Senior Utilities Consultant

<p>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: </p><ul><li>Provide overall operational and technical leadership for various electric and gas consulting programs with a focus on Esri Geospatial solutions. </li><li>Represent the company to prospects and existing customers. Work with utility personnel at all levels of the organization.</li><li>Provide presentations and conduct workshops to identify, define and capture business and technical requirements and best practices.</li><li>Manage deliverables for the consulting projects, including use-case development, requirements gathering, and large scale implementation strategy and road maps and reports. </li><li>Coordinate and monitor consulting projects from initiation through delivery. Serve as liaisons between SSP and client to ensure all targets and requirements are met. </li><li>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.</li><li>Identify operational system interfaces, constraints, and other nonfunctional requirements.</li><li>Work individually or within a team on technology consulting projects to meet specific customer requirements. </li><li>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.</li><li>Provide business development support to the sales team members and account managers, including preparation and estimation of proposals for consulting and implementation projects.</li><li>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. </li><li>Actively participate in thought leadership activities such as blogs, conferences and public speaking opportunities.</li></ul><p><strong>Requirements</strong></p><p>All candidates must meet the following minimum requirements in order to be considered for this opportunity. </p><ul><li>Bachelor's degree in related discipline (e.g., Electrical Engineering, Information Technology, Computer Science or equivalent), or equivalent utility and consulting work experience. </li><li>Knowledge of electric, gas and/or water utilities. Gas Distribution experience is a plus.</li><li>10 years of work experience in support of related utility consulting or large scale process/technology projects. </li><li>Reasonable understanding and familiarity with Esri GIS technology.</li><li>Excellent interpersonal, written and oral communications and customer relations skills.</li><li>Demonstrates a high degree of personal and professional integrity. </li><li>Willing to travel of 25-35% of the time. </li><li>Strong PC skills required, including use of standard MS Office applications and Microsoft Project. </li><li>Ability to prioritize work assignments and shift work efforts based on the needs of the department or business goals.</li><li>Ability to work independently and be self-motivated.</li><li>Ability to work effectively in a team environment.</li></ul><p>The following requirements are desired and will be used to differentiate all candidates who apply for this position. </p><ul><li>Managerial and supervision skills. </li><li>Familiarity with utility operational technologies including Asset and Work Management Systems/Outage Management Systems /Advanced Distribution Management Systems /Advanced Metering Infrastructure/Mobile products.</li><li>Familiarity with regulatory compliance for gas utilities (Integrity Management Plans)</li><li>Good understanding of utility business processes.</li><li>Established professional network and demonstrated track record in business development and sales of consulting services in the utility industry. </li><li>Project management methodology background, including schedule, scope, issue and risk management experience, and project budget tracking.</li></ul>This is a remote work from home position