Power Systems Reliability Manager

We're Hiring: Power Systems Reliability Manager

Location: United Arab Emirates (Remote)

Employment Type: Full-Time

Experience Level: Mid-Level to Senior

Work Arrangement: Fully Remote

About Us

We are a globally focused organization committed to delivering safe, reliable, and resilient energy infrastructure across diverse markets. Our teams combine electrical engineering, asset management, operations, maintenance, technology, and risk expertise to improve the performance and reliability of power generation, transmission, distribution, and industrial electrical systems.

The Role

We are seeking an experienced Power Systems Reliability Manager to lead reliability strategy, asset performance, maintenance optimization, failure prevention, and continuous improvement across power systems and electrical infrastructure.

The ideal candidate will oversee reliability programs covering substations, transformers, switchgear, protection systems, transmission and distribution equipment, generators, electrical networks, control systems, and associated infrastructure. The role will use engineering analysis, condition monitoring, reliability data, root-cause analysis, and predictive maintenance to improve system availability and resilience.

Key Responsibilities

• Develop and implement power-system reliability strategies aligned with operational and business objectives.
• Establish reliability standards, procedures, performance targets, and governance frameworks for electrical assets.
• Assess the reliability and criticality of generation, transmission, distribution, and industrial power-system assets.
• Develop asset-criticality rankings based on safety, operational, financial, environmental, and customer impacts.
• Establish reliability-centered maintenance and risk-based maintenance programs.
• Analyze equipment failure history, outage data, maintenance records, and operational performance.
• Identify recurring failures, weak points, failure modes, and systemic reliability risks.
• Lead root-cause analysis and corrective-action programs for major equipment and system failures.
• Develop preventive, predictive, condition-based, and corrective maintenance strategies.
• Optimize maintenance intervals based on asset condition, failure probability, operating environment, and risk.
• Monitor the performance of transformers, circuit breakers, switchgear, generators, protection systems, cables, motors, substations, and other electrical assets.
• Establish condition-monitoring programs for critical power equipment.
• Evaluate transformer oil analysis, thermal monitoring, partial discharge, vibration, infrared inspection, and other diagnostic techniques.
• Coordinate electrical testing, commissioning, inspection, and condition assessments.
• Review protection-system performance, relay settings, coordination studies, and fault records.
• Work with engineering teams to investigate protection-system operations, trips, faults, and abnormal conditions.
• Monitor power-quality issues including voltage deviations, harmonics, flicker, frequency variations, and transient events.
• Analyze network reliability and identify opportunities to improve redundancy, resilience, and system stability.
• Develop contingency plans for equipment failures, network outages, extreme weather, and other operational disruptions.
• Support electrical-system studies covering load flow, short circuit, protection coordination, reliability, and contingency analysis.
• Coordinate reliability assessments for new electrical projects and system modifications.
• Participate in design reviews to ensure new assets meet reliability, maintainability, and lifecycle requirements.
• Establish reliability requirements for equipment specifications, procurement, installation, testing, and commissioning.
• Evaluate equipment suppliers based on reliability, maintainability, lifecycle cost, technical performance, and support capability.
• Work with procurement and engineering teams to establish technical specifications and acceptance criteria.
• Monitor contractor and supplier performance related to equipment reliability and maintenance.
• Coordinate planned outages and maintenance windows to minimize operational and customer impact.
• Develop outage-risk assessments and prioritize maintenance activities based on system criticality.
• Monitor system availability, forced outages, equipment downtime, and restoration performance.
• Establish reliability dashboards and reporting for electrical assets and power networks.
• Track reliability trends and identify areas requiring investment, maintenance, replacement, or redesign.
• Develop lifecycle-management strategies for aging and obsolete electrical assets.
• Support asset replacement, refurbishment, uprating, modernization, and capacity-expansion programs.
• Evaluate the reliability implications of renewable generation, battery storage, distributed energy resources, and electric-vehicle charging infrastructure.
• Assess the impact of variable generation, distributed resources, and new electrical loads on system reliability.
• Support grid modernization and smart-grid initiatives involving sensors, automation, digital substations, and advanced monitoring.
• Evaluate opportunities to use predictive analytics, machine learning, digital twins, and automated diagnostics for reliability improvement.
• Ensure reliability systems and operational technology maintain appropriate cybersecurity and access controls.
• Develop emergency-response procedures for electrical incidents, equipment failures, and critical system disruptions.
• Support incident investigations and ensure corrective actions are properly implemented and verified.
• Maintain technical documentation, asset records, reliability models, failure databases, inspection results, and maintenance histories.
• Ensure reliability activities comply with applicable electrical, safety, regulatory, environmental, and engineering requirements.
• Support internal and external audits, technical reviews, regulatory inspections, and reliability assessments.
• Train engineering, maintenance, and operations teams on reliability practices, failure prevention, and condition monitoring.
• Promote reliability engineering, continuous improvement, Lean, and data-driven maintenance practices.
• Manage reliability budgets, improvement projects, engineering studies, and technical resources.
• Provide senior management with regular reports covering system reliability, risks, asset condition, outages, investment requirements, and improvement opportunities.

Key Performance Indicators

• Power-system availability
• Electrical asset availability
• System reliability
• Forced outage rate
• Unplanned outage frequency
• Unplanned outage duration
• Mean time between failures
• Mean time to repair
• Equipment failure rate
• Repeat failure rate
• Transformer failure rate
• Circuit-breaker failure rate
• Substation availability
• Generator availability
• Protection-system reliability
• Maintenance compliance
• Preventive maintenance completion
• Predictive maintenance coverage
• Maintenance backlog
• Critical equipment risk exposure
• Asset health index
• Condition-monitoring coverage
• Fault detection and response time
• Restoration time
• Outage frequency
• Customer or operational interruption duration
• Root-cause analysis completion
• Corrective-action closure rate
• Reliability improvement savings
• Lifecycle cost performance
• Asset replacement plan completion
• Contractor and supplier SLA performance
• Power-quality performance
• Safety incidents
• Regulatory compliance
• Reliability audit findings
• Reliability project delivery
• Reliability investment ROI

Ideal Candidate

The successful candidate should have strong experience in power systems reliability, electrical engineering, utility operations, transmission and distribution, power generation, industrial electrical systems, asset management, or reliability engineering, preferably within utilities, energy companies, infrastructure operators, manufacturing, or large industrial environments.

The candidate should demonstrate:

• Strong knowledge of power-system reliability principles and electrical asset management.
• Experience managing reliability programs for electrical infrastructure.
• Strong understanding of substations, transformers, switchgear, circuit breakers, protection systems, generators, cables, and electrical networks.
• Experience with reliability-centered maintenance and risk-based maintenance.
• Strong root-cause analysis and failure-investigation capabilities.
• Experience with condition monitoring and predictive maintenance technologies.
• Knowledge of protection systems, relay coordination, fault analysis, and electrical testing.
• Familiarity with power-system studies such as load flow, short circuit, contingency, and reliability analysis.
• Strong understanding of asset criticality, lifecycle management, and maintenance optimization.
• Experience managing contractors, equipment suppliers, engineering firms, and technical service providers.
• Strong analytical and data-driven decision-making skills.
• Familiarity with CMMS, EAM, asset-performance-management, SCADA, and power-system monitoring platforms.
• Understanding of grid modernization, renewable integration, energy storage, and distributed energy resources.
• Strong knowledge of electrical safety and applicable technical standards.
• Strong project-management and budget-management capabilities.
• Excellent communication, presentation, and stakeholder-management skills.
• Ability to lead cross-functional technical teams and reliability initiatives.
• Strong problem-solving and continuous-improvement mindset.
• Experience working with international and distributed teams.