Engineering Manager - Energy Accounting, Control Systems

Grant County Public Utility District•Ephrata, WA

1d•$154,144 - $269,032•Hybrid

About The Position

The Manager Engineering – Energy Accounting is responsible for the leadership, reliability, and strategic direction of the District’s energy and water accounting applications, ensuring 24/7 operational continuity of critical systems. This role manages assigned engineering and technical staff and is accountable for workload prioritization, staff development, system architecture, integration, and support practices aligned with enterprise technologies and business objectives. Serving as the District’s primary technical and business liaison with the outsourced power marketing partner, this position coordinates with internal departments, external utilities, and regulatory agencies. The manager leads capital improvement initiatives, ensures compliance with NERC reliability standards related to interchange scheduling, evaluates emerging technologies while aligning work with department priorities, staffing capacity and business objectives.

Requirements

Bachelor’s Degree in Engineering, Computer Science, Cyber Security, Information Technology, MIS, or related technical field; OR 2 additional years of relevant experience in lieu of degree.
Ten (10) years of progressively responsible experience in engineering, application systems, or a related technical field, including at least (1) year of experience leading people projects or cross-functional work.
Demonstrated experience in maintaining and supporting mission critical applications and systems, including responsibility for 24/7 operational support and monitoring.
Direct experience with PCI GSMS Energy Accounting and Meter Data Management applications.

Nice To Haves

Experience in electric utility or energy industry, including exposure to energy accounting, settlements, interchange scheduling, or market operations.
Experience with OATI’s WebSmartTagging, WebScheduler, WebTrader, WebSmartOASIS, WestTrans, WebAccounting and WIT.
Knowledge of Western interconnect markets such as WEIM, EDAM, or SPP Markets+.
Experience with the concepts, principles, theories, and methods surrounding electrical engineering industry standards and best practices.
Knowledge of data processing principles sufficient to review program specifications, design programs, and modify software code.
Ability to review and provide thoughtful feedback on contracts with suppliers, counterpart utilities, and regulatory agreements.
Independently adapt, interpret, and apply written guidelines, precedents, and standardized work practices to a variety of unprecedented and problematic situations.
Skill in: Problem solving and critical thinking, Report creation and submittal, Workflow and time management, Utilization of MS office products, Project management, Resource management, Application integration, Written and oral interpersonal communication.

Responsibilities

Lead capital improvement initiatives for energy and water accounting systems, ensuring effective planning, design, implementation, and lifecycle management of utility control system applications.
Direct application architecture and support practices, providing technical leadership for system design, integration, and implementation aligned with enterprise technology standards.
Collaborate with Enterprise Technologies and telecommunications teams to ensure seamless integration between internal systems and externally hosted accounting platforms.
Serve as a key point of coordination with external partners, including power marketers, utilities, and regulatory agencies, while aligning internal stakeholders to maintain continuity of critical control system operations.
Provides first line leadership, supervision, mentoring, and performance management for assigned staff, including workload prioritization, professional feedback, professional development, training and operational support coordination; participate in workforce planning and succession planning activities as appliable.
Ensure compliance with NERC Reliability Standards related to interchange scheduling by guiding the development and implementation of policies, procedures, and industry best practices.
Evaluate and advance emerging technologies through opportunity assessments and proof-of-concept initiatives, driving innovation and continuous improvement in system capabilities.
Support budget development, forecasting, and management for energy and water accounting systems, ensuring alignment with organizational priorities and fiscal responsibility.
Serve as district representative for all software and service contracts related to energy and water accounting applications.
Demonstrated commitment to Grant PUD’s mission, vision, values, strategic plan, and Grant PUD / IBEW Local 77 Code of Excellence. The incumbent should be familiar with these organizational priorities and behave in a way that aligns with these expectations.
Understand and adhere to compliance requirements for this position that may include laws, regulations, security guidelines, Grant PUD policies & Procedures.
In this position, if needed to operate a GPUD vehicle for business purposes, please refer to Vehicle/Asset Usage Policy, IS-TA-POL-001.
Actively participate in all aspects of our safety program, including but not limited to: Following all safety policies and procedures. Alerting supervisors and coworkers to unsafe or hazardous working conditions. Reporting any unsafe incidents or close calls within 24 hours to your supervisor; and Accepting feedback from supervisors and coworkers regarding your own safety performance.
Actively support programs and actions that improve our Safety Culture by: Supporting the presence of safety in your department (e.g. include safety messages in business conversations; begin meetings as appropriate with a safety minute). Ensuring supervisors are monitoring the safety actions of their teams (such as completing safety training, reporting incidents timely, etc.). Being viewed as a safety champion by stopping work if necessary, promoting safety activities (Continuous improvement team processes, Safety & Health Improvement Plan (SHIP) activities, etc.). Acknowledging compliant safety behaviors and good safety performance from members of your team(s).
This position requires NERC CIP access, and incumbents must meet and maintain eligibility with the established criteria in the Grant PUD Personnel Risk Assessment Procedure.