Manager, Wildfire Portfolio & Performance - Oahu

hawaiianel•Honolulu, HI

8d•Onsite

About The Position

The P WS ADMIN - WILDFIRE STRATEGY Department of the P WILDFIRE STRATEGY Division at Hawaiian Electric Company has 1 management vacancy available. This role, classified as a Manager Supervisor, is responsible for preparing the integrated portfolio of Wildfire Safety Strategy (WSS) mitigation programs and initiatives in collaboration with implementation teams across departments. The position ensures a fully integrated plan that meets internal and external expectations and oversees Hawaiian Electric’s industry benchmarking efforts related to wildfire mitigation.

Requirements

Bachelor’s degree in Engineering, Business, Policy, or related field.
Strong working knowledge of industry wildfire mitigation KPIs, performance targets, execution work processes and data.
Expert knowledge of T&D portfolio, project, and/or program management.
Ability to understand and apply quality metrics, risk management principles, and working knowledge of regulatory processes.
Strong understanding of wildfire risk across Hawaiian Electric’s territories, including the regulatory, technical, operational, and public-facing dimensions.
Familiarity with capital tracking systems and strategic oversight functions.
Execution Oversight: Ability to manage initiative tracking, status reviews, and dashboard reporting.
Compliance Assurance: Ability to lead pre-audit, regulatory reporting coordination, and internal controls documentation.
Cross-Functional Oversight: Ability to facilitate coordination between strategy, operations, risk, and compliance teams.
Technical Proficiency: Advanced skills in Excel, SharePoint, MS Project; experience with audit tools.
Multiple (7+) years of experience in portfolio and program management roles required.
Experience with quality, compliance, or risk management roles, preferred.
Experience in portfolio tracking, regulatory reporting, and governance facilitation, highly desirable.

Nice To Haves

Experience with quality, compliance, or risk management roles.
Experience in portfolio tracking, regulatory reporting, and governance facilitation.

Responsibilities

Performs overall WSS update project management activities across involved departments.
Prepares the integrated portfolio of WSS mitigation programs and initiatives in collaboration with implementation teams across all involved departments to ensure successful completion of WSS project and program scopes.
Develops high level processes to receive timely and accurate progress and performance updates with initiative owners.
Develops and manages dashboards that supports monitoring of wildfire related metrics for internal leadership, stakeholder communication, and regulatory reporting.
Monitors ongoing project, program, initiative execution relative to WSS objectives in coordination with execution organizations.
Provides timely and accurate metric reports, forecasts, and analyses on a monthly, quarterly, annual, and ad hoc basis.
Coordinates development and implementation of corrective action plans across teams and escalates unresolved issues to appropriate governance forums for resolution.
Oversees development and maintenance of a centralized knowledge management system for WS portfolio and performance activities (plans, reports, models, audits) supported by Portfolio and Performance and Quality leads.
Develops Quality Assurance (QA)/Quality Control (QC) framework including roles and responsibilities, expectations, and requirements.
Oversees development of quality metrics, standards, and processes based on WSS goals and objectives.
Oversees internal review of wildfire mitigation programs, initiatives, and field activities relative to plans and standards and aligned with regulatory expectations through cross-functional stakeholder collaboration and quality management.
Oversees and participates in site visits and validates program adherence to the WSS including quality control that ensures work is completed as defined, or with appropriately approved deviations.
Oversees coordination of compliance reporting, walkthroughs, and control reviews.
Supports wildfire-related regulatory reporting requirements.
Oversees maintenance of centralized records and systems (i.e., audit logs, traceability matrices, and corrective action tracking systems) for planning, compliance, and reporting.
Participates in lessons learned forums from execution reviews and audits and incorporates findings into annual WSS updates and updated compliance management protocols.
Maintains transparent communication with internal and external stakeholders regarding progress and performance (including compliance and quality) of wildfire mitigation programs and strategic initiatives.
Supports the development of stakeholder-specific reports and updates on progress and performance (including compliance and quality) of wildfire mitigation programs and strategic initiatives.
Supports WS Planning and Risk manager in conducting stakeholder workshops and forums with public agencies, regulators, and the community and leads portfolio and performance related workshops and forums.
Leads preparation and review of responses to information requests.
Oversees Hawaiian Electric’s industry benchmarking efforts related to wildfire mitigation.
Provides portfolio oversight, compliance, and quality subject matter expertise to support enterprise wildfire related training and development programs.
Facilitates decision-making at executive-level forums and leads/supports external engagement activities.
Leads external engagement activities with public agencies, regulators, and the community.
Maintains transparent communication with internal and external stakeholders regarding wildfire risk and strategy activities.
Supports development of stakeholder-specific reports and updates on wildfire mitigation progress.
Provides wildfire risk and strategy subject matter expertise to support enterprise wildfire related training and development programs.
Manages and administers department personnel matters throughout the employment lifecycle including recruitment, development, training, counseling, performance appraisals, compensation/merit increases, recognition, and termination.
Participates in Company emergency response activities as assigned, including any activities required to prepare for such emergency response.