- Controls System Administrator (TSP3)(71000091) / Southern California Edison / Big Creek, CA
Southern California Edison/Big Creek, CA
Description:
This position will be in the Northern Hydro division of Power Production within Southern California Edison's (SCE) Power Supply Business Unit. The successful candidate will provide consultative design, documentation, integration and implementation services for the Distributed Control System (DCS) for the Big Creek Hydroelectric Project.
Typical responsibilities will include:
•Applying advanced technical knowledge of the Distributed Controls Systems (DCS) to ensure that generation assets are reliable and effectively responsive to meet generation system and customer demands and water management schedules.
•Supporting corporate and division goals by providing technical analysis and expertise to ensure outages are successful and compliance monitoring via alarm system is maintained.
•Implementing management approved strategic plans to monitor and resolve NERC-driven issues through the DCS programming as applicable, including Critical Infrastructure Protection access and security requirements, critical maintenance intervals, such as, Automatic Voltage Regulator (AVR) operations information, to protect the corporation from the risk of substantial fines from non-compliance
•Consulting regarding priorities and goals within the planning organization to insure the success of the Maintenance Planning & Scheduling process.
•Providing schedules for implementation of DCS changes for inclusion in outage schedules.
•Maintaining a safety conscious work environment by following Edison safety protocols and safe work practices.
•Performing other responsibilities and duties as assigned.
Basic Qualification:
•Must have experience working with the development, management, and system administration of: databases, point building, control logic, Plant I/O, Reports, Graphics and Operator Interfaces related to a DCS.
Job Requirements:
•Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, Industrial Technology, or a related field, with an emphasis in Distributed Controls Systems (DCS) or an equivalent combination of education, training and experience.
•Typically possesses four or more years of experience performing activities related to controls and instrumentation in relation to a DCS for generation power systems in the electric utility industry.
•Demonstrated experience with the development, management, and system administration of: Database, Point Building, Control Logic, Plant I/O, Reports, Graphics and Operator Interfaces.
•Demonstrated experienced in development and execution of NERC CIP compliance management plans and procedures related to power generation and controls facilities.
•Demonstrated practical current experience with Microsoft XP and Server 2003 O/S.
•Demonstrated working knowledge of VX Works O/S.
•Demonstrated experience using Microsoft Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Access, Visio, and Project.
•Demonstrated ability to follow Edison safety protocols and safe work practices.
•Must demonstrate the ability to integrate work across relevant areas, develop the business and services to enhance customer satisfaction and productivity, manage risks appropriately, develop and execute business plans, manage information, and provide exceptional service to internal and external customers.
•Must demonstrate effective resource and project planning, decision making, results delivery, team building, and the ability to stay current with relevant technology and innovation.
•Must demonstrate strong ethics, influence and negotiation, leadership, interpersonal skills, communication, and the ability to effectively manage stress and engage in continuous learning.
Preferences:
• Experienced Cisco Command Line Interface (CLI) user, able to manage Cisco networking devices such as switches, routers, and adaptive security appliances.
Comments:
•If you are interested in this position, please submit your resume in confidence by visiting www.edisonjobs.com.
•Additional testing may be required as part of the selection process for this position.
•Edison International and Southern California Edison reserve the right to close or cancel a posting at any time.
•Edison International is an Equal Opportunity Employer.
•Candidates for this position must be legally authorized to work directly as employees for any employer in the United States without visa sponsorship
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- Program Manager / Sustainable Cities Initiative Sustainable City Year Program / Eugene, OR
 Sustainable Cities Initiative Sustainable City Year Program/Eugene, OR (University of Oregon campus)
Program Manager - Sustainable City Year Program
Sustainable Cities Initiative
Posting: 12031
Location: Eugene
Closes: Open Until Filled
The Sustainable Cities Initiative (SCI) seeks a highly motivated, organized, and action-oriented individual to manage grant- and contract-funded activity for the Sustainable Cities Initiative. The position will primarily manage the Sustainable City Year Program (SCYP). The position will also manage and participate in other SCI grant-funded activity.
SCYP is a nationally and internationally award-winning program that matches existing courses across multiple disciplines with multiple projects in a city over an academic year.
The scale and scope of the effort is inspiring for students, faculty, and community stakeholders, and is unlike any other program in the country. In addition to SCYP, SCI works on applied, interdisciplinary research and engages with policy-making at municipal, state, and federal levels to help create policy that better supports sustainability activities at the local level.
SCI is also developing international partnerships in China, New Zealand, and Europe and coordinates a Global Eco-City Study Abroad effort with courses in Ecuador, China, and Northern Europe.
Please visit the SCI website for more information about the program. To get a quick sense of the scale, scope and impact of SCYP, you can read articles written about the program on our website, http://sci.uoregon.edu, including an article in the New York Times.
The Sustainable Cities Initiative (SCI) is a cross-disciplinary effort that integrates research, education, service, and public outreach to improve the design and development of cities and to serve as a model of sustainable city design for the nation. SCI works at a variety of scales from geographic regions to individual buildings and connects this work to students, scholars, funders, project partners, and policy makers. Service learning is a key aspect of this work. SCI projects have involved work with the departments of planning and public policy, architecture, landscape architecture, product design, business, law, journalism, civil engineering, economics, and arts administration.
The Sustainable City Year Program (SCYP) is a significant and ground-breaking service learning-based program that directs existing courses across disciplines to serve a single city during an entire academic year. SCYP is currently in its third year. During those three years, more than 1,300 students from 75 academic courses in 13 departments have contributed more than 200,000 hours of work to the three SCYP partner cities (Gresham, Salem, and Springfield).
In SCYP, students and professors work directly on topics developed jointly by instructors and city staff, ensuring that student ideas and learning are indeed relevant to communities. The overall goals are to: 1) provide students with a real-world project to investigate; 2) apply their training; and 3) provide valuable service and movement to a local city ready to transition to a more sustainable and accessible future. While the idea is simple, its execution is complex, requiring considerable coordination and internal infrastructure to ensure that students get an enriching educational experience and that external deliverables are of the highest quality and carry the most significant impact.
This is a fairly radical re-conceptualization of the public university to do public good and is working across disciplines in ways that many think should happen, but rarely occurs in practice. We are seeking someone who can contribute to the entrepreneurial energy of SCI, yet manage one of our core programs in a disciplined, professional, and high quality way.
SCI's other activities include:
* Research - Many of SCI's members are national experts on issues of livability and sustainable cities. SCI is interested in developing more integrated and truly collaborative research, including relationships that span campuses. SCI's current research topics include Transportation Livability Metrics, Sustainable Suburbs, Active Transportation, Social Equity, and Urban Ecological Design.
* Policy Advising - Issues of sustainable city design and livability address significant national priorities of climate change, obesity, and general quality of life. SCI has been involved in the policy arena in multiple ways and seeks to strengthen its role in helping guide policy at state and national levels.
* Experts-in-Residence - This is an effort to bring national experts to Oregon for multi-day engagements with faculty, students, and the community on issues of critical importance. In 2009, Bill Wilkinson, one of the nation's experts in bicycle and pedestrian policy came to Oregon, and in May 2010, Professor Jonathan Levine from the University of Michigan came to Oregon to talk about transportation, land use, and zoning. The 2011 Expert-in-Residence was Gabe Klein, currently the Director of the Chicago Department of Transportation.
Job Title: SCYP Program Manager
Responsibilities:
1. Direct the Sustainable City Year program (75%):
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Develop and maintain relations with Oregon cities.
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Coordinate the application and selection process for SCYP partner cities.
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Recruit faculty to participate in SCYP, matching courses throughout the university and at other OUS institutions with projects proposed by the partner city.
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Serve as the main point of contact for the SCYP partner city and for the professors involved in the program. Ensure that faculty, students, and city staff have the information and resources they need for a successful SCYP partnership. Arrange meetings and develop scope of work documents for each SCYP course.
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Develop documents, maps, descriptions, etc, to support the SCYP program.
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Recruit and work closely with student employees from SCYP courses who prepare and compile reports as part of the SCYP projects.
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Edit and format SCYP reports for submission to the city, along with handling communication regarding SCYP contracts.
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Work with the UO Libraries for SCYP support documents and archiving of project-generated work.
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Prepare and submit budgets for SCYP.
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Track and produce necessary paperwork for reimbursements and purchases related to SCYP.
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Supervise SCYP student staff (may include a Graduate Teaching Fellow and other hourly or volunteer student workers).
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Give presentations about SCYP to organizations in the partner city, potential partner cities, legislators, academic classes, and conferences.
2. Grant and proposal writing (5%): In partnership with SCI faculty and staff, coordinate funding development for SCI, including SCYP, through identification and writing of appropriate grant proposals to foundations, private sector organizations, and state and federal government sources.
3. Manage other grant- and contract-funded SCI activity in partnership with SCI directors and faculty (10%).
4. Student employee supervision (10%): Supervise and direct student staff – Graduate Research Fellows and hourly employees – to assist carrying out the above tasks.
Level of Appointment: 1.0 F.T.E.
Term of Contract: one-year renewable contract; initial contract dates: 3/1/12 - 6/30/12; 12-month renewal thereafter dependent on need and funding.
Salary Range: $50,000 - $60,000 (12 month annual rate); commensurate with relevant experience and education. The University of Oregon also offers a generous package of health and retirement benefits.
Qualifications:
Required:
* Minimum three years program management experience
* Minimum three years accumulated work experience in project management, sustainability, and the built environment
* Minimum one year personnel supervision experience
* Experience with service learning activities
* Master's degree from an accredited institution in planning, public policy, architecture, landscape architecture, business, law or other field related to sustainable cities and the built environment
* Outstanding organizational skills and ability to manage several activities at once
* Excellent interpersonal, oral and written communication skills
* Evidence of ability to work with varied audiences, including faculty, students, elected officials, city staff, and funding agencies
* Self-motivated, ability to work independently as well as part of a team
* Energetic, passionate, and professional
* Work history in related fields and which demonstrates increasing levels of administrative and/or supervisory responsibilities
* Ability to travel within Oregon and occasionally elsewhere in the United States
* Ability to present work at national conferences
* Proficient user of Microsoft Office Suite
Preferred:
* Experience managing service learning activities
* History of successful grant writing
* Experience working with members of Congress and/or federal agencies
* Budgeting experience
* Working knowledge of graphic and layout software (e.g. Illustrator, Photoshop, InDesign)
Application Procedure:
Each applicant must submit:
1. Letter of introduction addressing how and why the candidate is qualified for the position
2. Resume of educational and professional work experience
3. Two names of references (letters of recommendation not required, but will be accepted)
Applications must be submitted electronically by email (preferably in PDF format) to Christina Wozniak, cwozniak@uoregon.edu
This posting will remain open until filled; applications will begin to be reviewed on Friday, February 17, 2012.
The position is expected to start as early as possible in March 2012.
Inquiries about the position should be directed to SCI Executive Director Robert Liberty (liberty@uoregon.edu).
Candidates who promote and enhance diversity are strongly desired. The University of Oregon is an equal opportunity, affirmative action institution committed to cultural diversity and compliance with the Americans with Disabilities Act.
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- Anticipated Opening: Senior NERC Compliance Operations Manager (MGR3)(70000230) / Southern California Edison / Rosemead, CA
Southern California Edison/Rosemead, CA
Description:
The successful candidate will be responsible for leading and managing the day-to-day operations of SCE's North American Electric Reliability Corporation (NERC) Compliance Program (NCP) Operations group. The primary function will be to ensure compliance, by implementing industry best practices, with the NERC's Mandatory Reliability Standards.
The successful candidate will lead the redevelopment, socialization and implementation of an updated, enterprise-wide NERC Standards compliance strategy. In addition, the successful candidate will manage the development and maintenance of SCE-wide compliance-related policies, processes, procedures tools and data, including the use of information management compliance tools (document management; compliance dashboards; Western Electric Coordinating Council (WECC) document delivery system).
The successful candidate will lead regulatory audits, including liaising with NERC and WECC. Responsibilities will also include developing, standardizing, and implementing best practice information protection policies and procedures across SCE. In addition, the successful candidate will also oversee the design and implementation of additional internal compliance monitoring, as well as reporting program tools to strengthen SCE's on-going NERC Standards compliance. Finally the successful candidate will also participate in Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC), NERC, WECC proceedings and as appropriate, committees, industry stakeholder groups, task force committees. While interfacing with industry-wide compliance groups and, other appropriate industry groups to represent SCE's interest and provide knowledge on industry compliance practices, as required.
Basic Qualifications:
•Bachelor's Degree.
•Must have experience managing one or more organizations, units, or project teams.
Requirements:
•Bachelor's Degree in Engineering, Business, Information Technology or an equivalent combination of education, training, and experience.
•Typically possesses 8 or more years' related experience.
•Substantial knowledge of utility operations with emphasis on generation and bulk transmission operations.
•Knowledge and experience working under the NERC Mandatory Reliability Standards, including the CIP family of Standards.
•Demonstrated experience with network designs including network security and controls.
•Ability to understand and communicate technical, NERC CIP compliance concepts and their impact on SCE's registered entities and operations.
•Demonstrated ability to interface effectively and collaborate with clients, peers, project personnel, and all levels of management enterprise-wide to develop solutions and ensure stakeholder buy-in.
•Demonstrated ability to accurately analyze information, make strategic decisions/recommendations, and guide others' decision making by identifying the anticipated benefits, consequences, and impacts of alternatives.
•Demonstrated ability to take initiative and accountability for the accuracy of information and for achieving results.
•Must have excellent written and verbal communication skills, including experience developing and presenting technical and business information in both formal and informal settings.
•Must demonstrate excellent business mastery, including the ability to integrate work across relevant areas, manage risks and safety appropriately, manage information, and provide exceptional service to internal and external customers.
•Must demonstrate excellent management mastery, including effective resource and project planning, decision making, results delivery, team building, and staying current with relevant technology and innovation.
•Must demonstrate strong personal mastery, including ethics, leadership, interpersonal skills, communication, and the ability to effectively manage stress and engage in continuous learning.
•Must possess excellent computer skills, including proficiency in Microsoft Word, Access, PowerPoint, with an emphasis on Excel.
•Demonstrated experience with auditing IT systems and networks or a technical auditing background.
•Demonstrated experience with NERC and WECC standards development processes and FERC regulatory processes.
•Demonstrated experience representing utilities before national reliability organizations, including FERC, NERC, WECC, EEI, North American Transmission Forum, and North American Generator Forum.
•Demonstrated experience leading NERC/WECC compliance audits.
Preferences:
•Advanced technical or business degree
•Industry Certification in IT Auditing (such as CISA) and Industry Certification in Risk Management (such as CRISC)
Comments:
•If you are interested in this position, please submit your resume in confidence by visiting www.edisonjobs.com.
•Additional testing may be required as part of the selection process for this position.
•Edison International and Southern California Edison reserve the right to close or cancel a posting at any time.
•Edison International is an Equal Opportunity Employer.
•Candidates for this position must be legally authorized to work directly as employees for any employer in the United States without visa sponsorship
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- National Recruiter / FS Energy / New York, NY
FS Energy /New York, NY (United States)
POSITION: Director, Energy Information
About FS Energy
FS Energy is the energy management and advisory subsidiary of FirstService Corporation [NASDAQ: FSRV]. FirstService is a world leader in property management, managing over 2.4 billion sq.ft of real-estate globally. FirstService recognized its responsibility and the unique position it is in to improve sustainability in the built environment and is committed to reducing energy consumption and cost by 25% across its clients' properties. FirstService launched FS Energy as a pilot program in 2009. Already a leader in New York City, FS Energy is now expanding rapidly across North America.
FS Energy is successfully delivering on this commitment, reducing energy consumption and costs and increasing the asset values of FirstService managed properties through customized energy management strategies.
FS Energy takes a cutting edge, data-centric approach, leveraging its portfolio size and groundbreaking proprietary data collection. FS Energy utilizes this unique database to determine its Building Energy Rating Guide (BERG) score. By applying this data analysis and comparison of energy consumption across its portfolio, FS Energy is able to customize, cost-effective energy services and solutions to a property.
FS Energy's commitment to leveraging our energy data and continuous measurement of building energy performance will ultimately result in FS Energy significantly reducing energy consumption on a portfolio-wide basis in addition to any individual property.
At the heart of our strategy is our energy data. This database today includes comprehensive historical energy consumption data for hundreds of residential and commercial buildings.
FS Energy has recognized the need to invest further bring in a leader to manage all energy information needs as we continue to build our database and energy services across North America.
FirstService Corporation is a global leader in the rapidly growing real estate services sector, providing a variety of services in commercial real estate, residential property management and property services. As one of the largest property managers in the world, FirstService manages more than 2.4 billion square feet of residential and commercial properties through its three industry-leading service platforms: Colliers International, the third largest global player in commercial real estate services; FirstService Residential Management, the largest manager of residential communities in North America; and Property Services, including North America's largest provider of property preservation, maintenance and management of residential and commercial properties through franchise and contractor networks.
FirstService generates over US$2.2 billion in annual revenues and has more than 20,000 employees worldwide.
For more information please visit:
www.fsenergyservices.com
www.firstservice.com
Position Description
FS Energy (“FSEâ€) is seeking a leader to develop strategies and manage all of its current and future energy information and related data systems and processes.
Reporting to Vice President and COO of FS Energy, the individual will be responsible for managing all of FSE's proprietary processes and systems from the collection and aggregation of data from properties globally to providing the necessary data and quantitative analysis for energy analysis and reporting on both an individual property basis and across the portfolio.
The position will also include working with the internal energy teams within FS Energy as well as other industry knowledge leaders and government agencies to analyze and report on our progress and provide leading-edge industry energy data from our unique database.
The ideal candidate will be highly process-oriented with experience in managing IT project implementations and in analyzing and leveraging data in the creation of analytics and reporting tools suitable for both technical analysis and for the end-use consumer.
Key Skills and experience
1. Proven ability to manage technical resources and IT project implementations. Development of needs and scope documentation to the evaluation of potential vendor solutions and ultimate implementation.
2. Demonstrated experience in developing and managing processes and systems to manage data needs and the required technical resources of databases.
3. Experience in developing the necessary scope and quantitative analysis and reporting in the production of industry reports and technical white papers.
Qualifications
1. MBA or Degree in engineering, or other technical discipline preferred.
2. At least 5 years experience in analysis, definition and documentation of business requirements in a fast pace environment.
3. Excellent communicator with strong verbal and writing proficiencies, and the ability to educate and work with multiple stakeholders including clients, government agencies and energy management teams.
4. Strong analytical and data management skills including quantitative and statistical analysis.
Other desirable qualifications
5. Energy Management professional designation or knowledge of current local, state and federal energy policies and legislation.
6. Project management designation.
7. IT technical or database qualifications – understanding of database applications, relational databases design, database reporting (Crystal Reports and/or SQL Reporting Services), Data analytics (OLAP cubes).
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- Business Manager, Integrated Media Division - cKinetics, India / cKinetics / New Delhi, Delhi, India
 cKinetics/New Delhi, Delhi, India
This role is especially suitable for those Sustainability professionals looking for exposure in one of the fastest growing regions in the world: India.
Depending on the person the role can be structured as a short term contract or a long term engagement.
cKinetics is looking for an exceptional live-wire professional with a background in product management and/or revenue management of a business publication, information portal or syndicated industry research group, and a passion for sustainability issues. The right candidate should be:
. Able to work in an intense learning environment
. Able and willing to take on a disproportionate level of responsibility
The candidate would be supporting the build out of the Access and Insights practice of the firm. The Access and Insights practice produces industry leading initiatives such as Sustainability Outlook (www.sustainabilityoutlook.in), India Carbon Outlook (http://India.Carbon-Outlook.com) and Parivartan Awards (www.parivartanforum.in) and also publishes state of the sector reports from time to time.
Role:
The selected person will join cKinetics' Access and Insights practice. This multi-disciplinary entrepreneurial role encompassing the tasks of a product manager as well as a publisher envisages the following activities:
1. Building and executing on the business plan for the Integrated media division across multiple platforms and products: offline fora, online sites, quarterly publications and state of sector reports
2. Business development and revenue responsibility for the division
3. Content generation and community building for the various information marketplaces
4. Providing logistical support for the round-tables and workshops amongst other activities
Location:
New Delhi, India
Compensation:
Linked to Experience.
About you:
1. You are exceptional at business development and have demonstrated a passion in wanting to build a media forum across online and offline variants.
2. You are looking to join a start-up in its early stages and share in the rewards of building an institution
3. You are a proactive and independent person who has a demonstrated passion as relates to Sustainability issues: Sustainable Products, Resource Efficiency, Renewable Energy, Energy Efficiency, Policy
The role will report into the executive leadership team of cKinetics. Performance metrics for this role will include revenue traction, online community growth, publication readership and partnerships established.
You must have:
1. Have a Masters degree and 6 ~ 8 years of relevant work experience
2. Have Excellent English communication and strategic thinking abilities for business development
3. Ability to work ‘hands-on' and multi-task in an energetic start-up environment
4. Demonstrated ability to be an individual contributor as also work in teams
5. You have carefully read this entire description and it resonates well with you
Company Description
cKinetics is an operational consulting and incubation firm catalyzing rapid adoption of low carbon sustainable growth practices in emerging economies through technology transfer, capital access and adaptation interventions. As emerging economies grow there exists an opportunity to leapfrog the development of newer industry and community infrastructure to be more efficient, sustainable and hence more profitable.
cKinetics was founded in 2009 by a team passionate about using industry dynamics to address the most pressing issue of our time: sustainably driven growth through competitive market based models. With headquarters in New Delhi, India and a US office in Palo Alto, California; the company works with clients and partners globally. More on www.cKinetics.com
If you are interested, PLEASE include a cover note on why you fit the profile, along with your resume.
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