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The Coordinator - Resource Planning Process & Controls serves as the central owner of resource planning processes, schedules, and governance. This role is responsible for establishing and maintaining a structured, repeatable planning workflow that aligns IRP development, regulatory filings, MISO timelines, and internal workstreams. The Coordinator ensures cross-functional coordination, eliminates bottlenecks, and maintains clear accountability, enabling the Resource Planning team to execute on time, with consistency, and with full visibility across stakeholders.
Key Responsibilities

• Champions a corporate culture that emphasizes transparency, integrity, safety, environmental responsibility, employee development, sense of belonging, customer service, and operational excellence.

• Maintain the master Resource Planning schedule aligning IRP, MISO, LPSC, and internal workstreams.

• Establish and enforce Resource Planning processes, controls, and governance, including clear roles, handoffs, and accountability.

• Develop and maintain the Resource Planning playbook documenting workflows, procedures, and decision checkpoints.

• Coordinate cross-functional activities to ensure alignment, timely execution, and consistent inputs across all stakeholders.

• Track milestones and deliverables to ensure all planning, regulatory, and submission deadlines are met.

• Identify and remove process bottlenecks to improve workflow efficiency and execution reliability.

• Ensure consistency, traceability, and documentation of planning inputs, outputs, and decisions.

• Serve as the central coordination point for Resource Planning activities, maintaining a single aligned process and schedule across the organization.

Qualifications

Required Education, Skills & Experience

• Bachelor's degree in Business, Accounting or related field and/or 5+ years of related experience.

• 5+ years' experience in utility industry preferred including one or more areas of expertise: project management, finance, accounting, analytics, deal structure, IT, supply chain, operations.

• Prior experience in one or more preferred including: implementing change management, process development and execution, process governance, or committee leadership.

• Ability to negotiate and influence with a consultative approach, preferred experience successfully establishing and supporting cross-functional collaboration within a company

• Critical contributor to Cleco's IRP development and alignment with existing and future portfolio strategies

• Day to day manager of workstreams team in maintaining schedules, tracking deliverables, and seeking clarification from SMEs and leaders within Cleco.

• Willingness and ability to learn new technologies on the job

• Demonstrated ability to communicate complex results to technical and non-technical audiences

• Proficient at functioning effectively within a team environment, present ideas and opinions in a respective and collegial manner

• Progression to this level is strictly restricted based on critical individual capabilities and business requirements; must be supported by market survey data.

Key Competencies

BEHAVIORAL

• Building Organizational Talent*

• Building Partnerships

• Leading Teams

• Business Acumen

• Communication

• Courage

• Building Self-Insight

• Building Talent*

• Driving for Results

• Energizing the Organization

• Driving Execution

• Building Trusting Relationships

• Driving Innovation

• Planning and Organizing

• Safety

• Establishing Strategic Direction

May perform other duties as needed.
Salary dependent on experience, skills, education, and training.