Description
Choose Accenture for a career where the variety of opportunities and challenges allows you to make a difference every day. A place where you can develop your potential and grow professionally, working alongside talented colleagues. The only place where you can learn from our unrivalled experience, while helping our global clients achieve high performance. If this is your idea of a typical working day, then Accenture is where you should be.
With many of the world’s leading companies as our clients-including 94 of the Fortune Global 100, more than three-fourths of the Fortune Global 500 and government agencies around the world-the projects we undertake are helping shape the future of business, government and society. For over 20 years, we have consistently produced solid financial results in both good times and bad, generating net revenues of $21.6 billion last fiscal year (ended Aug. 31, 2010). Accenture is your chance to make a real difference to the way the world’s leading companies and governments operate.
Accenture offers career opportunities across our workforces, providing a unique career experience, depending on your skills, career objectives and preferred work experience. Across every area of our business, you’ll find people who are among the best at what they do.
Accenture works with many of the world’s leading energy companies to achieve value and high performance. Our clients get reliable, cost-effective, quality advice based on proven methodologies, efficient tools and stable architectures.
Qualifications
Basic Qualifications:
- 5+ years of Smart Grid experience within the Utilities Industry, preferably Transmission and Distribution and/or Retail business units.
- Minimum of a Bachelor’s Degree.
Preferred Skills:
- Previous consulting experience with a large professional services organization; revenue responsibility for a group.
- Direct experience in integration of smart metering and smart grid solutions with Transmission & Distribution operations and engineering applications (e.g., Outage Management, GIS) and back office systems (e.g., CIS, HR, Finance,Web Portals).
- Experience with Smart Grid (DMS/EMS/OMS, AMI, MDM, MDMS, DSM).
- CISSP certification and work in the implementation of security strategies for Utilities.
- Basic knowledge Smart Grid Key Industry/Technical Standards and Working Groups, e.g., IEC, ANSI, IEEE, AMI-SEC, NIST Smart Grid Interoperability, Open-Smart Grid, OpenHAN; understanding of utility regulatory environment (Federal or State).
- Electric Distribution Operations Applications Knowledge – Basic Business/Process understanding of Outage Management Systems, Work Management Systems, Mobile Workforce Management, GIS, Asset Management. Also, EMS, in the Transmission business.
- Network Communications for Smart Metering / Smart Grid Solutions – Understanding of LAN, NAN, WAN and backhaul communications, both wired and wireless.
- NOC Design and Deployment; understanding of FCAPS and eTOM methodologies; understanding of ITIL framework.
- Good Facilitation – Ability to develop and conduct up to half-day sessions with a diverse group of stakeholders (up to 8) with strong, differing viewpoints to accelerate solution development for difficult problems.
- Demonstrated experience and ability to address strategic components of Utilities Industry strategy for both regulated and non-regulated companies; demonstrated ability to lead client and consulting teams through strategic analysis.
- Contribution to the development of detailed Business Cases, with emphasis on knowledge of associated operational and leveraged technologies costs and benefits.
- Travel may be up to 100%, Monday through Friday.
Candidates who are currently employed by a client of Accenture or an affiliated Accenture business may not be eligible for consideration.
Applicants for employment in the U.S. must possess work authorization which does not require sponsorship by the employer for a visa.
We are an Equal Opportunity Employer.
Please contact me at: dan.samenus@accenture.com
