Supervisor Maintenance T&D

Summary

The Supervisor, Predictive Maintenance plays a critical role in keeping APS’s transmission and distribution system safe, reliable, and ready to serve our communities. By leading a highly technical, system‑wide team, this role helps identify asset risks early, optimize maintenance strategies, and extend the life of critical infrastructure.

What Your Day Would Be Like

• Lead and support a diverse predictive maintenance team, including technicians, drone pilots, and technical specialists, focused on asset health and reliability
• Partner with System Health and maintenance organizations to align inspection data with smart, forward‑looking maintenance strategies
• Oversee technical inspections and testing of substations, transmission lines, transformers, and generation switchyards
• Support field organizations with non‑destructive testing, predictive maintenance, and apparatus testing expertise
• Ensure work is performed safely, consistently, and in compliance with regulatory and company standards
• Build strong working relationships that help teams succeed and continuously improve outcomes

Who We’re Looking For

• Experience leading technical or field‑based teams focused on asset reliability, inspections, or maintenance
• Strong understanding of predictive maintenance, non‑destructive testing, and utility‑scale electrical assets
• Ability to guide teams working across substations, transmission lines, protection and controls, and related disciplines
• A safety‑first mindset with a commitment to quality, compliance, and operational excellence
• Collaborative leadership style with strong communication and customer‑relationship skills
• Comfort working across regions and coordinating efforts system‑wide

Minimum Requirements

• High school diploma/GED plus seven (7) years' experience in the design, construction, operations, or maintenance of transmission and distribution electrical facilities, as well as demonstrated leadership qualities and effective interpersonal skills.
• Position will require periodic after-hours responsibility for developing an organization that is focused on providing safe, quality, timely, courteous and cost-effective reliable system additions, improvements and upgrades.
• Technical and interpersonal skill levels will be assessed to complement the team's current breadth/depth of technical knowledge, business acumen, and organizational effectiveness.

Major Accountabilities

1) Oversee a cross functional team including substation techs, relay techs, PDM staff and the Central Service Laboratory to provide maintenance, planned maintenance and operation of T&D electrical facilities in order to provide for system reliability requirements.

2) Serve as a communications, coordinating, scheduling and technical liaison to their own group and among other stakeholders within the company, leaders and departments, as appropriate.

3) Provide effective leadership to the maintenance team to ensure individual contribution and team success supports corporate reliability plan by communicating the overall direction and performance expectations.

4) Promote safe working attitudes and practices; conduct timely effective Safety meetings and overall program.

5) Develop the unit budget, and ensure funded targets are achieved through ongoing monitoring of performance and costs, making necessary changes to improve effectiveness.

6) Manage and develop employees, encouraging teamwork, customer advocacy, and personal accountability.  Support individual employee development through training and developmental assignments, performance management, and coaching.

7) Promote Customer Satisfaction by providing an effective interface with internal and external customers, establishing reasonable expectations up front, and then meeting the expectations.

8) Maintain compliance to FAA, WECC and the Arizona Department of Environmental Quality standards in the respective jurisdictions.

Export Compliance / EEO Statement

This position may require access to and/or use of information subject to control under the Department of Energy's Part 810 Regulations (10 CFR Part 810), the Export Administration Regulations (EAR) (15 CFR Parts 730 through 774), or the International Traffic in Arms Regulations (ITAR) (22 CFR Chapter I, Subchapter M Part 120) (collectively, 'U.S. Export Control Laws'). Therefore, some positions may require applicants to be a U.S. person, which is defined as a U.S. Citizen, a U.S. Lawful Permanent Resident (i.e. 'Green Card Holder'), a Political Asylee, or a Refugee under the U.S. Export Control Laws. All applicants will be required to confirm their U.S. person or non-US person status. All information collected in this regard will only be used to ensure compliance with U.S. Export Control Laws, and will be used in full compliance with all applicable laws prohibiting discrimination on the basis of national origin and other factors. For positions at Palo Verde Nuclear Generating Stations (PVNGS) all openings will require applicants to be a U.S. person.

Pinnacle West Capital Corporation and its subsidiaries and affiliates ('Pinnacle West') maintain a continuing policy of nondiscrimination in employment. It is our policy to provide equal opportunity in all phases of the employment process and in compliance with applicable federal, state, and local laws and regulations. This policy of nondiscrimination shall include, but not be limited to, recruiting, hiring, promoting, compensating, reassigning, demoting, transferring, laying off, recalling, terminating employment, and training for all positions without regard to race, color, religion, disability, age, national origin, gender, gender identity, sexual orientation, marital status, protected veteran status, or any other classification or characteristic protected by law.

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In compliance with the Drug Free Workplace Act of 1988, the Company is committed to a work environment that is free from the effects of alcohol and controlled substances, and free from the abuse or inappropriate use of prescribed and over-the-counter medications. The Company requires employees to be subject to drug and alcohol testing that is job-related and consistent with business necessity, regulatory requirements and applicable laws.