Resource Planning Analyst (Energy)

Location: Minneapolis, MN, 55401, 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, run, and maintain long-range resource planning models for three operating companies.
• Prepare quantitative analyses and forecasts covering energy production, emissions, capital budgets, generation costs, and market purchases.
• Implement Monte Carlo simulations to quantify uncertainty and total system cost variance across generation alternatives.
• Collaborate with Forecasting, Risk Management, Trading, fuel supply, and transmission operations groups to incorporate market, fuel, demand, and transmission constraints.
• Maintain accurate expansion and production cost models, including fuel costs, plant capabilities, operating costs, and contract terms.
• Research optimization techniques, emerging generation technologies, and federal and state policies affecting resource plans.

Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree in engineering, finance, economics, operations research, mathematics, business, or a related quantitative field, depending on the level.
• Analyst I: two years of energy industry experience or equivalent experience with large optimization or forecasting models.
• Analyst II: five or more years of related work experience.
• Senior Analyst: at least eight years of utility experience, three years of expansion or production simulation modeling, and extensive knowledge of at least one larger hirify.global utility.
• Experience with generation planning, system modeling, quantitative optimization, or related utility analysis.

Nice to have

• Graduate work in finance, economics, operations research, or decision analysis.
• Experience with EnCompass, PLEXOS, Aurora, EGEAS, or equivalent capacity expansion modeling tools.

Culture & Benefits

• Medical, pharmacy, dental, vision, life, disability, and employee assistance programs.
• HSA, FSA, dependent care, transportation, and transit reimbursement programs.
• Annual incentive program, pension, 401(k), paid time off, holidays, parental leave, and volunteer paid time off.
• Tuition reimbursement, fitness center reimbursement, and employee recognition programs.