SENIOR MANAGER, ENGINEER & SYSTEM PLANNING

VERSANT POWER•Hampden, ME

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About The Position

Versant Power is seeking a strategic and future-focused utility leader to serve as our Senior Manager of Asset Management & System Planning. This high-impact role responsible for shaping the company’s long-term investment strategy and ensuring a reliable, resilient, and climate-adaptive electric grid. The Senior Manager is responsible for aligning the utility’s long-range asset strategy with its near and mid-term system planning efforts to ensure a reliable, cost-effective, and future-ready electric grid. This role provides strategic oversight of the Asset Management department, which encompasses both asset strategy and system planning functions. The Senior Manager will lead the department through a direct report, the Manager of Asset Management, and will play a key role in shaping the utility’s approach to capital investment, grid modernization, and long-term infrastructure planning. . This leader plays a critical role in shaping the capital plan, supporting regulatory filings, guiding condition-based asset replacement strategies, and integrating resiliency, reliability, and climate vulnerability insights into system planning.

Requirements

Bachelor’s degree in engineering or a related field required
Minimum 10+ years of progressive experience in electric utility operations, engineering, asset management, or system planning
Strong background in capital planning, grid reliability, and condition-based investment decision-making
At least 7+ years of progressive leadership experience, including managing technical teams or leading cross-functional initiatives
Excellent communication, stakeholder engagement, and decision-making skills
Proven ability to communicate complex engineering and planning concepts to regulatory bodies, and executive leadership, and non-technical stakeholders
Demonstrated commitment to workforce development and delivering high quality internal and external customer service
Strong interpersonal, consultative, and stakeholder engagement skills
Solid foundation in operational safety principles and practices

Nice To Haves

Professional Engineer (PE) license or advanced degree
Experience contributing to or leading regulatory filings such as rate cases or grid modernization plans
Familiarity with climate vulnerability assessments, integrated grid planning, or resilience planning
Proficiency with data tools such as AMI analytics, GIS platforms, or capital planning models

Responsibilities

Provide strategic leadership to the Asset Management and System Planning departments
Oversee development and refinement of the long-term T&D capital investment plan, ensuring it reflects system needs, internal priorities, and alignment with regulatory requirements.
Ensure high-quality system planning studies that support upgrades, load growth, DER integration, and reliability improvements
Support filings such as rate cases, storm dockets, and the Integrated Grid Plan (IGP), ensuring consistent and technically sound documentation
Champion cross-functional collaboration between engineering, operations, and regulatory teams to ensure cohesive planning and execution
Support alignment of asset data, GIS, AMI insights, and engineering analysis to support strategic investment decisions
Collaborate with senior leadership, regulators, and external stakeholders to represent company strategy and technical plans
Oversee applicable company capital, operations, and maintenance budgets ensuring alignment with business strategy.
Ensuring engineering and operations activities are completed in regulatory compliance with FERC, NERC, NPCC, ISO-NE, and MPUC.
Responsible for leadership development and succession planning within Asset Management to ensure Versant Power has the leadership capacity it needs in the future to achieve its operational and growth objectives.
Supports the System Emergency Operations Plan (SEOP)