Principal Reliability Risk Engineer

Purpose

To serve as a high level technical consultant providing expert advice and counsel on highly complex, sensitive, or controversial engineering assignments and /or projects involving specialized or unique engineering knowledge and consulting expertise and experience.

Nature and Scope

Serves and functions as a high level technical expert and consultant in an assigned area of professional engineering; may work independently or with a team on projects of major complexity and sensitivity; exercises independent judgment and discretion within broad range of practices and guidelines. Incumbents in this classification are typically viewed as “recognized” experts in their field.

Duties and Responsibilities

• Maintains relationships and coordinates exchange and documentation of information related to engineering modifications and related installations, testing and acceptance between operations, maintenance, and engineering functions, supervisors and managers, vendors and contractors and federal, state and local governmental and regulatory agencies.
• Conducts research and complex analysis of engineering systems; develops project plans; allocates resources to project tasks; reviews contracts, material requisitions and project documents for accuracy and compliance to engineering requirements and standards; provides technical oversight of project engineering work; analyzes project costs and schedules; negotiates with external agencies and other utility management personnel on behalf of SMUD .
• Reads and interprets data from various engineering and/or power plant systems to include engineering designs and drawings, and related construction and operations documents; gathers and audits relevant data from various sources and formulates timely and accurate recommendations related to engineering modifications and/or construction projects; enters and extracts data from engineering databases in order to input, retrieve, maintain and update engineering project information.    
• Prepares and files timely reports pertaining to environmental health and compliance for the department and associated plant modification projects.    
• Assists in planning, reviewing and conducting work activities and researching required project information associated with department internal/external projects in accordance with established task objectives and schedule as outlined in the project plan/contract.    
• Represents SMUD as a technical engineering expert before public, private, governmental and regulatory agencies and bodies; makes presentations and project updates to SMUD management, executives, and Board of Directors.    
• Performs related duties as required.