Potential Studies and Resource Planning Consultant

Overview

Cadmus seeks a mid-level consultant with experience in U.S. energy industry/utility potential studies and demand side management resource planning to join our Planning and Assessment Team. The Energy Division at Cadmus provides advanced analytic and strategic consulting services to energy companies, utilities, governments, and non-profit organizations. We are looking for smart, creative, intellectually curious, and flexible people who enjoy working on technical challenges, have experience conducting potential studies for North American utilities and an understanding of utility planning, preferably in a consulting environment.

The selected candidate will help characterize energy efficiency and demand response impacts on a per building basis, coordinate meetings with a wide variety of clean-energy stakeholders, draft research findings, develop innovative approaches to solving clean energy challenges, conduct secondary research about emerging energy technologies, or present your work to external or internal parties. As a planning and assessment research consultant, the selected candidate will:

• Conduct research and analysis related to demand-side potential assessments and integrated resource planning across a range of technologies including energy efficiency, building electrification, demand response, EVs, solar, battery storage, combined heat and power, and other emerging technologies
• Provide input to inform data analytics and modeling
• Build or run models and analysis to assess demand side management potentials and integrated resource planning
• Synthesize research findings and analysis outcomes to derive insights relevant to client objectives
• Develop detailed reports and presentations, clearly articulating findings, methodologies, and data sources, and actionable recommendations
• Lead consulting project tasks including:
  Budget tracking, task planning, and team collaboration
• Communicating clearly and professionally with project managers, other team members, and clients to accomplish project goals and with support teams, including accounting, accounts payable, contracts, and operations regarding the health and status of tasks
• Taking accountability for task quality, completion, budget, etc., including ensuring all deliverables meet Cadmus standards and exceed client expectations
• Support business development activities, including proposals
• Nurture and build existing client relationships as a task lead

• Bachelor’s degree in a relevant area of study such as mechanical or environmental engineering, economics, statistics, mathematics, environmental studies, or other quantitative social science
• At least 5 years of experience managing or leading research or planning projects that include both qualitative and quantitative techniques
• An understanding of the technical and analytical processes required to estimate demand side management potential
• Direct experience working on or supporting utility demand-side management potential studies, energy efficiency program planning, and/or resource planning
• Demonstrated ability and experience managing multiple tasks
• Demonstrated understanding of concepts related to energy efficiency, demand response, solar, battery storage, electrification, and/or distributed energy resource potential studies
• Experience in data analysis and interpretation
• Experience with task planning and budget tracking
• Excellent verbal and written communication skills, including the ability to communicate complicated issues to both technical and non-technical audiences
• Experience presenting research findings in reports, client presentations, or analytical models
• Intermediate to advanced experience with Microsoft Excel, Word, and Power Point

• Master of Arts or Science in a relevant area of study such as mechanical or environmental engineering, economics, statistics, mathematics, environmental studies, or other quantitative social science
• Prior experience managing, evaluating, or modeling demand response programs
• Prior consulting experience working independently to make decisions
• Experience with staff management and development
• Business development experience
• Intermed…