Job Description

The driving force behind our success has always been the people of AspenTech. What drives us, is our aspiration, our desire and ambition to keep pushing the envelope, overcoming any hurdle, challenging the status quo to continually find a better way. You will experience these qualities of passion, pride and aspiration in many ways — from a rich set of career development programs to support of community service projects to social events that foster fun and relationship building across our global community.

The Role

AspenTech Advanced Distribution Management System (ADMS) is a high growth area in our business that unlocks an electric distribution utility’s ability to monitor, manage, control, and optimize the grid.

This role is responsible for the successful implementation and operational readiness of Advanced Distribution Management System (ADMS) capabilities supporting outage management, restoration operations, workforce management, and distribution network reliability. The Manager will lead engineering teams delivering solutions that enable real-time outage detection and event correlation, outage visualization and situational awareness, incident response and restoration workflows, crew dispatch and work management, customer communications, estimated time to restoration (ETR) forecasting, and integration with utility operational technology (OT) and enterprise IT systems

As a Manager, Power Systems Engineering, you will be involved in all aspects of the successful delivery of solutions to multiple customers. You will lead a team of engineers who will design, build, configure, troubleshoot, and test the deployment of our systems. You will prioritize work and manage project risks. You and your team will interact and coordinate with multiple organizations within AspenTech including cross functional Engineering Teams, the Project Management Office, and the Software Development Organization. For our customers, throughout the project lifecycles, you will be the primary contact for ADMS project planning and the first point of escalation for project issues. This position also gives you broad exposure to the entire ADMS solution including maintenance applications, applications for locating faults, applications for managing voltage and reactive load, applications for managing outages and crews, applications for managing switch orders, and system interfaces.

Your Impact

• Identify critical path and dependent tasks to reach successful project milestones.
• Prioritize, develop, and monitor work schedules that drive the team toward project milestones.
• Prioritization of resource allocation between multiple projects.
• Provide guidance and direction to team when troubleshooting technical issues.
• First escalation path for ADMS project issues – responsible for escalating to their manager if the issue cannot be resolved.
• Lead daily standups with their team.
• Communicate project status/updates to management and governance teams
• Identification of project risks and development/communication of mitigation plans.
• Work with development to communicate issue priority and need-by.
• Document problem statements and communicate plans which are appropriate for the audience.
• Lead key workshops with customers.
• Ensure crew adherence to company policies, processes and procedures.
• Upskill crew members and identify career growth opportunities.
• Oversee integration activities between ADMS, SCADA, GIS, OMS, switch order management, and other utility operational systems.
• Ensure seamless exchange of outage, switching, and restoration data across OT and enterprise platforms.
• Drive scalable and configurable solution architectures capable of supporting diverse utility operating models, outage volumes, storm response requirements, and planned outage processes.
• Support modular solution deployments including storm management, planned outage management, switching operations, and enterprise analytics integrations.

What You'll Need

• Bachelor’s degree in Electrical Engineering or Computer Science.
• Experience with electrical power system models, SCADA, and outage management.
• Experience managing a complex technical project and demonstrated competency across project lifecycle.
• Established track record of leading, developing, and motivating diverse technical teams to achieve high performance.
• Strong written and verbal communication skills as well as excellent troubleshooting skills.
• Experience using software tools for organization, prioritization, work tracking, and coordination.
• Excellent interpersonal and motivational skills and proactive outlook
• Proven ability to organize and prioritize work within tight timelines.
• Ability to lead the delivery of highly scalable and configurable utility software solutions supporting mission-critical grid operations.
• Willing to work a hybrid schedule (4 days onsite, 1 day remote) from the Medina, MN office.

Work Authorization

AspenTech will only employ those who are legally authorized to work in the United States. This is not a position for which sponsorship will be provided. Individuals with temporary visas such as E, F-1(including those with OPT or CPT) , H-1, H-2, L-1, B, J or TN, or who need sponsorship for work authorization now or in the future, are not eligible for hire.

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This role is a valuable part of our Digital Grid Management team at AspenTech. Learn more about the team here:

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The salary range for this role is $139,900.00 - $174,900.00. This range represents what we in good faith believe is the range possible for base compensation for this role at the time of this posting. We may ultimately pay more or less than the posted range based on several factors. This range may be modified in the future. This role is also eligible for bonus or variable incentive pay. Additionally, we offer a comprehensive benefits package including paid time off, charitable giveback day, medical/dental/vision insurance, and retirement benefits to eligible employees.