Principal Strategic Distribution Manager

Requisition ID: 19084

 

Join us in building a better future for Arizona!

SRP is one of the largest public power and water utilities in the U.S. providing electricity to approximately one million customers in the greater metropolitan Phoenix area. Since its founding in 1903, SRP has fostered a culture of stewardship and customer service consistently ranking as an industry leader in customer service according to J.D. Power and named one of Arizona's best employers by Forbes. SRP continues to adapt to its changing business environment by seeking innovative ways to reimagine utility service and the provision of critical resources essential to the life and economy of Arizona.

 

Why Work at SRP

At SRP, we foster an inclusive work environment and believe everyone should have a fair chance to work, regardless of who they are. That’s why we value teams with diverse perspectives, experiences, and backgrounds to help SRP deliver on its mission of providing reliable, affordable and sustainable water and power.

 

SRP's success is rooted in our employees' happiness, health, and safety. That's why we offer a comprehensive benefits package to meet the needs of our employees and enhance their well-being. In addition to competitive pay and performance incentives, eligible employees can take advantage of the following benefits:

 

• Pension Plan (at no cost to the employee)
• 401(k) plan with employer matching
• Available your first day: Medical, vision, dental, and life insurance
• Over 200+ hours of PTO (includes vacation days, holidays, floating holidays, and sick leave)
• Parental leave (up to 4 weeks) and adoption assistance
• Wellness programs (including access to a recreation and fitness facility)
• Short and long-term disability plans
• Tuition assistance for both undergraduate and graduate programs
• 10 Employee Resource Groups for career development, community service, and networking

 

Summary

The Principal Strategic Distribution Manager facilitates customer s interactions within SRP as the coordinator for speculative and extremely complex, large scale construction projects. The Principal Strategic Distribution Manager provides technical support to The Principal Strategic Distribution Manager is responsible for proactively maintaining and developing relationships with existing and new strategic commercial and industrial customehe Business Project Center and Strategic Energy Management regarding enhanced service projects, dedicated substations, dedicated switchyards, and various other customer projects as well as overall power quality and reliability related issues/requests. The Principal Distribution Manager serves as the department lead and is responsible for strategic interactions with SRP Power Delivery, Distribution Operations Center, Power Dispatch Operations, and Strategic Planning and Economic Development.

What You'll Do

• Proactively engages and supports SRP’s Economic Development team activities that lead to attracting and increasing large customers to locate and/or expand within SRP service territory
• Presents cross-departmental challenges impacting SRP’s strategic commercial and industrial customers to the Large Customer Action Team (LCAT) in order to develop solutions that will be presented to the LCAT Steering Team and Executive Leadership Team
• Proactively manages the ongoing development of relationships with assigned list of SRP’s most strategic commercial and industrial customers
• Responsible for communicating and coordinating all SRP distribution and/or transmission work impacting assigned strategic commercial and industrial customers
• Manages jobs related to enhanced service agreements, including Automatic Transfer Switches (ATS), Distribution Feeder Automation (DFA, dedicated circuits, and new dedicated substations and switchyards for assigned strategic and new speculative commercial and industrial customers
• Reviews critical technical reports, processes and policies related to strategic commercial and industrial customers
• Coordinates necessary internal SRP resources to address distribution and/or transmission issues for strategic commercial and industrial customers by identifying and developing internal processes related to enhan