Company & Role

This is an opportunity to join a fast-growing major player within the commodities trading company as a Power Analyst. The role fits within the Commodities Analytics team where you will be working collaboratively with the traders and provide them with analysis that will help inform strategies.

• Develop an understanding of congestion pricing, grid topology and power factors that contribute to real-time price formation (weather, dispatch, load, fuel, outages, transmission, etc.).
• Develop models and dashboards to help understand, forecast, and visualize power supply/demand balances
• Work closely with other power and gas analysts and traders in market view development.
• Provide ad hoc analyses for the trading desk and provide timely and tradable analyses.
• Provide daily reports and participate in weekly meetings.
• Data mining and analysis to identify commercial trading and optimization opportunities.

Requirements:

• Power systems background.
• Experience with Optimal Power Flow (OPF) models or nodal market simulation tools (such as PowerWorld, PROMOD, UPLAN, GridView, GE MAPS, DAYZER, PLEXOS, Aurora etc.)
• Experience in PJM (beneficial).
• Advanced degree in Electrical Engineering, Economics, Mathematics, Physics, or other quantitative discipline.
• Proficiency in Python.
• Analytics background, knowledge in simulation, optimization, statistics, options pricing theory.

This role is based in downtown Houston and they work on a hybrid model. Compensation offered is in the region of $150,000-$200,000 with additional bonus compensation dependent on company performance.

If interested, please apply.

a.desmit@thex4group.com

Equal Opportunity Employer/Disability/Veterans.