Sr Engineer, Asset Management

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.

Duquesne Light Company is committed to creating a culture of inclusion. We value and respect the unique differences and experiences of our employees. We believe that our differences lead to better collaboration innovation and outcomes. We want you to join our team!

The Senior Engineer Asset Management will develop engineering solutions to complex issues serve as a subject matter expert on substation equipment issues to groups within and outside of Asset Management and provide mentoring and guidance to other engineers.

Senior Engineer will lead and oversee critical Asset Management driven projects as well as resolving urgent issues that place customers out of service or posing a significant impact to system reliability.

Location: Woods Run Complex in Pittsburgh PA

Job Duties and Responsibilities:

• Asset Strategy: Develop replacement strategies for protective relay and control assets within Transmission and Distribution substations. Work closely with Protection Engineering to plan and scope upgrades of legacy relay and control panels and associated devices.
• Maintenance Planning: Manage maintenance and testing programs for protection system automatic reclosing and sudden pressure relay devices in compliance with NERC regulatory standards. Monitor trend prioritize and provide technical support in the troubleshooting and corrective maintenance of substation protective devices. Prioritize work within projects and programs and work with Schedulers Asset Management and System Planning to coordinate job scopes. Identify opportunities for improving efficiencies in maintenance practices to reduce spend.
• Trouble Support: Lead the investigation mitigation repair and communications throughout the duration of the restoration of urgent or emergent trouble events. Complete root cause analysis as required and recommend remediation action or actions working with Supply Chain Workforce Development and/or Engineering.
• Customer Excellence: Interface with industrial and commercial customers to plan maintain and upgrade equipment at customer substations.
• Work Management System: Update Work Management System (i.e. Maximo) accordingly as assets are installed removed replaced including creation of work orders assets and job plans. Manage work order requisition and expense approvals within the Work Management System.
• Leadership: Mentor less experienced engineers in scope development design maintenance practice and work management processes and decisions.
• Storm Support: Support restoration activities associated with power outages due to storms. Other emergent work may require evening and overnight support throughout the length of the event.
• Other duties as required

Additional Responsibilities:

• Perform other job-related duties as assigned
• Storm team duties as assigned

Education and Experience Required:

• Bachelor of Science Degree in Electrical Engineering from an ABET accredited university or college

• Minimum of 10 years of relevant work experience OR minimum of 7 years relevant work experience and Professional Engineer License
• Must possess strong technical writing and verbal communication skills

Preferred Qualifications:

• Experience working in electric utility substations
• Professional Engineer License (licensed in the state of PA preferred)
• Leadership experience
• Familiarity with ANSI/IEEE Standards
• Experience with Doble RTS and Powerbase

Scope

Primary Focus is on daily deliverables outputs and reporting. Accountable for managing ones own time and work flow and leads projects and/or large project steps. Work is complex in nature requiring the incumbent to draw on previous knowledge to perform role. Acts independently the majority of the time requiring guidance in only complex situations. Has well established capabilities acts as a resource to less experienced staff on moderately complex issues.

Decision Impact

Problems and issues faced are vague and require analysis of multiple sources of information for solution. Draws on significant past experience to perform role. Accountable for direct level of reasoning and decision making.

Hybrid Work

Position follows our hybrid work model with a minimum of two days working in the office and the remaining days working remotely. Reporting location and frequency may be subject to change based on job role and department needs.

Storm Roles

All Non-Union Employees will serve in storm roles as appropriate to their role and skillset. Please be sure to discuss storm roles with the hiring manager for this position as duties can vary across the Company.Examples of storm roles could include but arent limited to duties such as: working with operations for service center support or with the communications customer service or government affairs teams to respond to public and customer requests for information etc.

Data Governance

Utilize data to make business decisions as appropriate for the position support data stewardship activities and partner with IT on underlying data needs.

EQUAL OPPORTUNITY EMPLOYER
Duquesne Light Holdings is committed to providing equal employment opportunity to all people in all aspects of the employment relationship without discrimination because of race age sex color religion national origin disability sexual orientation and gender identity or status as a Vietnam era or special disabled veteran or any other unlawful basis as defined by applicable law and fostering a workplace free of unlawful discrimination and retaliation. This policy affects decisions including but not limited to hiring compensation benefits terms and conditions of employment opportunities for promotion transfer layoffs return from a layoff training and development and other privileges of employment. An integral part of Duquesne Light Holdings commitment is to comply with all applicable federal state and local laws concerning equal employment and affirmative action.

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