HVDC Sustainment Program Manager
Winnipeg, MB

• Competitive salary and comprehensive benefits package.
• Defined-benefit pension plan for long-term financial security.
• Nine-day work cycle, typically resulting in every other Monday off to support a balanced approach to work, family life and community.

• Lead the programmatic approach for HVDC sustainment, including planning, prioritizing, executing, monitoring, controlling, and reporting on sustainment activities to advance program objectives and enterprise reliability goals.
• Provide leadership and oversight to the HVDC Sustainment working group, including establishing expectations, resolving barriers, driving execution of sustainment tactics, and supporting continuous improvement of sustainment practices.
• Accountable to manage sustainment schedule, budget, risk, procurement, resource, vendor, service agreement, and status reporting requirements to ensure sustainment tactics progress at the required pace.
• Lead alignment, communication, and integration across Asset Management, Operations, the HVDC Reliability Program, and other impacted business areas to align objectives, priorities, decisions, and delivery plans.
• Lead the program team through outage planning, project sequencing, equipment retirements, decommissioning, in-service activities, and system availability requirements to support critical HVDC asset maintenance.
• Integrate asset lifecycle planning, end-of-life strategies, sparing strategies, maintenance strategies, investment needs, and required interventions with asset management systems, portfolio processes, and reliability project delivery plans.
• Identify, assess, prioritize, and advance sustainment objectives, risk mitigation strategies, issues, and required decisions by assessing impacts to safety, reliability, cost, schedule, operations, and resources, and recommending appropriate courses of action.
• Prepare and present sustainment reports, decision materials, variance explanations, outlooks, summaries, and recommendations for management, executive stakeholders, committees, working groups, and cross-functional forums.
• Provide leadership, direction, mentorship, and project management expertise to project participants and working group members on interdisciplinary planning, schedule, cost, risk, procurement, operational, and resource matters.
• Lead integration between the Sustainment Program and the HVDC Reliability Program, working directly with management and executive stakeholders to align objectives, priorities, decisions, and delivery plans.

• A four-year degree in a relevant discipline from an institute of recognized standing and minimum of six years of directly related experience; 
• OR
• A two-year diploma in a relevant discipline with a minimum of eight years of directly related experience.
• Superior planning skills, both strategic and tactical.
• Technical knowledge of Manitoba Hydro's systems and asset management program.
• Demonstrated ability to make and implement defendable decisions quickly, possess an organized, analytical nature and be self-motivated.
• Demonstrated ability to identify and resolve issues, both strategic and tactical, that represent the balance of cost, performance and risk.
• Strong communication skills with demonstrated ability to collaborate with impacted parties across multiple business units, divisions and departments.
• Demonstrated ability to reimagine and find efficiencies that improve lead time of critical mitigation strategies that will stabilize the system risk.
• Advanced knowledge of Manitoba Hydro's portfolio planning and project management processes.
• Knowledge in application and use of business systems including but not limited to Copperleaf, SAP, ANT, EAM,TGIS, RMS, P6 would be considered an asset.
• Demonstrated ability in providing mature leadership and delegating authority related to planning, organizing and motivating the activities of a group of engineers and technical support staff.
• Thorough knowledge of Corporate policies, procedures and regulations, including Corporate safety & environmental policies and the Manitoba Workplace Safety and Health Act and associated regulations.
• Possess a valid Province of Manitoba Driver's Licence.