Senior Resource Planning Analyst

Location: Denver, Colorado, United States

Salary: $84,900–$159,400 per year, depending on level and experience.

Company

hirify.global is an electricity and natural gas energy company serving customers across eight Western and Midwestern states.

What you will do

• Develop generation expansion and production-cost models to create cost-effective capacity and energy resource plans.
• Lead resource planning studies for hirify.global operating utilities, incorporating demand growth, fuel and electricity prices, reliability, transmission constraints, environmental requirements, and technology scenarios.
• Project manage resource solicitations, including proposal development, analyst and consultant evaluations, selection recommendations, and regulatory defense.
• Collaborate with forecasting, risk management, trading, fuel supply, transmission operations, regulatory, and retail teams.
• Prepare reports and testimony, present recommendations to senior management, and testify in administrative hearings.
• Provide expertise and guidance to less experienced planning analysts.

Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree in engineering, mathematics, economics, finance, operations research, business, or another quantitative discipline.
• For the Senior level: at least eight years of relevant utility experience and at least three years of expansion or production simulation modeling experience.
• For the Analyst level: at least two years of energy industry experience or equivalent experience with large optimization or forecasting models.
• Knowledge of generation planning, system modeling, and at least one larger hirify.global utility.
• Strong proficiency in Excel and Python.
• Experience with optimization or nodal analysis tools such as Gurobi or PROMOD is preferred.

Nice to have

• Master’s degree or higher.
• Experience with electric and natural gas markets and price forecasting.
• Graduate work in finance, economics, operations research, or decision analysis.

Culture & Benefits

• Full-time employment with an annual incentive program.
• Medical, dental, vision, life, disability, and reimbursement account benefits.
• Paid time off, holidays, parental leave, and volunteer paid time off.
• Pension and 401(k) plans.
• Tuition reimbursement, transit programs, fitness center reimbursement, and employee recognition programs.