Engineering Associate, Renewable Energy

Job Description
GDS Associates, Inc. is looking for strong entry-level candidates, or mid-career level candidates with experience in the energy industry, to join its Planning & Advisory Business Unit. In this role, you will support power supply planning efforts for public power utility clients, contributing to the development of long-term strategies to meet power demand, enhance system reliability, and optimize energy resources. The ideal candidate would have a background in engineering, energy systems, business and/or finance, or a related field, and would be interested in helping develop strategic solutions in the dynamic energy industry.

The Planning & Advisory Business Unit helps support a variety of unique and challenging long-term planning processes on behalf of our public power and utility industry clients across the US. The Planning & Advisory Business Unit evaluates different generation resources that can be used to meet the needs of our electric utility clients' retail customers and develops customized, strategic recommendations to secure cost-effective and reliable power for our electric utility clients.

In addition, our team is involved from coast-to-coast in structured and unstructured power markets creating sustainable solutions for planning, procurement, and implementation.

Responsibilities:

• Use common industry models and tools as needed to perform detailed analytics.
• Contribute to consulting projects by summarizing modeling results and seeking out peer review of material to support delivery of high-quality client-specific projects.
• Communicate with clients and make presentations as part of team effort.
• Support the development of power supply resource strategies for multiple clients, incorporating existing and future regulatory/legislative actions, generation technology alternatives, and power supply diversity objectives.
• Support solicitations for power supply resources, coordinate with RFP respondents, and review RFP proposals to identify key issues for use in preparing evaluations.
• Support economic feasibility studies of long-term and short-term power supply resource alternatives.
• Support the creation of market power analyses and financial planning models.
• Assist clients with day-to-day power supply management activities.
• Financial planning, modeling and operating budget preparation.
• Prepare energy, capacity, and REC price forecasts.
• Learn and work in organized market structures and regional transmission organizations such as SPP, MISO, PJM, and ERCOT.

For Mid-level candidates:

• Provide assessments of market fundamentals, analyze changing landscape of market design in power markets, and provide insight on changing market rules and impact to client critical planning functions.
• Prepare and assist with contract negotiations on behalf of clients for existing and future power supply resources.

Experience and Skills
Technical Qualifications:

• Bachelor's degree in Engineering, Energy Systems, Business and/or Finance, or similar energy industry-related field.
• Strong working knowledge of MS Office Software (Excel, Word, and PowerPoint). Advanced proficiency in Excel preferred.
• For Mid-level candidates, 2+ years work experience in the electric power industry
• Experience with Visual Basic, Python, SQL, or other programming languages is a plus.
• General knowledge of wholesale power markets, federal/state restructuring activities, and regulatory/legislative issues in the electrical industry is a plus.

General Qualifications:

• Strong interpersonal skills and ability to work effectively in a team environment.
• Solid problem-solving, judgment and decision-making skills.
• Strong attention to detail and organizational skills.
• Demonstrated effective verbal and written communication skills.
• Ability to work independently and manage projects with limited supervision.
• Ability to manage multiple priorities and deadlines.
• Ability to conduct independent research.
• Excellent problem-solving, judgment, and decision-making skills.

Locations:

• Strong preference is for candidate to report to GDS's Marietta, GA headquarters (Hybrid).
• We will consider remote employment for experienced candidates.

GDS is an Equal Opportunity Employer. Please note that this position is not available for visa sponsorship.

Work Authorization:
Citizens or Permanent Residents of USA. Cannot provide Visa sponsorship.

Job Benefits
Your Compensation and Benefits:

• Flex Benefits (Flexible Hours, Telecommuting)
• Competitive Pay
• Excellent Health Insurance Benefits
• Paid Time Off (Vacation, Sick, Floating Holiday, Holidays)
• 401(k)
• Employee Assistance Program (EAP)
• Tuition Reimbursement