Sr Director - Integrated System Planning

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The base salary range for this position is dependent upon experience and location, ranging from:* $177,000 - $221,000 (**Rochester Gas & Electric Corporation**)**Job Summary:**This position is responsible for leading a multidisciplinary team of 40+ utility professionals focused on developing and executing a best-in-class electric capital planning strategy across the RG&E service territory. In addition, this position is tasked with establishing a sound and justifiable approach to addressing a wide range of disparate system needs and ensuring alignment with long-term company objectives. Key responsibilities include the full ownership of company and customer-initiated project development activities, from initial concept within the Transmission & Distribution Planning space, through detailed scoping, and successful integration into the capital investment portfolio. Specific areas of organizational oversight include the following critical business functions:Development and robust justification of a five-year capital plan exceeding $5 billion dollars to advance T&D opportunities in support of RG&E strategic objectives. Oversees the creation and execution of the annual work plan to address a wide range of system needs, including but not limited to:* Aging Infrastructure: Replacement of over 470 substation circuit breakers and 7 substation power transformers deemed to be beyond their useful operating life.* T&D Planning Studies: Routine analytical assessments of more than 10,100 miles of transmission and distribution infrastructure. Development of optimal strategies and project plans to resolve 160 outstanding T&D capacity constraints and to maintain NERC and regional compliance measures. Scoping and advancement of automation for 475 outstanding distribution circuits.* Substation Asset Replacement: Needs and solutions analysis to support long-term asset replacement strategies across 165+ electric substations.* Customer Interconnections: Execution of 90+ annual load and generator interconnection studies to support customer-driven requests and to ensure no-adverse impact on grid facilities.* Underground Cable: A comprehensive assessment of system needs and the establishment of a long-term strategy for asset replacement to address 3,369 miles of underground cable, much of which has exceeded its useful operating life and requires proactive intervention.* Intimate knowledge of the AVANGRID / RG&E Capital investment process and responsible for ensuring that all electric capital projects adhere to annual requirements to support efficient project execution. Centralized, comprehensive, support, and coordination of the capital project portfolio ensuring proper vetting and documentation in support of prudent and defendable CAPEX investment decision making.* Focused and priority engagement with all CAPEX rate case preparations, NY Department of Public Service (DPS) quarterly reporting duties and obligations, and support for other company related regulatory matters requiring planning leadership and participation.* Ensure comprehensive list of RG&E T&D needs are identified, prioritized, and addressed with appropriate mitigating solutions in a consistent and comprehensive manner.* Anticipation, preparation and initiation of strategy discussions and activities as required to meet regulatory and key stakeholder expectations in support of business growth objectives.* Developing and building collaborative and constructive cross-functional relationships across internal business areas and external stakeholders including regulators and ISO’s.* Provides strategic leadership and direction for cross-functional planning initiatives, ensuring alignment with shared objectives, proactively identifying critical focus areas, and initiating studies to address both immediate and long-term system requirements.* Matrix reporting responsibilities to the RG&E President, leading emergent initiatives and coordinating cross-functional efforts that may involve organizing and guiding teams beyond the NYISP Organization to ensure successful outcomes for the company.**Key Responsibilities:*** Business Leadership: Energizing leader that promotes a culture of collaboration, efficiency, innovation, and quality across business areas. Promotes continual growth and development to advance business objectives and prepare for staff succession. Sets challenging individual & team expectations aligned with strategic and business objectives. Ensures that consistent, constructive, and clear development and performance feedback mechanisms are established to build and promote high functioning teams focused on the achievement of complex business objectives aligned with enterprise strategy.* Strategic and Technical Leadership: Provides strategic leadership of a highly technical team which includes a director, managers and staff across multiple departments and often across organizations. Initiates, leads, collaborates or advises on a broad range of highly complex, multi-disciplinary technical issues across RG&E business areas such as equipment ratings, protection coordination, system topology design, reliability and resiliency approaches, and equipment standardization. Identifies and provides leadership and leads decision making as necessary toward the resolution of technical, operational and organizational issues and opportunities. Develops organizational performance measures and initiates actions to drive standardization and enhance performance. Reviews work processes, systems, procedures and practices and directs changes to improve productivity or control costs. Monitors emerging trends and evolving technology, evaluating and understanding the implications for inclusion in corporate strategies. Oversees and supports development and execution of DER related business cases as opportunities arise. Develops and executes strategies to garner internal and external stakeholder support.* Communicate, influence and motivate: Creative, influential, motivating and clear in all means of communication. Establishes and maintains visible, collaborative, and influential relationships with internal, global and external stakeholders and regulators to be responsive to the interests of others while helping to promote company/planning interests. Effectively develops and delivers formal presentations and technical reports to a diverse global audience. Serves as a witness on a broad range of regulatory and technical issues to advance business objectives. Demonstrates use of excellent verbal and written communication skills with all levels of management to inform and influence others, providing strategic input for business plans and decision making.* Strategy & Regulatory: Represents company interests before regulatory bodies. Provides strategic guidance and support on complex regulatory and technical issues. Assists executive and other senior leaders in identifying and managing risks, opportunities and business uncertainty driven from such things as changes in the industry (regulatory, process, forecasts) and projects/ growth endeavors under consideration. Provides input into the development of processes and strategies for the business unit that reflect knowledge of orders and regulations Stays abreast of changes in the industry and initiates effective responses across business areas such as studies/assessments, evaluation of threats/opportunities/possible outcomes, and recommendation of alternatives based on risk, value and implementation complexity.* Company Policy and Procedures: Interprets and administers company policies and procedures. Directs and implements training and development of the leadership team of the department personnel. Determines staffing needs and obtains approval for resource requirements. Develops and controls department budget. Recommends promotions, personnel changes, budgets, organizational changes and company policies. Directs and implement analysis, business case preparation #J-18808-Ljbffr
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Location:
Rochester
Job Type:
FullTime
Category:
Management & Operations

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