Las Vegas, NV

Resource Planning Specialist

Resource Planning Specialist

Location: Las Vegas, NV (Hybrid – Monday, Wednesday, Thursday are office days)

Targeted Salary: $130,000- $150,000, relocation and interview travel assistance provided for this role.

Unique and exceptional career opportunity to join our client, a leading energy company in Las Vegas, Nevada, as a Resource Planning Specialist. Join a company with a competitive salary, pension plan and great benefit package in the booming Vegas market.

Essential Duties and Responsibilities

  • Conducts research and provides complex and multidisciplinary analysis to support resource planning activities.
  • Presents clear, concise, and accurate reports to consultants, managers, executives, and regulators.
  • Maintains and executes computer models that support major resource decisions and strategies including resource procurement, resource operations, resource retirements and integrated resource plans.
  • Completes ad-hoc fundamental market analysis in support of resource investment, resource acquisition, and structured commercial transaction opportunities.
  • Participate in meetings and proceedings with stakeholders requiring technical input and the representation of modeling assumptions and analysis.
  • Provides regulatory support on behalf of the Company.
  • Prepares written testimony in support of regulatory filings and provides responses to data requests used to support resource planning activities.
  • Participates as expert witness in regulatory proceedings.
  • Complete industry research and identify major trends to be included in future regulatory filings.
  • Participates in workshops and interprets and explains results of analyses to other team members, management, and external stakeholders.
  • Coordinates, mentors, and trains junior Resource Planning staff. Acts in the Director’s behalf in the absence of the Manager.
  • Ensures all compliance aspects of position are known and followed; understands and complies with all policies, codes, and regulations applicable to position and company.


Education and Qualifications

  • Bachelor’s degree
  • 8-12 years of related experience in utility production cost modeling
  • Energy supply fundamentals and regional market behaviors experience
  • Various modeling, analytical, statistical, monitoring, or reporting software.
  • Generation, transmission, gas transportation, wholesale power markets, environmental regulation, and Quantitative Project Management.
  • Experience with PLEXOS software is a plus.

  • Max. file size: 300 MB.