Supply Side Planner I, II, Senior or Lead

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Be Part of Our Story.

· Do you want to be part of a company culture founded on safety, teamwork, collaboration, and positive leadership?

· Do you enjoy creative problem solving and the analysis of results using spreadsheets and modeling tools?

· Would you like the opportunity to grow yourself in your current job and beyond?

If you answered "Yes" to any of these questions, read on. We want to know of your interest. If you apply, you are not just a number, you are a possible team member! Our culture is at the heart of our success and we are looking for talented individuals for the position of Supply Side Planner I, II, Senior or Lead to bring their skills and experience to the table while enriching our already strong culture. 

What you will do

• Maintain, enhance, validate, and apply TEP’s generation dispatch model (Aurora) for the purpose of supporting the Department’s responsibilities described below.
• Maintain and enhance existing Excel workbooks for purposes of collecting and preparing input data for Aurora.
• Maintain, enhance, and apply Excel workbooks and other tools such as Power BI to summarize Aurora results and combine them with other data to provide to senior management, utility regulators, and customers. 

What you bring

• Bachelor’s degree in Engineering, Business or Economics or related field.
• Must be proficient with Microsoft Excel, Word, and PowerPoint.  
• Experience with production cost modeling software (Aurora) preferred.

If this sounds like the opportunity for you, apply now!

 Position Description
The Department is responsible for providing the vision and leadership for the development of the Company’s resource plans. This includes refined assessments of resource needs and subsequent evaluation of commercial proposals to satisfy those needs; analysis of wholesale market opportunities; short-to-mid-term fuel use and wholesale forecasts for purposes of financial planning and determining fuel adjustment clauses on customer bills; avoided cost analyses for various regulatory filings; system modeling and scenario analyses to determine appropriate fuel hedging and other risk management strategies; contributions to rate case and other regulatory proceedings; evaluating costs, benefits and other impacts of participating in emerging regional markets; providing input on transmission planning; and supporting the company’s sustainability goals by providing strategic insights and assisting with reporting metrics. Will assume and contribute to a number of these or related Department responsibilities.
                                                                                                         

Position-Related Responsibilities

• Maintain, enhance, validate, and apply TEP’s generation dispatch model (Aurora) for the purpose of supporting the Department’s responsibilities described above.
• Maintain and enhance existing Excel workbooks for purposes of collecting and preparing input data for Aurora.
• Maintain, enhance, and apply Excel workbooks and other tools such as Power BI to summarize Aurora results and combine them with other data to provide senior management, utility regulators, and customers with recommendations and other insightful and actionable information pertaining to the Department’s responsibilities.
• Document data sources, methods, and procedures used in the analyses above.
• Draft memos, reports and presentations to effectively communicate the complex issues, analyses, results, and recommendations described above. Develop a working knowledge of and become the Department’s subject matter expert, as necessary or requested, on issues relevant to the Department’s responsibilities. Such issues may include renewable energy generation and system integration; demand-side management programs to reduce or manage load; cost and performance of supply- and demand-side resources, including energy storage; environmental regulations and corporate sustainability goals; electricity market restructuring; gas/power system interactions; and stochastic-based risk assessment and resource adequacy determinations.
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