Senior T&D Asset Management Specialist
Job Description
Job Description
Senior T&D Asset Management Specialist
Summary/Objective
The Senior T&D Asset Management Specialist provides technical leadership and subject matter expertise in electric transmission and distribution asset management. This role leads consulting projects, applies predictive modeling, and delivers data-driven solutions to optimize asset performance, reliability, and lifecycle costs.
Essential Duties and Responsibilities:
- Lead asset management consulting projects across transmission and distribution
- Develop and implement inspection programs, maintenance strategies and asset management plans to achieve standards/regulatory/code compliance
- Develop and guide utilities with management of their wood and steel pole assets including their inspection/service life extension programs
- Conduct asset condition, risk, and criticality assessments
- Apply predictive modeling and lifecycle cost analysis
- Perform failure analysis and forensic engineering investigations
- Support business development, proposals, and client engagements
- Track performance, KPIs, and optimize resource for project execution
Qualifications/Experience:
- Bachelor’s degree in Material Sciences-related field or Engineering
- Master’s degree preferred
- Minimum 10-year experience in electric utility T&D asset management
- Demonstrated expertise in electric utility system reliability, grid vulnerability assessment, or risk reduction strategies
- Strong understanding of regulatory frameworks affecting resiliency and reliability (e.g., State Regulations, FERC/NERC reliability requirements, state wildfire mitigation rules)
- Working knowledge of the ISO 55000 family of asset management standards preferred
- Working knowledge of G.O. 95 and NESC requirements preferred
- PE license preferred
- PMP certification preferred
- Strong organizational and planning skills
- Good analytical abilities and aptitude for problem solving
- Excellent communication skills both internally and externally
- Competent with Office 365 applications
Competencies:
- Technical Orientation
- Strategic thinking
- Analytical problem-solving
- Strong communication
- Client engagement skills
- Leadership and mentoring
- Business and financial acumen
Supervisory Responsibility: Yes
Position Type/Expected Hours of Work:
- This is a permanent, full-time
- Exempt/Salary position
Work Environment / Physical Demands:
This role operates in a professional office environment as well as in the field. The employee must be able to sit for long periods of time and have sufficient physical ability and mobility to travel and work alone in outdoor field environments including those in remote locations as well as urban/city environments. Field work may include walking/hiking three or more miles a day on various surfaces including flat, dry, wet, slippery, uneven, rough, steep terrain, hills, and slopes, standing, sitting, stooping, bending, kneeling, crouching, reaching, twisting, grasping and making repetitive hand movement in the performance of daily duties. This role can include exposure to noise, dust, grease, and all types of weather and temperature conditions, exposure to hazardous traffic conditions, carrying, pushing and/or pulling light to moderate weights up to 50 pounds as well as operating assigned equipment and vehicles. Employee must have the ability to verbally communicate to convey and exchange information and the ability to see and hear in normal range with or without correction.
Other Duties:
The above job description is not intended to be an all-inclusive list of responsibilities and performance standards of the position. Incumbents will perform other job-related duties as assigned.
EEO Statement
EDM is an Equal Opportunity Employer.