The Senior Vice President and Regional Manager of the Desert Southwest (DSW) region will exercise managerial authority and strategic leadership over three powerplants and 2,735 miles of high-voltage electric transmission, producing 5.6 million megawatt-hours of power and generating more than $253M in system revenue. The incumbent reports to the CEO and is directly responsible for bulk electric system compliance requirements under FERC, NERC and WECC and leads more than 200 federal employees.

Duties

As the Senior Vice President and Regional Manager of the Desert Southwest region you will: - Initiate, plan, develop, and implement broad power resource development, transmission, distribution, and marketing policy for the region. - Develop long-range engineering plans and modify the region's power system facilities in order to replace or upgrade power system infrastructure, construct facilities to serve new customer loads, and to enhance the physical security of facilities as appropriate. - Implement wholesale power and transmission rates sufficient to assure the timely repayment of the Federal investment in facilities and appurtenances. - Represent WAPA at negotiations and other decision-making conferences. Establish working and consultative relationships with Federal, State, and local government, public and private interest groups, and employee labor unions to ensure widespread input into the data collection, analysis, and decision-making processes. - Ensure continuity of service is maintained at an optimum level and proper maintenance upkeep of DSW's power system including the development and application of maintenance standards and intervals for inspections. -

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: Experience managing a large, complex utility organization and/or functions associated with the electric utility industry. Experience with utility functions may include negotiating and implementing complex market, transmission, operations and/or maintenance rates or contracts for the delivery of power; and/or the management and operations of electric utility transmission assets. MTQ 2: Experience building and maintaining a values-driven organizational culture for a team or organization within the electric utility industry in the United States. Experience should include building a culture that prioritizes ensuring work is performed in a collaborative, safe, inclusive, and effective manner. 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.

Contacts

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