Senior Reliability Strategist - Oahu

Overview

Senior Reliability Strategist - Oahu

Date:
Jan 30, 2026

Location:

Honolulu, Hawaii (HI), US, 96813

Company: hawaiianel

We recognize our competitive advantage -- our people. We believe in our people, who share our vision of meeting the needs of our employees, customers, and communities and who carry out the continued success of the company.

Our employees are committed to the company's foundational values: integrity, excellence, teamwork, environmental stewardship, and community commitment. In turn, we invest in our employees, providing opportunities for challenge and advancement and offering a competitive compensation package.

Posting End Date:
This position will remain open until filled. Early applications are highly encouraged.

BRIEF POSTING

DESCRIPTION:

The P RI RELIABILITY & RESILIENCE STRATEGY Department of the P ASSET PLANNING & STRATEGY Division at Hawaiian Electric Company has 1 management vacancy available. (Role: Professional)

• Job Function:
  Leads efforts to measure, assess, develop, and update strategies, priorities, and work plans to improve electric transmission and distribution (T&D) system reliability for all three operating areas (O‘ahu, Maui County, and Hawai‘i Island).
• Work Plan Development, Prioritization, and Management:
  Lead efforts to develop multi-year work plans and priorities for projects and programs to enhance reliability, including determining reliability improvement project/program cost, value, sequencing/timing, and priority as well as ongoing work plan monitoring, management, updates, and cost/benefit tracking.
• Reliability System Analyses:
  Lead efforts for analyzing past outages and determine strategies to mitigate or lessen future events; assist operating areas with requests for engineering assistance for all T&D system reliability matters and determine solutions to requests.
• Reliability Strategy Development:
  Lead efforts to develop/update reliability strategies to reduce the frequency and duration of electric service interruptions; assess reliability performance and risk, establish goals, identify improvement options, analyze/model solutions, determine optimal cost/benefit approaches, and obtain necessary approvals; support assessment, development, and refinement of reliability PIMs/P  metrics.
• Reliability Reporting:
  Lead efforts to provide timely, accurate, and consistent reliability metric reports, forecasts, and filings; develop, refine, and produce monthly, quarterly, and annual metric calculations and reports for internal stakeholders, website updates, and Hawaii Public Utilities Commission submittals; enhance automation, validation/cross-checks, and accessibility of reliability data.
• Industry Knowledge and Leading Practices: stay abreast of industry developments and leading practices related to reliability; participate and represent Hawaiian Electric on industry committees/task forces to identify and address issues and opportunities.
• General Support and Improvement: support department and division in developing systems, processes, procedures, methods, or other means to facilitate smooth functioning; as assigned, fill in for the department manager.
• Participates in Company emergency response activities as assigned, including preparation for such emergency response.

BASIC QUALIFICATIONS:

• Knowledge Requirements
• Bachelor of Science degree in a relevant engineering, math, science, or science-related major from an accredited school or college is highly desirable.
• Master's degree desirable, preferably in business administration (MBA) from an accredited school or college.
• Thorough understanding of:
  Electric power system reliability;
  Electric power supply, transmission, and distribution systems and components;
  Electric power system operation;
  Utility information systems;
  Probability, statistics, and risk;
  Utility financial and accounting principles;
  Utility regulation.
• General understanding of:
  Electric power system resilience;
  Electric power system inspection and maintenance;
  Utility/Infrastructure asset management.

• Skills Requirements
• Critical Thinking and Decision Making: ability to understand and define problems, analyze information, evaluate…