About This Opportunity
We are seeking a Program Manager for the Rocky Mountain Power energy efficiency program serving small and mid-sized industrial and agricultural customers (i.e. all industrial and agricultural customers except the largest, which are served specifically via another program channel). This is an exciting opportunity to lead and manage a program that delivers on our client’s request to significantly boost savings among these customers while providing excellent customer service. This is a player-manager role affording opportunity to expand both technical and managerial experience in a supportive collegial environment. Additional facets of the position include consultative technical sales, customer experience management, and regulatory compliance. The role involves frequent interaction with customer staff (equipment operators, facility managers, business managers), vendors of industrial and agricultural equipment, other engineers within and outside of Cascade, other energy professionals, and utility staff.
The basic program offering to customers of Rocky Mountain Power and the vendors who work with them is twofold:
- Provide engineering expertise to identify savings opportunities and, through technical and financial analysis, distinguish between those that are worthwhile and those that are merely marginal, and
- Offer and administer incentive funding from the utility to help make efficiency projects so worthwhile that customers decide to implement and even, ideally, come back for more.
The program manager (PM) leads a team that interacts with vendors and customers to identify efficiency opportunities, analyzes and recommends energy saving ideas, quantifies financial implications, communicates the results, and verifies the savings of completed projects. A key element of this program is developing relationships with equipment suppliers, such as air compressor vendors.
The PM is responsible for program outcomes, budget, spending, workflow management, and cost effectiveness. The PM oversees and guides the program team to continuously improve the program’s core offerings with new and innovative energy savings tools and processes.
You will be a great match for this role if:
- You are drawn to being a part of a company that helps businesses save energy.
- You enjoy building relationships with equipment operators, maintenance technicians, and technical sales teams involved in upgrading or optimizing the energy use of mechanical systems.
- You are detail oriented in a practical way. For you, the saying, “Don’t let the perfect be the enemy of the good” is not enigmatic.
- You are intrigued by the challenge of innovating while at the same time complying with regulations.
- You want to be part of an organization that considers our values with every decision we make.
- You are a life-long learner who feels shared success is the ultimate success.
About Us
At Cascade Energy, we believe in better. We come to work every day with a drive for continuous improvement, and we dedicate ourselves to making industrial energy efficiency happen in smart, measurable, and sustained ways. We offer utilities and industrial facilities novel ways to meet their sustainability, emission reduction, and energy savings goals. We specialize in energy efficiency program design and implementation; carbon tracking and report; scope 1,2, and 3 consulting services, energy efficiency engineering; energy management software, and hands-on training and coaching. Our reputation for stellar, high-quality work has expanded our reach throughout North America to serve clients ranging in size from small up to Fortune 500 companies in their pursuit of wide-ranging decarbonization and energy savings objectives. Cascade has offices in Oregon, Washington, Utah, Colorado, Idaho, Illinois, California, and the Northeast region.
Why work at Cascade?
As a 100% Employee-Owned Company (ESOP), Cascadians foster and value a culture of equals, initiative, and ownership. Our teams reflect our core company values: Do the Right Thing; Put Others First; Seek Shared Success; Learn Constantly; and Be Industrious. Our customers are vitally important to us, and we pride ourselves on stellar customer service. Our team members are a dedicated and diverse group of ambassadors, representing Cascade Energy, striving to embody our values, ensure we are responsive, and consistently delighting our customers.
In alignment with our values and doing better, Cascade Energy celebrates and values diversity as vital for increased creativity and innovation and faster problem solving, and we are committed to providing an environment of mutual respect, free of discrimination and harassment. Learn more about DEIA at Cascade by visiting cascadeenergy.com/deia.
Cascade promotes a healthy work-life balance and appreciates employee contribution in all areas. We walk the talk about our commitment to learning constantly, with a focus on the ongoing development of every team member. Cascade is a strong supporter of flexible working arrangements, and offers role-dependent options for remote, hybrid, and in-office work.
What You Will Be Doing:
- Manage the team; work with individual members to set goals for performance and professional development. Manage performance in supportive and encouraging ways.
- Review and approve analyses, studies, reports, incentive offers, and other project- and program-related work products.
- Plan and manage outreach and marketing activities to attain savings goals.
- Manage budget, spending, revenue, and profitability.
- Provide regular forecasts and reporting on energy savings, spending, revenue, and project activity.
- Coordinate with Finance & Accounting and with the client to complete regular invoicing.
- Represent Cascade to the utility, vendors, and end-users. Resolve any misunderstandings or conflicts that may arise.
- Establish and maintain relationships with vendors and customers via in-person visits to their sites and offices, calls, and email.
- Analyze savings opportunities, prepare engineering studies/reports. Collect, organize, and analyze data. This may entail installing and retrieving dataloggers and associated safety training.
- Work with various project tracking systems to maintain entries, use reports, and export data.
- Use judgment to make decisions about policy and relationship matters, which may involve “gray areas,” multiple priorities and perspectives, and ambiguous claims.
- Provide support for program evaluation and measure development as needed.
Reasonable accommodation may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions of the job.
This full-time, exempt position is located in our Pleasant Grove, Utah office and reports to the Director – Mountain West. The position requires approximately 30% travel, most of which is local. Working remotely part of the time is an option.
Qualifications
Applicants for this role are required to have:
- Bachelor’s Degree or higher with a technical focus, such as Mechanical or Chemical Engineering or a similar, applicable field, or, equivalent combination of education and experience.
- 3-6 years of experience with industrial energy efficiency or equivalent engineering.
- Experience in industrial settings with industrial clients.
- Experience with project management, management coaching, and consulting.
- Past supervisory responsibilities or mentoring experience.
- Demand Side Management experience.
A successful candidate should also demonstrate these preferred characteristics and/or skills:
- Ability to cultivate customer relationships and translate clients’ needs into short- and long-term business strategies.
- Broad communication skills, comfortable with people at all levels of an organization, from plant managers to equipment operators.
- Understanding of the industrial project approval process as well as typical barriers to this process and techniques for working through barriers.
- A strong grasp of project financial metrics and the use of these metrics to sell projects to key decision makers.
- Excellence in management, organization, and mentorship.
- Background experience in project engineering work methods and the ability to independently take on project work.
- Understanding of energy-efficiency technologies and policies; familiarity with energy analysis and auditing techniques.
- Technical sales experience is a plus.
For candidates whose experience may not align perfectly with all these preferred skills but can see themselves adding value in this role, we encourage you to still apply. Cascade is dedicated to building an inclusive and authentic workplace and places strong import on learning and development. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform essential job functions.
Compensation & Benefits
Our total rewards include competitive pay and excellent benefits. These include health (90% paid for team member, 70% paid for dependents on HDHP plans and 85% paid for team member, 65% paid for dependents on PPO plans), vision, FSA or HSA options with an employer contribution, life insurance, short- and long-term disability insurance, paid parental leave, 401k retirement plan with a guaranteed 3% contribution, Employee Stock Ownership Program (ESOP), annual cash performance bonus, paid vacation, sick time, and an inclusive, flexible paid holiday policy, wellbeing contribution of $500 for HSA, FSA, or LSA (Lifestyle Spending Account).
The salary range for this position in Salt Lake City is $110,200 - $134,710/year.However, final salary offered may vary depending on non-discriminatory factors such as job-related knowledge, skills and experiences, and geographical location if different than the above.
Application Process
Please submit a current resume (PDF). We would also appreciate a letter of interest (PDF) describing why our team or the position resonates with you, and how your experience makes you a great choice for the role. If you submit a letter, please combine it with your resume in one PDF document.
- Please, no phone calls.
- Please, no outside recruiters or agencies.
- Cascade Energy is not able to provide sponsorship for work authorization in the U.S., which includes OPT.
AAP/EEO Statement
Cascade is an Equal Opportunity Employer; employment decisions are made without regard to race, color, religion and religious practices, sex (including pregnancy, gender expression, and sexual orientation), national origin, age, physical or mental disability, genetic information, or family, marital, or veteran status. To request a reasonable accommodation during the application and interviewing process, please contact the Cascade recruiter.
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