Energy Operations Planner

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Location Houston, TX (HO) - NAM Corporate Air Liquide Large Industries provides our customers with industrial gas and energy solutions that are vital to their own industrial production. We own and operate over 2,000 miles of industrial gas pipelines in the U.S. supplying mainly oxygen, nitrogen, hydrogen and syngas in large quantities from multiple production sources to major customers in the chemicals, petrochemicals, refining and steel industries.

Our pipeline operations and industrial gas production facilities are closely monitored 24/7 within our leading-edge operations control center located in Houston, Texas. Our operations control group monitors over 89,000 data points and assists with product supply and coordination. We are constantly optimizing our supply network to provide high reliability and energy efficiencies allowing Air Liquide to adjust supply needs more quickly and effectively enabling growth to our customers.

At Air Liquide, we are committed to building a diverse and inclusive workplace that embraces the unique perspectives of our employees, our customers, patients, community stakeholders, and cultures across the world. We believe that a variety of backgrounds makes our team stronger and more innovative.
The role of the E2E Planning team is to operationally optimize the product supply and energy portfolios in real-time, while mitigating risk. The team drives daily and short term operational decisions and transactions. Pipeline operations, industrial gas product supply, and cogeneration are closely monitored 24/7 within a leading-edge real-time operations control center (ROCC) located in Houston, Texas. The supply network is constantly optimized to provide high reliability and energy efficiencies allowing ALLIUS to meet all customers’ supply needs in real-time and to maximize economic performance.
The Energy Operations Planner is a member of ALLIUS E2E Planning team and reports to the Product Supply Operations Manager. The position is located in Houston, TX.Product supply planning, Load and cogeneration optimization
* Manages network customer supply, production asset configuration, and power market participation (energy balance, ancillary services, and demand response) for Steam/Water/Power networks
* Develops the product supply Steam/Water dispatch plans, the cogeneration dispatch plans and the load schedules, for day ahead and month ahead, and for implementation in real-time by the OCC controllers.
* Develops and publishes the mid-term operational strategy including turnaround and outage schedules, by collaborating with customers, production facilities, maintenance, and Energy Management
* Responsible for energy invoice validation on a monthly basis. Confirming power usage, tariffs on the invoice match monthly actuals.  Flagging any discrepancies and assisting to resolve the invoice.
* Collaborates with customers, utility suppliers, commercial,  and operational stakeholders to minimize impacts on customers during abnormal and emergency situations. Communicates effectively with customers’ operation personnel and with suppliers during such events.
* Develops understanding of all utilities provided to ALLIUS facilities from third parties, including customers, and the impact of third party outages on ALLIUS operations. Seeks to understand the root cause of the outages (sequence of events) and drives resolution and recovery activities at all levels. Reports on recovery plans and status, including timeline for restored operations.
* Responsible for Control Room Management Program regulatory compliance by managing sections of the program as the section lead.
* Plans, documents and monitors plant power curtailments and interruptions and ensures procedures reflect current strategy.
* Establishes and improves, for execution by the OCC controllers, the protocols and offers/bids for any real-time energy and ancillary services (generation and load) and for steam optimization, in compliance with Energy Flex strategy.
* Monitors the load on the power grid, weather data, and market prices, to identify curtailment dispatch risk to minimize transmission capacity costs of ALLIUS and risk to other products.
* Interfaces with relevant ISO market QSE/REP and energy suppliers to understand current grid topology and real-time supply/demand balance, and to capture short term bilateral opportunities.
* Goal of zero impacts to customers due to operational execution.
* Executes month-ahead and day-ahead congestion management transactions, in compliance with Energy Flex strategy.
* Is the OCC champion of Hurricane Planning communication to customers, including representing nitrogen supply and operations.
* Requires 24/7 on-call during operations and may be part of emergency ride-out crew during extreme events. Can be consulted…