About Us
Headquartered in Indianapolis, Indiana, Wabash Valley Power is a not-for-profit electric cooperative and wholesale provider of reliable, affordable electricity to our 23 electric distribution member cooperatives. These cooperatives in turn serve more than 300,000 homes, businesses, and farms in Indiana, Illinois, and Missouri.

As a not-for-profit co-op, we do things a bit differently—and that’s the point. Because we aren’t influenced by shareholders, we make our decisions with our members in mind. That means we value things like teamwork, and putting families first. It also means a business model that’s designed for stability and growth. It’s a Deliberately Different approach to the energy industry, and that’s great news for the people who count on us.

What You'll Get
We believe what benefits our employees benefits our company. That’s why we put employees first—your health, your family, and your development. These aren’t just slogans: We offer continuing education, flex time, health benefits, a 401(k) match and pension plan, and much more. Here are just a few of the things that make our company culture unique:

• No Sweat – we offer a wellness program that includes a payroll credit for medical insurance, an onsite wellness center and extra vacation days for participating. We’ll even throw in a discounted fitness device to keep you on track!
• Flex Time – our flexible schedule means you can work in your appointments or family events and maintain a comfortable work-life balance. 
• Stay in School – we value employees who have a desire to learn, so we provide funds for continuing education.  We also offer in-house training and ongoing professional development opportunities.  
• Keep it Casual – when you work for us, you work in comfort.  Blue jeans are the norm in our office and we make them look good!
• Work Hard, Play Hard – we reward our employees with generous vacation time, to the tune of up to 5 weeks off a year.  Even our new employees receive credit for prior work experience.

The purpose of this position is to provide maintenance engineering services required by Wabash Valley Power Association and the Member Systems.

ESSENTIAL DUTIES AND RESPONSIBILITIES:

• Functions as the subject matter expert of and displays ownership of Wabash Valley owned transmission and substation assets. Leads the inspection, maintenance, repair, replacement and testing of high voltage electrical equipment in the field; including, but not limited to, switches, insulators, transformers, circuit breakers, lightning arresters, capacitors, and ancillary equipment such as sump pumps, equipment nitrogen systems, station lighting, heating, air conditioning, receptacles and DC control systems to maximize system availability and operability.
• Provides technical support to others performing functions such as control wiring repair, troubleshooting equipment and circuit problems, interpreting and evaluating test results, maintaining, testing and repairing high voltage equipment, up to 345 kV.  Directs the work of personnel engaged in maintenance or other technical activities on high voltage equipment to ensure safety, quality, reliability and environmental compliance and assure that work conforms to specifications, drawings, safety practices, permits and any applicable procedures and regulations.
• Leads the installation, removal maintenance, repair, and testing of Wabash Valley owned mobile substations, including, but not limited to, route selection, equipment placement, and determining connection needs.
• Validates the phasing, cut-in procedures and acceptance testing for new substations and associated equipment. Establishes close liaison with other departments and Members involved in major electric construction and other work activities to assure coordination of work efforts and integrity of the electric system. Participates in planning major substation maintenance projects and provides constructability input to Engineering during capital project design activities.
• Responds to system/equipment issues or alarms, performs analysis to determine operability or need for repairs, and advises supervision of unusual system events. Ensure proper inspection, maintenance, and security requirements are met for inventoried equipment spares and mobile substations.
• Request planned and emergency high voltage switching and grounding operations to isolate equipment for work in substations. May use instruments such as infrared thermographic equipment, corona cameras, meggers, Doble test sets, transformer turns ratio test sets, ground resistance testers, and capacitance meters, etc., to evaluate equipment and systems.