Lead Engineer, Asset Strategy

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National Grid is hiring a Lead Engineer, Electrical Planning and Design for Massachusetts. This is a Hybrid Role - Must live within a commutable distance to one of our locations

Job Purpose

Asset Strategy is a new team established to manage National Grid's electric transmission line, distribution line and substation assets across New England. As an Asset strategy engineer, you will develop asset-related strategies which enable the creation of robust, risk-based short-, medium- and long-term asset management plans to optimize electric transmission and distribution network performance. Asset strategy engineers are also responsible for the creation and maintenance of asset health and criticality frameworks and measures. These measures will underpin risk-based asset strategies developed and maintained by this team, which in turn will be used to inform asset replacement needs in capital investment plans for the short (zero to two year), medium (two to 10 year) and Long (10+ year) time horizons. Future ambitions are to enable whole-life costing for key asset families to optimize asset maintain/repair/replace decisions. The team will also build analytical models to yield insights for asset risk or network performance.

Key Accountabilities

• Leverage existing data, asset health and asset criticality information to create actionable asset strategies for key asset families. These asset strategies should quantify existing and desired risk to the business and recommend capital investments needed to maintain or mitigate risk as needed.
• Define data enhancements to improve health modeling and enable whole-life costing to ultimately increase the effectiveness of our strategies to derive maximum value from our assets.
• Support the development of company strategic business plans and future regulatory rate filings as needed.
• Develop asset policies to document and guide the application of asset strategies and inform asset management-based decisions.
• Create and maintain National Grid's Strategic Asset Management Plan defining how our asset management objectives enable the realization of the company's corporate objectives.
• Support the delivery of improvement initiatives identified in the most recent Asset Management Maturity assessment to align the New England electric business with the IS055000 Asset Management Standard.
• Build analytical models to yield insights for asset risk or network performance.
• Stay abreast of asset and risk management best-practices across industry and with peer utilities.
• Provide mandatory normal and off-hours support during emergency response events (i.e. storms). This obligation is required for all employees at National Grid.

Qualifications

• A Bachelor of Science degree in a relevant technical major including engineering, math, science, data science or science-related subject.
• Ten (10) plus years of experience of Nine (9) with a Master’s Degree. Eight (8) years with a PE or Seven (7) with a PE and MS.
• Extensive knowledge of electric transmission and distribution systems and assets (poles, conductor, cables, power transformers, circuit breakers, or protection/control systems) with the ability and desire to learn asset management frameworks, risk management concepts, and whole-life-costing; or...
• Extensive knowledge of asset management frameworks, risk management concepts, and whole-life-costing with the ability to learn electric transmission and distribution systems and assets (poles, conductor, cables, power transformers, circuit breakers, or protection/control systems).
• Ability to "create the future" to deliver new asset management capabilities and efficiencies in response to the ever-evolving utility landscape.
• Ability to understand and accurately define problems, analyze information, identify and evaluate solution options and make sound decisions and recommendations. Ability to deal with complexity, uncertainty and incomplete or conflicting information.
• Ability to foster teamwork and work collaboratively yet able to be decisive to drive work forward, prioritizing incremental progress over perfection.
• High level of personal initiative and ability to interact internal and external stakeholders.
• Demonstrated experience of people management, change management and financial management.
• Direct experience with PAS55 or 1S05500 is a plus.
• Understanding of the regulatory compact, regulatory processes, New England electric transmission public planning process is a plus.
• Valid driver's license required to facilitate travel, as necessary, across US service territory

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