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This Opportunity

WSP is seeking an Energy Market Advisor to join and assist in growing our Energy Strategies group within the Energy Advisory Services (EAS) business unit. This role focuses on power market modeling, production cost modeling, integrated resource planning, and strategic advisory, helping clients navigate complex market dynamics, regulatory environments, and energy transition challenges.

The ideal candidate brings deep expertise in energy systems modeling (e.g., PLEXOS, ProMod, GridView, etc), quantitative analytics, and electricity market operations, along with experience delivering client-facing insights across generation, transmission, and emerging energy technologies

This is a remote position supporting clients and projects across the U.S. and internationally.

You will work directly with utilities, system operators, and project developers, offering financial strategic guidance to senior client leadership and helping advance their most critical initiatives.

This is a highly visible, internal and external clientfacing role requiring exceptional communication skills, strong financial and energy market depth, and the ability to manage complex advisory engagements from early concept through execution.

Your Impact

Energy Market Modeling & Analysis

• Develop and maintain advanced power market models (e.g., PLEXOS and similar) to support:
  • Power price forecasting
  • Capacity expansion planning
  • Congestion, curtailment, and nodal price analysis
• Conduct integrated resource planning (IRP) and scenario analysis to evaluate generation portfolios and system reliability

Strategic Advisory & Project Delivery

• Support infrastructure advisory engagements across:
  • Renewable and conventional generation
  • Transmission systems
  • Oil & gas and nuclear assets
• Deliver technical due diligence and investment analysis for energy infrastructure projects
• Develop client-ready deliverables including reports, models, and presentations
• Manage multiple concurrent projects in fast-paced environments

Data Analytics & Tool Development

• Analyze large datasets using Python, Excel, R, and SQL to generate actionable insights
• Build and enhance internal analytical tools and market intelligence products
• Design scenario-based models incorporating:
  • Market rules
  • Policy and regulatory frameworks
  • Economic and operational constraints.

Market Research & Insights

• Monitor trends in:
  • Energy markets and pricing dynamics
  • Regulatory and policy developments
  • Emerging generation and storage technologies
• Translate research into forward-looking market perspectives to guide client strategy.

Cross Functional Collaboration

• Partner with multidisciplinary teams across engineering, economics, and policy
• Engage stakeholders to align modeling assumptions and planning outputs
• Contribute to knowledge sharing and internal capability development

Other Responsibilities

• Support contract review processes in coordination with WSP legal.
• Perform additional duties as assigned.
• Travel required: 25%+

Who You Are

Required Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in Energy Systems, Engineering, Finance/Economics or related field
• 7+ years of experience (equivalent) in:
  • Energy market modeling
  • Utility planning or infrastructure advisory
• Strong experience with:
  • PLEXOS or similar power system modeling tools
  • Electricity markets (e.g., ISO/RTO structures such as ERCOT, PJM, MISO, etc).
  • understanding of financial instruments (e.g. accounting, taxation...) underpinning financial analysis
  • General understanding of financial theory underpinning weighted average cost of capital calculations (e.g. capital asset pricing model)

Preferred Qualifications:

• PhD or Master's Degree 
• Experience supporting Integrated Resource Plans (IRPs)
• Knowledge of capacity markets and transmission planning
• Background in transmission integration, renewable and thermal generation integration, energy transition, or hydropower systems
• Certifications such as:
  • Professional Engineer Registration / Engineer in Training (EIT)

WSP Benefits: 

WSP provides a comprehensive suite of benefits focused on a providing health and financial stability throughout the employee's career. These benefits include coverage related to medical, dental, vision, disability, and life; retirement savings; paid sick leave; paid vacation (or other personal time); paid parental leave; and paid time off for purposes of bereavement, voting, and/or attendance at naturalization proceedings. 

Compensation:

Expected Salary (all locations): $106,100 - $189,000

WSP USA is providing the compensation range that the company in good faith believes it might pay and offer for this position, based on the successful applicant's education, experience, knowledge, skills, abilities in addition to internal equity and specific geographic location. WSP USA reserves the right to ultimately pay more or less than the posted range and offer additional benefits and other compensation, depending on circumstances not related to an applicant's sex or other status protected by local, state, and/or federal law.

Expected Salary (Colorado only): $106,100 - $157,500

WSP USA is providing the compensation range that the company in good faith believes it might pay and/or offer for this position within the state of Colorado, based on the successful applicant's education, experience, knowledge, skills, and abilities in addition to internal equity and specific geographic location. WSP USA reserves the right to ultimately pay more or less than the posted range and offer additional benefits and other compensation, depending on circumstances not related to an applicant's sex or other status protected by local, state, and/or federal law.

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