SENIOR MANAGER, ENGINEER & SYSTEM PLANNING

JOB TITLE: SENIOR MANAGER, ENGINEERING & SYSTEM PLANNING

LOCATION: Hampden Operation Center

REPORTS TO: DIRECTOR, ENGINEERING, ASSET MANAGEMENT & AMI

POSITION STATUS: EXEMPT, NON-BARGAINING UNIT

Be a part of the team that is transforming the power industry of northern and eastern Maine.

Versant Power is building on our 100-year history of delivering efficient, safe and reliable electricity service to customers in northern and eastern Maine. We never lose sight of safety, quality, integrity and innovation.

We are committed to our dedicated people, who inspire us every day to deliver something more powerful than power alone.

POSITION OVERVIEW:

Versant Power is seeking a strategic and future-focused utility leader to serve as our Senior Manager of Asset Management & System Planning. This high-impact role responsible for shaping the company’s long-term investment strategy and ensuring a reliable, resilient, and climate-adaptive electric grid.

The Senior Manager is responsible for aligning the utility’s long-range asset strategy with its near and mid-term system planning efforts to ensure a reliable, cost-effective, and future-ready electric grid. This role provides strategic oversight of the Asset Management department, which encompasses both asset strategy and system planning functions. The Senior Manager will lead the department through a direct report, the Manager of Asset Management, and will play a key role in shaping the utility’s approach to capital investment, grid modernization, and long-term infrastructure planning. .

This leader plays a critical role in shaping the capital plan, supporting regulatory filings, guiding condition-based asset replacement strategies, and integrating resiliency, reliability, and climate vulnerability insights into system planning.

JOB RESPONSIBILITIES:

- Provide strategic leadership to the Asset Management and System Planning departments

- Oversee development and refinement of the long-term T&D capital investment plan, ensuring it reflects system needs, internal priorities, and alignment with regulatory requirements.

- Ensure high-quality system planning studies that support upgrades, load growth, DER integration, and reliability improvements

- Support filings such as rate cases, storm dockets, and the Integrated Grid Plan (IGP), ensuring consistent and technically sound documentation

- Champion cross-functional collaboration between engineering, operations, and regulatory teams to ensure cohesive planning and execution

- Support alignment of asset data, GIS, AMI insights, and engineering analysis to support strategic investment decisions

- Collaborate with senior leadership, regulators, and external stakeholders to represent company strategy and technical plans

- Oversee applicable company capital, operations, and maintenance budgets ensuring alignment with business strategy.

- Ensuring engineering and operations activities are completed in regulatory compliance with FERC, NERC, NPCC, ISO-NE, and MPUC.

- Responsible for leadership development and succession planning within Asset Management to ensure Versant Power has the leadership capacity it needs in the future to achieve its operational and growth objectives.

- Supports the System Emergency Operations Plan (SEOP)

QUALIFICATIONS:

Required:

- Bachelor’s degree in engineering or a related field required

- Minimum 10+ years of progressive experience in electric utility operations, engineering, asset management, or system planning

- Strong background in capital planning, grid reliability, and condition-based investment decision-making

- At least 7+ years of progressive leadership experience, including managing technical teams or leading cross-functional initiatives

- Excellent communication, stakeholder engagement, and decision-making skills

- Proven ability to communicate complex engineering and planning concepts to regulatory bodies, and executive leadership, and non-technical stakeholders

- Demonstrated commitment to workforce development and delivering high quality internal and external customer service

- Strong interpersonal, consultative, and stakeholder engagement skills

Solid foundation in operational safety principles and practices

Preferred:

- Professional Engineer (PE) license or advanced degree

- Experience contributing to or leading regulatory filings such as rate cases or grid modernization plans

- Familiarity with climate vulnerability assessments, integrated grid planning, or resilience planning

- Proficiency with data tools such as AMI analytics, GIS platforms, or capital planning models

NOTES:

Position is primarily sedentary. Some walking, standing and driving required.

Position requires visual and mental concentration.

Position requires excellent interpersonal and communication skills.

Position requires excellent technical, analytical, and organizational skills.

Versant Power is a tobacco free and fragrance-free workplace.

RATE OF PAY:

Salary is commensurate with experience and qualifications.

APPLICATION NOTES:

Non-Bargaining Unit, Regular and Term employees who have at least six (6) months satisfactory job performance and attendance records in their current job are eligible to apply for posted positions.

This job description is subject to change at any time.

Versant Power is a tobacco-free, drug-free and fragrance-free workplace.

Versant power is an equal opportunity employer.