Job Description

Leads the organization’s core functions in forecasting, production cost modeling, reliability planning, and regulatory support, ensuring operational efficiency, compliance, and resilience. Provides strategic insights through advanced analytics to optimize dispatch, fuel budgeting, maintenance scheduling, and contract strategies, directly reducing financial, reliability, and regulatory risks while enabling faster, high-confidence decision-making at the executive level.

• Plans short- and long-term generation fleet forecasts to ensure alignment with load, fuel availability, regulatory constraints, and resource adequacy targets.

• Manages configuration and quality assurance of Production Modeling and Optimization (PROMOD) and Power Market Simulation Software (PLEXOS) models, owning data inputs, assumptions, constraints, version control, and documentation to deliver accurate scenario analyses.

• Calibrates models to historical performance and implements scenario libraries to enable rapid, high-confidence executive decision support.

• Evaluates production costs and performs sensitivity analyses across fuel prices, outages, and market conditions to optimize dispatch strategies and reduce overall cost-to-serve.

• Monitors and reconciles load forecasts with demand trends and Demand Side Management (DSM) targets to maintain reserve margin requirements and advise on resource adequacy actions.

• Coordinates energy cost tracking and fuel budgeting processes, including hedging scenario analysis, to improve budget accuracy and mitigate financial risk.

• Communicates modeling outcomes, system performance metrics, and reliability insights to regulatory bodies and executive leadership to guide policy and investment decisions.

• Develops and manages departmental budgets to allocate resources effectively and meet operational targets.

• Provides leadership, coaching, and performance management for direct reports, including setting clear expectations, conducting regular performance reviews, supporting professional development, and addressing personnel issues constructively to foster a high-performing and collaborative team environment.

• Defines and monitors departmental KPIs to identify trends and drive continuous improvement.

• Leads, models and ensures consistent application of policies and regulatory standards across teams to support ethical operations and mitigate compliance risks.

• Leads and validates the planning and execution of restoration and emergency preparedness activities to strengthen operational resilience and response capacity.

• Assumes and oversees expanded duties aligned with organizational priorities and professional scope to drive departmental effectiveness and strategic alignment.

Additional Job Description:

Education

• Bachelor’s degree in Engineering, , Economics, or related field from an accredited university.

Experience

• 5 to 7 years' experience in energy planning, modeling, or utility operations, with responsibilities of planning, budgeting, with at least 3 years' overseeing employees directly, leading teams, budgets and projects in a Supervisor role.

• Additional education may substitute for the required experience when it aligns with the competencies and knowledge necessary for the role: Master’s degree in a relevant field may substitute when accompanied by a minimum of 3 years of experience performing related functions and at least 2 years in a Manager role.

Competencies (Skills)

• Strong interpersonal, organizational and management skills.

• Strong ability to develop and deliver effective presentations and facilitate meetings as related to strategy, training, and collaborating with various stakeholders.

• Ability to influence and communicate effectively with senior company personnel, external consultants, legal counsel, regulatory agency staff and industry stakeholders.

• Ability to effectively prioritize workloads, meet deadlines and resolve conflicting priorities.

• Proficient in MS Office Suite - Word, Excel, PowerPoint, and Outlook, MS Projects, and Project Management Tools.

• Strong verbal and written communication skills in both English and Spanish are preferred.

Licenses/Certifications

• N/A

Travel Requirements

• N/A

Physical Demands

• Stationary Position: Frequently

• Pushing/ Pulling/ Reaching: Seldom

• Kneel: Seldom

• Grab: Seldom

• Bend: Seldom

• Lift/Carry over: 0-15 lbs. approximately

Working Conditions

• Wet or humid: Never

• Working near or on moving mechanical parts: Never

• Working near or on heavy machinery: Never

• Working in high places Never

• Exposed to fumes or airborne particles: Never

• Frequency of working in outdoor weather conditions: Never

• Work with electricity: Never

• Loud noise conditions: Never

We are committed to diversity and inclusion, and it is because of this that we offer equal employment opportunity to both our employees and candidates, while also striving for an environment that is free of any form of discrimination and harassment. We base our employment decision solely on the qualifications of the individual, their merits, and the present needs of the business.