TL;DR

Research Associate - Metereology (Power Trading Analytics): Delivering short-term demand and renewable forecasts based on proprietary and public data with an accent on North American power market analysis and industry knowledge. Focus on improving current processes via automation, identifying changes in weather models influencing power prices, and contributing to the advancement of proprietary demand modeling algorithms.

Location: Hybrid in Edinburgh, GB

Company

Wood Mackenzie is the global leader in analytics, insights and proprietary data across the entire energy and natural resources landscape.

What you will do

  • Utilize models and support tools daily, including spatial and data visualization applications, to identify and solve problems in the power industry-specific to an ISO market.
  • Present research projects/presentations, memos, or reports on market-relevant topics to the team, lead, managers, and other decision-makers and advise on the effects of various courses of action relevant to specific problems.
  • Improve current processes and efficiency via automation or building new tools for critical tasks (visual basic/Python/R).
  • Identify changes in weather models and associated forecasts that influence power prices and articulate these changes to WoodMac analysts and clients.
  • Modify output from the proprietary electricity demand and renewable forecasting models for various power regions for the day-of out to fourteen days.
  • Contribute to the advancement of proprietary demand modeling algorithms and techniques from an intellectual and technical standpoint.

Requirements

  • Has a Bachelor's degree in Meteorology or Atmospheric Science.
  • Knowledge of North American geography required.
  • Very strong Excel skills are required. Familiarity with Pivot Tables, VLOOKUP, etc.
  • Must be extremely detail-oriented and be able to work under tight deadlines.
  • Strong verbal and written communication skills.
  • Must be a team player, open to assist teammates as needed, be transparent and accountable.

Nice to have

  • Experience in Operational Meteorology preferred but not required.
  • Interest in electricity markets and renewables a plus.

Culture & Benefits

  • We succeed together.
  • We choose to trust each other.
  • We put customers at the heart of our decisions.
  • We accelerate change.
  • We turn knowledge into action.