Manager-Distribution Standards Engineering (Hybrid Schedule)

Eversource Energy • Westwood, MA

9d • $157,190 - $174,660 • Hybrid

About The Position

Accountable for the development, governance, implementation, and continuous improvement of Eversource’s Substation and Underground Distribution standards, specifications, work methods, design practices, and maintenance programs across Connecticut, Massachusetts, and New Hampshire. Leads enterprise standards engineering activities to support safe, reliable, resilient, compliant, and cost-effective design, construction, operation, and maintenance of substation, underground distribution, DER, and BESS assets.

Provides strategic leadership for equipment selection and standardization, asset strategies, maintenance requirements, technical governance, and standards compliance. Directs equipment failure investigations, root cause analyses, and corrective action strategies. Ensures alignment across Engineering, Operations, Supply Chain, Safety, and Information Technology. Leads represented and non-represented employees, enterprise initiatives, vendor partnerships, industry engagement, and technology solutions supporting standards management and asset performance.

Builds a high-performing, collaborative, and engaged team culture that promotes accountability, inclusion, innovation, continuous improvement, and employee development. The role also supports Transmission Line standards, Supply Chain inquiries, regulatory and legal matters, emergency spare strategies, industry research, standards-related technologies, DER integration, grid modernization, climate adaptation, and system resiliency. Emergency restoration assignments and travel between Massachusetts, Connecticut, and New Hampshire may be required.

Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree in Electrical Engineering or a related engineering discipline.
• At least 10 years of related experience.
• At least five years of experience in transmission, distribution, substation engineering, standards engineering, operations, or related electric utility disciplines.
• Supervisory and leadership experience.
• Thorough knowledge of electric distribution and transmission systems and equipment.
• Knowledge of local, state, and national codes, regulations, and policies governing electric-system construction, operation, and maintenance.
• Ability to develop and lead a high-performing, collaborative technical team and work effectively with all organizational levels and external counterparts.
• Ability to think and act strategically in a fast-paced environment with shifting or conflicting priorities, and to evaluate and implement programs and initiatives strategically and tactically.
• Ability to adapt and collaborate effectively with varied groups, including organizational leadership.
• Working knowledge of accounting, finance, budgeting, and database creation and management; ability to create ad hoc database reports.
• Ability to work accurately and efficiently under pressure, attend to detail, recognize information problems or discrepancies, and take appropriate action.
• Demonstrated expertise using software applications to develop decision-analysis models.
• Clear written communication and strong spoken communication, including presentation skills.
• Strong mental acuity, including the ability to discuss ideas intelligently and persuasively.
• Extensive analytical skills, including the ability to draw sound conclusions and act decisively.
• Project coordination skills.
• Ability and willingness to initiate and manage change.
• Valid driver’s license.
• Availability for emergency restoration assignments and travel between Massachusetts, Connecticut, and New Hampshire as necessary.

Nice To Haves

• An advanced degree.
• Experience managing technical teams, programs, or direct reports in a utility or infrastructure-related environment.
• Professional Engineering license is helpful.

Responsibilities

• Establish strategic direction, governance frameworks, and long-term roadmaps for Substation and Distribution design standards, specifications, work methods, and technical strategies.
• Ensure standards support corporate objectives for safety, reliability, resiliency, affordability, sustainability, and regulatory compliance.
• Lead organizational change associated with new standards, designs, technologies, equipment, and work practices, including completion of related material, system, drafting, communications, and training updates as needed.
• Serve as enterprise owner and approval authority for Substation and Distribution Underground standards.
• Manage standards governance and compliance monitoring, including periodic audits and corrective actions.
• Set enterprise maintenance program strategy, standards, frequencies, and continuous improvement processes to optimize asset performance and lifecycle costs.
• Lead represented and non-represented employees through workforce planning, performance management, succession planning, talent development, and engagement initiatives.
• Support technical review and publication oversight of Transmission Line standards and internal audit requests as needed.
• Support Supply Chain inquiries concerning materials and equipment, including obsolete materials, alternatives, vendors, phase-out/phase-in strategies, existing inventory, and surplus material disposition.
• Establish or support emergency spare requirements and stocking strategies for Distribution Underground materials and equipment.
• Support Legal, Regulatory, and other stakeholders on design, construction, maintenance, and work-practice inquiries; prepare or review regulatory interrogatory responses; serve as an industry expert in legal depositions; and support or testify in regulatory cases and dockets.
• Manage annual work plans, goals, and initiatives; develop scopes, execution plans, and schedules; identify contractor work and oversee its execution.
• Represent Eversource in state, regional, national, and industry organizations, including IEEE, DPUC, ECNE, EEI, and USA Standards.
• Recommend and participate in construction and material standards research involving transmission and distribution systems, including work with NEETRAC and EPRI as needed.
• Govern standards-related technologies, business systems, engineering data, and digital solutions, including the Equipment Failure Reporting System, Standards Bookshelf, Microsoft Power Apps, and Standard AI Tools.
• Lead and represent the T&D Standards organization in Engineering and Operations governance forums and communicate projects and standards updates through presentations and meetings.
• Support integration of DER, electrification initiatives, and grid modernization technologies.
• Develop standards supporting system resiliency, climate adaptation, and extreme weather preparedness.
• Evaluate emerging technologies and industry practices for potential application to the Eversource electric system.
• Respond to emergency restoration assignments as required and travel between Massachusetts, Connecticut, and New Hampshire as necessary.

Benefits

• Competitive total rewards program.
• Potential incentive eligibility. The job posting directs candidates to the company careers site for an overview of benefits programs.

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Manager