Emergency Event Management Coordinator | Renewable & Thermal Generation

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Date: Mar 5, 2025

Location: PHOENIX, AZ, US, 85004-3903

Company: APS

Arizona Public Service generates clean, reliable and affordable energy for 2.7 million Arizonans. As the state’s largest and longest-serving energy provider, our more than 6,000 dedicated employees power our vision of creating a sustainable energy future for Arizona.

Our present and future success depends on the creative and dedicated people of our company who demonstrate the principles outlined in the APS Promise: Design for Tomorrow, Empower Each Other and Succeed Together.

Summary

Emergency Event Management Coordinator | Renewable & Thermal Generation

As an Emergency Event Management Coordinator on the Renewable and Thermal Generation (Non-Nuclear) team, you will oversee the Generation Organization's Emergency Event Management Program, ensuring a coordinated, efficient, and effective response to significant or catastrophic events. You will play a critical role in planning, developing, and directing emergency response activities, maintaining procedures, conducting training exercises, and facilitating cross-functional collaboration. This position requires strong leadership, communication, and crisis management skills to enhance preparedness, response, and recovery efforts across the Generation (Non-Nuclear) Organization and external agencies.

Key Skills and Responsibilities

Emergency Event Coordination: Lead and manage the Emergency Event Response and Recovery Plans for our Renewable and Thermal Generation (Non-Nuclear) Infrastructure, ensuring timely and effective responses to critical incidents.

Crisis Preparedness & Planning: Develop and maintain emergency event procedures, ensuring alignment with industry regulations and best practices.

Training & Drills: Design, implement, and oversee emergency response training programs, simulations, and drills to enhance readiness.

Collaboration & Stakeholder Engagement: Coordinate with internal teams, government agencies, first responders, and external organizations to strengthen emergency response capabilities.

Incident Management & Recovery: Oversee response efforts, analyze incident data, and develop strategies to mitigate risk and improve recovery timelines.

Regulatory Compliance & Reporting: Ensure adherence to federal, state, and local emergency preparedness regulations, documenting and reporting emergency response activities.

We’re looking for emergency management professionals who:

• Have experience in emergency event planning, crisis response, or disaster recovery within power generation, utilities, or critical infrastructure.

• Open to traveling to various generation infrastructure sites across Arizona as needed

• Possess strong problem-solving and decision-making skills, especially in high-pressure situations.

• Strong experience working in and managing Microsoft Teams Channels and updating documents using various Microsoft Office and Adobe programs.

• Demonstrate leadership and collaboration across internal teams, first responders, and government agencies.

• Have expertise in incident command systems (ICS), emergency management frameworks, and regulatory compliance.

• Are proactive communicators with the ability to train, guide, and prepare teams for emergency response scenarios.

• Thrive in dynamic environments that require rapid assessment, strategic planning, and decisive action.

Minimum Requirements

Emergency Event Management Coordinator | Power Generation

• Bachelor's degree in related field

• Four (4) years Emergency Planning related experience

• In lieu of bachelor's degree, high school diploma (or equivalent) and eight (8) years Emergency Planning experience.

• Extensive emergency planning experience and knowledge is needed.

• Proficient with Web EOC (Department of Homeland Security) and other Incident Management related software and the ability to instruct others on its use.

• Requires effective oral and written communications skills.

Major Accountabilities

1) Oversee the APS Emergency Event Management Program by planning, developing and directing the Company's activities related to Emergency Event Management.

2) Develop, implement and maintain Emergency Management related procedures, resource documents, forms and lists.

3) Develop and deliver employee training related to Emergency Operations Center operations and Incident Management.

4) Work with specific APS business units to provide support and consultation during drills and training exercises for their Emergency Event Response and Recovery Plans as well as help identify gaps in their plans.

5) Coordinate internal and external drills and training exercises to foster enterprise-level coordination for APS Business Area Emergency Event Response and Recovery Plans with government agencies, organizations and other companies.

6) Coordinate with other APS Business Area Operations Centers as part of enterprise-wide drills.

7) Develop and coordinate drill/exercise scenario data as appropriate to the drill, players and organizations involved.

8) Provide post-drill gap analysis and lessons learned reporting for company drills and training exercises.

9) Perform emergency-event response self-assessments, conduct corrective action follow-ups, and evaluate and implement industry lessons learned, Ensure complete and timely department response to internal/external concerns.

10) Act as the APS liaison for real world events and exercises involving outside entities.

11) Provide regular status reports on APS emergency preparedness maturity level to the Director Enterprise Security.

Export Compliance / EEO Statement

This position may require access to and/or use of information subject to control under the Department of Energy's Part 810 Regulations (10 CFR Part 810), the Export Administration Regulations (EAR) (15 CFR Parts 730 through 774), or the International Traffic in Arms Regulations (ITAR) (22 CFR Chapter I, Subchapter M Part 120) (collectively, 'U.S. Export Control Laws'). Therefore, some positions may require applicants to be a U.S. person, which is defined as a U.S. Citizen, a U.S. Lawful Permanent Resident (i.e. 'Green Card Holder'), a Political Asylee, or a Refugee under the U.S. Export Control Laws. All applicants will be required to confirm their U.S. person or non-US person status. All information collected in this regard will only be used to ensure compliance with U.S. Export Control Laws, and will be used in full compliance with all applicable laws prohibiting discrimination on the basis of national origin and other factors. For positions at Palo Verde Nuclear Generating Stations (PVNGS) all openings will require applicants to be a U.S. person.

Pinnacle West Capital Corporation and its subsidiaries and affiliates ('Pinnacle West') maintain a continuing policy of nondiscrimination in employment. It is our policy to provide equal opportunity in all phases of the employment process and in compliance with applicable federal, state, and local laws and regulations. This policy of nondiscrimination shall include, but not be limited to, recruiting, hiring, promoting, compensating, reassigning, demoting, transferring, laying off, recalling, terminating employment, and training for all positions without regard to race, color, religion, disability, age, national origin, gender, gender identity, sexual orientation, marital status, protected veteran status, or any other classification or characteristic protected by law.

For more information on applicable equal employment regulations, please refer to EEO is the Law poster. Federal law requires all employers to verify the identity and employment eligibility of every person hired to work in the United States, refer to E-Verify poster. View the employee rights and responsibilities under the Family and Medical Leave Act (FMLA).

Arizona Public Service is a smoke free workplace.

CIP Requirement:

This position requires Critical Infrastructure Protection (CIP) access consistent with North American Electric Reliability Corporation (NERC) standards. The applicant considered for this role will be required to obtain and maintain CIP access for the duration of employment in this position. A full seven (7) year criminal history will be obtained through the pre-employment background check process (or, for current employees, through supplemental background check process) to fulfill the CIP access requirements. In addition, this position requires an additional background check every seven years to maintain access.

Hybrid: Employees in hybrid roles work both in their home offices (virtually) and alongside their colleagues (in person).

In order for employees to build strong relationships and to promote meaningful in-person interactions, hybrid employees are expected to work about 40% of their time in-person at an APS or other (non-home office) location.

*Employees are expected to reside in Arizona (or New Mexico for Four Corners-based employees).

*Working from a home office requires adequate technology and an appropriate ergonomic set up.

*Role types are subject to change based on business need.