Optimization engineer Type of Employment Part-time
Job position Civil engineer, electrical power
Work model On location
Application due date 14 January 2025
Are you the one? Do you want to be involved in optimizing our production and power trading to create maximum value from our production assets? We are looking for an optimization engineer for the business unit Optimization and Trading for employment in Skellefteå.
Welcome with your application!
The position
As an Optimization Engineer, your main responsibility will be to develop the conditions for creating maximum value from our production assets in various ways.
The role includes the development, implementation and management of optimization models and tools for generation planning, ancillary services delivery and trading in the electricity and balancing markets. It also includes monitoring and ensuring continuous regulatory compliance for the relevant markets. Other tasks may include investment studies and calculations for hydro, wind and CHP, as well as data analysis and visualization related to optimization, physical trading and balancing.
With us, you will be part of the Physical Trading group, which today consists of 17 employees in close collaboration with each other. Together we support and help each other to provide the group with the very best support in production optimization and physical power trading.
The position is a permanent position of 100% with location in Skellefteå. Start as soon as possible or as agreed.
Welcome to become one of us!
Interested?
To thrive in this role, you should be analytical, technically minded and solution-oriented. You are driven and responsible, able to make informed decisions and easily prioritize in your daily work. You work well independently as well as in a team and believe that the best development is the one you make together.
Requirements
- Master of Science or Master of Engineering with a specialization in energy, electrical power, mathematics, engineering physics, statistics, data science, programming or industrial economics, or other relevant education and/or relevant equivalent work experience that is deemed equivalent
- Good knowledge of Swedish and English, both spoken and written
Meritorious
- Previous experience from forecast development, physical electricity/power trading, planning and optimization of power systems, or system development for production optimization is advantageous
- Good knowledge of electricity market and power systems
- Good knowledge of data analysis, programming, optimization, AI, mathematics and/or statistical analysis
Who are we then?
Skellefteå Kraft enables society's electrification and future infrastructure solutions through innovation, research and investments in renewable energy. We are one of Sweden's largest power producers with production of wind and hydro power, heat and bioenergy.
About recruitment
We work with competence-based recruitment with the aim of looking at each person's competence and thus promoting diversity and counteracting discrimination.
Many positions within the Skellefteå Kraft Group are security-classified due to the socially important activities that it means to work in the energy industry. When recruiting to such a position, a security check with a register check is required before the candidate can be employed.
Any questions?
Greger Rautila, Group Manager Physical Trade, 0910-77 27 22
Frida Lundström, Unionen, 0910-77 28 64
Veronica Lindström, Akademikerföreningen, 0910-77 27 71
Robert Ingberg, SEKO, 0910-77 26 62
Örjan Karlsson, Ledarna, 0910-71 66 40
As we have already decided on the recruitment channels we wish to use for this recruitment, we kindly but firmly decline to be contacted for further offers of skills brokerage, advertising and recruitment assistance.