Hydro Planner – a great combination of water management, energy trading and

Vattenfall

Vattenfall





Asset Optimization and Trading (AOT) is the Business Division where all Asset Optimization and Trading activities are centralized for the Vattenfall Group. Our activities are multi-site located across Europe with more than 600 professionals working from Sweden, Germany, The Netherlands, Denmark and Poland. We trade the full range of energy commodities such as electricity, gas, oil, coal, freight, renewable energies and emissions, take responsibility for a diversified sourcing of power, fuels and carbon credits and optimize the running and hedging of Vattenfall’s generation assets. These efforts are the basis for maximum profitability and continuous business growth.
Within AOT, the Business Unit Asset Optimization Nordic (AON) is responsible for production planning, dispatching, logistics, as well as developing and implementing the hedging strategy for Vattenfall’s production assets in the Nordic area. By our efforts, we optimize the portfolio value and ensure that all asset risks are managed efficiently.

Within AON the Hydro Planning unit operates on the weekly to daily scale, considering seasonal constrains and conditions, we are using price and inflow forecasts (seasonal and short term) to run our optimization tools. With our experience and detailed knowledge we turn model outputs to executable weekly production plans, plans that are continuously updated in order to adapt to continuously changing conditions.

Our vision is a hydro planning competence centre designed to unfold and deliver optimal hydro bids and to provide best possible basis for intra day optimization.

For or office in Stockholm we are looking for a Hydro Planner. We offer a challenging and exciting position in a team which is a key player in the management of Vattenfall’s hydro power asset portfolio, a portfolio of approximately 35 TWh.

Qualifications
Required education is a university degree in engineering, mathematics, hydrology or similar and several years of relevant work experience.

You need to have good knowledge of the Swedish hydropower system and the terms under which it is operated. It is important to quickly be able to understand, analyse and solve a wide range of water regulation related issues arising in the daily work. You are comfortable in working with large amounts of statistical data and are able to think in terms of consequences and probabilities. If you are familiar with optimization and branch relevant forecasting tools it is meritorious as is experience from generation management and outage planning.

You also need to have very good communications skills in Swedish and English, both orally and in writing. As a person we expect that you are a self-driven team player with a good sense of service and that you see possibilities rather than difficulties in a complex environment.

In order to thrive in this role you also need to be willing to work outside office hours and to travel occasionally.

Location Stockholm (Solna)

For questions regarding the position you are welcome to contact recruiting manager Per Larsson + 46(0)705595797. You are welcome to contact Martina Carlson +4672 740 27 29, for questions regarding the recruitment process.

Union representatives in Sweden Marthin Westman Akademikerna:+46- 8-739 63 80
Lars Erik Näsman, Unionen: +46 8 7395685Please send your application with CV and personal letter through this page no later than September 1, 2013.

We look forward to your application!