Deborah Burns
Fuels Supply Manager at Omaha Public Power District
- Role
- Fuels Supply Manager - Natural Gas at Omaha Public Power District
- Location
- Omaha, NE, US
- LinkedIn followers
- 500 followers
About Deborah Burns
Experienced Production Operations Engineer with a demonstrated history of working in the utilities industry. Skilled in Power Plants, SolidWorks, Matlab, Microsoft Excel, and Energy. Strong media and communication professional with a Bachelor’s Degree focused in Mechanical Engineering from University of Nebraska-Lincoln.
Experience
Fuels Supply Manager - Natural Gas
Jan 2024 — Present
Plan, evaluate, negotiate and administer assigned Programs of competitively bid fuel supply contracts or tariffs to provide a secure, flexible and quality supply of generating fuel consistent with minimum cost.Provide program management services to assure economic, quality and timely completion of assigned programs.Develop, implement and administer assigned Programs strategies for critical fuel supply cradle to grave sourcing.Manage long-term natural gas contracting and delivery. Balance economic and reliabilityimpact of transportation with changing generation portfolio and regulations. Assist withfinding unique natural gas supply solutions during extreme weather events and ongoingcapacity concerns.Lead efforts to evaluate and recommend fuel supply solutions for new generation assets. Ushered natural gas service and pipeline construction agreements to execution and support the ongoing construction processes.Chartered cross functional core and stakeholder teams to develop the Natural GasExposure Hedging strategy. Ongoing efforts to implement the HedgingProgram. Cross trained in execution of power hedges for backup purposes.Participate and provide updates in monthly risk meetings to address riskin the power and fuel markets. Act as a backup for monthly Finance Risk Committee meetingsto address OPPD’s enterprise level risks.
Education
University of Nebraska-Lincoln
Bachelor’s Degree, Mechanical Engineering
2012 — 2015
University of Nebraska at Omaha
Mechanical Engineering
2010 — 2012
Marian High School
High School
2006 — 2010
Skills
- Microsoft Office
- Matlab
- Microsoft Excel
- Energy
- Engineering
- Process Improvement
- Solidworks
- Power Plants
- Research
- Data Analysis
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