Real Time Trader

Current ENMAX employees are encouraged to apply through their internal Workday access.

Posted: January 6, 2025

Closing Date:  January 19, 2025

Position Type: Permanent

Union: Management Professional (MP)

ENMAX Values – Safety, Integrity, Accountability, Service, Teamwork, Agility, Innovation

We are looking for a Real Time Trader to join our team who is responsible for managing the wholesale power position for a large Alberta utility. The decisions and strategies your team make will be implemented daily with a direct and measurable effect on the bottom line.

Real time traders help optimize ENMAX’s generation portfolio while managing/hedging the company’s exposure to real-time market conditions.  Rotating through both a day and night schedule, you will implement ENMAX’s price/dispatch strategy by offering our units into the Alberta Interconnected Electrical System (AIES) through the Alberta Electric System Operator (AESO).   You will also hedge any exposures by importing/exporting physical power as well as monitor our assets for compliance to various regulatory requirements.  

Major Responsibilities:

• Dynamically optimize all corporate positions and assets

• Develop price forecasts through analyzing short- and medium-term power market fundamentals

• Analyze data to look for profitable physical/financial trading strategies

• Develop and maintain models used for market analysis and generation optimization

• Submit offers for generation facilities to the AESO to optimize our position, reduce costs and maximize revenue

• Act as the point of contact between ENMAX generation facilities and internal/external stakeholders

• Maintain compliance with ENMAX limits, policies and applicable market regulation, rules and laws

• Monitor market fundamentals and report on developments to other internal stakeholders, including internal generation availability

• Create market forecasting reports and distribute/present to internal groups

• Provide weekend/holiday gas trading and balancing coverage for ENMAX’s gas trading desk

• Provide training/mentoring/coaching for new real time traders as well as provide backup coverage for the desk in the event it is required

Qualifications & Experience:

• University degree – Economics, Engineering, Computer Science, Finance or Business

• 2+ years of experience in a trading/analyst role

• Strong programming experience and knowledge of Excel, SQL, VBA

• Proficiency in another programming language (i.e. Python) or experience with Data Bricks for analytics is considered a strong asset

Competencies:

• Strong attention to detail

• Effective communications, multi-tasking, and time management skills

• Strong statistical and quantitative abilities and/or data management skills

• Enthusiastic, self-driven and able to work independently or as a strong team player

Did we mention the ENMAX Advantage?

We offer competitive compensation including a comprehensive flexible benefits program, non-downtown location that includes great building amenities such as free onsite fitness facility with programming geared to employees needs, onsite child care centre (upon availability, offered from our ENMAX Place location 141 – 50 Ave. SE), free parking and much more. If you share our values and would like to make a difference with your career, join the team and see where the ENMAX possibilities can take you.

Location:  This role will be part of our hybrid (home and office) work force with office workspace located at ENMAX Place (141 - 50th Avenue SE, Calgary, AB). You will work from home on Mondays and Fridays and in the office on Tuesdays, Wednesdays, and Thursdays.

Note: 

• Initial interviews may be done virtually as well as parts of our on-boarding and job training may be completed remotely.

• If we can provide an accommodation or adjustment to make the process more accessible for you, please let us know. ENMAX welcomes all qualified applicants to apply and is committed to a safe and respectful workplace. It is our aim to have a workplace which is inclusive and values safety, diversity, personal integrity, respect for individual differences, and encourages ownership and accountability for our actions.

• Every ENMAX employee is responsible to take reasonable care to protect the health and safety of themselves, of all other workers, and of the public.  Each employee must become familiar with safety procedures and rules applicable to their job and are required to follow them while working at ENMAX.

• Must be legal to work in Canada and requires the successful completion of a criminal background check.  Two pieces of valid Government issued ID will be required. 

In the spirit of reconciliation, we respectfully acknowledge that we live and work on the traditional lands of Indigenous Peoples. ENMAX headquarters is in Calgary, Alberta, the traditional territory of the Blackfoot Confederacy, comprised of the Siksika, Kainai, Piikani, and Amskapi Piikuni Nations; the Tsuut’ina Nation; and the îyârhe Nakoda Nations of Chiniki, Bearspaw, and Goodstoney, and home to the Métis Nation of Alberta, as well as many diverse Indigenous people who have made the city their home. We are committed to strengthening relationships with Indigenous Nations and peoples in all communities where we operate, through respect and collaboration.

Please visit our careers page to learn more about other opportunities at ENMAX Corporation.

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