Lead Meterologist

Job Summary

The Lead Meteorologist will be responsible for developing and implementing processes to assists in providing short-term and occasional longer-term weather forecasting with a focus on communicating impacts from weather on enterprise-wide operations and systems. The incumbent will be a subject matter expert for meteorology and weather forecasting with demonstrated experience providing situational awareness to natural hazard threats and their forecasted impact to the company’s operations and infrastructure. With the manager of meteorology, this position will monitor weather hazard conditions across 6 states including but not limited to wildfire risks, extreme heat and cold, geomagnetic disturbances, severe and inclement weather, and tropical storms. Will also assist on various projects intended to improve the company’s situational awareness around weather and improve forecasting. 

Essential Functions

• Demonstrated ability to analyze and monitor weather forecasts and models to provide operational weather forecasts that support operational decision-making during all critical weather conditions.
• Prepares and disseminates operational weather reports.
• Collaborates with groups across the enterprise to assist with integrating weather data or forecasts into their processes (Outage risk models, damage risk models, etc.) to maximize value and ensure forecast information is streamlined and is sourced from the meteorology team.
• With the Manager of Meteorology, develops and maintains situational awareness tools and dashboards that visualize real-time and future weather conditions to ensure the efficient communication of evolving weather risks.
• Works to enhance and integrate new tools into the meteorology team’s suite of weather data, including open-source and AI weather model data.
• Working knowledge of coding and evolving AI/ML-related technologies a plus.
• Monitors weather and reports to leaders real-time and forecast weather conditions on a recurring basis.
• Demonstrated experience providing daily, short- and long-term seasonal weather forecasts to promote preparedness, and proactive resource allocation in the case of pending weather events.
• Serves as a subject matter expert for weather-related matters when requested.
• Works to develop and maintain relationship with external partners, such as the National Weather Service and other industry weather groups.
• Stays abreast of advancements in meteorological science, fire weather forecasting techniques, and risk modeling methodologies, periodically attending meetings and conferences.
• Implements improvements to existing processes and contributes to the development of new strategies to enhance our weather risk management capabilities.
• Performs other duties as assigned.
• 24/7 availability to support emergency operations and disasters.
• Ensures duties are performed in accordance with all regulatory compliance obligations. 

Education Description

• Requires a bachelor’s degree in Atmospheric Science or Meteorology, or related field from an accredited college or university. 

Experience

• Requires a minimum five (5) years of progressively responsible experience in weather risk analysis and operational meteorology.
• Experience in the energy industry or with a utility a plus. 

Additional Knowledge, Skills, and Abilities (KSA's)

• Demonstrated experience developing weather forecasts and disseminating the information in written or verbal form that is easily understood and relevant to the stakeholders needs.
• Understanding of the electric and natural gas utility industries sufficient to determine data sets needed to monitor natural hazards and their impact to the systems.
• Demonstrated experience in adapting product outputs to meet the needs of end users and creating decision support and visualization of weather information.
• Demonstrated ability to create a vision and strategy that integrates the needs of various business units into an integrated corporate view.
• Demonstrated experience in creating metrics to monitor the effectiveness of weather forecasts to meet the company mission.
• Demonstrated experience in utilizing predictive models to assess the probability and scope of natural and man-made threats.
• Demonstrated ability to effectively translate highly complex weather data sets into useful information for Senior Leaders.
• Skill in both verbal and written communication.
• Demonstrated experience working through stressful circumstances including during emergencies / crisis.