Career Opportunity

Utility Specialist - Risk Management & Business Analysis - SFPUC- Power Enterprise (5602) (150856) (TEX)

Recruitment: REF44717F

Published: October 22, 2024

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About:

• Application Opening:  10/22/2024
• Application Filing Deadline: 11/5/2024 
• Annual Salary: $120,484 - $178,152
• Recruitment ID: REF44717F

APPOINTMENT TYPE: Temporary Exempt: This position is excluded by the Charter from the competitive Civil Service examination process and shall serve at the discretion of the Appointing Officer. The duration of the appointment shall not exceed 36 months.

WHO ARE WE?
San Francisco Public Utilities Commission (SFPUC)
Headquartered in San Francisco, we have 2,300 employees operating across eight counties serving more than 2.7 million customers in the San Francisco Bay Area – 24 hours per day, 365 days per year.

Our Mission: To provide our customers with high quality, efficient, and reliable water, power, and wastewater services in a manner that values environmental and community interests and sustains the resources entrusted to our care.

Our Vision: We are an innovative utility leader, recognized for excellent results in service, safety, stewardship, and inclusiveness.

We are an award-winning and industry-leading utilities organization committed to our customers, community interests, and the environment. To learn more about our organization, please visit our website at https://www.sfpuc.gov.

We are proud of our infrastructure and programs, but most importantly, we value our highly qualified and dedicated workforce which ensures that this vision becomes a reality.

To learn more about working at the SFPUC, visit our career site at https://www.sfpuc.gov/about-us/careers-sfpuc

Power Enterprise

The Power Enterprise, within the SFPUC, has two separate power programs, Hetch Hetchy Power, San Francisco’s Publicly Owned Utility serving 150 MW of retail load, and CleanPowerSF, San Francisco’s Community Choice Aggregation program, serving 500+ MW of retail load. Power Enterprise serves this load with a combination of owned and purchased resources. SFPUC owns and operates the Hetch Hetchy Water and Power Project, which includes hydro-electric power generation in Moccasin, California; solar arrays throughout San Francisco; and biogas cogeneration facilities, which together produce cost-effective energy with a zero greenhouse gas (GHG-free) emission profiles. Both of these power programs’ supply portfolios exceed State minimum renewable content. Power Enterprise provides its retail customers with distributed energy resource programs. In addition to these retail electricity service offerings, Power Enterprise is responsible for San Francisco street and pedestrian lighting.

Role description

Under direction of the Risk Management and Business Analysis Manager, the 5602 Utility Specialist position provides support in risk management, financial and business analysis, long term planning, and other analytical and policy support on matters that affect San Francisco's energy interests, in particular the operations and business opportunities of the CleanPowerSF program and the Hetch Hetchy Power program of San Francisco Public Utilities Commission. Responsibilities include developing analytical tools to evaluate risk, contract evaluation and negotiation; assessing the City's rights and ability to develop and deliver power supply, transmission and distribution services; developing and designing rates for these services; fostering new load serving opportunities; and evaluation of new regulatory and legislative requirements.

Project name: Risk Management and Business Analysis Support                                                                   

Essential Functions:

• Conduct risk management analysis, including providing analytical support to both Hetch Hetchy Power and CleanPowerSF programs in evaluating portfolio risk and supporting Energy Trading Risk Management and the Enterprise Risk Management program.
• Develop analytical and predictive models; conduct economic feasibility, cost-benefit, and risk assessment analyses for business and operational opportunities.
• Support negotiations of complex, multi-year sales and service contracts.
• Assist in the development and implementation of multi-year operating, financial and capital plans.
• Support electric rate modelling and development; perform Cost of Service studies and serve as point of contact for Power Enterprise on Rate Study.
• Develop concise written and oral reports and presentations. Present results of analyses and recommendations to other Power Enterprise staff, management, and policymakers, as needed.
• Multitask, prioritize, and meet deadlines while working independently with limited supervision.
• Collaborate to identify, develop, and implement process improvements and bring greater efficiency to the team. Ability and willingness to think outside the box.
• Supervise and train junior analysts.
• Other job-related duties as required.

How to qualify

Education: Possession of a baccalaureate degree from an accredited college or university preferably with major coursework in Law, Engineering, Environmental Studies, Natural Resources, Computer Science, Business Administration, Mathematics, Statistics, Economics or other field related to the utility business; AND

Experience: Four years of verifiable journey-level work experience in one or more of the following areas: planning, scheduling, cost estimating and resource projecting for mid to large scale projects; water supply/infrastructure management and planning; power operations planning and scheduling; analysis, interpretation and application of utility contracts and regulations in either water, power (electric and/or natural gas), telecommunications, or a wastewater/clean water program; utility market and environmental analysis and planning; power supply and transmission rates and contracts; generation, transmission or distribution planning and design; or long-term utility systems planning.

License and Certification: Specified positions may require possession of a valid California Class C driver's license.

Substitution: Additional qualifying experience may be substituted for the degree requirement on a year-for-year basis.

Every application is reviewed to ensure that you meet the minimum qualifications as listed in the job ad. Please review our articles on Employment Application and Minimum Qualifications and Verification of Experience and/or Education for considerations taken when reviewing applications. 

Desirable Qualifications:

• Recent verifiable experience in one or more of the following areas: advanced economic analysis, ratemaking, risk management in the energy and/or electric power sectors and developing policy recommendations based on this work.
• Excellent modeling skills
• Strong oral and written communication skills 
• Strong program and project management skills

The stated desirable qualifications may be considered at the end of the selection process when candidates are referred for hiring.

Verification of Education and Experience:

Every application is reviewed to ensure that you meet the minimum qualifications as listed in the job ad. Please review our articles on Employment Application and Minimum Qualifications and Verification of Experience and/or Education for considerations taken when reviewing applications. 

Applicants may be required to submit verification of qualifying education and experience at any point during the recruitment and selection process.

Note: Falsifying one’s education, training, or work experience or attempted deception on the application may result in disqualification for this and future job opportunities with the City and County of San Francisco.

All work experience, education, training and other information substantiating how you meet the minimum qualifications must be included on your application by the filing deadline. Information submitted after the filing deadline will not be considered in determining whether you meet the minimum qualifications. Applications completed improperly may be cause for ineligibility, disqualification or may lead to lower scores.

What else should I know?

Additional Information Regarding Employment with the City and County of San Francisco:

• Information About the Hiring Process
• Conviction History
• Employee Benefits Overview  
• Equal Employment Opportunity 
• Disaster Service Worker
• ADA Accommodation
• Veterans Preference
• Right to Work
• Copies of Application Documents
• Diversity Statement

Applicants will receive a confirmation email from notification@careers.sf.gov that their online application has been received in response to every announcement for which they file. Applicants should retain this confirmation email for their records. Failure to receive this email means that the online application was not submitted or received.

HOW TO APPLY

Applications for City and County of San Francisco jobs are only accepted through an online process. Visit https://careers.smartrecruiters.com/CityAndCountyOfSanFrancisco1/ and begin the application process.

• Select the “I’m Interested” button and follow instructions on the screen

Applicants may be contacted by email about this recruitment and, therefore, it is their responsibility to ensure that their registered email address is accurate and updated. Also, applicants must ensure that email from CCSF is not blocked on their computer by a spam filter. To prevent blocking, applicants should set up their email to accept CCSF mail from the following addresses (@sfgov.org, @sfdpw.org, @sfport.com, @flysfo.com, @sfwater.org, @sfdph.org, @asianart.org, @sfmta.com, @sfpl.org, @dcyf.org, @first5sf.org, @famsf.org, @ccsf.edu, @smartalerts.info, and @smartrecruiters.com).

Applicants will receive a confirmation email from notification@careers.sf.gov that their online application has been received in response to every announcement for which they file. Applicants should retain this confirmation email for their records. Failure to receive this email means that the online application was not submitted or received.

Job Analyst Information: If you have any questions regarding this recruitment or application process, please contact the job analyst, Rocio Mendoza at rmendoza@sfwater.org.  

The City and County of San Francisco encourages women, minorities and persons with disabilities to apply. Applicants will be considered regardless of their sex, race, age, religion, color, national origin, ancestry, physical disability, mental disability, medical condition (associated with cancer, a history of cancer, or genetic characteristics), HIV/AIDS status, genetic information, marital status, sexual orientation, gender, gender identity, gender expression, military and veteran status, or other protected category under the law.