The Opportunity
Company, Department: Nova Scotia Power, Reliability, Standards and Engagement
Position Title: Senior Manager, Substation Reliability
Reports To: Director, Reliability
Location: Halifax, Nova Scotia
Closing Date: October 9, 2026
At Nova Scotia Power, we are committed to providing safe, reliable electricity so that our customers and communities can thrive. The Senior Manager, Substation Reliability is responsible for the strategic development, governance, and execution oversight of Nova Scotia Power’s Substation Capital Investment Program.
This position provides leadership to a team of engineers, project managers and technical specialists responsible for project execution, capital planning, engineering design, protection and control coordination, and reliability improvement initiatives associated with the transmission and distribution substation fleet.
The role is accountable for ensuring capital investments are aligned with long-term asset strategies, system planning requirements, asset condition assessments, regulatory commitments and corporate reliability objectives.
Key elements of this role include:
As Senior Manager, Substation Reliability, you will:
- Provide leadership, coaching, performance management and development for the Substation Reliability team.
- Develop plans to implement long-term asset management strategies for transmission and distribution substation assets.
- Work with the EAM team to understand asset health, risk and criticality assessments to identify investment needs and reliability risks.
- Lead the development and oversight of the Substation Capital Investment Program with the Substation Project Management and Substation Design Leads.
- Ensure projects are appropriately scoped, justified, estimated, approved and delivered in accordance with corporate capital governance requirements and ACE directives.
- Provide oversight of project execution activities including engineering design, project management, protection and control, commissioning and project close-out with the Substation Project Management and Substation Design Leads.
- Monitor program performance and implement actions to address schedule, scope, cost and execution risks.
- Ensure capital plans remain responsive to emergent equipment failures and changing system needs.
- Lead development of annual and multi-year capital investment plans, business cases, ACE filings, forecasting and reporting.
- Provide strategic oversight for procurement of major substation equipment and long-lead materials.
- Act as a liaison between Asset Management, Operations, Engineering, System Planning, Project Delivery and other stakeholders.
- Provide leadership and technical direction as required during major equipment failures, system disturbances and restoration events.
These skills will make you successful:
- Registered Professional Engineer (P.Eng.) with Engineers Nova Scotia or eligible for registration.
- Minimum 5 years of progressively responsible utility engineering, asset management, reliability, operations or capital program experience.
- Leadership experience managing technical or professional teams.
- Demonstrated experience with transmission and distribution substations, asset management and capital planning.
- Strong leadership, communication, stakeholder engagement, financial management and analytical skills.
SAFETY
- Responsible for personal safety and the safety of employees, contractors and others under their direction.
- Ensure compliance with all Occupational Health and Safety requirements and company procedures.
- Promote a culture of safety, risk awareness and continuous improvement.
ENVIRONMENT
- Accountable for environmental performance in accordance with environmental management system requirements.
- Ensure environmental requirements are incorporated into planning and project execution activities.
We understand that experience comes in many forms, and we’re dedicated to adding new perspectives to the team. So, if your experience is close to what we’ve listed above, please consider applying.
Learn more about our culture and values
At the Emera Group of Companies, you’ll be part of an inclusive, respectful workplace where everyone is welcomed and supported. Come build a career as unique as you are: making an impact from Atlantic Canada to the world. Your experience and perspective will help us to safely deliver cleaner, more reliable energy to our customers.
If working in an innovative environment, challenging yourself, and shaping a cleaner energy future inspires you, we want to hear from you. Apply by October 9, 2026 and let us know why this role is right for you.
The perks of joining our team? We offer:
- Flexibility: One flexible remote workday.
- Health & Wellbeing: A comprehensive benefits plan, 24/7 access to virtual health care services for you and your family through Dialogue, access to a free on-site fitness centre, Employee and Family Assistance Program, parental leave top-up plan and wellness benefits.
- Grow Your Career: Opportunities to advance within and between our affiliate companies, a focus on employee development and available sponsored education programs.
- Community Engagement & Care: Corporate investments in the places where our people live and work, mentoring opportunities, fundraising-matching, volunteer programs, various committees and employee resource groups, and scholarships for children of employees.
- Competitive Compensation: Short-term incentive plan and a Defined Contribution Pension Plan.
Diversity, Equity & Inclusion at Emera
As one of Atlantic Canada’s largest publicly traded companies, we are ranked one of Canada’s Top 100 Employers, Top Employers for Young People and Top Diversity Employers. We know our success is driven by our dedicated teams and we strongly encourage applications from all qualified candidates, including persons who identify as racially visible, Indigenous, persons with disabilities, women in underrepresented roles and members of the 2SLGBTQ+ community.
Applicants from these equity groups may self-identify through the online application process. We support candidates and employees with access and accommodation needs and encourage you to let us know when you require accommodation.
Recruitment & Promotion Policy
The success of the Emera Company is driven by its people: a strong team with a shared commitment to support the Emera Company mission and values. The purpose of our recruitment policy is to provide a consistent framework to support fair and equitable attraction, hiring, and retention of the best talent for vacant positions. We are dedicated to maintaining a fair hiring process that provides equitable opportunities to all our applicants and is guided by our company values.
If you have any questions about this opportunity or if you are experiencing any technical difficulty with the application process, please email careers@nspower.ca
