Senior Manager, Substation Reliability & Capital Projects

Nova Scotia Power; Halifax; Hybrid; CAD 120,000 - 180,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Flexible remote workday

Comprehensive benefits plan

Career development opportunities

Community engagement & care

Job summary

Nova Scotia Power in Halifax, NS seeks a Senior Manager, Substation Reliability to lead the Substation Reliability team and oversee capital investment programs for transmission and distribution assets.

The role requires a Professional Engineer with strong leadership, project management, and stakeholder engagement skills to ensure reliable, safe, and cost-efficient substation operations and capital planning.

Qualifications

• Registered Professional Engineer (P.Eng.) with Engineers Nova Scotia or eligible for registration.
• Minimum 5 years of progressively responsible utility engineering, asset management, reliability, operations or capital program experience.
• Leadership experience managing technical or professional teams.
• Demonstrated experience with transmission and distribution substations, asset management and capital planning.
• Strong leadership, communication, stakeholder engagement, financial management and analytical skills.

Responsibilities

• Provide leadership, coaching, performance management and development for the Substation Reliability team.
• Develop plans to implement long-term asset management strategies for transmission and distribution substation assets.
• Work with the EAM team to understand asset health, risk and criticality assessments to identify investment needs and reliability risks.
• Lead the development and oversight of the Substation Capital Investment Program with the Substation Project Management and Substation Design Leads.
• Ensure projects are appropriately scoped, justified, estimated, approved and delivered in accordance with corporate capital governance requirements and ACE directives.
• Provide oversight of project execution activities including engineering design, project management, protection and control, commissioning and project close-out with the Substation Project Management and Substation Design Leads.
• Monitor program performance and implement actions to address schedule, scope, cost and execution risks.
• Ensure capital plans remain responsive to emergent equipment failures and changing system needs.
• Lead development of annual and multi-year capital investment plans, business cases, ACE filings, forecasting and reporting.
• Provide strategic oversight for procurement of major substation equipment and long‑lead materials.
• Act as a liaison between Asset Management, Operations, Engineering, System Planning, Project Delivery and other stakeholders.
• Provide leadership and technical direction as required during major equipment failures, system disturbances and restoration events.

Skills

Leadership

Strategic thinking

Project management

Stakeholder engagement

Financial management

Analytical skills

Education

Professional Engineer (P.Eng.) with Engineers Nova Scotia or eligible

Job description

Nova Scotia Power in Halifax, NS seeks a Senior Manager, Substation Reliability to lead the Substation Reliability team and oversee capital investment programs for transmission and distribution assets.

The role requires a Professional Engineer with strong leadership, project management, and stakeholder engagement skills to ensure reliable, safe, and cost-efficient substation operations and capital planning.