Standards Strategy Director

As an S&C Electric team member, you’ll work on projects that have real-world impact. You’ll help transform the grid for resilient and reliable power worldwide. S&C has more than a 100-year history of innovation and has been 100% employee-owned since 2012. We continue this legacy as a trusted, forward-thinking leader in the electrical industry. You will advance a safer, more reliable, and more resilient electrical grid. Our products help the grid adapt to severe weather and transition to clean energy. We’re big enough to be a respected industry leader but small enough for you to impact our company directly. Our commitment gives you opportunities to impact on and off the job positively.

Join S&C to make an impact on tomorrow’s energy challenges and become an employee-owner

Hours

• 8:00 am – 5:00 pm (Mon-Fri) Hybrid-Also Open to Fully Remote
  
  

Compensation

At S&C, we are dedicated to providing competitive and equitable compensation for all our team members, and we are committed to transparency in our pay practices. The estimated annual base salary range for this position is $151140 - $200318.8. Individual pay within this salary range is determined by several compensable factors, including performance, knowledge, job-related skills and experience, and relevant education or training. This role is also eligible for S&C’s annual incentive plan (AIP), subject to eligibility criteria.

Join Our Team as Standards Strategy Director!

Are you passionate about Strategy and Regulation? S&C Electric Company is seeking a dynamic individual to join our Technology Breakthrough and Innovation team. As Standards Strategy Director, you’ll be crucial in ensuring continued innovation and supporting our diverse team.

The Technology & Breakthrough Innovation (T&BI) team drives the creation of new product solutions for S&C's customers by exploiting new technologies and enabling breakthrough product development for the fast-evolving, intelligent power grid.

The Standards Strategy Director provides expertise in standards and regulations impacting the electrical grid and S&C Electric Company products. The team member will ensure that product development and marketing are aligned with standards and regulations in the US and internationally. The team member will also seek to influence standard making bodies and trade associations with new and emerging standards.

The responsibilities for this position include, but are not limited to:

• Identify "standards gaps" in S&C's product portfolio, i.e areas where S&C's products and relevant standards misalign in ways that might disadvantage those products.
• Collaborate with product managers to prioritize steps to address those gaps.
• Develop strategies and tactics with S&C team members in standards-making bodies (such as IEEE and IEC) and trade associations such as NEMA to close standards gaps and advocate for standards to meet the needs of emerging technologies .
• Build relationships within appropriate standards-making bodies to ensure S&C's perspective is represented at the committee and sub-committee level and reflected in PARs and standards initiatives.
• Ensure S&C short-and long-term product roadmaps have appropriate "landing zones" in existing and emerging standards, which facilitate the execution of those roadmaps.
• Position S&C and, where appropriate, lead initiatives within standards-making bodies, to ensure electricity distribution equipment meets the needs of new and emerging applications both for utilities and C&I.

To be eligible for this position you must at least meet these requirements:

• 10 years participation in an international standards-making body, at least at the sub-committee level.
• Undergraduate Degree within Engineering or related field
• Solid understanding of the process of standards-making, through their inception, publication and maintenance.
• Excellent communication skills to work across the range of S&C stakeholders and ensure product requirements are developed with due consideration for their standards implications.
• Ability to work with, and influence industry stakeholders to achieve consensus around key topics which are important to S&C and support the expansion of electricity usage.
• Ability to travel frequently, including internationally to support S&C's standards strategy

Major Physical Demands:

• Standing: Occasional standing for work
• Lifting: Occasional lifting
• Walking: Frequent walking throughout the campus facility
• Carrying: Occasional carrying of light objects for short distances
• Bending: Occasional bending
• Reaching: Occasional reaching
• Environment: Standard office / desktop workspace and test laboratory space

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S&C Electric is committed to equal-opportunity employment. All employees and applicants will be considered without regard to age, color, disability, gender, national origin, race, religion, sexual orientation, gender identity, protected veteran status, or any other classification protected by federal, state, or local law. If you are an individual with a disability and need an accommodation to complete the application, please email us at [email protected] .

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In 1909, S&C Electric Company transformed the delivery of safe, reliable electricity with the invention of the Liquid Power Fuse. Today, as the world faces extreme weather events and the demand for electricity grows, S&C continues to innovate and advance the electrical grid, ensuring reliable and resilient power for homes, communities, and critical infrastructure around the world.

With a diverse, global workforce and core values around integrity, safety, and quality, S&C is a trusted industry leader and top workplace that offers meaningful careers to more than 3,500 team members. As a people-first organization, S&C is committed to fostering an inclusive and collaborative workplace where team members advance their careers through robust talent-development programs and involved leadership.

S&C’s deeply rooted belief diversity fosters greater creativity, innovation, and success guides the company to advance and sustain a diverse, equitable, and inclusive workplace culture.

S&C provides a comprehensive and competitive benefit package that includes the following (eligibility requirements apply):

• Health and Welfare Benefits: Medical & Prescription, Dental, Vision, Health Care and Dependent Care Flexible Spending Accounts, , Health Savings Account (HSA), Group Life Insurance, optional Supplemental Life and AD&D Insurance, Wellbeing Resources including Employee Assistance Program and Family Forming Benefits (i.e., Adoption and Fertility support)
• Leave Benefits: Vacation Time, Sick Time, Paid Holidays and Company Shutdown days, Short-Term Disability, Long-Term Disability, Other Leaves, Paid Parental Time and Military Leave

Retirement Benefits: 401(k) Retirement Savings and Employee Stock Ownership Plan (KSOP) offering traditional and Roth 401(k) options and an Employee Stock Ownership Plan (ESOP) component; KSOP participants can receive annual ESOP company contributions of over 11% of eligible earnings (3% Core, up to 3.5% Match, Variable Periodic).