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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 client-facing 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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About Us
About WSP
WSP USA is the U.S. operating company of WSP, one of the world's leading engineering and professional services firms. Dedicated to serving local communities, we are engineers, planners, technical experts, strategic advisors and construction management professionals. WSP USA designs lasting solutions in the buildings, transportation, energy, water and environment markets. With more than 15,000 employees in over 300 offices across the U.S., we partner with our clients to help communities prosper.
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WSP provides a flexible and agile workplace model while meeting client needs. Employees are also afforded a comprehensive suite of benefits including medical, dental, vision, disability, life, and retirement savings focused on providing health and financial stability throughout the employee's career.
At WSP, we want to give our employees the challenges they seek to grow their careers and knowledge base. Your daily contributions to your team will be essential in meeting client objectives, goals and challenges. Are you ready to get started?
WSP USA (and all of its U.S. companies) is an Equal Opportunity Employer Race/Age/Color/Religion/Sex/Sexual Orientation/Gender Identity/National Origin/Disability or Protected Veteran Status.
The selected candidate must be authorized to work in the United States.
NOTICE TO THIRD PARTY AGENCIES:
WSP does not accept unsolicited resumes from recruiters, employment agencies, or other staffing services. Unsolicited resumes include any resume or hiring document sent to WSP in the absence of a signed Service Agreement where WSP has expressly requested recruitment/staffing services specific to the position at hand. Any unsolicited resumes, including those submitted to hiring managers or other business leaders, will become the property of WSP and WSP will have the right to hire that candidate without reservation - no fee or other compensation will be owed or paid to the recruiter, employment agency, or other staffing service.