Sr. Resilience & Loss Control Engineer

GENERAL DESCRIPTION OF POSITION

Reporting through Production Maintenance, this role leads the cooperative’s loss control and fleet resilience efforts for the power generation fleet. The engineer develops and sustains programs, standards, and procedures that minimize risk, ensure safe and reliable operation, and achieve readiness for extreme weather events—including implementation and compliance leadership for NERC EOP‑012. 

ESSENTIAL DUTIES AND RESPONSIBILITIES

• Lead seasonal readiness programs (winter/summer), including planning, execution tracking, and post‑season assessments across the fleet.
• Lead seasonal readiness programs (winter/summer), including planning, execution tracking, and post‑season assessments across the fleet.
• Serve as implementation and compliance lead for NERC EOP‑012; develop and maintain processes, documentation, and audit readiness.
• Develop and continually improve a fleet‑wide resilience strategy; prioritize mitigations based on risk and criticality.
• Coordinate cross‑functional activities with Engineering, Maintenance, Operations, Supply Chain, Compliance, and Corporate Reliability to align fleet objectives and site execution.
• Maintain familiarity with fire protection systems at all sites; oversee fire prevention and emergency response protocols.
• Act as liaison for fire protection testing, including enclosure integrity and fire pump testing in accordance with applicable NFPA standards.
• Coordinate insurer evaluations at generation sites; manage recommendations and track implementation status through periodic reviews.
• Review and update NFPA/OSHA‑related procedures, policies, standards, and work practices governing loss control.
• Propose, justify and champion capital and O&M projects that reduce risk and improve resilience for generation assets.
• Create and maintain preventive maintenance (PM) plans; standardize PMs for essential equipment and audit for quality of execution. Lead or support root‑cause analyses for weather‑related outages or equipment failures; convert lessons learned into standards and procedure updates. Define and track KPIs for resilience, seasonal readiness, and weather‑related reliability; develop dashboards and reports for leadership.
• Create and maintain preventive maintenance (PM) plans; standardize PMs for essential equipment and audit for quality of execution. Lead or support root‑cause analyses for weather‑related outages or equipment failures; convert lessons learned into standards and procedure updates.
• Define and track KPIs for resilience, seasonal readiness, and weather‑related reliability; develop dashboards and reports for leadership.
• Provide training and technical guidance to plant personnel on resilience practices, cold‑weather preparedness, and EOP‑012 requirements; support drills and exercises.
• Serve as a technical escalation point and provide operational support during extreme weather and declared emergencies.
• The ability to handle stress and work well with others are essential functions of this position.
• Due to our obligation to provide continuous, reliable electric service to our customers, the ability to maintain regular and punctual attendance and the ability to work outside your regularly scheduled office hours when necessary is an essential function of the job.
• Maintain awareness of and compliance with applicable laws and regulations from various regulatory entities, internal policies, procedures, and directives. Ensure ongoing monitoring and timely incorporation of any changes. 

MINIMUM QUALIFICATIONS

• Bachelor’s degree in Engineering (or equivalent combination of education and experience).
• Must meet eligibility requirements to take Fundamentals of Engineering (FE) examination
• Ten (10)+ years of experience in an industrial plant environment operating/maintaining rotating equipment or related field experience.
• Working knowledge of rotating equipment (pumps, motors, steam turbines, generators) and field instrumentation; familiarity with gas combined‑cycle and hydro plant systems.
• Familiarity with condition‑based maintenance programs and related technologies. Effective written and verbal communication skills; ability to prioritize, schedule, and meet deadlines while collaborating across teams.

REQUIRED CERTIFICATES, LICENSES, REGISTRATIONS

• Valid Driver's License

PREFERRED CERTIFICATES, LICENSES, REGISTRATIONS

• Professional Engineer (PE) License

ENVIRONMENTAL CONDITIONS

The following work environment characteristics described here are representative of those an employee encounters while performing essential functions of this job. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.

While performing the functions of this job, the employee is frequently exposed to work near moving mechanical parts, extreme heat, risk of electrical shock; and occasionally exposed to work in high, precarious places, fumes or airborne particles, toxic or caustic chemicals, outdoor weather conditions, wet or humid conditions, vibration. The noise level in the work environment is usually loud.

PHYSICAL ACTIVITIES

The following physical activities described here are representative of those that must be met by an employee to successfully perform the essential functions of this job. Reasonable accommodation may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions and expectations.

Moderate diversity, low physical. Work activities which allow for a moderate amount of diversity in the performance of tasks which are not as varied as those positions with high-level diversity and decision-making.

The employee must occasionally lift and/or move up to 50 pounds.

Specific vision abilities required by this job include close vision; distance vision; and color vision.

ADDITIONAL INFORMATION

• Pursuant to the Arkansas Medical Marijuana Act 593, this position is a designated safety-sensitive position according to AECC/AECI standards and processes.