This position is located in the Infrastructure Asset Management & Planning organization within the Western Area Power Administration (WAPA), Office of the Chief Operating Officer. As WAPA's SVP, Infrastructure Asset Management & Planning, provides oversight for infrastructure policy, asset management and transmission planning functions to ensure stewardship and development of WAPA's 17K miles of HV transmission lines and related bulk electric system assets across 15 western states.

Duties

Provides WAPA-wide leadership in developing and aligning enterprise infrastructure planning and policy, in coordination with WAPA's regional managers, for the safe, reliable and economic operation of 17,000 miles of transmission lines and related infrastructure. This includes developing strategy, goals, and objectives for integrating WAPA's infrastructure policy and strategies with related and contributing functions, such as capital planning, budget, engineering, rights of way, siting, procurement, WAPA's tariff, and maintenance and construction activities. Oversees the development of frameworks, structures and tools to effectively plan and manage workload and work plans amongst critical staff and work groups supporting these functions. Provides leadership and strategic oversight for WAPA's infrastructure policy, Asset Management and transmission planning program execution. Broadly responsible for ensuring additions, replacement, maintenance, and retirement of WAPA's transmission plant and infrastructure assets are planned for using life cycle management, economic and reliability principles to meet WAPA's strategic, performance and mission objectives in a coordinated and cohesive manner, consistent with industry best practices. Ensures completion of long-term transmission planning studies and coordinates studies and assumptions with each region's maintenance and other short term and real time planning functions and operational studies. Reviews and provides feedback on planning studies of the appropriate market operator/BA partner/RTO or ISO. Establishes, communicates and implements policies, practices, standards and security measures to ensure effective and consistent operations. Identifies, recommends and implements new technologies and systems to improve processes and decision making to strengthen grid reliability and performance. This includes developing strategy, goals, and objectives for integrating WAPA's infrastructure policy and strategies with related and contributing functions, such as capital planning, budget, engineering, rights of way, siting, procurement, WAPA's tariff, and maintenance and construction activities. Oversees the development of frameworks, structures and tools to effectively plan and manage workload and work plans amongst critical staff and work groups supporting these functions. Supervises employees; direct, mentor, and evaluate staff; and approve multiyear work plans developed by subordinate offices and subsequently manage the overall work to enhance achievement of the goals and objectives. Attends to morale and organizational climate issues, using data from the Federal Employee Viewpoint Survey (FEVS) and other diagnostic tools. Ensures WAPA's compliance with Federal Energy Regulatory Commission's Standards of Conduct rules.

Requirements

Qualifications

Your resume must describe your executive core qualifications (ECQs) and experience, technical qualifications and give a synopsis of your accomplishments.Do not include a separate ECQ narrative. Additionally, Mandatory Technical Qualifications (MTQs) listed later in this section below must be addressed in a separate document. EXECUTIVE CORE QUALIFICATIONS: The five ECQs described below were designed to assess executive-level experiences and potential not technical expertise. They measure whether you have the broad executive skills needed to succeed in a variety of SES positions. 1: Leading Change: Ability to bring about strategic change, both within and outside the organization, to meet organizational goals and establish an organizational vision and to implement it in a continuously changing environment. 2: Leading People: Ability to lead people toward meeting the organization's vision, mission, and goals and provide an inclusive workplace that fosters the development of others, facilitates cooperation and teamwork, and supports constructive resolution of conflicts. 3: Results Driven: Ability to meet organizational goals and customer expectations and make decisions that produce high-quality results by applying technical knowledge, analyzing problems, and calculating risks. 4: Business Acumen: Ability to manage human, financial, and information resources strategically. 5: Building Coalitions: Ability to build coalitions internally and with other Federal agencies, State and local governments, nonprofit and private sector organizations, foreign governments, or international organizations to achieve common goals. MANDATORY TECHNICAL QUALIFICATIONS (MTQs): As part of your application package, aseparate document must be uploaded addressing each MTQ listed below. No more than one page per MTQ is allowed; additional information will not be considered. MTQs must provide specific examples that address relevant experience and accomplishments. Your leadership and management skills must be addressed in the MTQs listed below. Failure to submit a document addressing each MTQ will result in your application to be deemed incomplete and not be considered. MTQ 1: Demonstrated experience leading and directing a high voltage transmission planning organization for a large-multi-state electrical utility provider. MTQ 2: Demonstrated experience leading an asset management program for a high voltage transmission system to develop and implement short- and long-term asset program strategies. MTQ 3: Demonstrated ability to build and maintain productive relationships within the electric utility industry to strategically inform, influence, negotiate and accomplish organizational goals and objectives. Experience may include demonstrated experience establishing and executing public engagement or rate/tariff processes and/or effectively interacting with senior level managers/executives at regulatory agencies; DOE and other federal agencies; customers or customer trade associations; Regional Transmission Organization/Independent System Operator; and/or Regional Coordinating Organizations.

Education

There are no educational requirements for this position.

Contacts

• Address WAPA Headquarters 12155 W. Alameda Pkwy Lakewood, CO 80228 US
• Name: David Shaut Jr.
• Phone: 202-407-1346
• Email: [email protected]