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Job Title: Electrical Load Forecasting Engineer (Contract) - Job#5900

Location: 100% Remote

Job Description
The Electrical Load Forecasting Engineer is responsible for developing, maintaining, and implementing accurate load forecast models used for transmission planning, resource adequacy, and operational planning across the company footprint. The role supports decision-making by quantifying future electric demand under varying conditions and ensuring forecasts meet reliability and planning requirements. Load forecasting is fundamental to our reliability and planning processes and supports multiple internal teams that depend on forecast data.

Job Responsibilities / Typical Day in the Role

• Develop, validate, and maintain load forecasting models for short-term, seasonal, and long-term demand forecasts supporting system planning and operational needs.
• Analyze historical load data, weather patterns, economic, demographic, and policy factors that influence demand growth and variability.
• Integrate forecasts into planning processes such as transmission planning, resource adequacy assessments, and reliability studies.
• Collaborate with internal teams (e.g., Transmission Planning, Resource Adequacy, Operations) to ensure forecast inputs and outputs meet project needs and are consistently applied.
• Evaluate and improve forecasting methodologies, incorporating advanced techniques, statistical tools, and emerging best practices.
• Document forecast assumptions, methodology, and results, preparing technical reports and presentations for internal stakeholders and policy groups.
• Participate in stakeholder engagement and task force activities related to load forecasting enhancements and our planning policy (e.g., Load Forecasting Task Force).
• Analyze the impact of demand reduction programs, electrification trends, behind-the-meter generation/storage, and energy policy changes on future load projections.

Required Qualifications:

• Bachelor's degree in electrical engineering, Data Science, Statistics, Economics, or a related technical field (advanced degree preferred).
• Proven experience in load forecasting, statistical modeling, or demand analytics-preferably in the utility or energy sector.
• Strong analytical, quantitative, and data-handling skills (e.g., Excel, R, Python, SQL).
• Experience with load forecast modeling tools and methodologies used by RTOs/ISOs or utilities is a strong plus.
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills with the ability to explain complex technical concepts to diverse audiences

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience with energy system planning models and utility planning environments (e.g., production simulation, planning software).
• Familiarity with North American Electric Reliability Corporation (NERC) standards and planning processes.
• Understanding of regional energy markets and the role of resource adequacy planning and load forecasting in system reliability.
• Prior work with stakeholder groups or industry committees on forecasting or data quality initiatives

About Delphi-US
Delphi-US is a national recruiting firm based in Newport, Rhode Island. We specialize in IT, Engineering and Professional Staffing services for organizations across the United States of America. Our mission is simple: We are Peacemakers in the Talent War. Delphi attracts our nation's best and brightest Technical & Professional Talent and position our nation's finest employers to further their competitive advantages. We accomplish this with a proprietary skill-based and cultural matching process that results in higher qualified submissions, hiring with purpose, and employer/employee mutual success. You'll find our team is supremely experienced, friendly, professional and ready to advocate on your behalf. Armed with best in class talent, Delphi has an indelible understanding of employer expectations and we deliver lasting results.

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