What are the responsibilities and job description for the Clean Energy Senior Specialist position at Consolidated Edison Company of New York?
Overview
Con Edison, a multibillion-dollar energy utility, is leading the clean energy transition in New York City and Westchester County. We are investing hundreds of millions of dollars annually to integrate distributed resources into our electric and gas systems, support electric vehicle charging infrastructure, and scale adoption of energy efficiency and clean heating technologies across our customers.The Senior Specialist will lead the development of a comprehensive, proactive, and risk-adjusted distribution load relief planning strategy to address future transportation electrification demand. The Senior Specialist will be responsible for critical tasks such as capital planning design through proactive approaches, as well as probabilistic modeling to ready the distribution grid. Part of the role will entail leading key coordination efforts across various organizations and support the communication and engagement with internal and external stakeholders. This is a great role to demonstrate your ability to drive results, demonstrate application of cross disciplinary skills to the clean energy space and gain firsthand experience with the clean energy transition and the transportation electrification goals.Responsibilities
Core Responsibilities- Support both proactive and probabilistic planning processes to enable rapid electric vehicle (EV) and other load growth across the system, while maintaining system reliability.
- Perform detailed modeling and analytics to quantify probability of customer loss of load at each area substation and optimize project timelines in the Load Relief Program.
- Analyze large datasets and use statistical analyses and tools, including a probabilistic reliability assessment tool, to process results and form conclusions.
- Assist in developing repeatable processes and standards for the team on processing data and analyzing results.
- Aid with EV hotspot design development and foster collaboration across planning teams, including E-mobility, Distribution Planning, Central Engineering, and Regional and Customer Engineering.
- Support the Companys future Proactive Planning activities to enable a nimble distribution grid and prioritize no-regrets grid upgrades, while being efficient for long- term consumer needs.
- Help develop tools and financial metrics to capture project costs and financial impacts to customers for proactive and probabilistic planning projects. Opportunity to build in automation via machine learning and/or advanced algorithms.
- Work closely with the Distribution Planning and Forecasting teams to understand EV adoption modeling, load forecast developments, and system impacts. Develop skills working with EV data and forecasting databases.
- Perform tasks related to authoring white papers, filings, and other reporting requirements of DPA objectives to regulators.
- Support Distribution Planning group on developing presentations, participate in team/stakeholder discussions around probabilistic planning results, workshops, and seminars for internal and external stakeholders.
Qualifications
Required Education/Experience- Bachelor's Degree and 3 years of relevant work experience. or
- Master's Degree and 2 years of relevant work experience.
- Master's Degree in Engineering, Science, Economics, Information Technology, Business, Environmental Studies, or related field and 3 years of relevant work experience.
- Good communication, negotiation, and organizational skills and accountability. Required
- Ability to exercise independent judgment and render sound business decisions. Required
- Ability to effectively interact with all levels of management, as well as with customers, vendors, regulatory agencies and other stakeholders. Required
- Well-organized, detail-oriented, flexible to handle multiple assignments and projects, able to implement process improvements, and able to meet deadlines. Required
- Ability to conduct presentations to audiences of all sizes and types. Required
- Strong knowledge of computer applications such as MS Office (Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Outlook, Access, Projects). Required
- Relevant work experience including knowledge of the transportation electrification landscape, energy storage systems, project management, and construction. Preferred
- Relevant experience and knowledge on forecasting, demand management programs, and capital deferment mechanisms. Preferred
- Experience and/or working knowledge of the capital planning process. Preferred
- Driver's License Required
- Must be able to respond to Company emergencies by performing a System Emergency Assignment to restore service to our customers.
- Must be able and willing to travel within Company service territory, as needed.
Equal Opportunity Employer: Consolidated Edison is an equal opportunity employer and, as such, affirms in policy and practice its commitment to recruit, hire, train, and promote, in all job classifications, without regard to race, color, creed, religion, sex, gender, age, national origin, marital status, sexual orientation, gender identity, gender expression, citizenship, eligible veteran status, disability, or any other status protected by law. Con Edison is a federal contractor subject to VEVRAA and desires to receive priority referrals of protected veterans. To learn about your equal employment opportunity protections as part of the application process please visit http://www.dol.gov/ofccp/regs/compliance/posters/pdf/eeopost.pdf
