Fuel and Energy Market Specialist

Fuel & Energy Market Specialist

Application due date remind February 3, 2026

Location:
Maple Grove, MN (Eligible for hybrid schedule)

процессы Applicants must be authorized to work in the U.S. without restriction. Visa sponsorship is NOT available.

Creating a better energy future. Join Great River Energy in creating smarter ways to power people’s lives — from small, everyday moments to the big, life‑changing ones. As a consumer‑owned electric utility,garage we are Minnesota's second largest based on generating capacity.

Provide strategic and operational oversights to ensure continual optimization of Great River Energy’s (GRE) generation asset offering into the wholesale power markets by analyzing and managing fuel procurement, energy market trends, and regulatory developments. This position focuses on optimizing fuel supply strategies, ensuring cost‑effective and reliable fuel delivery, and navigating wholesale electricity markets to maximize profitability and compliance.

A typical starting range for this position is $116,000 - $160,000 annually. We offer market competitive base pay and adjust our offer accordingly based upon the value of the candidate’s knowledge, skills and experience. In addition, our Total Rewards strategy focuses on recognizing individual performance and rewarding business results. Our robust Total Rewards package includes exceptional benefits and retirement, a focus on continuous engagement, recognition, personal and professional development, and an emphasis on work‑life effectiveness.

• Oversee daily energy market activities, strategies, and reporting. Analyze Midcontinent Independent System Operator (MISO) market conditions, GRE generation offers and instruct adjustments as required.
• Collaborate with Alliance for Cooperative Energy Services (ACES) and GRE stakeholders and support power trading and scheduling activities providing expertise on fuel availability, pricing, and generation costs.
• Coordinate with gas supplier for path of gas volumes for GRE with the least risk.
• Direct gas storage inventories for generation plants on the pipeline systems.
• Accurately and promptly manage nominations, trading, scheduling, contract compliance, and accounting activities.
• Manage balancing, monitoring and purchasing all fuel oil for peaking plants.
• Oversee that all trading activities are within the risk management
  531 policies and procedures tolerance levels.
• Ensure that gas‑related decisions minimize pipeline penalties and overall fuel cost to GRE.
• Responsible for ensuring contracts are properly coordinating day‑to‑day natural gas and fuel oil purchasing decisions, transportation scheduling and transportation imbalance of natural gas and fuel oil deliveries for the GRE power plants.
• Provide guidance of Asset Performance Management (APM)’s Real‑Time and Day‑Ahead desk associated with GRE generation offers and strategies.
• Develop and maintain a strong professional working relationship with key vendors and suppliers.
• Provide routine and ad‑hoc energy and natural gas market updates to generation personnel.
• Manage GRE generation fleet associated with the MISO tariff, Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC) rules and regulations, North American Electric Reliability Commission (NERC) rules and regulations, and GRE’s internal risk management policies.
• Manage GRE’s power market structure, recent changes in tariff and/or other MISO related rules as well as GRE’s generation fleet characteristics and ensuring accuracies of input to ACES for generation offers.
• Responsible for establishing Power Cost Adjustment (PCA) estimate on all peaking plants costs the first day of the month.
• Establish and monitor fuel budget to support the annual GRE budget. Provide status updates as requested/required.
• Manage and oversee അമannual combustion turbine fuel budgets in collaboration with finance and ACES.
• Manage communication and information exchange between GRE and MISO Independent Market Monitor (IMM) related to GRE market activities to ensure market optimization of GRE’s generation fleet are realized while staying within the IMM limits.
• Manage access and utilization of MISO…