Senior Resource Planning Analyst

Minimum Pay Rate: $123,531.20 

Maximum Pay Rate: $163,592.00 

Civil Service Status: Civil Service 

Apply by Date: 07/03/2025 

Posting Type: Transfer/Promotion 

 

We are posting this opportunity for a Senior Resource Planning Analyst. This position is critical within our department to help SMUD reach it's 2030 Zero Carbon Plan goal. Resource Planning is a fast paced team with great many opportunities for collaboration and diverse learning opportunities. This team works closely with a number of business units across SMUD on regular basis including Customer Programs, Research and Development on new technologies, Power Generation, Grid Operations and Planning, Risk Management, Treasurey, etc. 

Purpose

To plan and perform technical, integrated studies that address operational, risk, financial and rate considerations of SMUD resource options and decisions to support development of optimum long-range generation expansion plans and identify specific projects satisfying future generation requirements to ensure SMUD an adequate, reliable and cost effective electric system.

Nature and Scope

This is the senior/subject matter expert level within the series. Incumbents work independently on projects of moderate complexity; exercise independent judgment and discretion; may serve in a Lead role and assist in planning, coordinating, prioritizing, monitoring and evaluating the work results in assigned area and in selecting, training, motivating, evaluating and developing lower-level personnel.

Duties and Responsibilities

• Leads the support or operates production cost models for SMUD and the WECC region.
• Develops and maintains electricity demand and supply databases for SMUD’s system model and neighboring market hubs.
• Optimizes the long-term energy resources to meet expected electric system load.    
• Supports development of long-term wholesale power, ancillary services, transmission service prices and availability forecasts.
• Directs technical support in electric utility energy, financial forecasting and analysis to other departments for their use in operations planning and power scheduling, contract negotiations, supply- and demand-side resource assessment, rate design, and financial planning.
• Performs economic and financial feasibility analysis to determine benefit/cost of resource alternatives including generation projects, wholesale electric market purchases/sales, or demand side programs; provides recommendations based on analysis.
• Guides in development of SMUD marginal energy, transmission, distribution and customer costs.
• Oversees the preparation of SMUD’s strategic integrated resource planning report as well as other regulatory related reports and filings.
• Reviews and oversees contract work performed by consultants on certain special projects.
• Prepares and delivers technical and verbal reports to staff, peers, management, and the general public.
• Performs related duties as required.

Required Education

• BS/BA degree from an accredited college or university majoring in engineering, economics or related field or equivalent experience. If no degree, nine or more (9+) years of experience are required. 

Required Experience Qualifications

• Five or more (5+) years of progressively responsible relevant work experience in electricity related fields such as production costs modeling, market price forecasting, and utility related financial and economic analysis.

Knowledge Of

SMUD business strategies, planning and decision making processes; SMUD organization, accounting and finance practices; SMUD generation, power contracts, transmission, and distribution resources; current utility structure including lSO/PX procedures and applicable federal, state and local regulation; electricity power production, transmission and distribution operations; physical and contractual characteristics of WSCC regional transmission and generating systems; WSCC supply, operating and transmission planning criteria; economic, financial and business analytical techniques; SEC, CEC, WSCC and FERC reporting for purposes of acquiring utility financial and operating data for competitive analysis purposes; standard operating procedures for modern office equipment including a computer and applicable software; English grammar, punctuation and vocabulary standards.

Skills To

Conceptualize and develop an organized analytic approach to provide the information necessary to support corporate policy and business strategies; estimate marginal costs for SMUD’s power, transmission, distribution and customer service components; perform production cost and financial forecasts with the aid of sophisticated