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Toronto Hydro | Manager, Engineering; Long Term Grid Planning Jobs in Toronto, Canada at The MEARIE Group
Position: Toronto Hydro | Manager, Engineering (Long Term Grid Planning)
Manager, Engineering (Long Term Grid Planning)
Expected Salary Range: $124,055 – $155,069 Annually
Target Variable Performance Pay: 15%
The salary range shown above reflects the expected compensation for this position. The final salary offered will be determined based on a holistic assessment of the candidate’s experience, education, training, and alignment with the role’s requirements. For positions covered by a collective agreement, placement within the range will follow the applicable step or classification.
Reporting to the Director of Investment Planning, the Manager Engineering, Long-term Grid Planning provides technical leadership and oversight to planning staff and consultants, ensuring that planning recommendations are supported by sound engineering analysis, risk-based decision-making, and industry best practices.
The Manager, Long-Term Grid Planning, is responsible for leading the development, implementation, and continuous improvement of the utility’s system distribution system planning activities to ensure the safe, reliable, sustainable and cost-effective delivery of electricity services to customers in the city of Toronto. The role leads the assessment of future system needs through load forecasting, capacity planning, asset investment planning, grid modernization, and electrification readiness.
Working closely with engineering, operations, asset management, regulatory, and customer groups, the Manager develops integrated long-term plans that support customer growth, electrification, distributed energy resources (DER) integration, infrastructure renewal, and evolving regulatory requirements.
The position contributes to the development of capital investment plans and serves as a key resource in regulatory and stakeholder engagement activities and serves as a key coordinator of the utility’s participation in Regional Planning activities.
This posting is for an existing vacancy.
Key Responsibilities
- Lead the development and execution of the utility’s long-term distribution system plans, capacity plans and infrastructure investment strategies.
- Coordinate with the sort-and medium-term planning team to establish planning horizons and scenarios to support future customer demand, electrification, and large load connections
- Develop integrated plans that align asset management, system reliability, customer growth, and corporate strategies
- Identify future system constraints, risks, and investment requirements and recommended mitigation strategies.
- Support the implementation of the 5-Year Distribution System Plan.
- Coordinate with Grid Strategy team on the continuous improvement of enterprise asset management and asset life-cycle practices.
- Ensure the capital investment decisions are supported by asset condition, criticality, performance, and asset investment prioritization frameworks.
- Ensure alignment with applicable asset management standards and industry best practices
- Lead business cases supporting innovative investments and modernization programs
- Assess opportunities to improve system flexibility, resilience, reliability, and operational efficiency
- Lead the system studies portfolio to execute special studies that support safety, operational and customer connection processes
- Direct long-term stations asset investments
- Lead short-, medium-, and long-term load forecasting activities
- Assess impacts of population growth, economic development, electric vehicle adoption, distributed energy resources,energy storage, and electrification initiatives
- Collaborate with short-and medium-term planning team to understand the impact of municipal development, large load customer connections, and regional planning stakeholders to understand the future infrastructure requirements.
- Advocate and present the Utility’s priorities to external stakeholders through Regional Planning engagements.
- Develop planning scenarios to support investment decision-making and risk management
- Manages departmental activities to comply with required environment, health and safety (EHS) legislation, regulations,policies, procedures and practices.
- Conducts office inspections and audits performance for alignment with requirements. Provides coaching and…
Title: Toronto Hydro | Manager, Engineering; Long Term Grid Planning
Company: The MEARIE Group
Location: Toronto, Canada
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