Fuel & Energy Market Specialist
Application due date: October 18, 2026
Location: Maple Grove, MN (Eligible for hybrid schedule)
Applicants must be authorized to work in the U.S. without restriction. Visa sponsorship is not available. Summary:Provide strategic and operational oversight to ensure continual optimization of Great River Energy's (GRE) generation asset offering into the wholesale power markets by analyzing and managing fuel procurement, energy market trends, and regulatory developments. This position focuses on optimizing fuel supply strategies, ensuring cost-effective and reliable fuel delivery, and navigating wholesale electricity markets to maximize profitability and compliance.
Total Rewards:A typical starting range for this position is $116,000 - $160,000 annually. We offer market competitive base pay and adjust our offer accordingly based upon the value of the candidate's knowledge, skills and experience. In addition, our Total Rewards strategy focuses on recognizing individual performance and rewarding business results. Our robust Total Rewards package includes exceptional benefits and retirement, a focus on continuous engagement, recognition, personal and professional development, and an emphasis on work-life effectiveness.
Responsibilities: Job responsibilities include, but are not limited toShare responsibility for daily fuel purchasing activities, including responding to fuel purchasing requirements outside normal business hours as needed
- Share responsibility for daily fuel purchasing activities, including responding to fuel purchasing requirements outside normal business hours as needed
- Oversee daily energy market activities, strategies, and reporting. Analyze Midcontinent Independent System Operator (MISO) market conditions, GRE generation offers and instruct adjustments as required.
- Collaborate with Alliance for Cooperative Energy Services (ACES) and GRE stakeholders and support power trading and scheduling activities providing expertise on fuel availability, pricing, and generation costs.
- Coordinate with gas supplier for path of gas volumes for GRE with the least risk.
- Direct gas storage inventories for generation plants on the pipeline systems.
- Accurately and promptly manage nominations, trading, scheduling, contract compliance, and accounting activities.
- Manage balancing, monitoring and purchasing all fuel oil for peaking plants.
- Oversee that all trading activities are within the risk management policies and procedures tolerance levels.
- Ensure that gas related decisions minimize pipeline penalties and overall fuel cost to GRE.
- Responsible for ensuring contracts are properly coordinating day-to-day natural gas and fuel oil purchasing decisions, transportation scheduling and transportation imbalance of natural gas and fuel oil deliveries for the GRE power plants.
- Assist in the preparation of accurate and timely submission of required compliance reports to FERC, NERC and MISO.
- Assist in other regulatory and industry reports for MN generation, including MISO, EIA, DOE, IRS, FERC and NERC.
- Provide guidance of Asset Performance Management (APM)'s Real Time and Day Ahead desk associated with GRE generation offers and strategies.
- Develop and maintain a strong professional working relationship with key vendors and suppliers.
- Provide routine and ad-hoc energy and natural gas market updates to generation personnel.
- Manage GRE generation fleet associated with the MISO tariff, Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC) rules and regulations, North American Electric Reliability Commission (NERC) rules and regulations, and GRE's internal risk management policies.
- Manage GRE's power market structure, recent changes in tariff and/or other MISO related rules as well as GRE's generation fleet characteristics and ensuring accuracies of inputs to ACES for generation offers.
- Responsible for establishing Power Cost Adjustment (PCA) estimate on all peaking plants costs the first day of the month.
- Establish and monitor fuel budget to support the annual GRE budget. Provide status updates as requested/required.
- Manage and oversee the annual combustion turbine fuel budgets in collaboration with finance and ACES.
- Manage communication and information exchange between GRE and MISO Independent Market Monitor (IMM) related to GRE market activities to ensure market optimization of GRE's generation fleet are realized while staying within the (IMM) limits.
- Manage access and utilization of MISO Open Access Same-time Information System (OASIS) customer tool and IMM Portal.
- Manage baseload dispatch procedures to optimize the units during low Locational Marginal Pricing (LMP).
- Manage and oversee the accurate and timely submission of required compliance bid strategy to ACES to enhance offerings to MISO.
- Analyze, research, and communicate changes in ACEs offers and requirements for GRE resources to internal staff and management. (E)
- Manage risk and optionality value (rewards) of controlling certain assets and uses physical commodity, transportation and storage assets, and financial tools (such as futures, swaps, and options) to optimize these assets.
- Manage communication and information for disputes or alternative dispute resolution with MISO and/or IMM.
- Represent GRE's fuel procurement perspective in committees and advisory groups of generation-related industry and regulatory organizations such as the Midwest ISO and IMM.
- Assist in the development of policies and procedures to comply with MISO rules and business practices related to the implementation of generation offers including MISO Market Monitor request and NAESB gas -electric harmonization. Monitor MISO policy related to distributed generation.
Qualifications: Knowledge typically acquired through a bachelor's degree in accounting, finance, engineering or equivalent and 7+ years' experience in the electric utility or natural gas business with a strong working knowledge of natural gas, oil and energy markets is required.
Apply: Qualified candidates please apply at www.greatriverenergy.com (under the Careers tab) by October 18, 2026. 
