Job Description

Roles & Responsibilities

- Manage and undertake the day-to-day modelling activities including reliability, optimization, plant operational simulation studies and fuel usage studies.

- Prepare project definition handover reports to initiate procurement actions.

- Prepare effective communication of planning issues, methodologies, analytical results, and recommendations via reports, memoranda, presentations and letters.

- Manage planning projects as assigned, including in-house and consultant teams, and encompassing achievement of milestone objectives, progress reporting, review processes, and effective management practice.

Forecasting:

- Develop and apply models for forecast of electricity and water demand.

- Direct the sourcing, collection, and maintenance of input data for demand models.

- Prepare forecasts of OPWP budgets for water and power expenditures in coordination with Finance Department.

- Prepare forecasts of fuel requirements and fuel nominations for MEM and OQ-gas.

Bulk Supply Tariff:

- Develop and maintain pricing models tailored for the Oman power and water sectors

- Prepare pricing or tariff schedules for electricity and water desalination for OPWP s customers as needed.

- Employ relevant pricing and system planning models to ensure accurate and timely determination of the prices.

- Keep abreast with the various emerging system and planning issues.

- Identifies key issues and constraints and formulate processes and policy on Bulk Tariffs.

- Assist CCI Department for raising Bulk Supply invoices.

Tariff Evaluation:

- Develop models or inputs to models for tariff evaluation.

- Maintain databases and models relevant to tariff evaluation.

Report:

- Communicate risks and issues to management through the production of monthly reports.

- Responsible for the preparation of relevant sections of annual report of the previous year.

- Responsible for the preparation of relevant sections of 7 Year statement report.

Desired Candidate Profile

Assist the Director of Planning & Project Development in the preparation of the seven-year statements.

- Liaise with the key stakeholders on the specification of data requirements and its collection.

- Evaluate resource options for electricity and water supply, including specific supply technologies with their cost and operating parameters, and maintain associated databases necessary for resource planning.

- Assess risks and develop mitigation plans associated with demand and supply contingencies.

- Coordinate effectively with stakeholders in demand forecasts, such as electricity distribution companies, water departments, OETC, OWWCS, APSR, etc.

- Support PIC in negotiation teams for power and water purchase contracts to assure Economic Purchase of supply.

- Conduct research, analysis, and prepare documentation to support tariff benchmarks and reference points for tariff evaluation.