Summary
The Manager I, Distribution Asset Management - Reliability Programs, provides strategic leadership and technical direction for the development, implementation, and continuous improvement of data-driven reliability and maintenance programs across the Distribution organization. This role leads a team of employees and contractors responsible for analyzing asset performance, identifying systemic reliability risks, and translating analytics into actionable maintenance and investment strategies. The position also supports overlapping Asset Management activities (e.g., power quality, regulatory reliability reporting, technology deployment) to ensure alignment with corporate objectives, regulatory requirements, and customer reliability expectations.
Key Roles & Responsibilities
Other duties may be assigned. Directly or through others, the incumbent:
Leadership, Management & Stakeholder Engagement
- Must be able to perform all of the essential functions for this position.
- Provide strategic direction, prioritization, and budget oversight for the reliability portfolio.
- Lead, develop, and retain a high-performing team of internal employees and external contractors.
- Establish performance expectations and development plans for direct reports.
- Ensure consistent application of company policies, procedures, and safety standards.
- Promote a culture of accountability, continuous improvement, and professional growth.
- Build and maintain strong relationships across Operations, Engineering, Planning, Regulatory, Legal, and Supply Chain.
- Communicate complex technical concepts clearly to both technical and non-technical stakeholders.
- Influence cross-functional decisions related to reliability investments and asset strategies.
- Serve as a trusted advisor to senior leadership on system performance and reliability risk.
Reliability, Asset Management & Technical Strategy
- Develop and maintain reliability programs using asset performance data, failure trends, and risk-based methodologie.
- Lead root cause analysis of major incidents and systemic reliability issues.
- Define and implement maintenance strategies that optimize asset lifecycle performance and total cost of ownership.
- Establish cross-functional processes to ensure effective implementation of reliability programs.
- Lead complex data analytics to support maintenance strategy development and impact analysis.
- Implement processes to collect, validate, and analyze asset performance and failure data.
- Translate analytics into actionable recommendations for Operations, Engineering, and Planning.
- Support power quality analysis and strategy development to meet tariff, regulatory, and customer requirements.
- Evaluate emerging technologies and analytical tools to improve reliability program effectiveness.
- Provide engineering subject matter expertise for system performance modeling and asset risk assessment.
Regulatory, Industry & Legal Support
- Provide accurate and timely technical analysis and reporting for regulatory reliability requirements.
- Support regulatory inquiries, audits, and data requests related to system performance.
- Assist Legal in litigation matters by researching events, gathering technical evidence, and providing expert input, affidavits, or depositions as required.
- Represent the company in industry standards and technical organizations (e.g., Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE), SouthWest Electric Distribution Exchange (SWEDE), National Electrical Safety Code (NESC)).
- Monitor regulatory trends and industry best practices to ensure alignment of internal programs with external requirements.
Skills
- Strong analytical, problem-solving, and decision-making skills.
- Excellent written and verbal communication skills.
- Strong organizational and prioritization skills.
Education and Experience
- Bachelor's degree in Engineering or a science-related field is require.
- Minimum of four (4) years of experience in electric utility engineering, operations, or project management is required.
- Demonstrated leadership experience managing technical teams and complex initiatives.
Applicants with the following are encouraged to apply:
- Professional Engineer (PE) license in the State of Texas.
- Experience in asset management, reliability engineering, or maintenance strategy development.
- Experience working with large datasets and advanced analytics in a utility environment.
Core Competencies
- Strategic and systems-level thinking.
- Cross-functional leadership and influence.
- Financial and resource stewardship.
- Change management and continuous improvement.
- High technical credibility within electric utility operations and engineering.
Measures of Success
- Improved system reliability metrics and performance outcomes.
- Effectiveness and maturity of reliability and asset management programs.
- Quality, accuracy, and timeliness of regulatory and technical reporting.
- Successful delivery of initiatives on time and within budget.
- Development, engagement, and retention of a high-performing team.
- Strength of cross-functional and external stakeholder relationships.
- Demonstrated safety leadership and strong safety performance.
Oncor Electric Delivery
1616 Woodall Rogers Freeway
Dallas
Texas United States
www.oncor.com
