Data analyst Job at Calpine Corporation, Houston, TX

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  • Calpine Corporation
  • Houston, TX

Job Description

Full job description

Calpine Corporation is America's largest generator of electricity from natural gas and geothermal resources with operations in competitive power markets. Its fleet of 77 power plants in operation represents over 27,000 megawatts of generation capacity. Through wholesale power operations and its retail businesses, Calpine serves customers in 22 states and Canada. Its clean, efficient, modern and flexible fleet uses advanced technologies to generate power in a low-carbon and environmentally responsible manner.

The company was established on the premise that a strong commitment to the environment is inextricably linked to excellence in power generation and corporate responsibility. Since its founding in 1984, Calpine has led the power industry in its unwavering commitment to environmental stewardship. In addition, its renewable geothermal plants use steam generated deep below the earth's surface to produce clean, renewable electricity.

Champion Energy Services, a Calpine (NYSE: CPN) company, is a thriving business and one of the nation's leading electric service providers. Champion is looking for exceptional people to join our team.

Job Responsibilities

  • Deliver daily/weekly reports to support the business and maximize revenue, cost, and staffing performance.
  • Analyze results to find and articulate strategic insights, generating conclusions and recommendations to minimize cost and maintain staffing while meeting all KPIs.
  • Create queries to provide ad hoc reports, analysis, and datasets based on business needs.
  • Assist in the development of new-business strategy initiatives, performing a thorough analysis, developing compelling solutions, and presenting recommendations.
  • Conduct any necessary research to ensure data integrity in the reporting provided to business users Supervisors and Management.
  • Develop stored procedures, develop processes for performance reporting and scheduling improvement and efficiency, data table maintenance, and ad hoc reporting requests.
  • Analyze existing complex systems to understand and document data elements, relationships, data flow, dependencies, and their related interfaces.
  • Analyzing business requirements and translating them into technical solutions using scheduling and reporting systems in place.
  • Collaborate with Marketing and Sales to achieve consistent reporting and data alignment.
  • Support continuous improvement of reporting and analytics needs, as well as, the
  • Production of all management reports.
  • Any other duties as deemed necessary.

Job Requirements

  • Bachelor's Degree from a four-year college university or related field preferred or equivalent experience.
  • 0-2 years of experience in data analysis and working with SQL Server and MS Office, scheduling, and reporting systems
  • Reporting skills; including MS Excel and/or SQL to access, combine, and analyze multiple data sources (strong comfort level with formatting, formulas, graphs, pivot tables, etc.)
  • Ability to work independently with minimal instructions.
  • Excellent communication skills, with strong and effective presentation and engagement skills
  • Entry-level; practical operating knowledge to perform the job.
  • Learning applications and overall end-to-end processes.
  • Performs standardized, ongoing duties and tasks under day-to-day supervision.

Additional Calpine Information

  • Equal Opportunity Employer of Minorities, Females, Protected Veterans, and Individuals with Disabilities.
  • Calpine is committed to Equal Employment Opportunity and providing reasonable accommodations to applicants with physical and/or mental disabilities. If you are interested in applying for employment and need special assistance or an accommodation to use our website or to apply for a position, please send an e-mail with your request to hrrecruitment@calpine.com. Determination on requests for reasonable accommodation are made on case-by-case basis.

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Equal Opportunity Employer/Protected Veterans/Individuals with Disabilities

The contractor will not discharge or in any other manner discriminate against employees or applicants because they have inquired about, discussed, or disclosed their own pay or the pay of another employee or applicant. However, employees who have access to the compensation information of other employees or applicants as a part of their essential job functions cannot disclose the pay of other employees or applicants to individuals who do not otherwise have access to compensation information, unless the disclosure is (a) in response to a formal complaint or charge, (b) in furtherance of an investigation, proceeding, hearing, or action, including an investigation conducted by the employer, or (c) consistent with the contractor’s legal duty to furnish information. 41 CFR 60-1.35(c)

Job Tags

Full time, For contractors, Flexible hours,

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