5602 Utility Specialists

Hetch Hetchy Water and Power, near Yosemite National Park, is recruiting (4) 5602 Utility Specialists. $120,484-178,152/annually with a competitive benefits package.

Please visit this link to apply https://careers.sf.gov/role/?id=3743990006071356 or contact hhwpjobs@sfwater.org for more information on how to apply.

Moccasin is located 140 miles east of the San Francisco Bay Area and requires a 5-hour round trip commute by car in fair weather.

Essential Duties: 

• Monitors operations to ensure compliance with policy directives, laws, regulations, and contractual constraints. Proposes possible project modifications and/or best management practices to avoid and minimize impacts. Advises project teams on ways to streamline environmental review and permitting.

• Develops analytical and predictive models; conducts technical and economic feasibility evaluations of proposed capital projects; incorporates results of analyses into cost/benefit assessments; conducts a wide variety of analytical studies related to assessment of operational effectiveness, financial and market risk, price sensitivity, and other complex studies as assigned.

• Develops and implements seasonal, monthly, and multi-year operating, financial and capital plans. Develops and maintains Critical Path Method (CPM) schedules; reviews and analyzes Precedence Diagram Method (PDM) schedules for variances and trends; maintains and makes recommendation for improvements to the cost control system to track spending relative to project budgets and schedules; and maintains a cost estimate database by providing project cost estimates and reviewing actual construction costs relative to engineers' estimates.

• Directly negotiates large seasonal and yearly contracts, rates, and service terms; pro-vides negotiation support on division-wide multi-year contracts; establishes rate policies and negotiating parameters for short-term purchase and sale transactions and agreements.

• Identifies operational constraints and develops, evaluates, or recommends policies and procedures to improve operations, mitigate risks, increase revenues, and decrease costs.

• Develops training programs to implement policies and programs, trains analysts, technicians and other personnel on policies, procedures, and compliance issues.

• Writes a variety of documents including reports; work plans; general correspondence; operating, financial and marketing plans; program descriptions; operating procedures and policy recommendations; meeting minutes; documentation of forecast methodologies and model assumptions; legal and regulatory interpretations and issues; reports that explain schedule and cost variances and trends, provide cost-effective recommendations to mitigate adverse variances and to support negotiation of change order costs with contractors; and other types of written documents as needed to support the diverse work activities as-signed to this class.

• Develops, implements, and maintains database systems for hydrologic, water supply, power operations, marketing, energy consumption and other data.

• Supervises Utility Analysts and other technical personnel and provides technical support and expertise for assigned specialty area.

• Supervises the preparation of section operating and capital budgets, including revenue and expense forecasts and analyses and reporting of variances.

• Other duties as assigned.