Highlights

• Be an influential part of an incredible publicly owned utility where Compassion & Accountability sum up this unique culture.
• This utility company truly respects its customers and their responsibility for the environment and a carbon-free future.
• The opportunity to develop your career and have fun with strategic endeavors such as meeting climate goals to cut greenhouse gas emissions to 40% by 2030 while also ensuring that 50% of retail sales are from eligible renewables by 2030.
• To be a part of an amazing leadership team who invites new leaders in and really values their input.
• Join an extremely successful utility that is not-for-profit utility and hold themselves to the highest financial standards.
• Very professionally managed: a peer said, “Group is very collegial, team-oriented and focused on achieving goals for the greater good of the utility”, “The executive team is forward thinking and nimble, trusting, they think independently and work collectively”.

Company Information

• Silicon Valley Power (SVP) siliconvalleypower.com is a 125-year-old California-based not-for-profit municipal electric utility that is owned and operated by the City of Santa Clara
• SVP provides electricity service to over 57,000 residential and business customers, at rates 25 to 53 percent below neighboring communities. High-profile customers include large corporations such as Intel, Applied Materials, Amazon Web Services (AWS), and NVIDIA.
• SVP is the only full-service, vertically integrated publicly owned utility in Silicon Valley owning generation, transmission, and distribution assets.
• Beginning in 2018 SVP began providing 100% carbon-free power to all residential customers. Carbon-free electricity from Silicon Valley Power consists of 50% large hydroelectric power and 50% eligible renewable energy sources, including solar, wind, geothermal, landfill gas, and small hydroelectric power plants.
• In 2022 SVP was recognized as a Diamond Level Reliable Public Power Provider (RP3 by American Public Power Association (APPA)) for providing reliable and safe electric service. This shows a demonstrated proficiency in four key disciplines: reliability, safety, workforce development, and system improvement. The Diamond Level is the highest designation that a utility can earn.
• About Silicon Valley Power:
  • History
  • Electric Generation Locations
  • Strategic Plan

They Value and Appreciate their Employees

• The executive team is strong with great communication skills, where transparency and spearheading innovation is key to their ongoing success.
• The Electric Utility Chief Operating Officer and this position’s direct report is the ambassador of the culture. They are focused on employees’ success and protecting their unique culture.
• Benefits:
  • 2022 Benefit Summary (Refer to column for Unit 9, Misc. Management Employees)
  • Unclassified Misc. Management MOU
  • Silicon Valley Power Home

Assistant Director of Electric Utility - Resource Planning and Customer Engagement: Role within the Utility

The Assistant Director – Resource Planning and Customer Engagement (AD) leads the utility strategy to meet a Carbon Free future while demand continue to grow at a rate of 10% per year. This role has primary accountability for providing leadership in the Resource Planning and Customer Engagement division which provides resource acquisition and delivery, customer relations and sustainability, forecasting and resource planning, and external relations. Specific accountabilities and qualifications in this role include:

• Demonstrated leadership with utility experience (Municipal or Investor Owned) with demonstrated ability to develop a vision for the workgroup, set priorities, establish goals, and deliver quantifiable results.
• Strong communication skills with peers and others within the organization
• Knowledgeable with customer service, resources, rate/tariff development, revenue requirements, and public benefits programs for electric utilities.
• Knowledgeable of CAISO/FERC/Municipal rules and regulations (get asked a lot of questions from Council Members, need to know the rules of what the utility can and cannot do.)
• Ability to develop and implement the strategy to meet Carbon Free future by 2035 (City of Santa Clara Climate Action Plan) while demand is growing 10% per year. City of Santa Clara - Climate Action Plan 2022
• Demonstrate relationships with peers in industries to keep current with industry trends.
• Provide clear business context, career development support, and strategic leadership to the COO and Chief Electric Utility Officer to support the AD’s accountability to ensure that business information and analysis are of the highest quality.
• Attend SVP’s city meetings and provide professional expertise to large groups and City staff. Ensure that the City staff receives the support, resources, analysis, and information required to fulfill its responsibilities.
• Initiate, develop and maintain effective professional relationships with department peers, bargaining units, employees, and citizens to promote community responsibility to assure that SVP is an exemplary utility in the community in which it does business.
• Collaborate and prioritize with the three other Assistant Utility Directors and analyze electric utility issues & trends, evaluate alternatives, and recommend courses of action.
• Lead development and succession planning. Develop the talent in your area to ensure that knowledge, skills, and experience enable efficient succession plan implementation.

Community Information

Located at the heart of Silicon Valley, about 45 miles south of San Francisco, the City of Santa Clara truly is “The Center of What’s Possible.” Incorporated in 1852, Santa Clara covers an area of 19.3 square miles with a population of 129,000. Santa Clara is home to an extraordinary array of high-tech companies, including Applied Materials, Intel, Nvidia, Oracle, and Ericsson. The City of Santa Clara is also home to Santa Clara University, Related Santa Clara project, California’s Great America Theme Park, and Levi’s® Stadium, home of the San Francisco 49ers and Super Bowl 50. For more information, go to www.SantaClaraCA.gov.

Background Profile

• Bachelor’s Degree: in business administration, engineering, or an approved related field from an accredited college or university
• Advanced Degree: in financial management, business or public administration, engineering, or law may be substituted for two (2) years of the qualifying experience requirement
• Experience: Ten (10) years of increasingly responsible operations, engineering, contract or financial administration, legal support, resource planning or acquisition, asset management, or supervisory experience in an electric utility or a closely related organization
• Management Experience: Three (3) years of management (of people) experience in an electric utility or a closely related organization

For questions and more information about this opportunity, please contact:

Jenna Flanagan
Phone or text: (916) 304-6663
Email: Jenna@JPowersInc.com