Energy Manager

AIRGAS INC AND SUBSIDIARIES; Houston (TX); Hybrid; USD 120,000 - 170,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Hybrid schedule

Full benefits package

Parental leave

401(k) match

Paid holidays

Job summary

Airgas is seeking an Energy Manager in Houston, TX to lead energy strategy and provide both strategic and tactical energy management direction for AMG operations. The role supports decarbonization efforts, cost management, and energy procurement with a hybrid schedule and comprehensive benefits.

Responsibilities include monitoring energy usage, developing cost models, negotiating with suppliers, and ensuring regulatory compliance.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in Engineering, Business Finance, or Business Administration, or equivalent experience.
• 7+ years experience and expertise in energy market and in LI business model.
• Understanding of Electricity Markets in North America including both regulated and deregulated markets.
• Understanding of the Industrial Gas business and the impact of electricity costs, volatility and stability on the gas and liquid supply chain.
• Analytical and conceptual ability to assimilate internal and external requirements in the context of market and regulatory requirements and take action to create value for Airgas.
• Ability to influence management and external parties through effective communication.
• Working knowledge of commercial agreements and customer relations.
• Good communication skills.
• Excellent understanding of accounting principles and working knowledge of plant operating budget.
• Ability to collect and analyze data to form and support action plans.
• Ability to understand principles of regulatory cost causation, the purpose of rate classes in regulatory proceedings, allocation of cost to rate classes, and rate design principles.
• Ability to blend common sense with technical information / theories to produce sound achievable outcomes.
• Ability to grasp ideas quickly and take advantage of group dynamics to lead others to improvements in approaches to resolve broad regulatory and structural energy issues

Responsibilities

• Energy Monitoring and Analysis: Monitor plant operations and energy usage patterns.
• Analyze market data to evaluate forward price risk.
• Understand ISO operations and cost drivers.
• Track and manage compliance with energy-related contractual commitments.
• Efficiency and Performance Targets: Establish and track energy use efficiency targets.
• Track performance targets for energy reduction to offset capacity, transmission, and other fixed costs.
• Cost Management and Reporting: Maintain and improve systems to develop and track energy cost information and reporting.
• Create/maintain plant energy cost models reflecting energy, capacity, transmission, and other costs.
• Monitor issues that impact Airgas cost at the ISO level and mitigation approaches.
• Develop understanding of utility cost allocation and rate design for rate class allocation.
• Follow legislative activities in US markets to monitor rate cases and utilities changes.
• Provide recommendations for hedging to manage cost volatility of electricity and gas purchases.
• Prepare an annual energy cost budget for air separation and liquid CO2 facilities.
• Demand Response and Load Control: Implement maximum participation in load control and demand response.
• Negotiation and Supplier Relations: Negotiate favorable terms to energy purchase contracts.
• Be a primary interface with energy suppliers for energy services and supply.
• Create an effective cooperative relationship with local operating personnel.
• Zero-Carbon Energy Management: Procure zero-carbon energy and retire RECs per guidelines.
• Work with third-party auditor to validate carbon accounting for ECO-ORIGIN products.
• Manage Scope 2 reporting per group directives.
• Are you a MATCH?
• Required Qualifications include multiple items listed above.

Skills

Energy market knowledge

North American electricity markets

Industrial gas business understanding

Data analysis

Communication skills

Budgeting understanding

Regulatory cost concepts

Stakeholder influence

Education

Bachelor's degree in Engineering, Business Finance, or Business Administration, or equivalent experience

Job description

R10092848 Energy Manager (Open)

Location:

Houston, TX (HO) - Cust. installations

How will you CONTRIBUTE and GROW?

Provide overall energy management direction and support for the AMG business at both the strategic and tactical level. Play a key role in developing and executing the AMG Power/Energy strategy and directly support the Director Energy Management. On matters pertaining to decarbonization on energy usage, report directly to the Vice President, Production & Project Execution.

At Airgas, we RESPECT, HONOR and VALUE diversity.

Airgas is Hiring for a Energy Manager - Houston, TX!

We are looking for you!

• Hybrid Schedule
• Comprehensive Family Benefits: Airgas offers a full benefits package designed to support your whole life, including Medical, Dental, Vision, Life, AD&D, and Disability Insurance.
• Support for Parents:We offer up to 14-week paid child birth benefits to support growing families.
• Future Security:401(k) Retirement Plan with company match, Tuition Assistance, Paid Holidays, Vacation, and Sick time.
• Early Access: Your benefits start after just 30 days of employment

Energy Monitoring and Analysis

• Monitor individual plant operations and understand operational characteristics and energy consumption patterns.
• Maintain and improve data collection and analysis of market data to evaluate forward price risk.
• Develop understanding of ISO operations and cost drivers.
• Track and manage compliance with energy-related contractual commitments.

Efficiency and Performance Targets

• Establish and track energy use efficiency targets.
• Establish and track performance targets for energy reduction to offset capacity, transmission, and other fixed cost energy charges based on time-sensitive use.

Cost Management and Reporting

• Maintain and improve systems to develop and track energy cost information and facilitate reporting to operations, finance, and management.
• Create/maintain plant energy cost models that reflect energy, capacity, transmission, ancillary, margin, and other costs incurred to serve Airgas facilities.
• Monitor Issues that impact Airgas cost at the ISO level and alternative approaches to mitigate cost increase for Airgas and others.
• Develop a basic understanding of utility cost allocation and rate design to enable effective participation in both group and individual efforts to achieve fair rate design for Airgas facilities.
• Follow legislative activities managed by industrial user groups in the various US markets where AMG plants operate to monitor rate cases, and changes proposed by utilities that could impact AMG facilities energy rates.
• Provide recommendations for physical or financial hedging to manage the cost volatility of AMG electricity and natural purchases.
• Prepare an annual energy cost budget for air separation and liquid CO2 facilities

Demand Response and Load Control

• Implement maximum potential participation in load control and other "demand response" opportunities.

Negotiation and Supplier Relations

• Negotiate competitive favorable terms to energy purchase contracts. (Lead)
• Be a primary interface with energy suppliers as it relates to energy services and supply.
• Create an effective cooperative relationship with local operating personnel.

Zero-Carbon Energy Management

• Procure zero-carbon (renewable energy, nuclear energy, renewable energy certificates...) and manage the retirement of the associated renewable energy certificates in alignment with Air Liquide corporate guidelines (retirement of the certificates must be in line with the group scope 2 reporting).
• Work with a third-party auditor to validate the carbon accounting for ECO-ORIGIN products sold in the US market.
• Manage Scope 2 reporting per Air Liquide group directives

Are you a MATCH?

Required Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in Engineering, Business Finance, or Business Administration, or equivalent experience
• 7+ years Experience and Expertise in energy market and in LI business model
• Understanding of Electricity Markets in North America including both regulated and deregulated markets
• Understanding of the Industrial Gas business and the impact of electricity costs, volatility and stability on the gas and liquid supply chain.
• Analytical and conceptual ability necessary to assimilate internal and external requirements in the context of market and regulatory requirements and take action to create value for Airgas.
• Ability to influence management and external parties through effective communication.
• Working knowledge of commercial agreements and customer relations.
• Good communication skills.
• Excellent understanding of accounting principles and working knowledge of plant operating budget.
• Ability to collect and analyze data to form and support action plans.
• Ability to understand principles of regulatory cost causation, the purpose of rate classes in regulatory proceedings, allocation of cost to rate classes, and rate design principles.
• Ability to blend common sense with technical information / theories to produce sound achievable outcomes.
• Ability to grasp ideas quickly and take advantage of group dynamics to lead others to improvements in approaches to resolve broad regulatory and structural energy issues

Benefits

We care about and support our Airgas Families. This is evident not only through our competitive compensation but also through a comprehensive benefits package that includes medical, dental, and vision plans, short-term and long-term disability, life and accidental death and dismemberment (AD&D) insurance, Employee Assistance Program (EAP), pre-tax commuter transportation benefit, parental leave, vacation, sick time, floating holidays, jury duty and funeral/bereavement leave, and paid holidays for all eligible full-time employees.

Additionally, we offer our eligible employees a 401k plan with company matching funds, tuition reimbursement, discounted college tuition for eligible employees' dependents, and an Airgas Scholarship Program for dependent children.

Associates who are members of collective bargaining units should review their bargaining agreement to determine whether they are eligible for some or all of the benefits described here and to see any special terms or conditions for eligibility.

Your DIFFERENCES enhance our PERFORMANCE

At Airgas, we are committed to building a workplace that embraces the diversity of our employees, our customers, patients, community stakeholders and cultures across the world.

We welcome and consider applications from all qualified applicants, regardless of their race, gender, sexual orientation, religion, disability or any other protected characteristic. We strongly believe a diverse organization opens up opportunities for people to express their talent, both individually and collectively and it helps foster our ability to innovate by living our fundamentals, acting for our success and creating an engaging environment in a changing world.

About Airgas

Airgas, an Air Liquide company, is a leading U.S. supplier of industrial, medical and specialty gases, as well as hardgoods and related products; one of the largest U.S. suppliers of safety products; and a leading U.S. supplier of ammonia products and process chemicals. Through the passion and diversity of its 18,000 associates, Airgas fosters a culture of safety, customer success, sustainability and innovation. Airgas associates are empowered to share ideas, take initiative and make decisions.

Airgas is a subsidiary of Air Liquide, a world leader in gases, technologies and services for industry and healthcare. Present in 60 countries with approximately 66,500 employees, Air Liquide serves more than 4 million customers and patients.

Join us for a stimulating experience: At Airgas, you matter and so does the work you do. As a member of our team, you play an important role in the success of your team, making sure our products are created sustainably and delivered safely and efficiently. In turn, you'll find a welcoming workplace where you're valued for who you are and where you can fill your potential while growing a fulfilling career - whatever path you choose.

Equal Employment Opportunity Information

We are an equal opportunity employer. We welcome all qualified applicants regardless of race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability, veteran status, or any other protected characteristic.

Airgas, an Air Liquide Company is a Government contractor subject to the Vietnam Era Veterans' Readjustment Assistance Act of 1974 and Section 503 of the Rehabilitation Act of 1973.

Airgas does not discriminate against qualified applicants with disabilities, and is committed to providing reasonable accommodations to the known disabilities of such individuals so as to ensure equal access to benefits and privileges of employment. If you are an individual with a disability and would like to request a reasonable accommodation as part of the employment selection process, please contact us by email at [e-mail].

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