Position Summary
The Resource Strategy Manager will provide leadership and management of water and energy resource planning and strategy to meet reliability, environmental, compliance and risk management goals of NBU. This role will guide and support modeling of NBUs water and energy resources and evaluation of the strategic and operational “fit” of new resources, including distributed energy resources (DERs) and alternative water supplies.
A new position at NBU, initially, the Resource Strategy Manager will focus on strategy development and integration of DER and electric transportation (ET) programs into existing NBU planning processes and programs across departments. Once these programs are operational, the Manager will assist NBU in transitioning management of discrete programs to other NBU departments and will work to improve and align annual and recurring resource-related planning efforts to meet utility and community goals.
Reporting to the Director of Customer Solutions, this new position will coordinate closely with a number of utility departments, including Conservation and Customer Solutions, Business Planning, Water and Electric Engineering, Water Treatment and Compliance, Water and Electric Operations, Power Supply, Key Accounts, Communications and External Affairs, and Fleet and Facilities.
NBU is looking for candidates with a minimum of five years’ work experience and two years of supervisory or management experience with a background in energy or water resource planning, water or electric engineering, energy market analysis, financial analysis of energy markets and regulations, water or electric program or project management or a related field. Compelling candidates will be innovative, demonstrate strong strategy development and analysis skills, excellent relationship building, communications, and facilitation skills, and strong project management expertise. The starting salary is $107,026.25/year (or commensurate with experience).
Interested candidates can visit https://www.nbutexas.com/career-and-apprenticeship-opportunities/ to learn more about the position, benefits, NBU, and to apply. Please submit application by 4/17/2023.
Essential Duties & Responsibilities
MANAGEMENT/SUPERVISION
-Provide management and leadership direction to one to four professional staff
-Build, develop and direct a team of skilled technical professionals, guide their ongoing growth and development, and ensure they have working knowledge of relevant leading-edge planning and analysis tools, techniques, and principles
-Lead, motivate and facilitate cross-functional teams to commit to and deliver results
-Provide day-to-day leadership and work with staff and consultants to ensure a high-performance, customer service-oriented work environment which supports achieving NBUs vision, strategic plan, objectives, and values
-Participate in the development and implementation of goals, objectives, policies, and priorities for assigned services and programs; identify resource needs; recommend and implement policies and procedures, ensuring alignment with the NBUs strategic and operational plans
-Manage and participate in the development and administration of the department’s annual budget; direct the forecast of additional funds needed for staffing, consultants, contractors, equipment, materials, and supplies; direct the monitoring of and approve expenditures
-Ensure personnel are safety conscious and adhere to NBU safety guidelines and practices at all times and in all situations
-Support strategic goals by gathering pertinent business, financial, service, and operations information; identifying and evaluating trends and options; choosing a course of action; defining objectives; evaluating outcomes
-Maintain professional and technical knowledge by attending educational workshops, reviewing professional publications, establishing personal networks, benchmarking state-of-the-art practices; participating in professional societies
-Prepare monthly and quarterly reports, board reports and presentations
-Attend managers’ meetings and report appropriate information to direct reports
RESOURCE PLANNING
-Provide strategic thought leadership, advice, and recommendations to senior leadership on water and energy resource strategy and planning to meet the utility’s goals
-Lead development and delivery of a number of cross-departmental planning efforts, including DER and electric transportation program roadmaps to ensure an open, cross-functional, collaborative approach with the participation of staff with different expertise and/or from different areas in the utility; This includes public involvement and presentations to senior leadership, the Board of Trustees, and City Council
-Ensure that all major resource planning work and deliverables are consistent with NBUs Strategic Plan
-In coordination with Business Planning, Water Engineering, Electric Engineering, Water Treatment and Compliance, Conservation and Customer Solutions, and Power Supply departments, lead NBUs water and energy resource, drought management, One Water, water conservation, water-energy analysis, and additional planning efforts
-Identify ways to augment the utility’s operations and resource planning and management processes to ensure sustainability
-Provide guidance, including data analysis and technical expertise, to utility operations, engineering, customer solutions, and fleet and facilities teams related to water, energy and other sustainability metrics to ensure for long-term water and energy sustainability
-Lead utility in planning for future water and energy resource variability to increase resiliency
PROGRAM DESIGN & IMPLEMENTATION
-In coordination with the Conservation and Customer Solutions and Customer Service departments, support goal-setting, planning and conceptual design of customer-facing and internal programs to achieve reliability, sustainability, and other targets
-Demonstrate continuous expansion and effectiveness of One Water, conservation/efficiency, demand management, DER, electric transportation programs and other programs and efforts
-Forecast, allocate, and monitor the human, physical, and financial resources for programs
-Coordinate with other departments and other agencies to effectively deliver programs
GENERAL RESPONSIBILITIES
-Maintain regular attendance generally and attend NBU required meetings and events
-Adhere to NBU safety guidelines and practices at all times and in all situations
-Maintain a clean and safe work area, office, field site and vehicle as applicable
-Adhere to NBU policies and procedures
-Exemplify NBU Core Values (Safety, Team, Integrity, Culture, and Stewardship)
