Job Title:

Senior Integrated Planning Leader

Location:

Maryland Home Office, Virginia Home Office, Washington, D.C., Washington DC Home Office

Job Summary and Description:

The successful candidate will join the Energy Systems and Climate Analysis (ESCA) Group at EPRI (http://esca.epri.com), a team of leading energy and electric power systems modelers and climate economists. You will lead and synthesize analysis on contemporary electric utility resource planning topics; and engage with a wide range of projects across EPRI addressing growing industry interest in integrated generation, transmission, distribution, and end-use system planning. You will prepare slide decks, briefings, and reports, and present research findings to a variety of audiences. You will manage complex projects with matrixed staffing. You will scope new cross-cutting research projects to address member and society needs.

EPRI offers the opportunity to work with established experts in a stimulating and innovative environment to tackle key research questions in collaboration with electric companies and government partners. You will have autonomy and control over your work hours, and a flexible work environment. You can choose to work remotely, in one of EPRI’s offices, or a mix of the two.

Ideal Candidate:

The ideal candidate would have:

• An advanced degree in engineering, science, economics, energy resources, sustainability, computer science, or a related technical discipline

• Previous exposure to electric sector planning and/or energy resource procurement, generation planning, environmental compliance, or related topics

• A deep understanding of and interest in solving energy and climate challenges

• Demonstrated ability to lead cross-functional teams to deliver innovative solutions

• Previous experience with capacity expansion, production cost simulation, or other electric system planning modeling approaches

• Experience conducting quantitative analyses to support energy market, policy, and/or technology research projects

• Demonstrated experience scoping new research and leading proposal writing and related development tasks.

• Strong research, writing, and oral communication skills

• Proficient in Microsoft Outlook, Word, Excel, and PowerPoint

• A positive attitude, curious, and comfortable working both collaboratively and independently.

• Ability to prioritize work and manage multiple responsibilities, while collaborating with staff located across North America, Europe, the Middle East, and Asia.

• Ability to support travel (10-15%) for conferences, meetings, and member visits.

Key Responsibilities:
 

• Works independently on technical activities without direct supervision.

• Demonstrates responsibility for highly specialized technical objectives or problems where the relationships between cause and effect are difficult to establish and little or no precedence exists, and the use of creative and imaginative thinking is required.

• Assumes responsibility for highly specialized technical objectives or problems where the relationships between cause and effect are difficult to establish and little or no precedence exists, and the use of creative and imaginative thinking is required.

• Maintains familiarity with the progress and problems in assigned technical areas and support identification of gaps.

• Provides high-level engineering efforts to support requirements in development and design and provides guidance to junior staff.

• Provides input into configuration management and documentation for engineer related projects.

• Acts as technical specialist for projects or project tasks.
   

Additional Requirements:
 

• Has established relationships with primary advisors to a research area.

• Works alongside EPRI sales staff in Member Services and EPRI International to support member/client needs.

• Effectively communicates complex strategies and results, expressing thoughts clearly and concisely both verbally and in writing, to subject matter experts, program members and advisors.

• Adjusts communication content and format to capture attention and meet the needs of the intended audience through guidelines, reports, meetings, webcasts, workshops and conferences.

• Regularly communicates and coordinates work activities across programs and sectors.

• May provide oversight of a project team to assure technical and financial milestones