient use of human resources to meet schedules and minimize equipment downtime, while managing direct reports and supporting their professional development. You will keep open lines of communication with company organizations and coordinate with all project stakeholders to deliver work that follows procedures, specifications, and environmental requirements. If you want a role where your leadership directly improves system reliability and safety, and where you can grow your team and your career, this is the opportunity for you.

Responsibilities

Core Responsibilities

- Follow company policies and applicable laws to ensure work is done without injury or illness to employees, vendors, or the public, and require the same awareness and compliance from direct reports, contractors, and others under your responsibility.

- Coordinate, plan, schedule, and execute capital and facility projects including load relief, system reliability, equipment replacements, repairs, CM, FM, PM, DT and facility work to meet completion dates and approved costs, and monitor schedules and current working estimates to support station reliability.

- Closely monitor and complete all assigned compliance work for substation facilities and equipment, support pre-audit walk throughs, and follow up on audit findings in partnership with EH&S.

- Ensure Human Performance Improvement tools and the Stuff That Kills You (STKY) wheel are applied to daily work, capture Close Calls, support HPI improvements, and lead investigations of operating errors, safety infractions, OSHA injuries, or motor vehicle collisions.

- Coach, mentor, and provide subject matter expertise and stretch assignments for direct reports, train new supervisors on core responsibilities, and foster a diverse, inclusive, and effective team culture that delivers strong customer service.

- Administer and communicate procedures, engineering plans, specifications, and emergency restoration plans to supervisors, and review preliminary scoping documents, appropriation estimates, specifications, and drawings for clarity, feasibility, cost, and schedule impacts.

- Prepare and manage assigned area annual XM budget submittal, monitor project costs versus estimates, and report on budget status and variances.

- Establish productivity standards, monitor performance, ensure timely handling of workloads and minimal backlogs, drive Engage utilization, ensure time card accuracy, and pursue 100 percent administrative compliance.

- Communicate project delays, injuries, and other significant events in a timely manner, coordinate with Engineering, Planning, Procurement, Operations, EH&S, and other managers, share resources to meet emergent work and budget goals, provide field feedback to TLC staff, and present project updates to stakeholders including executive audiences.

Qualifications

Required Education/Experience

- High School Diploma/GED and 7 years Operations, maintenance, or construction of power generation, transmission, or distribution equipment. or

- Associate's Degree and 6 years Operations, maintenance, or construction of power generation, transmission, or distribution equipment. or

- Bachelor's Degree and 5 years Operations, maintenance, or construction of power generation, transmission, or distribution equipment.

Relevant Work Experience

- Supervisory experience, required.

- Extensive knowledge and experience with the installation, maintenance, and repair of high-voltage electrical equipment, required.

- Knowledge of substations, required.

- Must possess strong decision-making skills and strong communication skills, required.

- The ability to work effectively with others in a cross-departmental platform is a must, required.

- Experience working in Substation Operations, preferred.

- Experience delivering Job Briefing and performing JSSEs, preferred.

- Extensive knowledge of SSO's GEI's and Substation Operating Procedures as well as the Maximo/Engage Work Management System, preferred.

Skills and Abilities

- Ability to interpret basic information on drawings.

- Demonstrated problem solving skills

- Ability to build strong customer relationships

- Strong written and verbal communication skills

- Develops and delivers effective presentations

- Instills commitment to organizational goals

- Excellent organizational skills

- Ability to influence internal and/or external constituents

- Well organized, detail oriented and flexible to handle multiple assignments

- Must be proficient in Microsoft Office including Word, Excel, Outlook and PowerPoint, etc.

Licenses and Certifications

- Driver's License Required

Physical Demands

- Ability to respond to system emergencies

- Able to work in all weather conditions, i.e. excessive heat and/or cold

- Ability to work in adverse conditions that include, noise, confined spaces, and high elevations

- Ability to climb ladders and stairs

- Ability to work on elevated platforms, scaffolds, catwalks, roofs, and/or other equipment

- Ability to work with, and in, the vicinity of high voltage and/or other high-energy systems

- Stand, walk, lift, climb, bend, kneel, stoop, and/or reach for the duration of the workday

- Ability to travel to company locations to work on storm restoration and heat contingencies

- Wear necessary Personal Protective Equipment (PPE), i.e. fire-retardant clothing and safety harnesses

- Work rotating shifts, including nights, midnights, weekends, and holidays

- Use personal vehicle(s), and be able to transport, store, and secure company laptops and other job-related equipment in vehicle. Acknowledge that reimbursement for use of personal vehicle is available through the company mileage procedure

Additional Physical Demands

- The selected candidate will be assigned a System Emergency Assignment (i.e., an emergency response role) and will be expected to work non-business hours during emergencies, which may include nights, weekends, and holidays.