Manager Operations - PA Operations - Waynesboro Service Center

FirstEnergy • Waynesboro, PA • 4d ago

About the Opportunity

This position is for a Manager, Operations and will be responsible for Managing 2 Shops: Waynesboro & Shippensburg (2 different rate districts).

The Manager serves as a leader for the area's 24/7/365 electric utility operations, managing the lines organization.

The position is responsible and accountable for the safe and reliable delivery of electricity, in compliance with regulatory requirements and with an eye toward ensuring future sustainability of operations. It will plan, organize, direct and review activities within a regional area, ensuring compliance with all applicable regulatory, operational, procedural, and budget guidelines.

This position will provide leadership consistent with our core values, holding safety, DE&I, ethical and complaint behavior, stewardship and customers service as essential to success. This position will lead, direct, and provide technical expertise and guidance to the operational groups managed, including essential personnel required to respond to and react to a variety of emergency / urgent situations. It requires significant field and administrative responsibilities.

Job Duties

This position will provide direction and leadership from the following perspectives:

Foster a high-performing safety culture where employees own, promote, and reinforce safe behaviors and feel empowered to speak up

Establish and develop substantive working relationships with peers, staff and union leadership, and create an environment and implement changes where needed to enhance FirstEnergy's culture of safety, compliance, inclusion, accountability, and innovation, foster a learning organization in which employees feel empowered to ask questions, challenge assumptions, and think creatively.

Initiate and monitor implementation of appropriate safety and environmental safeguards in accordance with applicable regulations and professional practice to ensure that employee, community and environmental hazards and impacts of operational activities are eliminated or reduced to acceptable risk levels

Serve as a member of the management team and participate in the development and implementation of goals, objectives, priorities, policies, procedures, project prioritization and problem resolution

Plan, organize, control, integrate and evaluate the work of the operational group. Compile and assess data to review progress of work. Review and advise staff at various phases of work and provide support as needed

Work with director, other managers, and supervisors to engage employees to establish and achieve milestones and appropriate benchmarking measures for safety, reliability, customer service, financial performance, and compliance

Interpret and apply collective bargaining agreements and company policies

Respond to customer complaints and formal regulatory authority inquiries

Oversee preparation and subsequent control of area budget for personnel, material, equipment, construction, operations and maintenance.

Plan, organize, develop and monitor the performance of assigned supervisors and staff, establishing performance requirements and personal development targets, monitor performance and provide direction for performance improvement and development

Engage with employees and union leadership to create a culture of inclusion and teamwork

Recommend appropriate staffing levels and actively promote developmental assignments for high potential employees to ensure adequate succession and career development opportunities

Coordinate response efforts and assist in the emergency outage restoration process

Comfortable managing multiple shops & also managing multiple union contracts

Qualifications:

Highly motivated and approachable leader, with a demonstrated track record of safe operations excellence and people leadership

Functions both independently and as part of a team and can communicate, promote, and drive positive change and continuous improvement

Demonstrated learning agility and ability to develop technical acumen and working knowledge of distribution operations

Seven (7) years' experience in the electric utility industry highly preferred - distribution engineering, transmission, line construction, maintenance practices, including performance in a leadership capacity. Equivalent training and experience in progressive leadership roles will be considered in lieu of industry specific experience

Bachelor's degree preferred. In lieu of degree, equivalent training / experience will be considered.

Experience administering collective bargaining agreements and HR policies fairly and equitably for all employees is highly desirable.

Ability to:

Lead by example, facilitate and lead teams through change, promotes the values of trust and integrity

Analyze difficult and complex issues and strategies, reach sound and logical fact-based conclusions and recommendations

Evaluate departmental practices and make sound recommendations for improvements; develop and implement appropriate procedures and controls

Exercise sound expert independent judgment and political acumen within general policy guidelines

Establish and maintain effective working relationships with all levels of employees

Operate and learn various computer applications

All employees must have an account to use a FirstEnergy computer to apply for jobs. If you do not know if you have an account, please contact the IT Service Desk at 330-315-4357, Option 1 - 1 for assistance.

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