Manager, Asset Management, Transmission (Hybrid)

07/16/2025

Locations: Hartford, Connecticut; Westwood, Massachusetts; Manchester, New Hampshire

This is a hybrid position. The first three months are full-time in the office.

This position seeks an experienced and strategic Manager for the Electric Transmission Asset Management department to drive asset management goals for the Eversource electric transmission system (69kV and above) across all Eversource territories. This role plays a critical part in ensuring system reliability, maintaining regulatory compliance, and cost-effective long-term infrastructure planning. The successful candidate will lead a department responsible for identifying and organizing asset condition based needs into capital projects, developing and evaluating asset health and project prioritization planning and modeling, investigating potential investment opportunities, driving lifecycle investment strategies, and producing optimized asset management investment plans while minimizing reliability risk and maximizing system performance and meeting compliance responsibilities for asset thermal ratings.  The successful candidate will manage a team of engineers, provide the team mentorship and support their career development.

Key Responsibilities:

Project Development Responsibilities: Manage team responsible to identify, initiate, and prioritize asset condition-based projects for inclusion in the one-year and five-year Capital Budget Plan. Manage team responsible to work with Engineering, Project Management, and Cost Estimating to develop detailed project scope, cost, and schedule. Drive team to produce high quality, timely project proposals that are supported by robust justification for the needs of the project.

Asset Strategy Development: Oversee the development and implementation of comprehensive asset management plans for electrical infrastructure including substations, transformers, circuit breakers, protection systems, overhead and underground transmission lines.

Data-Driven Decision Making: Manage analysis of condition assessment data, inspection reports, outage records, and performance metrics to assess asset health and determine prioritization of capital and O&M investments.

Capital Budget Planning: Oversee development and prioritization of the Transmission capital budget, ensuring that Eversource’s highest priority needs are met.

Asset Lifecycle Management: Oversee the development and maintenance of asset lifecycle models to support long-term planning and replacement planning.

Risk Assessment & Mitigation: Oversee the development of probabilistic and consequence modeling to evaluate asset risk, recommend mitigation strategies, and support the integration of risk-based decision-making into capital planning.

Cross-Functional Leadership: Collaborate with engineering, project management, operations, finance, regulatory, and planning teams to align asset decisions with business objectives and regulatory expectations.

Regulatory & Compliance Support: Support regulatory filings and rate case submissions.

Technology Integration: Support the adoption of modern asset management technologies including an Asset Management Performance System (APM) and machine learning.

Technical Knowledge/Skill/Education/Licenses/Certifications:

Technical Knowledge/Skill:

• Knowledge of transmission lines and substation power system planning, engineering, maintenance, and operations.

• A combination of strong technical knowledge and business acumen.

• Understanding of the Federal and New England Regulatory environment and the impact for the Transmission Business.

• Ability to interpret and analyze financial documents.

• Ability to understand and utilize economic, financial and industry data to accurately diagnose business strengths and weaknesses, identify key issues, and develop strategies and plans.

• Ability to motivate and lead a team, applying effective leadership skills.

• Working knowledge of information technology and use of Eversource’s office automation and information systems.

• Ability to enhance internal and external customer satisfaction.

• Strong communication skills, including the ability to make formal presentations and translate technical information into terms that are meaningful to the audience.

• Ability to develop and use collaborative relationships to facilitate the accomplishment of work goals.

Education:

• Bachelor’s degree in Engineering required; electrical engineering degree is preferred.

• Advanced degree in Engineering or Business Administration is desirable.

Experience:                  

• A minimum of ten (10) years of related experience in the technical, operational or engineering aspects of the electric utility industry and supervisory experience is strongly preferred.

• Experience in one or more aspects of the job is required and transmission experience is strongly preferred.  

Working Conditions:

• Available to work emergency restoration assignment as required.

• Available to travel between MA/CT/NH as necessary.

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Compensation and Benefits:

Eversource offers a competitive total rewards program.Check out our careers site for an overview of our benefits programs. Salary is commensurate with your experience. This position is eligible for a potential incentive.The annual salary range for this position is:

$157,280.00-$174,760.00

Worker Type:

Regular

Number of Openings:

1

Emergency Response:

Responding to emergency situations to meet customers’ needs is part of every employee’s role. If employed, you will be given an Emergency Restoration assignment.  This means you may be called to assist during an emergency outside of your normal responsibilities, work hours and location. 

EEO Statement:

Eversource Energy is an Equal Opportunity and Affirmative Action Employer.  All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to age, race, color, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, religion, disability status, or protected veteran status.

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