Senior Planning Engineer; Telecomm - Oahu

Position: Senior Planning Engineer (Telecomm) - Oahu
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Posting End Date:
This position will remain open until filled. Early applications are highly encouraged.

BRIEF POSTING

DESCRIPTION:

The P EH TELECOMMUNICATIONS - PLANNING Department of the P TELECOMMUNICATION Division at Hawaiian Electric Company has 1 Management vacancy available. (Role: Professional)

JOB FUNCTION:

Performs planning and engineering analyses, project, budget, and asset management, evaluation and recommendation of high-level network architecture, projects, programs, initiatives, policies, standards, processes, and methodologies for the development and enhancement of the Hawaiian Electric Companies' telecommunications infrastructure.

ESSENTIAL FUNCTIONS:

* This department is a One Company entity; most job responsibilities will require collaboration across counties (operating companies), and many strategic decisions and high-level telecommunications criteria and plans will impact all counties (operating companies).

* Leads team members and participates in the following: plans, designs, develops, and revises a telecommunications strategy and master plan, and performs the continual evaluation and update of its short-term action plan. Makes recommendations for capital budget items. Designs, recommends, and influences criteria, studies, presentations, plans, network diagrams, route selections, architecture, technologies, and partnerships, for the logical and orderly development and enhancement of the telecommunications systems.

Creates high-level Telecom Single Lines for projects. Prepares requests for proposal for planning consulting services, evaluates proposals and makes recommendations. Reviews studies and designs of planning consulting engineers.

* Provides telecommunications technical and planning support on company initiatives including Grid Modernization, Integrated Grid Planning, renewable energy corporate goals, interconnections requirements, wildfire initiatives, grants and customer programs. Participates on various committees, task forces, and special projects which require knowledge of telecommunications systems. Acquired and maintains updated data and inventory of telecommunications projects, infrastructure, capacity, and other pertinent data to enable planning analyses.

* Develops or improves project-specific and general guidelines, procedures, and standards for telecommunications projects, programs, and initiatives. Advises and recommends planning criteria and minimum operating requirements for utility-owned and leased communications services.

* Manages telecom planning projects and processes, facilitates meetings, assigns tasks to team members and oversees said work, communicates with and presents to various personnel and executives across operating companies. Recommend enhancements to processes or adjustments to technical recommendations that may impact all operating companies.

* Conducts field inspections to verify field conditions.

* Participates in Company emergency response activities as assigned, including any activities required to prepare for such emergency response.

BASIC QUALIFICATIONS:

Knowledge Requirements

* Advanced knowledge of engineering principles and theories normally acquired through a college level curriculum resulting in a Bachelor of Science Degree in Electrical Engineering or relevant discipline from an accredited engineering school, or a Master of Science in a technical field related to telecommunications, or twelve (12) years of relevant experience in the design and planning of communications infrastructure and systems and/or operating experience of the same.

* Professional Engineer Registration in State of Hawaii, Electrical Engineering, desired.

* Extensive knowledge of the theories, principles, practices, and standards of telecommunications engineering design, project engineering, project management, program management, outside consultant contract administration and supervision, and standards development associated with electric utility and telecommunications systems.

* Extensive knowledge of telecommunications planning principles, preferably with particular concentration in the electric utility environment.

* Comprehensive knowledge or experience with IP networking technologies (such as MPLS), transport networks, and wireless architecture and technology (such as microwave, RF radio, LTE networks).

* Thorough knowledge of personal computers, the Internet, and related software applications used to develop word documents, spreadsheets, graphs, project schedules, and…