Join a diverse and dynamic team that makes and delivers the most valuable services in the world: electricity and natural gas. At Consumers Energy, our customers are at the heart of everything we do. Our employees work around the clock to provide service to our customers in honor of our history and to fulfill our promise to Michigan - Count on Us! Consumers Energy, the principal subsidiary of CMS Energy and headquartered in Jackson, Michigan, provides natural gas and electricity to nearly 6.8 million of Michigan's 10 million residents in all 68 Lower Peninsula counties.
Position Summary
This position would be within the Restoration Management team and would provide leadership and technical statewide support for all Consumers Energy users of restoration systems (Outage Management System, Weather, Catastrophic Crewing, Storm Dashboard, Outage Reporting, etc.) and reliability analytics, which impact many departments within Consumers Energy, but specifically within Operations and Engineering. The Restoration Systems Engineer Lead supervises Exempt, Non-Exempt, and Contractor employees to deliver a high level of service to internal and external customers. The lead is responsible for the integrity of the outage data, analytics, reporting, and is critical to improving electric grid reliability World Class Performance Metric, as well as MPSC regulatory standards.
This work location for this position will be available at the Parnall Office in Jackson, Michigan OR the Lansing, Michigan Service Center.
Roles and Responsibilities
•Work with business stakeholders to develop system requirements and IT developers to design and test restoration management system enhancements.
•Developing a long range plan for system enhancements including participation on industry benchmarking.
•Auditing adherence to the outage data review and correction process and teaching employees how to complete complex corrections within Outage Management System.
•Analyzing and developing reporting to support World Class Performance Goals and MPSC regulatory standards.
•Lead and manage employees for development and goals.
Knowledge/Skills/Abilities
•Leadership abilities to effectively supervise and develop engineers or technical specialists including independent strategic and tactical planning, and risk evaluation.
•Skilled in the following systems Outage Management System, Service Suite, Catastrophic Crewing, Outage Reporting, Storm Dashboard, SAP, GIS, Microsoft Suite, PI Historian and other programs as they relate to the role.
•Organizational aptitude with project management, quality, and communication abilities including leading complex projects, problem solving using experience in utility industry trends.
Qualifications and Education Requirements
•Bachelor's degree in Engineering from an ABET accredited university or college.
•8 or more years of applied ABET exempt engineering working experience.
The following experience may set you apart from others:
•5 or more years of electric distribution system experience (operations or system engineering/design experience is acceptable).
Essential Functions
•Extensive knowledge of the electric distribution system as well as electric restoration processes for restoration system use cases.
•Planning, design, construction, and maintenance of Electric and Gas Distribution and Electric Generation systems as well as facilities and ancillary support process for all utility operations.
•Duties and who this individual reports to will fluctuate between projects, Practice Areas, and offices.
•Individual needs to possess leadership ability, quality focus, ability to problem solve, work well in a team environment, and be calm and collected under pressure.
•The individual would be in an on call rotation for a leadership role in electric service restoration to support weather event or other emergency impacts to the electric grid.
•The individual would also be responsible for being a lead for a restoration role, which requires training/coaching new employees to electric service restoration.
•Individual should exemplify safe work practices and follow the company's compliance standards.
•Lead and/or assist with engineering projects to include system requirement design, project planning, auditing data integrity, which impacts system planning, system parameter specification development, analyzing data from multiple sources, developing reporting, managing contracts, schedules, estimates, data collection and field investigation for system improvement application.
•Provide engineering services with accuracy, integrating all applicable governmental and company laws, standards and procedures on time... For full info follow application link.
All qualified applicants will not be discriminated against and will receive consideration for employment without regard to protected veteran status, disability, race, color, religion, , orientation, gender identity or national origin.
