Lead Engineer (NE Electric, Asset Strategy)

natgridProd•Webster, MA

3d•$150,000 - $176,000•Hybrid

About The Position

About usSuperpowered. Meaningful work. Human impact. A story we're proud to tell. This is what matters to us at National Grid. In a world of complexity and unanswered questions, there is one thing we're certain about: The power of our people. National Grid is hiring a Lead Engineer (Electrical Planning and Design), Electrical Engineering for a hybrid role local to Northboro, Massachusetts.Job PurposeThe NE Electric Asset Strategy team’s purpose is to evolve National Grid’s approach to risk-based asset management by equipping our asset management teams with data-informed strategies to inform infrastructure maintenance and investment decisions. When the team is at its best it helps drive more holistic planning, including “right-on-time” operational and capital interventions to most cost-effectively manage risk. This team supports National Grid’s New England regulated electric transmission and distribution businesses. As an Asset strategy engineer, you will develop risk-based strategies for the Company’s key asset classes, and network strategies to set direction on some of the trickiest questions impacting the Company’s future investment decisions. Asset strategy engineers are also responsible for the creation and maintenance of asset health and criticality frameworks, which are used to set direction on modeling efforts conducted in partnership with the Company’s data science experts. These models will underpin the risk-based asset strategies developed and maintained by this team, which in turn will be used to inform asset replacement needs in capital investment plans for the short (zero to two year), medium (two to 10 year) and Long (10+ year) time horizons. Future ambitions are to enable whole-life costing for key asset families to optimize asset maintain/repair/replace decisions. The work is highly collaborative in nature and requires extensive collaboration with National Grid’s engineering, asset management, operations, and data science teams. In addition to strategy development, the team supports strategy adoption and change management. This includes supporting the distribution and transmission planning and asset management teams and on how to integrate new strategies into their processes and supporting regulatory filings.

Requirements

A Bachelor of Science degree in a relevant technical major including engineering, math, science, data science or science-related subject.
Ten (10) plus years of experience or Nine (9) with a Master’s Degree. Eight (8) years with a PE or Seven (7) with a PE and MS.
Extensive knowledge of electric transmission and distribution systems and assets (poles, conductor, cables, power transformers, circuit breakers, or protection/control systems) with the ability and desire to learn asset management frameworks, risk management concepts, and whole-life-costing.
Extensive knowledge of asset management frameworks, risk management concepts and whole-life-costing with the ability to learn electric transmission and distribution systems and assets (poles, conductor, cables, power transformers, circuit breakers, or protection/control systems).
Ability to "create the future" to deliver new asset management capabilities and efficiencies in response to the ever-evolving utility landscape.
Ability to understand and accurately define problems, analyze information, identify and evaluate solution options and make sound decisions and recommendations. Ability to deal with complexity, uncertainty and incomplete or conflicting information.
Ability to foster teamwork, work collaboratively, and manage stakeholders, yet able to be decisive to drive work forward, prioritizing incremental progress over perfection.
Demonstrated experience of people management, change management and financial management.
Valid driver's license required to facilitate travel, as necessary, across US service territory

Nice To Haves

Direct experience with PAS55 or ISO 55000 is a plus.
Understanding of the regulatory compact, regulatory processes, and New England electric transmission public planning process is a plus.

Responsibilities

Leverage existing data, asset health and asset criticality information to create actionable asset strategies for key asset families. These asset strategies should quantify existing and desired risk to the business and recommend capital investments or mitigations needed to maintain or mitigate risk as needed.
Define data enhancements to improve health modeling and enable whole-life costing to ultimately increase the effectiveness of our strategies to derive maximum value from our assets.
Support the development of company strategic business plans and future regulatory rate filings as needed.
Support adoption of new strategies, including working closely with distribution and transmission planning and asset management personnel
Develop asset policies to document and guide the application of asset strategies and inform asset management-based decisions.
Maintain National Grid's Strategic Asset Management Plan, defining how our asset management objectives enable the realization of the company's corporate objectives.
Support the delivery of improvement initiatives identified in the most recent Asset Management Maturity assessment to align the New England electric business with the ISO 55000 Asset Management Standard.
Build analytical models to yield insights for asset risk or network performance.
Stay abreast of asset and risk management best-practices across industry and with peer utilities.
Provide mandatory normal and off-hours support during emergency response events (i.e. storms). This obligation is required for all employees at National Grid.