Lead Engineer - T&S Asset Management

Job Title: Lead Engineer - T&S Asset Management

Reports to Manager, Transmission & Substation Asset Management
Office Location: Rochester NY, Lancaster NY, Kirkwood NY or Orange CT

The base salary range for this position is dependent upon experience and location, ranging from $101,400-$139,431

JOB SUMMARY:

This position is responsible for the development, implementation, and ongoing support of a Best-in-Class Asset Management Model for all AVANGRID T&S Assets. This role will provide data analysis and subject matter expertise to the organization including health and risk assessments of the population of T&S assets as well as supporting repair or replace asset strategies.

This position is responsible for developing and maintaining a T&S field survey methodology and criteria, facility prioritization and annual schedule of surveys, and the development of a survey assessment tool in support of AVANGRID’s Asset Condition Replacement Strategy. This information will be used to inform an overall T&S facility priority ranking, by OpCo, and put the T&S Project Development Team in a position to perform comprehensive needs and solutions assessments on those T&S facilities, identified as most critical.

This position is responsible for developing and maintaining various criteria, standards, and process documents (e.g. T&S “Brownfield” needs and solutions replacement strategy, etc.) which will aid in the execution of T&S field surveys, analysis for pre-conceptual/conceptual engineering activities, and comprehensive needs and solutions assessments. This role is expected to be Planning’s “go-to” resource when it comes to health assessments of our fleet of T&S assets as well as the application of industry codes & standards (e.g. NESC, ASCE, ISO 55000, etc.) in support of project development.

Specific responsibilities include leading AVANGRID efforts to:

· Develop, implement, and continuously improve a best in class T&S Asset Management program.

· Assess, recommend, and implement organizational process and resource changes and make use of latest technology to improve efficiencies.

· Influence the organization’s acceptance and use of asset management best practices in daily activities.

· Actively collaborate with other companies and industry peers (e.g. CEAITI, AMI, NATF, etc.) to ensure appropriate continual improvement and benchmarking.

· Influence positive regulatory outcomes by preparing, submitting, and defending (e.g. witness, etc.) high quality asset management strategies and policies that drive prudent decision making and reliability improvements.

· Develop and build collaborative relationships with internal business areas (e.g. Operations, Maintenance, etc.) as well as external stakeholders (e.g. regulators and ISO’s) by providing subject matter expertise as well as thoughtful, prudent, and well documented support for AVANGRID’s AM practices.

· Develop and implement methods to objectively monitor health, risk, performance and rates of deterioration or improvement of AVANGRID’s T&S asset base.

Specific responsibilities include leading AVANGRID efforts to:

• Develop, implement, and continuously improve a best in class T&S Asset Management program.
• Assess, recommend, and implement organizational process and resource changes and make use of latest technology to improve efficiencies.
• Influence the organization’s acceptance and use of asset management best practices in daily activities.
• Actively collaborate with other companies and industry peers (e.g. CEAITI, AMI, NATF, etc.) to ensure appropriate continual improvement and benchmarking.
• Influence positive regulatory outcomes by preparing, submitting, and defending (e.g. witness, etc.) high quality asset management strategies and policies that drive prudent decision making and reliability improvements.
• Develop and build collaborative relationships with internal business areas (e.g. Operations, Maintenance, etc.) as well as external stakeholders (e.g. regulators and ISO’s) by providing subject matter expertise as well as thoughtful, prudent, and well documented support for AVANGRID’s AM practices.
• Develop and implement methods to objectively monitor health, risk, performance and rates of deterioration or improvement of AVANGRID’s T&S asset base.
• Develop and continually maintain AVANGRID’s Asset Condition Criteria (e.g. T&S Brownfield Minimum Criteria and Guidance).  Updates to these criteria will be informed by the development of new techniques and methods to analyze T&S facilities and information obtained by performing T&S surveys.
• Actively monitors industry standards (e.g. NESC, ASCE) in support of best practices and represents T&S Asset Planning in the review and endorsement of AVANGRID’s TM Des