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1 Energy Jobs UpdateA Publication SaltHill Group is searching for qualified candidates to fill several open positions with our clients including global Energy compa-nies, oil & gas majors, hedge funds, I-Banks, IPPs, proprietary trading firms, utilities, retail en-ergy providers, and market re-search firms. We work with com-panies nationwide. Sample open positions include: Head of Congestion Trading, Position #1 FTR/CRR Traders, Posi-tion #2 Virtuals Trader (CalSO, MISO, or PJM), Position #3 Power Originator, Posi-tion #4 Senior Power Trans-mission Analyst, Posi-tion #5 Energy Quantitative Trading Strategist, Posi-tion #6 Lead Data Scientist, Position #7 Trading Data Scientist, Position #8 Load Forecasting Ana-lyst, Position #9 Renewable Power Set-tlement & Revenue Manager, Position #10 Energy (Electricity)

2 Markets Controller, Po-sition #11 For information on these open positions, please contact by e-mail and visit our website Group191 North Wacker Drive, Suite 2300 Chicago, Illinois 312-422-1392 Position #1: Head of Conges-tion TradingPosition will build-out the conges-tion trading platform (FTRs, CRRs, TCCs, Virtual Bidding) across all ISOs (PJM, NYISO, NEISO, MISO, SPP, ERCOT, CaISO). Key responsibilities in-clude building analytical tools (power system economics, power flow and dispatch models) to be used by congestion and specula-tive trade desks; hiring a team of transmission analysts and FTR traders; and developing and exe-cuting FTR and CRR strategies to trade in monthly, quarterly and annual auctions.

3 Required: bachelor s degree (Power Engi-neering preferred); ability to exe-cute the directive of building out a strategy; strong commercial un-derstanding of the North American transmission trading environment with an analytical understanding of the modeling aspect of the business; strong fundamental market knowledge of the grid and Energy JOBS Update MAY 3 JOBS Update MAY 3 2018 PAGE 1market rules in all ISOs; and experi-ence running a profitable congestion trading #2: FTR/CRR Traders CaISO, ERCOT, MISO, NY, NE, On-tario, PJM or SPP FocusPosition builds out an FTR trading platform/desk, including analytics (power system economics, power flow and dispatch models) to trade in monthly, quarterly and annual auctions.

4 Required: advanced degree (PhD or Masters required, power engi-neering preferred), strong fundamental market knowledge, strong modeling and programming skills, and prior prof-itable trading record trading FTRs/CRRs in a hedging or speculative trad-ing #3: Virtuals Trader (CaISO, MISO or PJM)Position is responsible for developing the CaISO, MISO or PJM Virtuals trade seat (conceptualizing, developing, and back-testing the trade strategies, trade execution and risk management of the book). Required: bachelor s degree; experience with the market fundamen-tals of CaISO, MISO or PJM; strong modeling skills; and a historical PnL track record of $1M trading CaISO, MISO or PJM Virtuals.

5 Position #4: Power OriginatorPosition focus is to market renewable power (wind, solar, battery storage) in the PJM and Midwest (MISO) regions. The customer focus is off-take ar-rangements, hedges and REC transac-tion to utilities, coops and munis, large C&I customers and power marketers. Required: bachelor s degree; relevant experience in traditional or renewable generation; well-versed in the current market dynamics; a rolodex of contacts and 3+ years of executing power or renewable originated transactions (PPAs, hedges, RECs). Position #5: Senior Power Transmis-sion AnalystPosition provides analytical support for the senior nodal traders and their portfolios.

6 Responsibilities include run-ning production cost models / power flow models; providing transmission and congestion research; forecasting nodal power prices; and identifying trade strategies for the FTR / CRR auctions. Required: Masters or PhD in Electrical Engineering (power systems focus) with 3-7 years experience in transmission planning, power engineering or congestion analysis at a utility, IPP, power trading firm power research firm or ISO; expert knowledge in the market rules of one or more of the following re-gions (PJM, NYISO, ISO-NE, CaISO, ERCOT or SPP); power fundamental modeling skills; and experience using UPLAN, Pow-erWorld, Dayzer, PROMOD or PSSE.

7 Advanced technology skills desired for data mining pur-poses and building trading #6: Energy Quantita-tive Trading StrategistPosition is part of a power trading team that trades in the nodal and ICE/OTC power markets, and uses financial engineering tech-niques with its existing fundamen-tal analytics to drive trading strat-egy and commercial decisions. Key responsibilities are to identify trade signals in the power data (price patterns, generation, con-gestion, load) using statistical analysis (time series, regression and machine learning techniques) and portfolio construction and optimization skills.

8 Required: an advanced degree (Masters or PhD) in a quantitative field (finan-cial engineering, math, statistics, etc.); and 2+ years of front-office quantitative experience in a trad-ing environment (financial or en-ergy markets) with a focus on working with Big Data and trading signal #7: Lead Data Scien-tistPosition is part of a load forecast-ing team for a retail Energy pro-vider, and it leads projects to ana-lyze complex load data at a cus-tomer, ISO market level, product and weather level. Position will be responsible for recommending actionable strategies for customer segmentation and profiling, mar-keting, the supply desk, settle-ments, pricing, etc.

9 , which will have a direct impact on commer-cial decisions. It requires ad-vanced skills in statistical analysis and data science (Python, Pan-das, SKLearn) and the ability to extract/analyze large datasets, apply fundamental knowledge/research to evaluate risk, and de-velop front-end visualization applications. Required: an ad-vanced degree (Masters, PhD) in mathematics, statistics, econom-ics, engineering, data science, physics or computer science; 3-5 years of professional experience in the wholesale power or retail electricity markets with an empha-sis on data science skills and lev-eraging large datasets to generate insight in support of the business; experience with electricity ISO markets required (ERCOT or PJM market knowledge preferred); ad-vanced programming skills for relational databases, including Oracle SQL.

10 Scripting / object-oriented coding including Python, SAS, R, and VBA required; Expe-rience processing and analyzing raw data; skills in Big Data tools, including Hadoop / Hive and visu-alization tools including Spotfire or Tableau; ability to lead and man-age projects to completion; and strong communication skills to present results and make recom-mendations to upper #8: Trading Data Scien-tistPosition creates sophisticated statistical algorithms that produce predictive signals for the commer-cial trading organization. These algorithms and related trade sig-nals will drive trading strategy and commercial decisions.