Manager, Performance and Reliability Engineering

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The Manager of T&D Asset Performance & Reliability Engineering is responsible for ensuring that the U.S. transmission and distribution (T&D) assets are meeting planned financial and operational performance objectives. This position leads a team of reliability and performance engineers who monitor the operational performance and health of assets. The team is tasked with utilizing data and other forms of operational results to quantify risks and identify asset performance improvement opportunities.

Main Responsibilities:

• Oversees reliability strategy initiatives and improvements.
• Develops and maintains asset strategy plans
• Develops processes and tools necessary to capture, analyze, monitor, trend, and report asset condition indicators and asset health indices.
• Develops asset performance improvement opportunities.
• Improves overall data relevance and implements processes to improve data quality and collection.

• Provides continuous assessment of asset performance by monitoring the asset register and related records.
• Ensures root cause analyses (RCAs) are performed on T&D equipment failures.
• Ensures all recommendations from RCAs are implemented across the US T&D businesses.
• Supports development and updates of Asset Life Cycle Plans (ALCP) for critical asset classes.
• Ensures accurate monitoring and reporting of T&D asset performance and metrics.

• Establishes T&D operational KPI targets based on industry standards and statistical analysis.
• Determines plan for external benchmarking in the areas of business performance and asset performance that includes defining appropriate KPI's and targets.
• Audits inspection and maintenance programs for compliance.

Requirements:

• Bachelor or Master Degree in a STEM field or equivalent experience
• Experience - Eight to Fifteen years
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills
• Demonstrated superior leadership skills
• Understanding of Transmission and Distribution system operation, design and business processes

• Demonstrated ability to work effectively and cooperatively with others as well as operate with minimal supervision
• Experience in reliability engineering principles and methodology with strong preference given to site reliability engineering principles and data center reliability
• Familiarity with DAMA Data Management principles
• Experience with root cause and failure modes analysis methods with preference for RCI PROACT methodology
• Experience in utilizing results of data analytics and database tools

• Ability to manage and work multiple tasks simultaneously in a fast-paced environment.
• Languages - English

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