Maria Neufeld, P.Eng., MBA

Manitoba Hydro (Director, Transmission Operations and Maintenance)

Maria Neufeld is an innovative, energetic and solutions oriented professional engineer. Maria is a people centered leader. As Director of Engineering, she leads a highly skilled technical team comprised of seven departments responsible for providing engineering support for Manitoba Hydro’s Generation, Transmission and Distribution’s electric operation. Maria’s team provides engineering direction and services to Manitoba Hydro that ensure safe, cost effective, and reliable risk based technical decisions that are made across the existing and future asset base.

Maria graduated with a Bachelors of Electrical Engineering from the Price Faculty of Engineering and a Masters degree in Business Administration from the Asper School of Business at University of Manitoba. Maria started her career at Manitoba Hydro in 2000 and has held various Engineering and Leadership roles at Manitoba Hydro. Maria has a proven ability to lead, coach and mentor. 

Manitoba Hydro is a provincial Crown Corporation and an integrated electricity and natural gas distribution utility serving customers in the province of Manitoba.  We have $29.3 B in assets to serve 600,991 electric customers, 289, 364 natural gas customers and service an area of 650,000 km^2. We have 5,608 MW of electricity capability, 11,045 km of transmission lines and 75,320 km of distribution lines. We have 10,673 km of natural gas lines serving 132 communities. More than 96% of the electricity we produce is clean, renewable power generated at 15 hydroelectric generating stations on the Nelson, Winnipeg, Saskatchewan, Burntwood and Laurie rivers.