Senior Electric Division Manager - FILLED

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This is your opportunity to be on the executive leadership team of an amazing, people-first utility and to Thrive!

• Be an influential part of an incredible publicly owned utility where Compassion & Accountability sum up this unique culture.
• This utility company truly respects its customers and their responsibility for the environment and a carbon-free future.
• The opportunity to develop your career and have fun with strategic endeavors such as meeting climate goals to cut greenhouse gas emissions to 40% by 2030 while also ensuring that 50% of retail sales are from eligible renewables by 2030.
• To be a part of an amazing leadership team who invites new leaders in and really values their input.
• Join an extremely successful utility that is not-for-profit utility and hold themselves to the highest financial standards.

• Silicon Valley Power (SVP)  is a 125-year-old California-based not-for-profit municipal electric utility that is owned and operated by the City of Santa Clara
• SVP provides electricity service to over 57,000 residential and business customers, at rates 25 to 53 percent below neighboring communities. High-profile customers include large corporations such as Intel, Applied Materials, Amazon Web Services (AWS) and NVIDIA.
• SVP is the only full-service, vertically integrated publicly owned utility in Silicon Valley owning generation, transmission, and distribution assets.
• Beginning in 2018 SVP began providing 100% carbon-free power to all residential customers. Carbon-free electricity from Silicon Valley Power consists of 50% large hydroelectric power and 50% eligible renewable energy sources, including solar, wind, geothermal, landfill gas, and small hydroelectric power plants.
• In 2022 SVP was recognized as a Diamond Level Reliable Public Power Provider (RP3 from American Public Power Association (APPA)) for providing reliable and safe electric service. This shows a demonstrated proficiency in four key disciplines: reliability, safety, workforce development, and system improvement. The Diamond Level is the highest designation that a utility can earn.
• About Silicon Valley Power:
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• The executive team is strong with great communication skills, where transparency and spearheading innovation is key to their ongoing success.
• The Electric Utility Chief Operating Officer is the ambassador of the culture. They are focused on employees’ success and protecting their unique culture.
• Benefits:
  • 2022 Benefit Summary (Refer to column for Unit 9, Misc. Management Employees)
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The Senior Electric Division Manager – Resources leads the utility strategy to meet a Carbon Free future while demand continue to grow at a rate of 10% per year. This role has primary accountability for providing leadership in the Resources division which oversees system contracts as well as power trading and scheduling. Principles and practices in the use of resources and energy engineering analysis, the risk management of power trading transactions, the transmission, distribution, utilization, and conservation of electricity, or in complex market research, economic forecasting, competitive pricing methods, statistical and financial analysis.

Specific accountabilities and qualifications in this role include:

• Demonstrated leadership with work groups with demonstrated ability to develop vision, set priorities, establish goals, and deliver quantifiable results.
• Develop a team with strong analytic skills for developing, analyzing, and presenting data/information/trends within the utility, along with demonstrated analysis of what the data represents
• Demonstrated knowledge of the CAISO Rules and Regulations, Day-Ahead and real-time markets within the CAISO system, Congestion Revenue Rights
• Ability to develop and implement the strategy to meet Carbon Free future by 2035 (City of Santa Clara Climate Action Plan) while demand is growing 10% per year. City of Santa Clara - Climate Action Plan 2022
• Knowledgeable and…