Junior Power Scheduler

About the role

This role is suited to someone starting out in U.S. power scheduling. You’ll support the day-to-day scheduling and nomination activities across markets such as ERCOT, PJM, CAISO, and MISO. Working alongside experienced schedulers, traders, origination, risk, and back-office teams, you’ll help ensure our power portfolios run reliably and in line with market and regulatory requirements. You’ll learn how real-time and day-ahead markets work, assist with system updates, and help keep processes running smoothly. The aim is to build a strong foundation in U.S. power scheduling within a fast-moving commercial environment.

Key Responsibilities

• Support the daily scheduling and nomination process for U.S. power markets, ensuring accuracy and timeliness.
• Aid in communicating with internal teams to help optimise commercial outcomes.
• Coordinate with ISOs/RTOs, transmission schedulers, and other external stakeholders.
• Contribute to basic real-time and day-ahead scheduling activities, including handling updates and simple congestion checks.
• Help maintain ETRM data accuracy and support routine system testing or updates.
• Absorb new business setup tasks, including data entry, workflow checks, and operational readiness steps.
• Participate in the team's out-of-hours coverage rota once trained, helping provide continuous operational support.

Requirements

• Basic understanding of U.S. energy or power markets is useful, but not essential.
• Interest in learning how ISO/RTO markets operate, and how scheduling, nominations, and regulatory rules fit together.
• Willingness to learn about transmission scheduling, balancing markets, and congestion.
• Comfort working with operational systems; previous exposure to ETRMs is helpful but not required.

Experience & Skills

• Some experience in an energy, analytical, or scheduling-focused environment is helpful, though full training will be provided.
• Strong attention to detail and a steady approach under time pressure.
• Good communication skills and willingness to work closely with trading, scheduling, and support teams.
• Curious, reliable, and ready to take responsibility for routine tasks as you build your knowledge.

Tools & Systems

• Basic Excel skills required.
• Any familiarity with data tools or Python is beneficial but not expected at entry level.

Flexibility

• Willingness to work occasional out-of-hours shifts once trained.
• Open to learning new systems and adapting to the needs of a 24/7 market.