This position will be posted until a sufficient quantity of qualified applicants are received, therefore this posting may close with or without notice anytime after June 3rd, 2024, so candidates are encouraged to apply early.
Please Note:
- You must clearly demonstrate, on your resume, that you possess the knowledge, skills and experience stated in the Required Qualifications section, as well as, reflecting any experience/education you possess related to the Desirable Qualifications.
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Every day at SMUD, we deliver power to more than 1.4 million customers throughout the Sacramento area. As a community-owned, not-for-profit electric service, we have been providing low-cost, reliable electricity for over 70 years. We are a recognized industry leader and award winner for our innovative energy efficiency programs, renewable power technologies, and for our sustainable solutions for a healthier environment. Through the efforts of the 2,200 people that power us, we work 24/7 to keep the lights on and provide our customers with innovative energy solutions. We're one of the region's largest employers, with a reputation for attracting, developing, and retaining some of the most talented employees around.
The position provides leadership, management and accountability for distribution line design to ensure safe, efficient, cost effective and high-quality electric services for SMUD customers.
Employee Benefits:
- Competitive Medical, Dental, and Vision coverage
- Retirement through Public Employees Retirement System
- 457 and 401(k) plans available
- Flexible Savings Account
- Short and Long Term Disability
- Employee and Spouse Life Insurance
Purpose
Provide leadership, management and accountability for distribution line design to ensure safe, efficient, cost effective and high quality electric services for SMUD customers.
Nature and Scope
Supervise, direct, plan, organize, and document design activities for SMUD's electric distribution system assets including repair, modification, additions, planning and overseeing customer requests to ensure a technically sound and cost effective design and construction program that provides high workforce productivity and work quality. Manages personnel including contracts and contractors as assigned; performs performance management, discipline, evaluations, selection, training, motivating and mentoring.
Duties and Responsibilities
- Supervises, plans, and coordinates work activities, including assigning work crews, preparing and issuing work packages for completion of distribution line work including repair, modifications, and additions; prepares technical documents, effectively manages work through use of SMUD computer and software systems; provides detailed work instructions to address defined problems and related work scope.
- Ensure the safety of SMUD employees, contractor staff, and customers through adherence to established SMUD policies and goals.
- Oversees, schedules, and coordinates distribution design work by assessing SMUD personnel resources and workload requirements; identifies need for staff augmentation, and contractor support to complete required work; verifies material and equipment availability and access; develops alternative approaches to work, including providing guidance to designers; creates, verifies, and issues work orders; issues contracts to external contractors as needed.
- Conduct reviews, perform post-job audits to identify performance variances and to insure that work performed was done as planned, and develop improvements.
- Develop and maintain working relationships with internal clients, including managers, supervisors, project managers and others, and with developers, customers, outside agencies and local governments to minimize risk and protect SMUD, optimize efficiency, improve relationships, and achieve the objectives.
- Manages customer expectation including contracts and contractors as assigned; performs performance management, discipline, evaluation, selection, training, motivating, mentoring, and development of non-represented and represented personnel, as assigned; provides staff training and mentoring; promotes staff safety and a safe work environment; participates in selecting and orienting new personnel; evaluates work performance results; responsible for leading teams to accomplish objectives.
- Manage customer expectations by providing realistic feedback and communication to the customer on work in progress.
- Represent SMUD on governmental, industry and professional organizations and committees pertinent to the work processes assigned.
Required Education
High School diploma or equivalent
Required Experience
Ten or more (10+) years of progressively responsible work experience in design, construction, modification, maintenance or operation of electric distribution systems. Three (3) years in a lead and/or supervisory role.
Required Licenses/Certificates
Valid California Drivers license
Knowledge Of
Principles and practices of electric distribution and customer service design, construction, maintenance and operations, Federal, State, codes, and regulations; SMUD rates rules and regulations; principles of best practice customer service; metrics and unit costing principles; principles of supervision; OSE MOU, SDPs, special agreements; contracting principles including proposal development, negotiations; principles and practices for taking disciplinary action and conducting investigation; project management principles; budget development and administration.
Skills To
Provide leadership and effective supervision of a work group; translate measurements into effective performance measurements and accountabilities associated with specific work and individuals; communicate with upper management a clear understanding of the status of the work alternative scenarios and investment strategies; conduct benefit and risk; develop and motivate employees working in a team environment; resolve operational and personnel conflicts when they occur; measure, diagnose, and design work process changes and make a business case for the change; represent SMUD in a technical and professional manner; handle customer complaints to a successful conclusion; readily adapt to changing situations; express ideas effectively both in writing and oral communications; be an effective member of the SMUD leadership team.
Desirable Qualifications
- Knowledge and current use of California General Order 95, 128 and 165.
- Knowledge and current use of National Electric Code (NEC)
- Knowledge and understanding of joint pole ownership such as Northern California Joint Pole Association (NCJPA)
- Budget and resource planning experience
- Project Management experience
Sacramento Municipal Utility District
6201 S St
Sacramento
California United States
www.smud.org
