Ability to: analyse utility or energy tariffs and charges and options available to the enterprise apply relevant mathematical and communication skills communicate effectively with internal and external personnel with diverse roles, communication skills and cultures to determine utility or energy requirements and use calculate and analyse enterprise utility or energy costs and their impact on production costs consult with personnel across the enterprise to identify and resolve utility or energy waste problems determine current and future utility or energy requirements for enterprise operations, including analysing company goals, conducting utility or energy audits to identify consumption patterns and inefficiencies, measuring enterprise utility or energy consumption and cost, including waste, against agreed benchmarks develop performance measures and indicators for utility or energy consumption and costs, based on benchmarks and enterprise goals develop strategies for minimising and optimising utility or energy usage, including assessing and monitoring equipment performance, introducing energy efficient plant and equipment, comparing sources and recommending utility or energy substitution, changes to procedures, and assessing and minimising non-working day use of utilities (e.g. lighting) evaluate, cost and recommend alternative plant, equipment, procedures and utility or energy sources to improve efficiency, including researching sources, reviewing enterprise procedures, evaluating suitable alternatives for enterprise products and operations, and calculating initial and maintenance costs and payback periods identify and apply relevant Occupational Health and Safety (OH&S) requirements include safety requirements of utility or energy use in workplace health and safety systems and procedures interpret and review performance information and recommend strategies for improvement manage utility and energy costs, including calculating current utility or energy charges, comparing and recommending supply sources and costs, monitoring utility or energy budget, determining the impact of changes in utility or energy costs on budgets and profitability and taking actions to correct budget variations prepare contingency plans relating to utility or energy supply failure and incidents, which include emergency and safety procedures, alternative supplies (e.g. co-generation) and communication strategies prepare strategies to spread utility or energy use to avoid supplier peak demand or cost periods prepare reports, resource proposals and recommendations in styles, formats and language appropriate for the audience present reports according to legal and enterprise requirements recommend utility or energy suppliers and negotiate supply and costs research best practice models in utility or energy assessment, planning, use and sustainability, and assess their applicability for the enterprise take action to improve own work performance as a result of feedback from others, self-evaluation, or in response to changed work practices and technologies utilise information and communications technology including budget and costing modelling software to analyse costs of alternative utility or energy management or purchase strategies. |