Senior Manager, System Protection Engineering

About Ameren Transmission

About The Position

The Senior Manager, System Protection Engineering leads the execution and continuous improvement of system protection strategy in alignment with the enterprise “One Design” model. This role is accountable for delivering consistent, high-quality, and scalable protection engineering design packages that support safe, reliable, timely, and cost-effective operation and construction across transmission, sub-transmission, distribution, customer, bulk substation, and generation facilities. The Senior Manager translates enterprise design standards and strategic priorities into operational execution, ensuring system protection performance meets commitments for safety, reliability, compliance, budget, schedule, quality, and constructability.

Key responsibilities include:

• Drive consistency, standardization, and scalability of system protection design practices across transmission, sub-transmission, distribution, substation, customer, and generation protection work across all Ameren geographies.
• Partner with the VP, peers, managers, construction, operations, project management, transmission operations, and other key stakeholders to support a centralized, high-performing design organization.
• Own performance of system protection design delivery, including:
  • Efficient and cost-competitive designs
  • Timeliness and completeness of protection design packages
  • Quality, reliability, and constructability of issued work
  • Compliance with applicable codes, standards, regulations, NERC requirements, and company policies
• Establish and manage performance metrics aligned with enterprise design scorecards, with focus on quality, productivity, cost management, schedule performance, reliability, and compliance.
• Manage a blended workforce of internal system protection teams and external engineering partners to meet capital plan, maintenance, operations, and compliance demands while managing organizational budget goals.
• Establish strong governance of consultant performance, including quality, productivity, cost management, technical accuracy, and adherence to protection standards.
• Represent the company and department on matters involving relay protection, protection system performance, regulatory compliance, audits, industry committees, and assigned internal or external teams.
• Ensure appropriate support for Transmission Operations and system events, including support outside normal working hours as needed.
• Identify systemic protection design issues and lead continuous improvement initiatives across designs, tools, processes, standards, training, and work execution.
• Build organizational capabilities in AI and advancing technologies to optimize system protection work processes and reduce total cost of design.
• Keep abreast of state-of-the-art developments and improvements related to power system protection, protective devices, relay technologies, settings tools, fault modeling, and protection system performance.
• Develop managers and technical leaders to support long-term organizational capability.
• Foster a culture of accountability, safety, and continuous improvement aligned with enterprise expectations.

Minimum Qualifications

Bachelor's degree in Engineering is required; Electrical Engineering preferred.  Master's degree in engineering or business is preferred. Professional Engineer Certificate is preferred. Ten years of engineering or electric utility industry experience or equivalent is required.  Possible equivalent experience would be providing applicable consulting services to electric utilities.  Four or more years of supervisory or high-level team or project