Director Hydropower Engineering

Leads Hydropower Engineering group, supporting NYPA operations, maintenance, capital project portfolio and regulatory compliance.

Requirements

• Promote a culture of safety throughout the entire organization.
• Lead and manage a centralized engineering team responsible for the engineering of upgrades and major maintenance of mechanical systems at NYPA's power projects, transmission and support facilities or NYPA's Customer Facilities.
• Responsible for discipline design authority and serve as engineer of record for all mechanical engineering design drawings and specifications.
• Develop equipment and construction specifications (site-based) and associated calculations.
• Work closely with other engineering staff or generation facilities (site-based) or customer facilities (customer-based) to develop solutions and responses to customer needs.
• Represent the Authority on internal technical committees and at industry conferences committees or task forces.
• Develop staff expertise to ensure succession planning and critical core competencies are maintained within NYPA.
• Collaborate with other engineering disciplines, site personnel, project management, project development & licensing, emergency management, regulatory agencies, external stakeholders and other business units.
• Procure and maintain a depth and breadth of on-call engineering consulting firms who can provide supplemental technical services, develop clear and concise scope of services documents, and ensure timely, high quality designs are delivered within budget.
• Perform occasional emergency response, including outside of normal business hours.

Benefits

• Generous Paid Time Off
• 401k Matching
• Retirement Plan
• Tuition Reimbursement