Senior Director Energy Delivery

The Opportunity

Company, Department: Nova Scotia Power, Energy Delivery 

Location: Halifax, NS

Closing Date: November 17, 2025

The Senior Director of Energy Delivery provides strategic leadership and operational oversight for the transmission and distribution (T&D) systems that deliver electricity to customers. This role provides senior leadership to the Regional Operations, Energy Delivery Services and Reliability teams by ensuring safe, reliable, and efficient delivery of energy, compliance with regulatory requirements, and alignment with corporate goals for sustainability and resiliency. 

Key elements of this role include:

• Implement rigorous safety protocols and promote a strong safety culture throughout all Energy Delivery teams. 
• Ensure adherence to safety, environmental, and performance standards for the transmission and distribution system.  
• Develop and execute long-term plans for energy delivery infrastructure.  
• Maintain strong relationships with government, regulatory agencies, and industry bodies. 
• Ensure system reliability and minimize outages through proactive asset management and urgent outage response times. 
• Accountable for leading within a unionized environment while fostering strong, collaborative relationships with union leadership to support a respectful and productive workplace.  
• Manage maintenance and operation of T&D systems and substations.  
• Develop risk mitigation strategies for system reliability and emergency response. 
• Drive adoption of smart grid technologies and renewable integration.  
• Foster a customer focused culture of innovation and continuous improvement to optimize resource allocation and cost efficiency. 
• Oversee budgets for operations, maintenance, and capital investments in all Energy Delivery teams.  
• Collaborate with senior leaders of internal teams, contractors, and external stakeholders.  

These skills will make you successful:

To thrive in this role, you recognize yourself in most of the following competencies and skills listed below:

• ​​Bachelor's degree in engineering, business administration, or related field. 
• ​15+ years progressive experience in energy utility operations, with a minimum of 10 years in a leadership role.  
• ​Proven track record managing large scale transmission & distribution systems.​ 
• Exceptional leadership and communication skills, with collaborative and approachable management style. 
• Strong knowledge of regulatory frameworks. 
• Strategic thinker, with solid decision-making capabilities. 
• Committed to safety and quality. 

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. 

The perks of joining our team? We offer:

• 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: A comprehensive benefits 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 2SLGBTQIA+ 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.

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