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Track

Support

Family rungs priced

S1 · S2 · S3 · S4 · S5

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industrial_energy_operations

Coordinates

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pay@2 · 2026-07

What this role is

Senior individual-contributor expert who provides specialized technical guidance and operational analysis across major energy business lines such as exploration and production, gas, power, offshore, or regulated and nuclear operations. At the Principal Support Specialist (S5) level, the role owns function-wide support practice, program-level and systemic support problems, and drives support strategy across the function. Subject-matter authority; shapes the practice.

What this level does

Create and document new procedures for energy consumption tracking, weather normalization, and customer data-flow processing, standardizing how the support team handles recurring complex cases
Act as the working lead and escalation point for the most complex data and settlement issues across C&I and Mass Market products, facilitating peer resolution
Design and maintain the templates, workbooks, and data-validation checks the entire support function uses for utility budgeting and consumption reporting
Develop training and cross-training material on CIS/Billing, EDI, and compliance documentation procedures, providing guidance to less experienced analysts
Partner with analysts and management to translate new regulatory or market changes into revised operational procedures and updated documentation workflows

Knowledge applied: Highly skilled in energy operations support; contributes to the creation of new procedures, templates, and validation checks across consumption tracking, billing, and settlements.
Complexity & problem solving: Resolves the most complex data and settlement issues; develops concepts and techniques and translates regulatory/market changes into revised workflows.
Collaboration & interaction: Acts as working lead and escalation point; provides peer guidance and facilitates execution across the support function.
Typical experience: 6+ years; expert in energy operations support.

Skills at this level

Energy Consumption Data Management: — Collects utility bills and meter readings and maintains the accuracy of consumption records including square footage, equipment inventories, and weather-normalization fields across a property portfolio.
Consumption Trend and Anomaly Analysis: — Reviews energy usage across portfolio properties to detect trends and anomalies, distinguishing seasonal or weather-driven variance from genuine irregularities that need investigation.
Utility Budget Preparation Support: — Compiles historical consumption to assist in generating utility budgets and calculates projected energy savings using established workbooks and templates.
Customer Data-Flow Processing: — Manages customer data across energy operations — initial account set-up, credit approval, risk/product review, pricing, and contract records — moving data cleanly through CIS/Billing and EDI systems.
Settlements and Billing Reconciliation: — Reconciles utility bills against meter readings and works through settlement exceptions, correcting discrepancies that span billing and market-operations records.
CIS/Billing and EDI Systems Knowledge: — Applies working familiarity with CIS/Billing, EDI, and Customer Care systems to enter, retrieve, and correct C&I and Mass Market product data in energy operations.
Energy Imbalance Market Operations Support: — Analyzes Energy Imbalance Market operational information and responds to day-to-day operational needs, feeding accurate data into the operations cycle.
Compliance Documentation Administration: — Organizes, tracks, and follows up on utility compliance documentation and maintenance schedules so records are complete and retrievable for scheduled reviews.
Business Requirements Gathering: — Interviews client contacts to document business requirements for energy operations tasks and performs basic process mapping of recurring workflows.
Procedure Development and Documentation: — Creates and documents new energy operations procedures, templates, and data-validation checks, standardizing how the support team handles complex or newly-regulated cases.
Stakeholder Communication: — Coordinates with clients, utility representatives, and contractors on data corrections and incentive-program requirements, and produces clear operational reports from consumption and billing figures.
Working-Lead Coordination: — Sequences and reviews the support team's data, budgeting, and reconciliation tasks, coaching less experienced analysts on energy operations procedures without holding formal management authority.

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Pay across the ladder

Energy Operations — median with , by . Real canon data.

National-base pricing — this family's function differential is pending review, so dollar levels are not function-adjusted (level-over-level % is unaffected).

Pay figures are modeled estimates from our market equation — level-differentiated, with honest-wide bands. They refresh as new leveling evidence lands; treat per-role dollars as directional.

Demand — is the field growing, or just turning over?

Employment growth 2019–2024, BLS OEWSobserved

+23.2%Plant and System Operators, All Other · United States

12,950 → 15,950 jobs

1,600 openings / year, split into:

replacement / exits 1,574

Growth — new jobs (2%)Exits — backfill (98%)

2% of hiring here is genuine expansion; the rest backfills people who move on.

Projected growth 2024–34 expanding: +1.6%
Growth share of hiring: 2%
Exit / retention pressure high: 98%
Openings / year: 1,600

Two quantities, kept apart: observed = employment growth differenced from two BLS OEWS vintages (what already happened); projected = BLS Employment Projections 2024–34, openings decomposed into growth + exits (growth derived from projected employment change). Neither is a pay figure.

Where it pays — by metro

OEWS metro median

San Jose-Sunnyvale-Santa Clara, CA$99k

San Francisco-Oakland-Fremont, CA$88k

Washington-Arlington-Alexandria, DC-VA-MD-WV$82k

Boulder, CO$81k

Seattle-Tacoma-Bellevue, WA$81k

Boston-Cambridge-Newton, MA-NH$77k

Lexington Park, MD$75k

Trenton-Princeton, NJ$75k

Pay only — metro-level demand isn't in public data (it needs job postings). National median $59k; the demand-cube initiative will add growth-by-metro.

What changes across the ladder

Level-distinction canon isn't available for the adjacent levels of this profile yet.

Level differentiators

What separates S5 (S5 — Principal Support Specialist) from the levels around it — this level only. Every word is real canon for this profile.

Scope: Function-wide support practice
Autonomy: Sets direction for the support discipline
Complexity: Program-level and systemic support problems
Impact: Support strategy across the function
Decision rights: Authority over support practice and standards
Leadership: Subject-matter authority; shapes the practice

Full level-by-level matrix (side by side across the ladder) lives on the Ladder drill-down — not here.

Promotion

S5is the top of this family's ladder — progression from here is a lattice move (see adjacent roles below), not a rung.

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People also watch

Nearest coordinate neighbors — same , same level. Each row's (confident / review / no match) comes from its — computed, not curated.

Profile	Key	Median	Δ structural
President, Energy Operations	jf_energy_operations::E5	$340,737†	confident0.06
Director of Energy Operations	jf_energy_operations::M5	$188,371†	confident0.06
Energy Operations Expert	jf_energy_operations::P5	$138,423†	confident0.06
Advanced Energy Operations Analyst	jf_energy_operations::S4	$56,408†	confident0.06

†National-base pricing — this family's function differential is pending review, so the dollar level is not function-adjusted.

Capability cluster

O*NET 51-8099

Core to this role. Click any element with an ⓘ for its O*NET definition. A job-specific capability model (SkillFrame) will sharpen this and add worked examples.

The Job Swatch

S5

jf_energy_operations::S5

Lead Energy Operations Specialist

Energy Operations

no content fingerprint

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Because every role carries computable coordinates, similarity, leveling, and pricing become measurable instead of arguable— the whole point of "Pantone for jobs."

Structural

structural@1

Where it sits— position in the work taxonomy + level (weighted Gower, level > function > focus).

Track: S
Superfunction: industrial_energy_operations
Function: energy_utilities_business_operations
Family: energy_operations
Universal level: 5 / 8

Content

content@2

What it's about— a fingerprint over the role's tasks & capabilities.

No content fingerprint for this profile.

Two roles can sit far apart structurally yet be close in content — that gap is itself a signal.

3-state matching

How any two swatches compare — a real distance in coordinate space, resolved to a calibrated verdict (never a fake "94% match").

Assets · S5review0.17

Control Operations · S5review0.17

Emissions · S5review0.17

Energy Grid · S5review0.17

Land / Property · S5review0.17

Mining Operations · S5review0.17

Editions — frozen & versioned

structural@1live

Released 2026-06-17

content@2live

Released 2026-07-28

pay@2live

Released 2026-07-02

semantic@1live

Released 2026-07-02

Coordinates belong to a frozen, versioned edition — a coordinate computed today still means the same thing next quarter. Re-fitting issues a new edition, so comparisons are never silently redefined.

How to read this profile

Every number here is traceable — to a named source, a stated method, and an as-of date — and each value is labeled by how we know it: observed from data, computed by a model, projected forward, or governed canon. Nothing is a black box, and nothing is invented to fill a gap.

Where every number comes from

What	Source & method	Edition	State
Median pay + range	JobFrame pay equation (function base × family multiplier × level × focus differential)	pay@2	computed
Pay across the ladder	Same equation applied at each universal level	pay@2	computed
Demand — growth & openings	BLS Employment Projections; openings decomposed into growth + exits	EP 2024–34	projected
Pay by metro	BLS OEWS metropolitan medians	OEWS 2024	observed
Level distinctions	JobFrame universal-level canon (scope · autonomy · complexity · impact · decision rights · leadership)	canon	canon
Capability cluster	O*NET Knowledge / Skills / Abilities	O*NET 51-8099	computed
Coordinates	JobFrame coordinate system — structural (weighted Gower) + content fingerprint	structural@1 · content@2 · pay@2 · semantic@1	computed
Related roles	Nearest neighbors in the structural coordinate space	structural@1	computed

The principles behind the numbers

Ranges, not false precision

Pay is P10 · median · P90, never a single misleading number.

Three honest states, never a fake %

Role matches resolve to confident / review / no-match — a calibrated verdict, not a made-up percentage.

Provenance on every value

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Gaps shown as gaps

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Frozen, versioned editions

Pay and coordinate editions are pinned, so a comparison you make today still means the same thing next quarter.

Privacy by min-N

Any aggregate over people is suppressed below a minimum count, so no individual is identifiable.

Freshness

As of2026-07-30Editioncanon-v2@2.1.0-completeSourcecanon-v2 cell + salary-benchmark (model)