Job Summary

The Substation Manager is responsible for the safe and reliable operation of Cooperative substations and compliance to applicable Cooperative procedures and NERC reliability standards. Manages the operations and maintenance of the Cooperative's substations, including the SCADA software, network and associated equipment. Manages and supports the Substation Supervisor in completion of maintenance, testing, and commissioning activities.

Essential Duties and Responsibilities

• Understand the specific job tasks of those employees reporting to them. Plan and set goals for the performance of these activities by employees.
• Oversee the investigation, analysis, resolution, mitigation, and reporting of complex power operations problems and system events.
• Investigate, document, and resolve system protection mis-operations or coordination problems.
• Review and maintain documentation of distribution and transmission substation maintenance activities.
• Assist with developing engineering and construction standards and makes recommendations regarding their acceptance.
• Review drawings and suggests changes to Engineering regarding new construction and other designed projects.
• Adapt the relay maintenance and testing procedures to ensure compliance with FERC, NERC, and WECC requirements including record keeping and reporting.
• Continually improve the substation maintenance program.
• Measure results through the use of reports and observation, evaluating employee performance against established goals.
• Assist the Transmission Operations Director in preparation and completion of quarterly department goals.
• Assist the Transmission Operations Director with the preparation of and compliance to the department budget and work plans.
• 30-40% travel to Cooperative Substations within cooperative's service area

Supervisory Responsibilities

• Plan, organize, train, coach, direct, and evaluate the performance of assigned staff; establish performance requirements and personal development targets; monitor performance and provide coaching for performance improvement and development.

Minimum Qualifications of Position

• High school diploma or equivalent certificate required.
• Proficiency in electrical theory, typically attained through a bachelor's degree in electrical engineering and 10 or more years of experience, or equivalent experience/education required.
• 3 or more years of supervisory experience required.
• Must have knowledge of electric system protective relaying, system protection, telemetering and communications, and the ability to comprehend and analyze protection schemes, relay settings, and maintenance procedures.
• Satisfactory background check results required per NERC CIP
• Requires valid Colorado driver's license with satisfactory driving record within Cooperative standards.
• Proficient with position-specific software and applications.
• Competent with Microsoft Office: Excel, Word, Outlook, Access, PowerPoint.
• Competent with general office equipment.

Knowledge and Skills

• Ability to effectively read, write and speak the English language to communicate in a clear, straight-forward, and professional manner.
• Critical Thinking: Using logic and reasoning to identify the strengths and weaknesses of alternative solutions, conclusions or approaches to problems.
• Active Listening: giving full attention to what other people are saying, taking time to understand the points being made, asking questions as appropriate, and not interrupting at inappropriate times.
• Active Learning: Understanding the implications of new information for both current and future problem-solving and decision-making.
• Problem Solving: identifying problems and reviewing related information to develop and evaluate options and implement solutions.
• Complex Problem Solving: identifying complex problems and reviewing related information to develop and evaluate options and implement solutions.
• Coordination: adjusting actions in relation to others' actions.
• Instructing: teaching others how to do something.
• Monitoring: monitoring/assessing performance of oneself, other individuals, or organizations to make improvements or take corrective action.
• Judgment and Decision Making: considering the relative costs and benefits of potential actions to choose the most appropriate one.
• Systems Analysis: determining how a system should work and how changes in conditions, operations, and the environment will affect outcomes.
• Time Management: managing one's own time OR managing one's own time and the time of others.
• Troubleshooting: determining causes of operating errors and deciding what to do about it.
• Systems Evaluation: identifying measures or indicators of system performance and the actions needed to improve or correct performance, relative to the goals of the system.
• Equipment Selection: determining the kind of tools and equipment needed to do a job.
• Persuasion: persuading others to change their minds or behavior.
• Negotiation: bringing others together and trying to reconcile differences.
• Project Management: organizing and directing production of a limited scope plan or undertaking.
• Management of Personnel Resources: motivating, developing, and directing people as they work, identifying the best people for the job.
• Mathematics: Using mathematics to solve problems.
• Technology Design: generating or adapting equipment and technology to serve user needs.
• Management of Material Resources: obtaining and seeing to the appropriate use of equipment, facilities, and materials needed to do certain work.
• Management of Financial Resources: determining how money will be spent to get the work done, and accounting for these expenditures.
• Science: Using scientific rules and methods to solve problems.
• The worker is required to have close visual acuity to perform an activity such as: preparing and analyzing data and figures; transcribing; viewing a computer terminal; extensive reading; visual inspection involving small defects, small parts, and/or operation of machines (including inspection); using measurement devices; and/or assembly or fabrication of parts at distances close to the eyes.

Attributes:

• Integrity: Exhibits a high degree of integrity and honesty.
• Diplomacy: able to use appropriate diplomacy and tact with employees, members, customers and other contacts.
• Confidentiality: able to exercise appropriate discretion and confidentiality OR able to exercise discretion, confidentiality and objectivity in complex and sensitive situations.
• Comprehension:
  • Written - able to read and understand information and ideas presented in writing.
  • Oral - able to listen to and understand information and ideas presented through spoken words and sentences.
  • Spatial - able to know one's location in relation to the environment or to know where other objects are in relation to oneself.
• Speech Recognition: able to identify and understand the speech of another person.
• Vision:
  • Able to see details at close range (within a few feet of the observer) AND/OR able to see details at a distance.
  • Color Discrimination - able to match or detect differences between colors, including shades of color and brightness.
  • Depth Perception - able to judge which of several objects is closer or farther away from oneself, or to judge the distance between oneself and an object.
• Hearing
  • Sensitivity - able to detect or tell the differences between sounds that vary in pitch and loudness.
  • Sound Localization - able to tell the direction from which a sound originated.
  • Auditory Attention: able to focus on a single source of sound in the presence of other distracting sounds.
• Time Sharing: able to shift back and forth between two or more activities or sources of information (such as speech, sounds, touch, or other sources).
• Memorization: able to remember information such as words, numbers, pictures, and procedures.
• Selective Attention: able to concentrate on a task over a period of time without being distracted.
• Problem Sensitivity: able to tell when something is wrong or is likely to go wrong. It does not involve solving the problem, only recognizing there is a problem.
• Deductive Reasoning: able to apply general rules to specific problems to produce answers that make sense.
• Inductive Reasoning: able to combine pieces of information to form general rules or conclusions (includes finding a relationship among seemingly unrelated events).
• Wrist-Finger Speed: able to make fast, simple, repeated movements of the fingers, hands, and wrists.
• Mathematical Reasoning: able to choose the right mathematical methods or formulas to solve a problem.
• Number Facility: able to add, subtract, multiply, or divide quickly and correctly.
• Information Ordering: able to arrange things or actions in a certain order or pattern according to a specific rule or set of rules (e.g., patterns of numbers, letters, words, pictures, mathematical operations).
• Category Flexibility: able to generate or use different sets of rules for combining or grouping things in different ways.
• Visualization: able to imagine how something will look after it is moved around or when its parts are moved or rearranged.
• Fluency of Ideas: able to come up with a number of ideas about a topic (the number of ideas is important, not their quality, correctness, or creativity).
• Speed of Closure: able to quickly make sense of, combine, and organize information into meaningful patterns.
• Originality: able to come up with unusual or clever ideas about a given topic or situation, or to develop creative ways to solve a problem.

Working Conditions and Physical Requirements

• Standing: Remaining upright on the feet, particularly for sustained periods of time.
• Walking: Moving about on foot to accomplish tasks, particularly for long distances or moving from one work site to another.
• Fingering: Picking, pinching, typing or otherwise working, primarily with fingers rather than with whole hand or arm as in handling.
• Talking: Expressing or exchanging ideas by means of the spoken word; those activities where detailed or important spoken instructions must be conveyed to other workers accurately, loudly, or quickly.
• Hearing: Perceiving the nature of sounds at normal speaking levels with or without correction, and having the ability to receive detailed information through oral communication, and making fine discriminations in sound.
• Repetitive motions: Making substantial movements (motions) of the wrists, hands, and/or fingers.
• Sedentary work: Exerting up to 10 pounds of force occasionally and/or a negligible amount of force frequently or constantly to lift, carry, push, pull or otherwise move objects, including the human body. Sedentary work involves sitting most of the time. Jobs are sedentary if walking and standing are required only occasionally and all other sedentary criteria are met.
• None: The worker is not substantially exposed to adverse environmental conditions (as in typical office or administrative work).

Note: This job description is intended to describe the general nature and level of work performed and is not to be construed as an exhaustive list of responsibilities, duties, and skills required. Other duties may be assigned.

Application Timeline

The application deadline for this job is estimated to be 8/5/2026. However, this timeline may be shortened or extended depending on business needs, the availability of qualified candidates, and whether the role is filled or not. We encourage qualified candidates to submit their application(s) expediently so as not to miss out on opportunities.

CORE offers a comprehensive benefits package including the following...

• 9/80 work schedule: every other Friday off!
• Nine paid holidays per year
• 160 Hours of accruable PTO per year
• Paid parental leave
• Education and training reimbursement
• Volunteer paid time off
• 100% Cooperative paid benefits, including:
• Defined benefit pension plan
• Medical insurance
• Dental insurance
• Vision insurance
• Short term disability
• Long term disability
• Employee assistance program
• Life insurance
• HSA with employer contribution
• 401(k) with up to 4% match. Immediately 100% vested
• Length of service program
• Free Onsite EV charging stations (at certain locations)
• Onsite micro market (at certain locations)
• Onsite gym with golf simulator and massage chairs (at certain locations)