Supervisor Engineering T&D - System Health

Arizona Public Service - APS; Phoenix (AZ); On-site; USD 120,000 - 150,000; Full time

Job summary

Arizona Public Service (APS) seeks a T&D Supervisor of Engineering– System Health to lead engineering services aligned with regulatory requirements and strategic goals. You will direct reliability-focused design, asset replacements, and technical analyses to support operations and maintenance decisions.

You will develop asset strategies and budgets, prioritize teams, and ensure policy compliance while representing APS at industry conferences and benchmarking activities to maintain system

Qualifications

• ABET-accredited engineering degree or PE registration with 5 years of related engineering and design experience.
• Professional Engineer registration preferred.
• Strong knowledge of T&D engineering codes, standards and practices.
• In-depth technical knowledge of transmission, distribution, operations and maintenance for substations.

Responsibilities

• Implement plans to meet department goals, ensuring procedures, regulations and standards are followed.
• Provide technical direction and guidance to engineers across multiple areas.
• Lead a high performing, multi-disciplined team through coaching and development.
• Allocate resources to ensure timely resolution of operational technical issues.
• Present reliability metrics to executives and communicate performance monthly.
• Support company policies and act as intermediary between management and staff.
• Develop departmental budgets and manage expenditures within approved limits.
• Stay current on new processes, technologies or regulations affecting the team.
• Provide technical guidance to ensure high-quality project outputs.

Skills

Professional Engineer registration

Supervisory experience

T&D engineering codes and standards

Transmission, distribution knowledge

Data analytics

PowerBI knowledge

Microsoft Office (Word, Excel, Outlook

Education

ABET-accredited engineering degree

Tools

MAXIMO

PowerBI

PowerPlan

Denodo

DGA analysis (TOAN, TOA4)

Microsoft Office

Job description

The T&D Supervisor of Engineering– System Health is responsible for overseeing engineering services that align with regulatory requirements, business unit/division goals and objectives, fiscal policy and established engineering practices. This role leads critical activities supporting operations and maintenance asset reliability, including engineering decision making, emergent and planned equipment replacements, technical analyses. The supervisor ensures methodologies are sound, conclusions are verified, and information is consistent to support strategic business decisions. Additionally, the position develops asset strategies and budget to enhance system reliability, establishes team priorities, and ensures operational decisions comply with policy. Supervisor will attend and participate in industry conferences for asset management strategies and act as APS representative in benchmarking to maintain good system reliability. Finally, the supervisor will inform and communicate company policy information, changes and requirements to staff.

A four-year Bachelors degree in engineering or related applied science discipline (see approved list) from an ABET accredited institution, an International Engineering Alliance (IEA) recognized institution or an ABET Mutual Recognition Agreement (MRA) or PE registration in electrical engineering from an ABET accredited institution, plus five (5) years of related engineering and design experience. Approved Engineering degrees: Materials Science/Metallurgy, Physics, Chemistry, Nuclear, Electrical, Mechanical, Civil, Electronics, Computer Science, Environmental, Chemical, Architectural, Structural. A four-year bachelor of Engineering Technology degree is not considered an automatic equivalent for a B.S. degree in Engineering. A review of the degree program curriculum must be completed by the Engineering Career Path Review Board to determine equivalency level.

Preferred Special Skills, Knowledge or Qualification

• Professional Engineer registration.
• Demonstrated supervisory experience and ability.
• Possess working knowledge of T&D engineering applicable codes, standards, practices and methods in specific engineering discipline and in-depth technical knowledge of transmission, distribution, operations, and maintenance with a focus in substation assets.
• Strong process improvement, data analytics and business focus.
• Preferred knowledge of MAXIMO, DireXYion, DGA analysis (TOAN, TOA4), PowerPlan, Denodo, and data analytics in PowerBI.
• Proficiency with Microsoft Word, Excel, Outlook and Internet.

Major Accountabilities

1) Implement action plans to achieve established department/division goals and objectives; provide technical direction, ensuring conformance to procedures, government regulations and established codes and standards; control section costs to achieve established budgets; ensures department engineering and design work is technically sound and cost effective and projects meet schedule and budget commitments.

2) Provide direction and guidance to engineers in multiple areas which may include engineering design, planning, technical analyses, overseeing methodologies, verifying conclusions and ensuring quality and consistency of information used in engineering related business unit strategies; provide consultation and technical expertise to other groups to resolve complex issues.

3) Select and develop a high performing, multi-disciplined team through effective coaching, performance feedback, recognition, training and developmental opportunities.

4) Provide resource allocation for a multi-functional, single discipline organization to ensure timely and competent resolution of operational technical issues.

5) Provide results of analysis for reliability metrics annually to executive management for use in strategic planning. Communicate the actual results of reliability metrics monthly to executive leadership.

6) Implement and support company policies by functioning as the intermediary between management and frontline employees.

7) Develop department budgets and manage department expenditures within approved limits.

8) Maintain up-to-date knowledge of new and changing processes, technologies or regulations that may impact work of team.

9) Provide technical guidance and support to ensure the highest quality project is produced; provides technical direction to ensure the section performs effectively according to sound engineering principles, practices, procedural standards and regulatory requirements.

10) Effectively interfaces with internal customers and other departments to ensure project objectives are achieved and costs contained within budget.