Senior Reliability Strategist - Oahu

About the role

The P RI RELIABILITY & RESILIENCE STRATEGY Department of the P ASSET PLANNING & STRATEGY Division at Hawaiian Electric Company has 1 management vacancy available. (Role: Professional)

Job Function

Leads efforts to measure, assess, develop, and update strategies, priorities, and work plans to improve electric transmission and distribution (T&D) system reliability for all three operating areas (O‘ahu, Maui County, and Hawai‘i Island).

Responsibilities

• Work Plan Development, Prioritization, and Management
  • Develop multi-year work plans and priorities for projects and programs to enhance reliability.
  • Determine reliability improvement project/program cost, value, sequencing/timing, and priority as well as on-going work plan monitoring, management, updates, and cost/benefit tracking.
• Reliability System Analyses
  • Analyze past outages and determine strategies to mitigate or lessen future events.
  • Help operating areas with requests for engineering assistance for all T&D system reliability matters and determine solutions to requests.
• Reliability Strategy Development
  • Develop/update reliability strategies to reduce the frequency and duration of electric service interruptions to customers.
  • Assess reliability performance and risk, establish goals and objectives, identify improvement options, analyze/model solutions, determine optimal cost/benefit approaches, and gain necessary approvals.
  • Support the assessment, development, and refinement of reliability PIMs/PBR metrics.
• Reliability Reporting
  • Provide timely, accurate, and consistent reliability metric reports, forecasts, and filings.
  • Develop, refine, and produce monthly, quarterly, and annual metric calculations and reports for internal stakeholders, Hawaiian Electric’s website updates, and Hawaii Public Utilities Commission submittals.
  • Enhance the automation, validation/cross-checks, and accessibility of reliability data and reports.
• Industry Knowledge and Leading Practices
  • Stay abreast of industry developments and leading practices related to reliability including new technologies, applications, modeling tools/methodologies, advanced analytics, benchmarking, and reporting practices.
  • Participate and represent Hawaiian Electric (preferably in leadership roles) on industry committees/task forces to identify and address emerging issues and opportunities.
• General Support and Improvement
  • Support the department and division in the development of systems, processes, procedures, methods, or other means needed to facilitate the smooth and effective functioning of the department/division.
  • As assigned on a temporary basis, fill in for the department manager.
  • Participate in Company emergency response activities as assigned, including any activities required to prepare for such emergency response.

Qualifications

• Bachelor of Science degree in a relevant engineering, math, science, or science-related major from an accredited school or college is highly desirable.
• Master's degree desirable, preferably in business administration (MBA) from an accredited school or college.
• Thorough understanding of:
• Electric power system reliability
• Electric power supply, transmission, and distribution systems and components
• Electric power system operation
• Utility information systems
• Probability, statistics, and risk
• Utility financial and accounting principles
• Utility regulation
• General understanding of:
• Electric power system resilience
• Electric power system inspection and maintenance
• Utility/Infrastructure asset management
• Expertise with:
• Critical Thinking and Decision Making
• Analytical
• Computer Applications (Microsoft Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Access, ERP/EAM, IRR, GIS)
• Communication
• Presentation
• Project/Program Management
• Teamwork
• Conflict Resolution
• Negotiation
• Personal
• Interpersonal
• Extensive (8+ or more) years of related work experience or demonstrated ability preferably within the electric utilities industry is highly desirable.
• Project Management Institute (PMI) Project Management Professional (PMP)® certification is desirable.