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Resource Planning Specialist - FTR - Edmonds
Number of positions: 1 Job Location: Edmonds 09
Employment type: Permanent Region: Lower Mainland
Hours of work: Full-time (37.5 hrs/wk) Flexible Work Role: Hybrid
Annual salary: $ 131,100.00 - 165,800.00
What you'll do
- Consults with First Nations as required on Operations and Planning & Licensing activities and builds relationships with
First Nations while fostering a better understanding of these activities.
- Project manages high risk and complex water license or coordination agreement projects with cross-functional and cross-
organizational scope.
- Act as a team lead managing resources (financial, technical, people) and provide downward mentoring and development
within Planning & Licensing.
- Provides guidance on scope and policy for implementation of operational commitments under the Water Use Plan, Water
Use Plan Order Reviews, new provincial legislation and regulations as it relates to BC Hydro’s water licences.
- Engages in negotiations and manages Water Use Agreements with third party users such as municipalities, First Nations
or private industry and supports administration of other coordination agreements.
- Prepares business case justification from various perspectives including social, technical, economic, environmental and
regulatory.
- Identifies and communicates with internal and external stakeholders that are potentially impacted as a result of Operations
and Planning & Licensing decisions and activities.
- Identifies and characterizes significant regulatory, social and economic risks to Operations and Planning & Licensing
activities and develops rational and progressive mid to long term strategies, policies, procedures and/or standards to reduce
exposure to the significant risk.
- Engages in negotiations with internal/external clients and manages key relationships.
- Responds to highly complex, confidential, sensitive inquiries.
- Provide Planning & Licensing regulatory and social issues guidance, leadership and vision around Triple Bottom Line
decisions.
- Develops and leads social and regulatory initiatives and programs which enhance the long term value of generation
assets.
What you bring
- University degree in a relevant discipline (Resource Management, Engineering, Law, Science, Economics, Political
Science). An equivalent combination of education and experience may be considered.
- Eight to ten years relevant experience with the Water Sustainability Act or other regulatory experience, hydroelectric
