Colville Operations Manager

Closes: January 15, 2024
Starting Range: $117,433.00 to $155,012.00
Full Range: $117,433.00 to $173,801.00

Job Description

Manages the Colville operations and facilities to ensure customer satisfaction, quality service, employee safety, and efficient operations. Leads employees in meeting department business goals and objectives, accountable for business results, and effective management of resources. Provides day to day supervision of operations employees. Schedules and deploys crews, coordinates material and equipment requirements, and ensures safety compliance as needed to support department goals and objectives. Establishes and maintains positive relationships within the local community and creates a culture of safety and efficiency for our customers and employees.

Principal Accountabilities

• Oversees new revenue work from initial contact through design, scheduling, and construction. Coordinates material and equipment availability as required to support the various projects. Conducts regular inspections of fieldwork, checks progress, and ensures compliance with schedules, drawings, and specifications. May perform or participate in project design work.
• Coordinates work with vendors, contractors, agencies, and other departments. Oversees and engages with various contracted resources used throughout the district.
• Responsible for workplace safety. Takes an active part in safety meetings and works with foreman and crews to ensure that work activities meet all applicable federal, state, and company safety regulations. Spearheads accountability for reporting and documenting incidents involving safety.
• Responsible for the preparation and oversight of budgets as required to meet annual budget allocations. Verifies accuracy of expense accounts, time records, credit card reconciliation, invoice approval, and other documents.
• Works as a key stakeholder in conjunction with the Regional Business Manager and other Avista stakeholders on large scale community projects. Participates in community and civic affairs to improve the company’s ability to efficiently deliver services, position the company to effectively compete and grow, strengthen goodwill through corporate citizenship, and enhance corporate reputation as a strategic asset. Proactively manages the simple-to-complex corporate and community network issues, policies, and regulations to meet critical business needs.
• Provides off-hour emergency response support by coordinating emergency crew work as needed.
• Administers the collective bargaining unit agreement. Responsible for understanding and following the collective bargaining agreement as it pertains to union employees within the workgroup. Reviews and approves timecards ensuring employees are paid according to the collective bargaining agreement and applicable wage and hour laws.
• Manages personnel including hiring, performance management, coaching, employee engagement, continuous education, training, and development.
• Develops and implements work plans, standard operating procedures, program improvements, and best practices; responsible for instituting a culture of high performance and continuous improvement.
• Ensures activities, services and/or products are compliant with applicable regulations, rules, policies and procedures.
• Fosters a positive and supportive work environment; promotes equity, inclusion, diversity, and belonging in the workplace; and contributes to an environment of mutual respect.

Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree in business administration, accounting, finance, engineering, or similar field. Journeyman line experience preferred.
• 7 years of relevant experience.
• 3 years of supervisory experience preferred.
• Knowledge of electrical construction preferred.
• Strong interpersonal skills and effective written and verbal communication skills.
• Demonstrated problem solving ability.
• Strong project management skills and ability to budget effectively.
• Demonstrated effective leadership qualities and the ability to flourish in a team environment.
• Passion for exceptional customer service, safety, and quality.
• Strong technical skills with the ability to work alongside crews.
• The Colville Operations Manager is expected to live in or within a commutable distance of the community for which they are responsible.

Other combinations of education and experience may be considered.

To Apply
We encourage you to apply as many of our positions have step progressions to account for an incoming employee’s various levels of knowledge, skills, and experience.

Complete an online application and attach your resume and cover letter to your profile. All documents must be attached to your application at the time of submitting your application for review. No documents can be attached after you click "Submit".

Benefits
At Avista, we believe our employees are essential. Through them we deliver value to our customers and the communities we serve. The physical, mental, and financial health and well-being of our employees and their families are important to us. We are committed to offering a comprehensive total rewards program comprised of an externally competitive, internally equitable compensation structure and a benefits package that allows us to retain and attract a diverse, engaged, and skilled workforce. Our benefits package includes medical, dental, vision, life, and disability coverage, retirement benefits, incentive plans, wellness resources, time-off programs and much more. In addition to our total rewards program, the Pacific Northwest offers abundant outdoor recreation, four distinct seasons, and all the amenities and activities an individual or family might be interested in. To learn more, please visit our benefits website at https://avistabenefits.com/.

Avista’s Commitment to Equal Opportunity and Affirmative Action
Avista is a safe, inclusive workplace for people of all backgrounds, and we are committed to Equal Opportunity Employment, Affirmative Action efforts, and Equity, Inclusion and Diversity. We strongly encourage applications from women, people of color, people with disabilities, protected veterans, and all others. All qualified applicants will be considered regardless of race, color, religion, national origin, sex, gender identity, sexual orientation, marital status, age, sensory, mental or physical disability (unless based upon a bona fide occupational qualification), Veteran status or any other classification protected by nondiscrimination laws.

Equity and diversity in our workplace is important to us. Please view Equal Employment Opportunity Posters provided by OFCCP here. Prior to the next step in the recruiting process, we welcome you to inform us confidentially if you require any special accommodations to participate fully in our recruitment process. Avista will make reasonable accommodation to assist a qualified person with a disability in the job application, interview process, and to perform the essential functions of the job whenever possible, where undue hardship would not be created for Avista. Please contact us at humanresources@avistacorp.com if you would like assistance.

Licenses & Certifications

• NERC Background Check

Equal Opportunity Employer/Protected Veterans/Individuals with Disabilities

The contractor will not discharge or in any other manner discriminate against employees or applicants because they have inquired about, discussed, or disclosed their own pay or the pay of another employee or applicant. However, employees who have access to the compensation information of other employees or applicants as a part of their essential job functions cannot disclose the pay of other employees or applicants to individuals who do not otherwise have access to compensation information, unless the disclosure is (a) in response to a formal complaint or charge, (b) in furtherance of an investigation, proceeding, hearing, or action, including an investigation conducted by the employer, or (c) consistent with the contractor’s legal duty to furnish information. 41 CFR 60-1.35(c)