Energy Operations Manager
industrial_energy_operations › Energy Operations · M3 — M3 — Senior Manager · Management
Manages a group of supervisors and front-line teams across a major energy operating unit such as production, gas, power, offshore, or regulated operations.
Median pay · United States · annual
$120,351 USD
▲ +40.6% vs M1 on this ladder
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pay@2 · 2026-07
What this role is
Manages a group of supervisors and front-line teams across a major energy operating unit such as production, gas, power, offshore, or regulated operations. At the Senior Manager (M3) level, the role owns multiple teams or a sub-function, multi-team execution and resourcing trade-offs, and drives sub-function outcomes. Manages managers and/or several teams.
What this level does
- Lead the energy operations department, overseeing daily operations and maintenance of utility systems and managing a team of technicians and analysts.
- Evaluate diverse operational issues and consumption trends across the portfolio, developing and implementing improvement strategies to optimize energy usage and reduce costs.
- Own the department operating budget and resource allocation, forecasting energy costs and prioritizing lifecycle and efficiency projects.
- Lead functional and customer-facing teams, ensuring system performance, safety and regulatory compliance across all operated properties.
- Direct data analytics efforts that help decision-makers understand consumption patterns and implement policies to meet business objectives.
- Knowledge applied
- Applies broad energy operations and analytics knowledge to run a department and optimize portfolio energy usage and cost.
- Complexity & problem solving
- Handles diverse operational issues; evaluates consumption trends to develop improvement strategies.
- Collaboration & interaction
- Leads functional and customer teams; coordinates across departments.
- Typical experience
- 5–7+ years managing professionals and operating budgets.
Skills at this level
- Energy auditing and modeling
- — Conducts energy audits to assess energy usage across a utility portfolio and identifies areas for improvement, running energy modeling and simulation to evaluate energy performance of operated systems.
- Utility systems operations management
- — Oversees daily operations and maintenance of utility systems, monitors system performance, coordinates technicians and cross-department schedules, and implements improvements to keep energy operations reliable and compliant.
- Energy data analysis
- — Uses math and statistical analysis on utility bills, meter readings and consumption data to find efficiencies, measure operational risk and surface trends and anomalies that inform energy operations decisions.
- Spreadsheet & database analysis
- — Uses Excel, VBA, MS Access, SQL and SQL Server Integration Services to collect and organize energy consumption data, build repeatable analysis processes, and improve existing energy operations reporting.
- Utilities budgeting and capital planning
- — Develops and owns the annual utilities operations budget and multi-year capital plan, forecasting energy costs, projects and lifecycle replacement needs to optimize total cost of ownership.
- Energy efficiency and sustainability strategy
- — Develops and implements comprehensive energy management strategies aligned with corporate sustainability goals, driving efficiency initiatives and leveraging data analytics to reduce consumption and cost.
- Safety and regulatory compliance
- — Ensures utility operations and field work comply with applicable safety and regulatory standards, correcting deviations and embedding compliance into daily operations.
- Energy Imbalance Market operations support
- — Analyzes Energy Imbalance Market information and performs related operational tasks to support participation in real-time energy balancing activities.
- Operations team leadership and development
- — Leads, hires, trains and supervises energy operations teams, sets performance expectations, conducts reviews, and builds bench strength through cross-training and succession planning.
- Distribution operations integration
- — Carries ownership of distribution operations, guaranteeing full integration of engineering, design, scheduling, stores and field execution to meet reliability and customer-satisfaction goals.
- External stakeholder engagement
- — Maintains contact with the public, contractors, local government agencies and officials, other utilities and the media, representing energy operations on reliability, projects and policy matters.
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