Demand Forecasting Lead Scientist

Demand Forecasting Lead Scientist –
National Laboratory of the Rockies

NLR is located at the foothills of the Rocky Mountains in Golden, Colorado and is the nation’s primary laboratory for energy systems research and development.

Title: Demand Forecasting Lead Scientist
Location Suspend: CO - Golden
Position Type: Regular
Hours per Week: 40

NLR is seeking an accomplished demand forecasting specialist within the Strategic Energy Analysis and Decisions Sciences (SEADS) directorate. The SEADS directorate contributes to an exciting portfolio of energy analysis and grid futures studies, applying advanced modeling and simulation tools to optimally plan, design, and analyze distribution and bulk power systems. You would join us in strategizing, supporting, and growing energy demand forecasting research such as the future of large load siting and interconnection, demand response value and opportunities, growth in next‑generation energy carriers, and innovative approaches to analyze the impact of electrification of buildings and transportation.

Our work informs technology developers, policymakers, utilities, and the wider energy industry by developing and analyzing future scenarios that answer critical questions about how the energy system is transforming. This position seeks an experienced and recognized energy expert who can strategize and grow demand forecasting research at NLR.

• A collaborative, fast‑paced, flexible, and fun work environment
• Endless opportunities to both mentor and learn from experienced professionals in renewable and efficient energy systems, as well as software development and computation
• Portfolios of research that facilitate a reliable, affordable, and abundant energy future
• Fostering a lifelong desire to understand, analyze, and plan the future energy system
• Leading‑edge analysis and a broad suite of experts from supply‑side and demand‑side energy sectors

• Foster teams, projects, strategies, and relationships that establish and maintain NLR as a leader in demand‑side research
• Strategize growth of a demand forecasting portfolio
• Develop projects and build teams for projects that contribute to the advancement of demand‑side research, including demand forecasting
• Build laboratory‑wide teams and serve as a technical resource and mentor at a laboratory level
• Develop and respond to potential business development activities relating to demand‑side industry needs
• Represent the laboratory to external agencies
• Forge relationships with DOE offices with focus on demand‑side research and peer national labs
• Frequently interact with laboratory and/or governmental senior‑level management
• Serve as mentor/trainer for other workers (e.g., interns, postdocs, Research Technologists, Technicians) and begin to mentor other Researchers within their organization (e.g., group, center, or directorate)
• Regularly seek and secure project funding to cover self and others
• Collaborate with research experts from a wide group of skillsets and ensure coordination across relevant projects and programs lab‑wide
• Communicate an inspiring vision of the future across the organization
• Empathize and actively learn about customers’ needs
• Be an externally facing champion and conduit for the research happening across NLR
• Write and publish results of analyses in peer‑reviewed journals and/or technical reports and/or other publications
• Reinforce a positive physical and behavioral safety culture within the laboratory

All of the above in addition to the following:

• Advocates for research projects, programs, and strategies by communicating the impact, accomplishments, and needs Кар to senior‑level stakeholders and partners internally and externally
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• Frequently serves as a technical leader, role model, and mentor in the laboratory and externally within their field of research
• Provides technical direction to internal and external teams or organizations for diverse and/or uniquely complex projects
• Coordinates and monitors the work of others in large and/or multi‑institutional and interdisciplinary/channel
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• Serves as a role model effective…