[Hiring] Senior Utilities Consultant @SSP Innovations

Role Description

SSP is seeking a Senior Consultant to help us continue our practice of delivering high-quality advisory services to a broad portfolio of clients within the energy and utility industries. The role will have the following responsibilities:

• Provide overall operational and technical leadership for various electric and gas consulting programs with a focus on Esri Geospatial solutions.
• Represent the company to prospects and existing customers. Work with utility personnel at all levels of the organization.
• Provide presentations and conduct workshops to identify, define and capture business and technical requirements and best practices.
• Manage deliverables for the consulting projects, including use-case development, requirements gathering, and large scale implementation strategy and road maps and reports.
• Coordinate and monitor consulting projects from initiation through delivery. Serve as liaisons between SSP and client to ensure all targets and requirements are met.
• Decompose high-level business requirements and user requirements into functional requirements, specified in an appropriate level of detail suitable for use by those who base their work on the requirements.
• Identify operational system interfaces, constraints, and other nonfunctional requirements.
• Work individually or within a team on technology consulting projects to meet specific customer requirements.
• Serve as a mentor to senior and entry-level consultants, developers, and engineers. Coach and manage consultant-level resources and actively participate in the performance expectation process.
• Provide business development support to the sales team members and account managers, including preparation and estimation of proposals for consulting and implementation projects.
• Create business relationships and support sales generation with high-level contacts often through face-to-face and client site visits. Maintaining an ongoing business relationship with current clients to facilitate future sales.
• Actively participate in thought leadership activities such as blogs, conferences and public speaking opportunities.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in related discipline (e.g., Electrical Engineering, Information Technology, Computer Science or equivalent), or equivalent utility and consulting work experience.
• Knowledge of electric, gas and/or water utilities. Gas Distribution experience is a plus.
• 10 years of work experience in support of related utility consulting or large scale process/technology projects.
• Reasonable understanding and familiarity with Esri GIS technology.
• Excellent interpersonal, written and oral communications and customer relations skills.
• Demonstrates a high degree of personal and professional integrity.
• Willing to travel of 25-35% of the time.
• Strong PC skills required, including use of standard MS Office applications and Microsoft Project.
• Ability to prioritize work assignments and shift work efforts based on the needs of the department or business goals.
• Ability to work independently and be self-motivated.
• Ability to work effectively in a team environment.

Requirements

• Managerial and supervision skills.
• Familiarity with utility operational technologies including Asset and Work Management Systems/Outage Management Systems /Advanced Distribution Management Systems /Advanced Metering Infrastructure/Mobile products.
• Familiarity with regulatory compliance for gas utilities (Integrity Management Plans).
• Good understanding of utility business processes.
• Established professional network and demonstrated track record in business development and sales of consulting services in the utility industry.
• Project management methodology background, including schedule, scope, issue and risk management experience, and project budget tracking.

Benefits

• This is a remote work from home position.