Standards Strategy Director

S&C Electric Company•Chicago, IL

1d•Hybrid

About The Position

As an S&C Electric team member, you’ll work on projects that have real-world impact. You’ll help transform the grid for resilient and reliable power worldwide. S&C has more than a 100-year history of innovation and has been 100% employee-owned since 2012. We continue this legacy as a trusted, forward-thinking leader in the electrical industry. You will advance a safer, more reliable, and more resilient electrical grid. Our products help the grid adapt to severe weather and transition to clean energy. We’re big enough to be a respected industry leader but small enough for you to impact our company directly. Our commitment gives you opportunities to impact on and off the job positively. Join S&C to make an impact on tomorrow’s energy challenges and become an employee-owner. S&C Electric Company is seeking a dynamic individual to join our Technology Breakthrough and Innovation team. As Standards Strategy Director, you’ll be crucial in ensuring continued innovation and supporting our 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. The team member will ensure that product development and marketing are aligned with standards and regulations in the US and internationally. 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 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.