Executive Job Description | Vice President, Planning and Asset Mgmt - Energy
Location: Vancouver, WA
Relocation : Yes
Must be US Citizen
The ideal candidate has experience with and knowledge of transmission system planning, as well as knowledge of western power markets, and demonstrates strong competencies in learning agility, customer focus, political savvy and drive for results.
Qualified candidates will have an outstanding track record in successfully leading and managing: transmission system planning; representing a transmission provider on transmission planning and other pertinent issues through participation in regional and national groups; and the asset management responsibilities of a transmission system. The position reports to the Senior Vice President for Transmission Services.
We are seeking a highly qualified, dynamic engineer to lead the Planning and Asset Management organization in the Transmission Services business unit.
The Vice President also serves as the our Chief Engineer.
They will be responsible for providing executive leadership in the planning, development, and administration of programs that ensure the reliable, safe, and competitive operation of a bulk high voltage (500kilovolt) transmission system encompassing approximately 15,000 circuit miles of transmission lines spread throughout four states in the Northwest Region of the United States.
They will be responsible for sustaining this $5 billion dollar system by administering a capital budget of up to $600 million per year.
We provide approximately 50 percent of the energy used in the Region and the transmission grid provides approximately 75 percent of the Region's high voltage capacity.
The Vice President serves as a member of the Executive Management Committee and is a key policy formulator and decision maker for Transmission's strategic planning and asset management strategies.
The position is responsible for providing executive level leadership to approximately 380 permanent and contract employees engaged in performing highly specialized system engineering, planning, and design functions associated with the development and operation of a high voltage interconnected transmission grid and facilities, including two control centers.
We are headquartered in Portland, Oregon.
We serves the Pacific Northwest by operating an extensive electric transmission system and marketing wholesale electrical power at cost from federal dams, one non-federal nuclear plant and other nonfederal hydroelectric and wind energy generation facilities.
We strive to be a national leader in providing high reliability, low rates consistent with sound business principles, responsible environmental stewardship and accountability to the Pacific Northwest region.
Benefits
We offer highly competitive benefits that are matched by few employers.
- Health Benefits, with no exclusions for pre-existing conditions
- Retirement: with up to 5% employer contribution match to Thrift Savings Plan a contributory retirement investment program similar to a 401(k).
- Life Insurance
- Optional Long Term Care Insurance
- Five weeks of vacation, 2 ½ weeks of sick leave. Both types of leave accrue from year to year.
Technical Qualifications
You must be a registered professional engineer to qualify for this position.
You must provide proof of this certification. Also, you must address the following qualifications in your resume or in a separate document.
1. Professional knowledge, experience and ability to apply electrical engineering theories, concepts, practices, and principles associated with system engineering, planning, design, development, and operation of an interconnected extra high voltage (above 230 kilovolt) electrical transmission system sufficient to evaluate, develop, and implement engineering programs.
2. Professional knowledge, experience and ability to apply sound asset management principles and practices to electric utility assets.
3. Knowledge of the wholesale electric utility industry sufficient to evaluate, formulate, and implement strategies and policies to achieve short- and long-term business objectives associated with the safe, reliable, and economically viable operation of a large high voltage transmission system
Executive Core Qualifications
To be eligible for consideration, applicant must demonstrate all of the following Executive Core Qualifications (ECQs).
Please provide a statement in which you address each ECQ individually.
We are very interested in examples from your work experience where you provide the challenge, context, action taken, result, and what you have learned from the experience that you have used in subsequent situations.
ECQ 1: Leading Change. This core qualification involves the ability to bring about strategic change, both within and outside the organization, to meet organizational goals. Inherent to this ECQ is the ability to establish an organizational vision and to implement it in a continuously changing environment.
ECQ 2: Leading People. This core qualification involves the ability to lead people toward meeting the organization's vision, mission, and goals. Inherent to this ECQ is the ability to provide an inclusive workplace that fosters the development of others, facilitates cooperation and teamwork, and supports constructive resolution of conflicts.
ECQ 3: Results Driven. This core qualification involves the ability to meet organizational goals and customer expectations. Inherent to this ECQ is the ability to make decisions that produce high-quality results by applying technical knowledge, analyzing problems, and calculating risks.
ECQ 4: Business Acumen. This core qualification involves the ability to acquire and administer human, financial, material, and information resources in a manner that instills public trust and accomplishes the organization's mission, and to use new technology to enhance decision-making.
ECQ 5: Building Coalitions/Communications. This core qualification involves the ability to build coalitions internally and with other Federal agencies, State and local governments, nonprofit and private sector organizations, foreign governments, or international organizations to achieve common goals.
Interviews
Competency interviews will be conducted for this position; applicants selected for interviews will be provided additional information.
The ideal candidate has experience with and knowledge of transmission system planning, as well as knowledge of western power markets, and demonstrates strong competencies in learning agility, customer focus, political savvy and drive for results.
Qualified candidates will have an outstanding track record in successfully leading and managing: transmission system planning; representing a transmission provider on transmission planning and other pertinent issues through participation in regional and national groups; and the asset management responsibilities of a transmission system. The position reports to the Senior Vice President for Transmission Services.
Send Qualified Resume To: manager@globalsystems.ws
All resumes are confidential and we will not submit until we receive your approval.
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