Vice President of Engineering

1. Actively participates with the Senior Leadership Team to develop, refine, and implement the strategic plan while ensuring that the division budget, staff, and priorities align with the company’s core mission.
2. Oversees the planning and siting of substations, transmission lines, and equipment for transmitting power from distribution points to consumers and monitor performance to ensure adequate capacity is available.
3. Determines distribution system requirements for short- and long-range system work plans.
4. Develops procedures in collaboration with peers to ensure cost and quality of distribution and line construction, including compliance with required specifications.
5. Directs and coordinates the annual system work plan with sectionalizing studies.
6. Ensures power speed and safety of power restoration during emergency and large-scale outage situations – in coordination with the Operations division.
7. Ensures distribution system reliability is within acceptable ANSI industry, and RUS standards as measured using reliability indices, including but not limited to SAIDI, CAIDI, and SAIFI as well as established corporate goals – in coordination with the Operations division.
8. Ensures functionality of metering points, switching schemes, and facilities and familiarity of employees responsible for restoration of electric service with the distribution circuit feeds and locations of system devices – in coordination with the Operations division.
9. Ensures effective use of AMI technology and data – in coordination with the Operations division.
10. Oversees the outdoor lighting design process and installations – in coordination with the Operations division.
11. Supports product development, sales, and marketing to discern competitiveness of innovative technologies and customer choice related initiatives – in coordination with the Commercial Marketing department.
12. Negotiates contracts for engineering support services and software and ensures contract compliance.
13. Monitors outage records to assess and address key system issues, including power quality and service reliability, load calculations, equipment operations, load profiling, mapping accuracy, and other system issues as needed, and ensure GreyStone members receive superior service reliability.
14. Oversees a routine maintenance program that ensures all sectionalizing, regulation, and metering point equipment is in proper working condition.
15. Coordinates joint-use activities with other utilities including engineering, safety inspections, and economics – in coordination with the Operations division.
16. Manages the operation, installation, and maintenance of the cooperative’s Load Management system, SCADA system, and GIS mapping system.
17. Assists with development of retail rates for all rate classes as a part of the Retail Rates team.
18. Develops and manages the annual budget and allocation of resources for the Engineering division.
19. Manages personnel actions within the division, including hiring, terminations, performance appraisals, and salary recommendations and builds a cohesive, team-oriented department that focuses on meeting the needs of the Cooperative.
20.  Develops, nurtures, and encourages relationships with federal, state, and local officials that will foster solid two-way communication and lend strength to positions held by the Cooperative.

• Bachelor’s degree in engineering or related field.
• Ten years of utility experience preferred.
• P. E. Certification preferred.
• Proven expertise in the operation and maintenance of electric distribution and transmission systems, substation design, and organizational planning.
• Experience in the operation, installation, and maintenance of Load Management and SCADA systems.
• Requires a valid State of Georgia driver’s license.
• Must satisfactorily pass employment physical examination and required drug screens.

Critical Thinking Skills

• Energetic, forward-thinking, and creative with high ethical standards.
• Has skills necessary to establish and maintain effective working relationships with people and organizations, demonstrating a strong commitment to the professional development of staff.
• Experienced team builder and leader that will ethically and effectively represent GreyStone in a professional manner at all times, promoting a culture that reflects the company’s values.
• Ability to set clear priorities, delegate, and guide investment in people and systems.
• Keen analytic, organization, and problem-solving skills which support and enable sound decision making.
• Ability to work well in high-pressure situations while maintaining composure and objectivity.
• Ability to identify potential issues or constraints, develop methodologies and approaches to resolve, and select among alternative courses of action quickly and accurately.
• Ability to assimilate complex information and data from various sources and consider, adjust, or modify to meet the constraints of the need.
• Ability to effectively comprehend and clarify concerns and issues expressed by stakeholders.

Financial Management Skills

• Ability to understand financial statements and assess divisional impacts to expenses and the bottom line.
• Ability to understand and monitor variances in actual results to plan.

Technology and Communication Skills

• Proficient command of Office Productivity Suite, including Word, PowerPoint, and Excel skills to prepare business correspondence, reports, and presentations with speed and accuracy.
• Skill in writing grammatically correct routine business correspondence such as letters, emails, meeting minutes, and other documents as required.
• Ability to make oral group presentations to persuade others to accept a specific opinion, action and/or provide information or explain procedures, policies, etc.
•  Ability to interact with individuals at all levels and experience in facilitation / resolving conflicts between different parties to a dispute.

Department leadership (managers or directors) of Engineering and System Control

• Sitting: Continually sits at workstation
• Standing: Frequently stands to greet members and work counter/window
• Walking: Frequently walks to greet members and work counter/window
• Driving: Not at all
• Talking: Continuously uses speaking to communicate with members, co-workers and contractors while conducting work activities. Talks with others face to face, telephone and via two-way radio.
• Hearing: Continuously uses hearing to communicate with coworkers, members, customers, and vendors. Occasionally uses hearing to operate or monitor equipment.
• Visual (include color perception): Frequently uses sight to complete tasks with computer, phone, and paper. Occasionally required to evaluate supplies or equipment readings based on colored lights or colored coding.
• Lifting or Carries: Frequently lifts or carries materials weighing up to 10 lbs. Occasionally lifts or carries materials that weigh up to 40 lbs.
• Pushing or Pulling: Occasionally twists, pushes, and pulls to file or retrieve documents.
• Bending or Stooping: Occasionally bends or stoops to file or retrieve documents.
• Kneeling, Squatting or Crawling: Occasionally kneels, squats, or crawls to file or retrieve documents.
• Climbing or Balancing: Occasionally
• Twisting or Reaching: Occasionally twists or reaches to file or retrieve documents.
• Gripping or Grasping: Frequently grip-grasps mail to open and sort or to operate office equipment.
• Fine Manipulation: Frequently uses hands to operate computer and office equipment.
• Operating Controls: Not at all
• Other Physical Demands or Conditions: Occasional working in the community at Coop Events or Coop Business.
• Exposure to Extreme Noise – PPE Demand: Occasionally
• Exposure to Chemicals: Occasionally
• Exposure to Temperature Extremes: Occasionally
• Exposure to Slippery Conditions: Occasionally
• Exposure to Electric Shock: Occasionally
• Exposure to Open Heights: Occasionally
• Exposure to Vehicular Traffic: Occasionally
• Other Exposure Conditions: Not at all