Senior Resilience 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.

Job Function

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

Responsibilities

• External Resilience Initiatives and Opportunities
  • Leads efforts on external resilience initiatives and grant application development for federal and other funding opportunities.
• Work Plan Development, Prioritization, and Management
  • Leads efforts to develop multi-year work plans and priorities for projects and programs to enhance resilience. This includes determining resilience improvement project/program cost, value, sequencing/timing, and priority. It also includes on-going work plan monitoring, management, updates, and cost/benefit tracking.
• Resilience Strategy Development
  • Leads efforts to develop/update strategies to enhance our electric T&D system's ability to anticipate, absorb, adapt to, and/or rapidly recover from potentially disruptive events (e.g., hurricanes, earthquakes, tsunamis). This includes working with external stakeholders and customers to assess vulnerabilities and risks; coordinating and integrating internal and external planning activities (particularly through the Integrated Grid Planning process and Resilience Working Group); identifying requirements, priorities, and constraints; establishing goals and objectives, determining improvement options, analyzing/modeling solutions, determining optimal/reasonable approach, and gaining necessary approvals. Supports the assessment, development, and refinement of resilience PIMs/PBR metrics.
• Industry Knowledge and Leading Practices
  • Keeps abreast on industry developments and leading practices related to resilience including new technologies, applications, modeling tools/methodologies, advanced analytics, benchmarking, and reporting practices. Participates and represents Hawaiian Electric (preferably in leadership roles) on industry committees/task forces to identify and address emerging issues and opportunities.
• General Support and Improvement
  • Supports 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.
  • Participates 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 resilience
  • Electric power supply, transmission, and distribution systems and components
  • Electric power system operation
  • Probability, statistics, and risk
  • Utility information systems
  • Utility financial and accounting principles
  • Utility regulation
• General understanding of:
  • Electric power system reliability
  • Electric power system inspection and maintenance
  • Utility/Infrastructure asset management
• Skills Requirements:
  • Critical Thinking and Decision Making
  • Analytical
  • Computer Applications
  • Communication
  • Presentation
  • Project/Program Management
  • Teamwork
  • Conflict Resolution
  • Negotiation
  • Personal
  • Interpersonal
• Experience Requirements:
  • Extensive (8+) 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.