Purpose: Manage all aspects of Power Delivery including, but not limited to, System Operations, Transmission Engineering and Transmission and Substation Operation and Maintenance (O&M), as well as Facilities and Fleet management.

ESSENTIAL AND MARGINAL FUNCTIONS: 

• Cost-effective operation and maintenance of the Power Delivery system providing for the highest level of system reliability.
• Ensure an appropriate level of staffing, equipment and tools.
• Propose/Evaluate capital additions/modifications to the transmission facilities.
• Assist AEPCO’s Transmission Planning Department in evaluating capital additions/modifications to transmission facilities.
• Provide guidance and support to the transmission O&M staff.
• Provide support to Members, as needed.
• Monitor overall capital project budgets and schedules.
• Monitor O&M budgets.
• Provide accurate reports to Board and Board Committees as required.
• Function as Chair and/or Member for various engineering and operation (E&O) committees.
• Negotiate contract terms with Members and other utilities as required.

KNOWLEDGE, SKILLS AND ABILITIES: 

• Minimum of five combined years of practical experience in managing high voltage transmission engineering, construction, O&M, and/or System Operations.
• Effective communication skills.
• Knowledge of construction, consultant, and transmission service contracts.
• Thorough knowledge of high voltage substations and transmission systems.
• Understanding of Labor Contracts.
• Professional Electrical Engineer’s License is preferable.
• Understanding of “RUS” procedures and processes.
• Experience in developing construction workplans (CWP) and annual transmission capital plan.
• Experience in budget development and administration.
• Understanding of the concepts of System Operations, transmission service and OASIS administration, and associated NERC compliance activities and implications.
• Basic understanding of facilities maintenance and management.
• Basic understanding of fleet maintenance and management.
• Any equivalent combination of related education, training, and/or experience can be substituted for requirements listed above.

About Arizona Electric Power Cooperative

We are Member-owned, not-for-profit electric generation and transmission (G&T) cooperatives. Working together, our employees fulfill the joint mission of providing reliable, affordable power to electric coops across the Southwest. Arizona G&T Cooperatives provide power to more than 160,000 electric meters and 400,000 people in Arizona, California and New Mexico through six Class A Member distribution cooperatives. One of 63 G&T electric coops in the nation, we own and operate Apache Generating Station near Cochise, east of Benson. The plant has a combined gross generating capacity of 605 megawatts. We also purchase power to meet member energy needs during peak summer energy use. Our transmission system operates and maintains more than 622 miles of electric power transmission line and 27 substations reaching out from our Apache Generating Station, across Arizona to the northwestern corner of the state. We also operate more than 30 telecommunications towers used for phone and data relay services by our member cooperatives and customers.

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