Senior Manager Reliability Engineering

Role Overview:
The Senior Manager Reliability Engineering provides leadership for the Reliability Engineering team and owns major component reliability across the North American Fleet. The Reliability Engineering team interacts with multiple departments across Asset Ops and all sites directly to deliver technical support as needed.

What You Will Be Doing:

• Responsible for the reliability of all major components across EDPR NA s operating fleet
• Responsible for the talent acquisition, and management, of the members of the Reliability Engineering team, including development of cross functional expertise to support a growing operational fleet
• Responsible for setting the strategy of the Reliability team, focusing on identification and mitigation of major component failures
• Responsible for evaluating expertise coverage across knowledge areas and developing action plans to address identified gaps
• Responsible for implementing effective field rollouts of corrective or retrofit projects as required, and aligning with CMR s overall implementation and tracking strategies
• Liaison with Performance, FSE, and Technology engineering teams to collaborate on issue identification and resolution, ensuring gaps are identified and addressed
• Builds consensus among cross-functional teams and influences decision-making of leadership audiences with effective presentation of value based recommendations
• Constantly evaluate and improve communication methodologies between central technical and field personnel, as well as case and issue management strategies
• Ensure engagement of Reliability team with 3rd party technical resources to develop novel solutions and to manage OEM root cause processes and feedback
• Work with Technology and Asset Management teams to develop end of life strategies for major components and turbine maintenance
• Stay abreast of industry issues and solutions, and facilitate engineering presence at user group and technical conferences as it supports the working plan
• Facilitate technical support to the Materials group to ensure proper planning and execution of the major component refurbishment and sourcing plans
• Working with FSE team, lead the development of advanced repair strategies, and internal capabilities to repair and replace major components in the field
• Lead the review and establishment of maintenance requirements and practices within the field for all operating assets
• Other duties as required to fulfill the job description

Behavioral requirements:

• Ability to work in adverse weather conditions
• Ability to work around low, medium, and high-voltage equipment
• Ability to solve practical problems and deal with a variety of variables in situations where only limited standardization exists

Physical demands & working conditions:

• Sitting/Standing/Flexibility: Ability to stand and sit for 8 or more hours when in an office environment
• Walking: Ability to walk .5 to 2 miles per day, including across unpaved and rough surfaces when on project sites.
• Speech/Reading: Ability to speak, read, and write English proficiently and deliver a variety of instructions furnished in written verbal, diagram, or scheduled form
• Lifting: Ability to lift items weighing up to 10 pounds
• Vision/Hearing: Ability to understand a variety of instructions furnished in written, verbal, diagram, or schedule form