Job Description:

• Responsible for executing project which involves developing initial hypotheses and required analyses, organizing and facilitating workshops, and sizing potential value of workshop-generated opportunities

Create project fact base (60-70%)

• Develop initial hypotheses on potential value levers by reviewing current data on the project and interviewing key project stakeholders.
• Conduct analyses to refine hypotheses in conjunction with project team, and SMEs; structures analyses into easily digestible format to facilitate productive workshop discussions.
• Escalate issues to leadership as needed

Organize and facilitate workshops (10-20%)

• Ensure necessary participants are identified and included in workshops to ensure full set of value opportunities are explored.
• Support fact base syndication with project team and champions ahead of the workshop.
• Size workshop ideas and facilitate impact tracking handoff to project team (20-30%).
• Consolidate ideas generated from workshop and works with project team to estimate value in order to prioritize highest impact ideas.
• Guide project team through creating and progressing Wave initiative.
• Follow up with project team on regular cadence to ensure ideas are implemented.
• Capture lessons learned for each project scrub, create and share best practices.

Regular problem-solving sessions with masters and other analysts to identify opportunities and share best practices.

SME interviews relevant to projects that are being scrubbed.

Regularly conduct 3-5 hour workshops with appropriate project stakeholders.

Qualifications: Structured analytical problem-solving ability with independent / out-of-the box thinking as core strength, high performer with project expertise, ability to understand project cost estimates and economic assumptions, demonstrated record of scrub mindset & behaviors (e.g., commitment to thoroughness, keen eye for identifying inefficiencies).

Experience: Greater than 3 years of utility experience and understanding of utility functions, high preference for experience in executing capital projects and broad network within relevant function’s capital projects organization

Education: Bachelor’s degree in engineering or business/economics

Experience with PowerBI, Excel (Pivot Tables) and PowerPoint presentations is required.