Energy Manager

Job Description:

Energy Manager

Description

Requirements

MOS Codes: None

Education and Experience : Bachelor's Degree or higher in Energy Management, Engineering, Architecture, Physics, or a related field, and three (3) years of increasingly responsible professional experience administering an energy-savings plan, monitoring and inspecting energy and water usage, or energy engineering, including one (1) year of supervisory experience.

Licenses and Certificates : Valid Texas Class "C" Driver's License or equivalent from another state by date of appointment. Certified Energy Manager (CEM), Certified Energy Auditor (CEA), or Master Energy Manager (MEM), within one (1) year of appointment.

General Purpose

Under direction, establish and coordinate citywide energy and water efficiency initiatives, develop and administer plans for the acquisition of energy and water resources, issue competitive solicitations for energy resources, and negotiate energy and water resource contracts.

Typical Duties

Develop and administer energy and water resources (electric, water, solar, and/or natural gas) plans. Involves: Developing short and long-term plans and programs for meeting the City’s future energy resource needs. Coordinate energy resources planning and development functions with stakeholders. Assist in negotiations related to energy resources contracts, rate cases, and agreements under management policy direction. Participate in the development and implementation of rules and regulations that affect the energy and water resources. Review the impact of proposed and finalized statutes, rules, and regulations in order to inform the City’s position to federal, state, and local regulatory agencies. Consult with the City's legal staff regarding technical aspects of legal proceedings involving energy and water resources issues. Present recommendations in written report form to management.

Acquire energy resources. Involves: Analyze data, prepare reports and plans, maintain energy management records in support of these, and conduct studies of work problems and procedures, organizational change, communications, and information flow. Compile and analyze information on problems or procedures using statistical methods. Coordinate with individual utilities to obtain information and to resolve customer complaints. Evaluate departmental or individual utility operating procedures and make recommendations to promote continuous quality improvement and reduce customer complaints. Organize and document findings and prepare recommendations regarding new systems, procedures, or organizational changes for the supervisor and provide early warning regarding areas of emerging concern. Confer with management for procedural guidance and policy interpretation in conducting investigations into and the resolution of situations of an unprecedented nature.

Represent the assigned functional organization. Involves: Negotiate energy resource contracts; maintain an active liaison with all organizations having energy resources related interests, and advise the Utilities Department and City management regarding energy and water resource policy matters. Communicate with the general public, other City officials, and staff from public and private organizations in order to provide information regarding the City’s energy resource plans, policies, and procedures. Produce documents including reports, agreements, and data analysis to inform policymakers, legal staff, management, and the public about energy resources issues. Present City positions, both orally and in writing, to federal, state, and local regulatory agencies. Represent the City on task forces and committees relating to energy resources issues. Analyze and verify energy and water utility bills rendered to the utility. Prepare local forecasts and recommendations related to energy and water resources acquisitions and development.

Plan, design, develop, implement, oversee, and evaluate programs to optimize economic utilization and resource conservation of power that will satisfy diverse operational requirements. Involves: Research applicability of developments in technologies related to alternative energy sources, lighting, air and water heating and cooling, ventilation and air conditioning, building thermal envelopes, building control systems, and pollutant emission abatement. Assess the feasibility of new installation or retrofit projects to improve energy and water efficiency, which includes analyzing timing, costs, and benefits of allied City or contracted engineering and construction, equipment acquisitions, and utility alternatives, and recommend suitable options. Set long and short-range goals and monitor progress of adopted improvement plans, and formulate and enforce energy usage policies, methods, and standards, which include auditing and analyzing consumption statistics to detect and correct anomalous patterns and trends. Review technical plans, inspect work in process, and confer with engineers, architects, construction project managers, and other functionally accountable City or vendor personnel to ensure compliance with applicable local, state, and federal regulations, and adherence to grant and contract provisions.

Promote and educate City management and employees in effective energy savings methods. Involves: Act as principal City liaison to regulatory and funding agencies, and represent the City at hearings or public meetings, including delivering testimony or presentations regarding program activities and technical issues. Confer with City management and facility users on energy, water, and environmental needs and conservation suggestions, or to investigate and resolve complaints. Arrange for or personally engage in the preparation, production, and distribution of informational and instructional materials in various media formats. Conduct energy efficiency awareness and technical training.

Perform program administration functions. Involves: Seeking, identifying, and applying for private and public sector grants associated with energy conservation by working with City grants personnel. Prepare an annual budget that includes estimating and reporting performance results, and requesting program and capital improvements. Monitor and account for expenditures of funds and use of physical resources provided, and justify requests for adjustments. Write requests for qualifications or proposals and bid specifications. Participate in the selection of product suppliers and service contractors. Write correspondence and recurring or special analytical reports on program activities, and maintain required related records.

Supervise assigned staff. Involves: Schedule, assign, instruct, guide, and check work. Appraise employee performance. Provide for training and development, enforce personnel rules and regulations, and work behavior standards firmly and impartially. Counsel, motivate, and maintain harmony. Interview applicants and recommend hiring, termination, transfers, discipline, or other employee status changes.

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Note: This is an unclassified contract position.

Note: Applicants with a foreign degree must have all documents translated and evaluated by an agency of the National Association of Credential Evaluation Services (NACES) prior to submitting them to the Human Resources Department. Please visit www.naces.org/members for more information.

Note: Applicants are encouraged to apply immediately. This position will close when a preset number of qualified applications have been received.

A résumé and/or other documents will not be accepted in lieu of a completed application. Comments such as “See résumé” are not acceptable and will result in the application being considered incomplete.

To qualify for this position, the required education, experience, knowledge, and skills must be clearly stated on your application’s employment history. We do not use any information on your resume to review if you meet the minimum qualifications for this position.

Failure to fully detail all experience and job duties in the application, or copying/pasting directly from the job specification, or responses referring to your résumé will eliminate you from consideration for the position.

Determined by agreement

Closing Date/Time: Continuous

Salary:

$66,280.00 - $104,050.00 Annually