Primary Purpose of the Job
The primary purpose of this position is to oversee, plan, organize, and supervise the operation and maintenance of the hydroelectric and diesel electric generation systems to ensure safe, efficient, reliable, and adequate power delivery capacity both in the community and remotely which provides reliable electricity to its customers. This position is responsible to collaborate with other department employees to ensure safe and coordinated operation of the utility system.
Under the direct supervision of the Electric Utility Director, the Generation Systems Manager exercises considerable independent judgement and discretion as a professional with technical expertise to perform the position’s daily tasks and responsibilities within department established policies and procedures.
The Generation Systems Manager directly supervises the Power Plant Operators/System Dispatchers, Relay Control Technicians and Generation Facilities Mechanics, and is responsible to collaborate with other department employees to ensure safe and coordinated operation of the system.
The Generation System Manager is a management employee who assists and acts in a confidential capacity to the Electric Utility Director, Municipal Administrator, Assembly, and other department heads who formulates, determines, or effectuates management policies.
Essential Duties and Responsibilities
- Monitors, manages and directs the daily operations, routine preventive maintenance, unplanned maintenance, and emergency response actions for all generation facilities, including substations, metering, relaying and control systems
- Schedules, trains, motivates and evaluates the work of all direct reports to maintain proficiency and skill levels
- Develops and provides training, mentoring, testing, and exams to annually evaluate all direct reports
- Establishes and administers safety training programs and ensures compliance with all state and federal regulations
- Works closely with the Transmission & Distribution (“T&D”) Manager and oversees emergency procedures, such as load shedding when conditions deteriorate for the purpose of maintaining system integrity, and restoration of partial, and total, power system collapse
- Coordinates the implementation of switching procedures with all direct reports and the T&D System Manager
- Collects and manages pertinent data to develop defensible capital project recommendations including project scopes, schedules and budgets and risk-scores projects
- Prepares and updates annual capital improvement plans for short-, mid- and long-range projects
- Prepares and manages annual operation and maintenance budgets, monitors expenses, and maintains fiscal accountability for department
- Prepares Requests for Proposals (“RFP”), Scope of Work (“SOW”), reviews and scores proposals, and makes recommendations to award contracts
- Manages contracts within scope, schedule and budget, through final completion, and acceptance of work
- Oversees the purchasing of sufficient inventory to supply routine preventive maintenance operations, as well as unplanned repairs
- Assists with all technical and financial aspects of mid- and long-range strategic planning for the department
- Performs other duties as assigned
