Darcy Byrne-Kelly

DARCY BYRNE-KELLY – OPERATION MANAGER

With over 20 years of engineering and project management experience, MS Byrne-Kelly is the Operation Manager at Northwestern Energy (NWE) at Butte Division. Joined NWE in 2007 as a quality control/safety engineer, then moved into a Project Management of the Distribution Infrastructure Program where she developed the plan, set the metrics and the project management reporting to manage the program. In 2014, she was given a huge opportunity to manage the operations at Butte Division where she oversees electric and natural gas systems within the Division. She is responsible for safety, quality, cost, reliability, engineering, and execution of the work for electric and gas operations within the Division. Prior to NWE she worked 14 years for DOE, EPA and DOD on both engineering and project management of projects.

Darcy has a strong knowledge of and has been responsible for total management of programs and projects. She has experience in all aspects of financial forecasting, resource allocation, accounting and control. Furthermore, supports new strategies to achieve company goals and objectives in a continuous changing industry.

Darcy holds a Bachelor of Science in Environmental Engineering, Masters Business Administration (MBA) and Project Management Certification. She is an active board member of the Big Brother and Big Sisters program. She is married, has two sons and two dogs.