Manager, Distribution Engineering Design

LUMA Energy • Ponce, PR

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About The Position

This position provides strategic leadership for engineering operations by ensuring compliance, driving process efficiency and innovation, managing team development, and overseeing budgets and performance metrics to deliver reliable, high-quality results aligned with organizational objectives. Job Description: Provides leadership and oversight of distribution engineering design and related activities by ensuring compliance with engineering standards, regulatory requirements, and organizational objectives, delivering efficient project execution and supporting operational reliability and excellence. Drives operational efficiency and innovation by implementing process improvements and optimizing resource utilization across the group, achieving alignment with strategic objectives and measurable gains in productivity and performance. Manages and develops the engineering team members to build capability and improve collaboration, resulting in higher engagement and productivity. Develops and manages departmental budgets to allocate resources effectively and meet operational targets. Defines and monitors departmental KPIs to identify trends and drive continuous improvement. Leads, models and ensures consistent application of policies and regulatory standards across teams to support ethical operations and mitigate compliance risks. Leads and validates the planning and execution of restoration and emergency preparedness activities to strengthen operational resilience and response capacity. Assumes and oversees expanded duties aligned with organizational priorities and professional scope to drive departmental effectiveness and strategic alignment.

Requirements

• Bachelor of Science Degree Engineering. Bachelor of Science Degree in Electrical Engineering is preferred.
• 5 to 7 years' experience in a similar functional role in a Utility Environment, with at least 3 years' overseeing employees directly, leading teams, budgets and projects in a supervisor role.
• Experience managing day-to-day operations, teams, defining work plans and achieving departmental objectives.
• Professional Engineer License issued by the Puerto Rico Examining Board for Engineers, Architects, Surveyors and Landscape Architects.
• Be a member of the Puerto Rico Association of Engineers and Surveyors.

Responsibilities

• Provides leadership and oversight of distribution engineering design and related activities by ensuring compliance with engineering standards, regulatory requirements, and organizational objectives, delivering efficient project execution and supporting operational reliability and excellence.
• Drives operational efficiency and innovation by implementing process improvements and optimizing resource utilization across the group, achieving alignment with strategic objectives and measurable gains in productivity and performance.
• Manages and develops the engineering team members to build capability and improve collaboration, resulting in higher engagement and productivity.
• Develops and manages departmental budgets to allocate resources effectively and meet operational targets.
• Defines and monitors departmental KPIs to identify trends and drive continuous improvement.
• Leads, models and ensures consistent application of policies and regulatory standards across teams to support ethical operations and mitigate compliance risks.
• Leads and validates the planning and execution of restoration and emergency preparedness activities to strengthen operational resilience and response capacity.
• Assumes and oversees expanded duties aligned with organizational priorities and professional scope to drive departmental effectiveness and strategic alignment.

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Manager
• Number of Employees: 1,001-5,000 employees