Standards Strategy Director

S&C Electric Company • Chicago, IL

2h • Hybrid

About The Position

As an S&C Electric team member, you’ll work on projects that have real-world impact, helping to transform the grid for resilient and reliable power worldwide. S&C has over a 100-year history of innovation and has been 100% employee-owned since 2012, continuing its legacy as a trusted, forward-thinking leader in the electrical industry. This role contributes to advancing a safer, more reliable, and more resilient electrical grid, with products that help the grid adapt to severe weather and transition to clean energy. S&C is large enough to be a respected industry leader but small enough for direct individual impact. The company is committed to providing opportunities for positive impact both on and off the job. S&C Electric Company is seeking a dynamic individual to join their Technology Breakthrough and Innovation team as a Standards Strategy Director. This role is crucial in ensuring continued innovation and supporting a diverse team. The Technology & Breakthrough Innovation (T&BI) team drives the creation of new product solutions for S&C's customers by exploiting new technologies and enabling breakthrough product development for the fast-evolving, intelligent power grid. The Standards Strategy Director provides expertise in standards and regulations impacting the electrical grid and S&C Electric Company products, ensuring that product development and marketing are aligned with US and international standards and regulations. The team member will also seek to influence standard-making bodies and trade associations with new and emerging standards.

Requirements

• 10 years participation in an international standards-making body, at least at the sub-committee level.
• Undergraduate Degree within Engineering or related field.
• Solid understanding of the process of standards-making, through their inception, publication and maintenance.
• Excellent communication skills to work across the range of S&C stakeholders and ensure product requirements are developed with due consideration for their standards implications.
• Ability to work with, and influence industry stakeholders to achieve consensus around key topics which are important to S&C and support the expansion of electricity usage.
• Ability to travel frequently, including internationally to support S&C's standards strategy.

Responsibilities

• Identify "standards gaps" in S&C's product portfolio, i.e areas where S&C's products and relevant standards misalign in ways that might disadvantage those products.
• Collaborate with product managers to prioritize steps to address those gaps.
• Develop strategies and tactics with S&C team members in standards-making bodies (such as IEEE and IEC) and trade associations such as NEMA to close standards gaps and advocate for standards to meet the needs of emerging technologies.
• Build relationships within appropriate standards-making bodies to ensure S&C's perspective is represented at the committee and sub-committee level and reflected in PARs and and standards initiatives.
• Ensure S&C short-and long-term product roadmaps have appropriate "landing zones" in existing and emerging standards, which facilitate the execution of those roadmaps.
• Position S&C and, where appropriate, lead initiatives within standards-making bodies, to ensure electricity distribution equipment meets the needs of new and emerging applications both for utilities and C&I.

Benefits

• Health and Welfare Benefits: Medical & Prescription, Dental, Vision, Health Care and Dependent Care Flexible Spending Accounts, Health Savings Account (HSA), Group Life Insurance, optional Supplemental Life and AD&D Insurance, Wellbeing Resources including Employee Assistance Program and Family Forming Benefits (i.e., Adoption and Fertility support)
• Leave Benefits: Vacation Time, Sick Time, Paid Holidays and Company Shutdown days, Short-Term Disability, Long-Term Disability, Other Leaves, Paid Parental Time and Military Leave
• Retirement Benefits: 401(k) Retirement Savings and Employee Stock Ownership Plan (KSOP) offering traditional and Roth 401(k) options and an Employee Stock Ownership Plan (ESOP) component; KSOP participants can receive annual ESOP company contributions of over 11% of eligible earnings (3% Core, up to 3.5% Match, Variable Periodic).

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Director
• Number of Employees: 501-1,000 employees