Purpose

This position will clearly define the members of the real-time trading team who will lead their shift in overall trading strategy, procurement of balancing resources, execution of hourly trading model (FEA), and accept responsibility for the decisions made on their shift.

Core Competencies:

A candidate for this position will have a minimum of 5 years of Real-Time trading experience with Iberdrola/Avangrid renewables. They will have developed excellent communication skills with adjacent groups (Meteorology, Scheduling, NCC and Cash Trading) as well as within their own team. They will have a history of handling the pressures of real-time trading well and acting creatively when resolving the myriad of issues that challenge hourly deployments.

Characteristics of a Shift Supervisor:

This role is designed to propel good traders into excellent leaders. This is a team building role that will require great communication within your team as well as with the adjacent groups that support real-time trading. Motivating your team and inspiring others to achieve success in the face of challenges is a primary focus for creating this role. Holding yourself accountable for the actions of your entire team may be a difficult task at times of adversity, but it is a primary purpose for differentiating shift supervisors from the rest of the team.

An effective shift supervisor will maintain a level of field awareness that identifies problems and attaches potential solutions in a timely manner. This role is suited by individuals who thrive off of challenges and possess an inspirational manner in their profession that lifts the effectiveness of their peers.

Responsibilities

Each shift will be led by a shift supervisor. The schedule will define those that are in the supervisor role and any shift swaps will require a supervisor to cover for another supervisor.

Run the FEA economic dispatch model on an hourly basis. Ensure that the suggested deployment speaks to the actual deployment of resources. Create event log entries when hours in which material deviations from the economic model occur and offer up ideas for improvements to our models.

Maintain awareness to the status of all schedules, curtailment risk, congestion risk, and updates to tags that are not yet created, pending or in denied status

Update our internal CDE replacement tool and validate the volume of schedules against each asset.

Maintain dialogue with the NCC dispatcher responsible for BA operations and understand the key metrics that operator is viewing and using for decisions.

Maintain dialogue with the hourly meteorologist in an effort to create a level of information sharing that mobilizes the trading team when action is necessary to get ahead of changes in our generation portfolio.

Delegate activities amongst your teammates that efficiently and effectively procures necessary 3rd party balancing resources, intra-hour schedules, shaping VER imports and other balancing tools. Understand the strengths of your team and work to improve the overall functionality of your team according to those strengths.

Skills and Requirements

5+ years of WECC experience in Real-time trading
Experience with trans assigning, re-directing and procuring incremental WECC transmission through OASIS
Solid understanding of the market dynamics involved with WEIM
Experience submitting monotonically increasing bid curves
Ability to independently function in fast paced deadline dependent environment. Must be performance
driven, self-motivated and proactive with demonstrated communication and interpersonal skills.
Ability to work rotating shifts of 12 hours which includes night shifts, weekends and holidays.

Familiarity with virtual transactions and shadow pricing.
Ability to model intra-day and next day pricing and load to devise strategies.

Preferred Qualifications:

Experience with MISO, ERCOT, IMO, and HQ.
Experience trading at different points within California
Strong knowledge of the California ISO.
Experience managing physical assets within the WECC

Additional Success Factors

Ability to navigate and succeed in a highly matrixed reporting structure, preferably at an international
company.
Self-starter with demonstrated performance leading initiatives and building consensus at all levels of a
matrixed global organization.
Ability to work effectively in an environment where consensus between diverse work streams is often
required before projects can proceed.
Maintains effectiveness during procedural/organizational changes and when dealing with varying
personality styles and tasks.
Effectively provides and receives information orally in individual and group situations. Written expression is
clear, concise, and conveys the desired message

All offers of employment are contingent upon the successful completion of a medical Fit for Duty exam,
background check, references, drug screen, verification of legal right to work in the U.S., and in some cases, a
credit check. A credit check will be administered when a prospective employee will be working in Finance,
Accounting, Treasury or where duties may involve handling of funds, accounts or cash. A Motor Vehicle (MVR)
check will be administered when a prospective employee will be regularly using a company vehicle. Avangrid
Renewables is an Equal Opportunity Employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment
without regard to race, color, religion, sex, national origin, protected veteran status, status as an individual with a
disability, or any other status or class protected by federal or state law.

Mobility Information

Please note that any applicant who is not a citizen of the country of the vacancy will be subject to compliance with the applicable immigration requirements to legally work in that country

Competencies