Supervisor - Substation Maintenance

At Cleco, we're not just powering lives—we're powering a cleaner, smarter future for Louisiana. With bold investments in innovative energy solutions, we’re transforming how we power our communities: smarter, cleaner, and more sustainable. This is a long-term commitment to our people and our communities because our future—and the future of generations to come—depends on it. If you're ready to make an impact where it matters most, join us at Cleco—where we're Energizing Your Tomorrow.

The Supervisor – Substation Maintenance supervises and leads a team of technicians responsible for installing, testing, maintaining, and repairing high-voltage substation equipment. Achieves departmental and corporate goals related to safety, customer satisfaction, reliability and financial performance. This role ensures work is performed safely, efficiently, and in compliance with utility standards, and company policies, while keeping the electrical system reliable.

Key Responsibilities

• Champions a corporate culture that emphasizes transparency, integrity, safety, environmental responsibility, employee development, sense of belonging, customer service, and operational excellence.
• Understands and supervises the conditions that affect employee and public safety and the necessity of complying with and promoting established safety and security rules and procedures to serve and protect the interest and well-being of Cleco’s employees, customers and investors.
• Leverages maintenance management system (SAP) to plan and oversee preventive, predictive, and corrective maintenance on transformers, circuit breakers, switches, regulators, capacitor banks, batteries, and protective relays.
• Coordinates installation, testing, and energization of new and upgraded substation equipment with Transmission Engineering, Distribution Engineering, Transmission Operations, Distribution Operations, and contractors.
• Directs responses to outages and equipment failures, including after-hours and storm events.
• Manages tools, test equipment, vehicles, and materials.
• Helps develop and track departmental O&M and Capital Budgets to meet work group and company financial goals and targets.
• Assists staff within assigned project teams, leveraging technical experience to help to onboard them and in support of meeting project milestones.
• Provide updates to their manager on work and identify risks in delivery or resourcing needs.
• Develops ideas and identifies opportunities to enhance/improve safety and security performance.
• Considers financial impact before making decisions that can significantly affect business.
• Approaches problems in an objective, logical manner. 
• Makes informed decisions, considering all aspects of the issue, delivering positive results. 
• Incorporate Human Performance (TOPI) in daily work routine.
• Encourages and models sharing of ideas and feedback.
• Welcomes questions and resolves problems effectively. 
• Provides information on company, industry, and all job-related topics.
• Provides direct reports with appropriate, timely feedback on positive and negative behavior.
• Provides immediate supervision to employees who perform single or multiple tasks. 
• Provide team members with individual and group development opportunities, including training, performance planning, performance feedback and appraisals.   

Qualifications

Required Education, Skills & Experience 

• High school diploma or equivalent
• Associate degree in electrical technology or a related field preferred
• 5+ years of related experience
• 2+ years people management experience
• Experience and ability to lead staff across projects towards a common vision
• Knowledge of standard business practices and professionalism
• Ability to interact with all levels of employees to address difficult issues
• Ability to manage high workloads and conflicting priorities
• Possesses communication & social skills and has the ability to understand and influence others.
• Ability to operate effectively and proactively with an employee centric mindset
• Detailed-oriented and high work standards in support of seamless execution
• Act decisively while thinking strategically
• Drive issues to resolution while maintaining an atmosphere of collaboration
• Thrive on working in a team and supporting others to achieve goals/targets
• This level is based only on availability in approved org design/structure; strict adherence is required.
• Progression to this level is strictly restricted on the basis of critical individual capabilities and business requirements; must be supported by market survey data
• Strong knowledge of high-voltage substation equipment, electrical theory, and test methods
• Ability to read and interpret one-line diagrams, electrical schematics, and wiring diagrams
• Experience with software maintenance management systems (e.g. SAP, Maximo) preferred

Licenses and Certifications

• Chauffeur license required, CDL Drivers Licenses preferred

Key Competencies

BEHAVIORAL

• Building Organizational Talent*
• Building Partnerships
• Leading Teams
• Business Acumen
• Communication
• Courage
• Building Self-Insight
• Building Talent*
• Driving for Results
• Energizing the Organization
• Driving Execution
• Building Trusting Relationships
• Driving Innovation
• Planning and Organizing
• Safety
• Establishing Strategic Direction

TECHNICAL                                                                                

• Analytical skills
• Compliance
• Equipment utilization
• Transmission operations
• Transmission operations quality
• Transmission operations resource management
• Transmission operations risk management

May perform other duties as assigned.

Salary dependent on experience, skills, education, and training.