General Manager, Engineering (19328)

Duquesne Light Company headquartered in downtown Pittsburgh is a leader in providing electric energy and has been in the forefront of the electric energy market with a history rooted in technological innovation and superior customer service. Today the company continues its role as a leader in the transmission and distribution of electric energy providing a secure supply of reliable power to more than half a million customers in southwestern Pennsylvania.

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Job Title:General Manager Substation Civil and Transmission Engineering

Position Summary:

Reporting to the Director Grid Infrastructure and Engineering this role leads the Substation Equipment and Control Civil and Transmission Engineering groups.

Job Duties and Responsibilities:

• Oversee all Substation and Civil/Transmission engineering to ensure compliance with construction standards company policies and national codes (IEEE NEC NESC DEP EPA CIP RF NERC FERC etc)
• Ensure proper permitting is obtained for design work released to construction including but not limited to geotechnical permitting private property rights and all necessary state county and municipal permits.
• Coordinate with other departments to ensure projects are completed in a timely cost effective manner resulting in a high level of customer satisfaction.
• Manage and oversee contractor engineering resources work with Procurement to establish contracts and support bid events.
• Monitor and report on progress of all projects both internally and externally designed to ensure schedules are met and coordinated with all other support groups for timely availability of equipment and materials.
• Directs the establishment and disciplined use of engineering design practices project estimating and bill of material (BOM) compilation used by DLC and contract resources.
• Responsible for engineering projects to achieve safe reliable resilient service and aligns with customer/project inservice dates
• Develops engineering design personnel to be safetyminded technically competent teamoriented and highly productive.
• Ensures safety is top of mind when issuing engineering drawings and performing work (engineering field work driving etc)
• Demonstrating effective leadership through staff development budget management and communication and collaboration with other departments.
• Provides businesscase support for plans and budgets including alignment with DLCs goals and initiatives.
• Participates in industry benchmarking and engagement events (EEI EAPA NEUC etc)
• Ensures DLC is compliant with all applicable regulations (PUC NERC FERC etc)
• Ensure the necessary training and training materials are provided for engineers and drafters
• Testify as directed by the Corporate Legal Department as an expert witness at PUC hearings and civil law suits.
• Ensures post construction reviews are completed on time and meet required designs for FAC008.

Additional Responsibilities:

• Perform other jobrelated duties as assigned
• Storm team duties as assigned

Education and Experience Required:

• Bachelors Degree in Electrical Engineering or Civil Engineering
• 10 years of industry experience
• 5 years of prior management experience
• Proven leadership experience with a moderate to large scope
• Professional Engineering Licensure preferred

Skills/Abilities:

• Ability to communicate clearly and concisely.
• Strong attention to detail.
• Adaptability flexibility and comfort with working in a fastpaced environment.
• Highly organized and detailoriented with the ability to manage various priorities.
• Prompt executor.

Scope: Focus is on developing and exercising business plans policies and procedures that are directly aligned to the organizations strategy for given area. Key member of the management team representing the organization in dealings with clients and external bodies. Actively participates in proactive planning. Seasoned leader with extensive business experience. Deep functional expertise and significant product knowledge. Will assist with day to day management of operational execution as warranted when issues arise.

Decision Impact: Problems faced require expertise knowledge. Identifies emerging practices from best practices and proactively seeks opportunities to implement improvements. Improves on entire existing processes and systems using highlevel of interpretive skills and analysis. Defines broadbased solutions that may require consideration of multiple work dimensions (e.g. human financial and technical). Considers implications of solutions on other areas within organization and to the business of the organization.

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