Energy Market Analyst

Just imagine your future with us

Aurecon is committed to creating an inclusive culture that embraces diversity, equity and inclusion - and we provide our people with flexible working opportunities.

We believe diverse teams enable us to solve our clients' and society's most complex problems in unconventional and distinctive ways. We offer flexible working as it enables all of our employees to balance work and life in way that works for them.

Aurecon is an Employer of Choice for Gender Equality, as awarded by the Workplace Gender Equality Agency (Australia), and are a founding member of The Diversity Agenda in New Zealand. We also have a Reconciliation Action Plan and hold Silver Employer status in the Australian Workplace Equality Index for LGBTI+ inclusion. Across our company, inclusive leadership is role modelled from the top and is an expectation of all.

Our flexible way of working includes our flexible start and finish times, working from home, part time and job share options. Aurecon also offers 14 weeks paid parental leave, three weeks paid partner leave, and other health services and benefits.

If this is how you would like to work you’d be a good fit, we’d love to hear from you. We welcome people of all identities from all background and with diverse accessibility needs. We’re curious about your career path and how we can support you to be your best.

The Role

You will be focused on the delivery of energy markets research and energy markets modelling to support the sustainability and climate change group. This will be for consulting engagements across a diverse range of clients including government, power generation, retail, transmission & distribution, transport, defence, water, resources, telecommunications, financiers and more. Our focus in energy markets is to:

- Maintain and update energy market models that we use to support our clients
- Assist clients in understanding energy markets, the risks and opportunities
- Assessment of generation, retail, network and energy storage investments
- Transaction advisory and due diligence
- Regulatory and policy technical reviews
- Techno-commercial advisory centred on current and emerging energy systems

You will need to be able to consider complex problems from the perspectives of our clients and their customers to deliver practical solutions that balance their needs relating to performance, sustainability, and commerciality.

The technical focus of our work spans the following technologies and more:

- Large scale power generation (hydro, solar, onshore & offshore wind, energy storage)
- Industry decarbonisation strategies
- Electric vehicle readiness strategies policies and plans
- Microgrids & Distributed Energy Resources concepts for precincts and network businesses
- Renewable Energy Zones across the Australian National Electricity Market and New Zealand
- Green hydrogen, future fuels, and clean manufacturing energy supply concepts
- Transmission and distribution networks

You will be involved in winning, managing, and delivering fast paced and impactful consulting engagements where you will need to interact with clients, guide them through problem definition and mobilise multi-disciplinary Aurecon teams to deliver fit-for-purpose solutions. You may be involved in small, fast paced engagements or integrate into teams for larger projects.

What we are looking for:
We know the work we do is vital in assisting our world’s economic development and, it’s the technical expertise and the depth of knowledge of our people that really sets us apart. Here are the key things you will need to have to ‘bring ideas to life’.
- Tertiary qualification in engineering, science, commerce/economics, or a related discipline
- Demonstrated relevant experience in power generation, electricity retailing, or networks
- Exceptional communication, presentation, team working and report writing skills
- Excellent attention to detail, skilled at analysis and reporting
- High degree of IT literacy
- Project management experience
- Broader professional or consulting experience

Technical experience in the following areas would be viewed favourably:

- Power generation and storage technologies, including wind, solar, thermal, batteries and pumped hydro
- Decarbonisation and net-zero emissions roadmaps and plans
- IT skills utilising large databases and be able to write code such as VBA, Python periodically
- Feasibility studies and concept design
- Electricity network planning, design, maintenance, and operation
- Energy market operations
- Emerging energy technology e.g.: green hydrogen, Virtual Power Plants, electric vehicles etc
- Risk analysis

About us

We’ve re-imagined engineering.

Aurecon is an international engineering, design and advisory company, but not as you know it

Drawing on our deep pool of expertise, we co-create innovative solutions with our clients to some of the world’s most complex challenges.

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