Trading Meteorologist – Renewables Forecasting (m/f/d)

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Trading Meteorologist – Renewables Forecasting (m/f/d)

Full-time

Business Units: ME - Energy Management

Company Description

Why Statkraft?

Statkraft has been making clean energy possible for over a century. Thats what we offer. 125 years of unrivalled expertise in supplying the world with what it needs most. We envision a world that runs entirely on renewable energy. Because in the fight against climate change, we dont see renewable energy as part of the solution – we believe it must be the solution. With us, youll shape a career that is truly forward-facing with many amazing opportunities and offerings to match.

Your department:

The Cross Functional Optimisation (MEX) unit drives optimisation of Energy Management processes across business units and geographies, supporting Statkrafts commercial strategy. MEX creates value by improving core processes and ensuring Energy Management evolves in line with market and digital developments. MEX delivers business Services such as commercial analysis, citizen development, and co-development, supporting optimisation and automated flexibility trading, intermittent production forecasting, and market access for 3rd party customers. MEX also holds business capability ownership for digital solutions in Energy Management, leading daily collaboration between M and IT and ensuring digitalisation efforts align with strategic objectives and value creation.

The Renewables Forecasting Team (MEXF) owns the renewables production forecasting process end-to-end for Wind and Solar portfolios in all European markets. This includes input/output data management, forecast vendor management and creation of meta-forecasts. The team owns the quality and budget so that the highest commercial benefit is realised.

Job Description

The Trading Meteorologist - Renewables Forecasting will have responsibilities including but not limited to the following:

Build data flows for capturing reliable weather data

Create alerts based on specific weather phenomena or special events

Create and improve renewables forecasts for our portfolios across Europe based on numerical weather models

Lead the effort for using AI/ML tools for developing new models

Provide daily weather expectations based on weather data to the intraday trading teams

Help intraday and day-ahead trading teams build a meteorological understanding of trading patterns

Follow academic publications and market trends and work on their implementation in the context of renewables forecasting

Regularly update stakeholders on recent developments and performance evaluations

Qualifications

Your profile:

Excellent university degree in mathematics, physics, meteorology or engineering with strong quantitative focus

Several years of experience in meteorology for short-term power markets

Strong analytical and investigative skills

Significant modelling and programming experience preferably in Python

Strong commercial mind set

Proactive and independent way of working

Excellent communication in English is a must

Additional Information

Statkraft offers:

Professional and personal development in a company experiencing strong growth

A positive working environment characterized by competence, responsibility and innovation

A diverse workplace regarding gender, age and cultural background

Competitive terms of employment and excellent benefit schemes