Energy Manager

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.

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.

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.

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.

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

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.

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.

Bachelor’s degree in Engineering,…