Irving, TX

Position is responsible for managing the financial and physical transmission congestion risks for a power generation company supporting its FTR Trading team across multiple ISOs. The position uses both data mining and fundamental analysis techniques to support trading decisions in the long-term, quarterly and monthly FTR auctions, and in Day Ahead and Real Time markets. It also is involved in speculative basis trades in the term and cash markets.  Responsibilities include:

• Transmission and congestion research, analysis and forecasting;
• Strategy development in assigned ISO FTR auctions;
• Price risk analysis and forecasting;
• Analysis of the electric grid performance in the short- and long-term;
• Production cost, power system and other market simulation modeling for power and FTR trading; and
• Quantitative development of models and trading tools.

Educational and professional qualifications include a bachelor’s degree in electrical engineering (power systems focus) with 1+ years’ experience at a utility, IPP, power trading firm, power research firm or ISO as a transmission planning engineer or a congestion analyst; strong modeling and programming skills; power flow analysis and production cost/dispatch modeling skills using PowerWorld, PSSE, DAYZER, UPLAN,  PROMOD, PSO or PLEXOS, etc.; and programming skills (VBA, Python, R, or C++). Submit resumes to chynes@salthillgroup.com.