Job Description

Description

At Exelon, we've got a place for you!

Join the nation's leading competitive energy provider, with one of the largest electricity generation portfolios and retail customer bases in the country. You will be part of a family of companies that strives for the highest standards of power generation, competitive energy sales, and energy delivery. Our team of outstanding professionals is focused on performance, thought leadership, innovation, and the power of ideas that come from a diverse and inclusive workforce.

Exelon will provide you the tools and resources you need to design, build and enhance a successful career. We are also dedicated to motivating the success of our employees through competitive base salary, incentives, and health and retirement benefits.

Join Exelon and share your passion at a forward-thinking Fortune 100 company. Establish yourself in a place where you can truly shine and create a brighter, more sustainable tomorrow. Energize your career at Exelon!

This position’s work mode is hybrid. The employee will report to an PHI facility for a set number of days with the option to work remotely on the remaining days. Further details of this work mode will be discussed at the interview stage.

This position is for an E04 manager role within the Protection & Control engineering team in the T&S organization. The successful candidate will lead a team of engineers that support three main work streams: capital projects (specs, drawing reviews, relay setting development, SCADA points list…), event analysis and compliance activities.

PRIMARY PURPOSE OF POSITION
T&S (Protection and Controls Engineering)
This position is the design authority providing design services to the T&S Engineering disciplines within the Company. Responsible for developing design documents using Computer Aided Design (CAD) systems.

Lead, manage and provide leadership for the personnel and the activities of the designers/drafters of the T&S Engineering organization within each Company. Ensure compliance and adherence to accepted standard engineering and design practices and drawing standards.

Develop, update, issue design drawings for transmission and substation activities. Maintain, create, and update CAD-based standards and specifications. Develop, update, and issue protective relay and communication diagrams. Incorporate vendor drawings into EED drawing system. Provide technical oversight to contracted engineering and design groups to ensure adherence to EED drawing standards.

PRIMARY DUTIES AND ACCOUNTABILITIES

T&S (Protection and Controls Engineering)

• Drives and oversees the development and implementation of short and long term strategic and tactical business and labor initiatives designed to assure the highest levels of customer services and to achieve Exelon’s safety, reliability and performance goals.
• Manages the overall budget. Establishes and monitors business plans and business unit objectives. Balances cost control with appropriate capital and maintenance investments.
• Develop and maintain an environment that fosters a high performance culture and a learning organization. Serves as a change agent for business initiatives and assures the human element is understood and considered. Assure timely recognition of employee contributions. Develops methods to assess communication effectiveness and implement continuous improvement initiatives.
• Provide leadership to and development of the Design team. Provide accurate and timely feedback regarding performance and operations. Conduct performance planning and appraisals. Identify opportunities for growth and learning. Facilitates open and honest communication with staff. Assures that upward communication is integrated into the process, including employee concerns and complaints.
• stablish, maintain and improve relationships with other departments in Exelon and outside.

JOB SCOPE
T&S (Protection and Controls Engineering)
Reports to the Manager / Director of Substation Engineering and is responsible for a staff of 8-13 direct reports consisting of 8-11 designers/drafters and 0-2 clerical support. (variation in total directs / mix based on Company requirements)

Design authority providing design services to the T&S Engineering disciplines within the Company.

Responsible for developing design documents using Computer Aided Design (CAD) systems.

Develop, update, and issue design drawings for new business, capacity expansion, reliability, obsolescence, and corrective maintenance activities.

Maintain, create, and update CAD-based standards and specifications.

Develop, update, and protective relay and communication diagrams.

Incorporate vendor drawings into EED drawing system.

Provide technical oversight to contracted engineering and design groups to ensure adherence to EED drawing standards.

Ensure compliance and adherence to accepted standard engineering and design practices and drawing standards.

Ensure that all designs meet the design basis for substation equipment and systems on the EED system.

Identify training requirements and ensure they are satisfied.

Responsible for performance measurements and design audits for all engineered plans.

Communicate, execute and supervise the process to ensure all work packages are properly prepared and appropriately scoped prior to construction issuance.

Responsible for executing collective bargaining agreements, implementing labor strategies, and negotiating elevated grievance hearings and arbitrations where Company applicable.

Responsible for the organization’s response to emergent activities, catastrophic events and storms.

Actions have direct impact on Exelon Energy Delivery (EED) safety, reliability, and customer satisfaction goals, the transmission revenue stream of EED, the generation revenue stream of Exelon, and the public, political, and regulatory opinion of EED.

Operates autonomously with wide latitude for un-reviewed actions and decisions. Establishes performance goals and expectations, coaches, mentors and provides feedback to direct reports.

Maintains effective internal business controls by conducting audits, self-assessments, investigations and employee reviews.
 

Qualifications

MINIMUM QUALIFICATIONS

• Bachelor's degree in Engineering or related field
• At least 8 years of relevant experience, including at least 5 years as a supervisor or manager, OR in lieu of Bachelor's degree, a minimum of 12 - 14 years of relevant experience
• Demonstrated knowledge and understanding of protection engineering practices.
• Proven leadership ability in a high performance culture.
• Proven high level management skills in coaching and facilitating business competency.
• Self-initiator and proven performance management skills.
• Demonstrated ability to build consensus, establish trust, communicate effectively and foster culture change and ensure compliance to engineering processes and design procedures
• Demonstrated ability to develop and implement process enhancements and efficiencies including technology and performance.
• Demonstrated business acumen, customer awareness and ability to create value / eliminate non-value activity.
• Ability to work independently and as a team member, effectively managing conflicting priorities in a multi-tasking environment.
• Strong interpersonal, problem-solving, motivational, negotiation, time management, and oral/written communication skills are required.
• Create effective working relationships with employees, customers, other departments, and outside agencies.
• Knowledge of company safety, regulatory and various operating policies and procedures.

PREFERRED QUALIFICATIONS

• Graduate degree or Graduate Level work in Engineering, Business Administration or related field.

• Experience developing relay settings for utility system applications and/or creating RTU mapping

Exelon is proud to be an equal opportunity employer and employees or applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to: age, color, disability, gender, national origin, race, religion, sexual orientation, gender identity, protected veteran status, or any other classification protected by federal, state, or local law.

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