Minimum Qualifications:
Bachelor’s degree and ten years of relevant progressively responsible professional experience, including at a policy making and managerial level in utility oversight and/or emergency planning and response. This experience must include at least five years in a managerial capacity.
Substitutions: four years of relevant experience or associate’s degree and two years of relevant experience may substitute for bachelor’s degree; J.D. or master’s degree may substitute for one year of relevant experience; Ph.D. may substitute for two years of relevant experience. Managerial experience includes having responsibility for determining and prioritizing the workload of a unit or section, management of subordinate professional employee supervisors, including assignment of tasks, employee training and development, evaluation of their performance, and time and attendance, making recommendations on hiring and other human resource actions, and participating in long-range planning for the program.
Duties Description:
The Director Public Service Programs, NS-M7, will serve as the Director of the Office of Resilience, Utility Security, Nuclear Affairs, and Emergency Preparedness (OREP) and be responsible for the management, administration, and coordination of the work of OREP. Specific duties include, but are not limited to:
- Serving as the Department’s lead manager on all components of resilience, utility security, nuclear affairs, and emergency preparedness.
- Providing leadership guidance and oversight of OREP staff engaged in rate case filings, program research, and testimony development for aspects of resilience, vegetation management, storm preparation and response, and physical and cyber security.
- Providing oversight and input into utility targeted hardening initiatives, vegetation management specifications, and special programs aimed at providing flexibility to restoring customers through automated processes.
- Monitoring electric reliability performance, identifying worst performing circuits that feed into our resilience efforts, and providing leadership guidance for the preparation of the annual reliability report.
- Providing senior staff guidance and overseeing testimony development on capital investments focused on service improvements, expense levels for tree trimming and hazard tree mitigation, cybersecurity and IT investments, staffing needs, and reliability performance measures.
- Providing leadership oversight and guidance to the OREP Utility Security Section to ensure that critical facilities of the regulated utilities are well protected from possible malicious threats.
- Supporting staff oversight of the light regulation of the State’s nuclear power plants, including operational monitoring and executive reporting.
- Acting as the Department’s primary contact with utilities on emergency response, including overseeing utility emergency response plans and preparedness drills.
- Ensuring that the Department’s Emergency Management Operations Protocol (EMOP) is accurate and up to date.
- Overseeing the Department’s internal preparedness drills and emergency response efforts and providing training to all employees.
Additional Comments:
The primary mission of the New York State Department of Public Service (DPS) is to ensure affordable, safe, secure, and reliable access to electric, gas, steam, telecommunications, and water services for New York State’s residential and business consumers. The primary location for this position is in Albany, New York with up to 10% travel, which requires possession of a valid driver’s license. Salary will be commensurate with experience. This position will require availability afterhours (24/7) to respond to emergencies and track outages. Equal Opportunity Employer: The Department of Public Service is committed to equal employment opportunity regardless of race, color, ancestry, religion, sex, national origin, sexual orientation, age, citizenship, marital status, disability, gender identity, or Veteran status.
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