Assistant General Manager, Navy Yard Electric Utility

PIDC is Philadelphia’s public-private economic development corporation. Our mission is to spur investment, business growth, and development that creates jobs, revitalizes neighborhoods, and drives growth to every corner of Philadelphia. We offer flexible financing, real estate, and decades of Philadelphia-based knowledge, to help our clients invest, develop, and grow throughout the City of Philadelphia. You can learn more about PIDC at www.pidcphila.com.

Since acquiring the 1,200-acre former Philadelphia Naval Shipyard in 2000, PIDC has managed its transformation into a thriving mixed-use campus on the Delaware River. The Navy Yard features an eclectic mix of historic buildings and new, LEED-certified construction oriented around world-class open space. The Navy Yard is now home to 150 companies with 15,000 employees.

PIDC’s Navy Yard team is responsible for making the Navy Yard a great place to work, visit, invest, and develop. Specifically, the team is responsible for commercial leasing, development planning and partnerships, campus programming, transit, electric utility operation, and infrastructure. development. You can learn more about the Navy Yard, its history, current activity and plans for growth at www.NavyYard.org.

As part of its Navy Yard activities, PIDC owns a 64MW private, unregulated electric grid that serves 200+ customer accounts. The grid provides reliable, affordable power to Navy Yard businesses through traditional distribution infrastructure (which delivers power from the Navy Yard boundaries to customers), a community solar array, a 6.2MW battery storage system, and an 8MW natural gas-fired peaking plant that helps manage periods of high demand and price volatility. The unregulated grid provides a unique opportunity to test new technologies and PIDC has partnered with academic institutions, researchers, and the private sector for over two decades to drive energy innovation.

PIDC manages a contracted utility operations company that delivers day-to-day grid operations, maintenance and repairs, and customer billing, along with planning and execution of select capital projects. PIDC maintains close partnerships with PECO, PJM, the U.S. Navy, and key stakeholders, and manages a multi-disciplinary consultant team to facilitate design, engineering, and construction of select capital projects, as well as technical, financial, market, and advanced grid operations services and advisory support.

In 2022, PIDC released the Navy Yard Plan Update, an 8.9M SF plan for new, mixed-use development that will support over 12,000 quality jobs and $6B in new investment for the City of Philadelphia. The electric grid requires significant additional capacity to support this new development and increasing power demands from current customers. Technical and financial planning for the grid expansion is underway. 

PIDC seeks an experienced and versatile assistant utility manager with strong business acumen to assist with the Navy Yard Electric Utility, delivering strong financial performance, operational oversight, and a robust capital program. The successful candidate will work closely with the Navy Yard’s General Manager, Electric Utility, real estate, and site operations teams to deliver integrated solutions that support the growth of existing customers and execution of the 2022 Navy Yard Plan. This position reports to PIDC’s General Manager, Navy Yard Electric Utility and has no direct reports.

 

The ideal candidate will have knowledge of utility tariffs, commodities, and distribution systems. Exceptional project and program management abilities, as well as strong interpersonal skills, are critical to effectively manage relationships with key stakeholders such as PECO and PJM, as well as the power needs of Navy Yard businesses, development partners, and the U.S. Navy. This position will also identify and advance sustainability and resiliency solutions, particularly as they support high-quality new development, investment, and job creation at the Navy Yard. Specific responsibilities include, but are not limited to, the following: