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City of Tacoma Hiring Business Energy Programs Manager

September 2, 2025 By SBC staff

Tacoma Power’s Customer Energy Solutions Section is seeking an experienced Business Energy Programs Manager. This position is based in Tacoma, Washington, in the heart of the Puget Sound region near both urban amenities and the natural beauty of the Pacific Northwest.

As the Business Energy Programs Manager, you will lead a team of nine engineers and program professionals dedicated to designing and delivering energy programs for Tacoma Power’s commercial, industrial, government, institutional, and multifamily customers. Your role is to provide strategic direction and technical leadership in the development, marketing, and implementation of customer-focused energy services. Your team will identify and implement cost-effective energy solutions for a wide range of customer types and building systems, ensuring programs achieve measurable results.

Duties and responsibilities include:

  • Managing day-to-day energy program implementation, technical oversight, and ensuring alignment with utility goals and targets. Overseeing program development process from initial concept and market identification to pilot development and scale up, to on-going evaluation and maintenance, through to final exit strategy.
  • Preparing and delivering presentations to diverse audiences on programs such as energy efficiency, distributed generation, electrification, decarbonization, and load management.
  • Leading the technical review and approval of custom project savings analyses and associated measurement and verification (M&V) plans and reports in accordance with industry protocols and Tacoma Power standards. Develop program tools such as calculators, technical specifications, and workflow diagrams to support consistent, high-quality delivery. Monitoring program performance to make strategic adjustments as needed.
  • Managing the Commercial & Industrial budget (O&M and capital) and approving large conservation incentive payments.
  • Overseeing contract negotiations, preparing resolutions for the Public Utility Board (PUB), and securing approvals from senior management and, when required, City Council.

Does this sound like your next big move? Check out the full listing here: Business Energy Programs Manager | Job Details tab | Career Pages

 

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