DOD Skillbridge (Patrol to Power) - Power Trading Analyst

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The West Power Commercial Operations Desk is looking for a highly motivated individual to join the team and support commercial operations in the CAISO, the western US and Canada.

The successful candidate will be responsible for supporting a broad range of activities, including wholesale pricing; customer reporting;

scheduling; market analysis; modelling; and research. This role in intended to provide the foundation for high performers to advance into a power trading career path.

Essential Duties / Responsibilities :

• Manage pre-scheduling, tie-outs and NERC e-tagging for WECC physical power transactions
• Assist with CAISO Congestion Revenue Right (CRR) allocation and auction processes
• Develop comprehensive models to analyze commodity markets, price new business opportunities and advise customers
• Identify opportunities for new business with wholesale counterparties including Community Choice Aggregations (CCAs), utilities as well as other wholesale energy companies
• Manage and validate short-term CCA forecasts and position reports
• Assist Regulatory and Compliance Teams as required to ensure a prompt and comprehensive response to regulatory developments as well as timely compliance to existing regulations
• Provide research as needed to identify possible strategic business opportunities

Working Conditions :

• Open office environment
• Evening and weekend work may be required based on business needs

Minimum Requirements :

• Bachelor's Degree preferably in Mathematics, Engineering, or related fields from an accredited college,university or service academy AND 3+ years of military experience
• An understanding of physical and financial power markets
• Effective verbal and written communication skills
• Ability to multi-task, prioritize and adhere to deadlines while maintaining attention to detail
• Strong spreadsheet, programming, and presentation skills
• Must be a creative thinker with strong investigative and analytical skills
• Statistical proficiency
• Strong interpersonal skills

Preferred Qualifications :

Proficient coder of SQL, and an object-oriented programming language (Ruby, Python, VBA)

Advanced quantitative degree preferably in Mathematics, Engineering, or related fields from an accredited college or university

NRG Energy will NOT pay a fee for any placement resulting from the receipt of an unsolicited resume.

NRG Energy will consider any candidate for whom an Agency has submitted an unsolicited resume to have been referred by the Agency free of any charges or fees.

This includes any Agency that is an approved / engaged vendor that does not have the appropriate approvals to be engaged on a specific search.

DEML employs individuals in the Provinces of Alberta, Ontario, British Columbia, and Saskatchewan. We regret that we will be unable to hire you for this role if your regular remote work location is not within one of these listed provinces.

Please reach out to [email protected] if you have any questions.

NRG Energy is committed to a drug and alcohol free workplace. To the extent permitted by law and any applicable collective bargaining agreement, employees are subject to periodic random drug testing, and post-accident and reasonable suspicion drug and alcohol testing.

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Level, Title and / or Salary may be adjusted based on the applicant's experience or skills.

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