JOB-2468
Hybrid
Position Summary
This role provides advanced technical, analytical, and advisory support for our Resource Planning activities. The primary focus of this position is developing, maintaining, and running production cost, capacity expansion, and portfolio optimization models using PLEXOS. You will play a critical role in supporting executive-level decision-making, regulatory filings, and long-term resource adequacy assessments.
Key Responsibilities
• Lead PLEXOS modeling efforts, including database management, model configuration, validation, and interpreting results for capacity expansion and production cost scenarios.
• Conduct specialized studies such as effective load carrying capacity (ELCC) analysis and reserve margin assessments.
• Maintain and evaluate comprehensive databases for existing unit costs (i.e. capital and O&M), operating characteristics, outage schedules, and fuel transportation requirements.
• Evaluate diverse resource alternatives (conventional, nuclear/SMR, solar, battery storage, and emerging technologies) based on reliability, cost, risk, and unit utilization.
• Translate complex analytical findings into clear, executive-level reports and presentations for leadership and external stakeholders.
Requirements
• Education: Bachelor’s degree in electrical engineering, mechanical engineering, energy management, energy systems, or a related field.
• Experience: 8 years of progressively responsible experience in electric resource planning, management, engineering, or operations.
• Specific Modeling Experience: 3 to 4 years of hands-on experience developing, maintaining, validating, and executing PLEXOS models, or closely comparable production cost, capacity expansion, or portfolio optimization models.
• State of Florida Professional Engineer (PE) preferred.
Benefits
The base pay range for this role is $108,000 - $180,000 per year .
MWResource offers medical, dental and vision coverage through Florida Blue, short- and long-term disability coverage, employer paid life insurance, and participation in the MWResource 401K plan for US based consultants.
Applications accepted on a rolling basis until filled.
MWResource does not discriminate based on race, gender, color, religion, national origin, age, disability, veteran status, or anything else that makes you part of any group.
Candidates must be authorized to work in the United States.
Candidates will be required to pass a background check and drug screening.
Please note we are not open to outsourcing our recruitment needs.
Skills Required
- Bachelor's degree in electrical engineering, mechanical engineering, energy management, energy systems, or related field.
- 8 years of progressively responsible experience in electric resource planning, management, engineering, or operations.
- 3 to 4 years hands-on experience developing, maintaining, validating, and executing PLEXOS models or comparable production cost, capacity expansion, or portfolio optimization models.
- State of Florida Professional Engineer (PE).
- Authorized to work in the United States.
- Ability to pass a background check and drug screening.
What We Do
MWResource provides our customers with the experienced energy industry experts to assist you with designing, implementing, and maintaining successful critical energy infrastructure systems. MWResource specializes in utility SCADA, Energy Management Systems (EMS) and energy market systems. MWResource is also helping its other customers in both the US and Canada fill their permanent and project related openings with experienced SCADA, EMS, and energy market systems professionals. Our company offers a pool of experienced energy industry experts who have worked with data acquisition, plant and grid control, energy markets, settlements and IT technologies used by power generation companies, power cooperatives, municipal utilities, investor owned utilities, and major energy markets. MWResource experts provide a variety of services including: - Consulting - Project Management - System Design Assistance - Applications Development - Database and Display Development and Migration - System Configuration and Integration - Systems and Communications Commissioning - Software Configuration Management - OSIsoft PI Project Support - Auditing and Compliance - Software Quality Assurance - Training - Permanent Employee Recruiting - Temporary Project and Support Staffing Some of the major systems areas where we have expertise are: - CIP/Control Center Systems especially Energy Management Systems (EMS) and Distribution Management Systems (DMS) - SCADA/RTU/Relay communications - OSI PI Historian - Power System Modelling and Planning Support - ISO/RTO market systems - ISO/RTO settlement and web systems - Market participant interfaces - Enterprise Application Integration
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