Senior Forecast Consultant
For decades, Itron has been delivering critical energy and water infrastructure services to customers around the globe--and we're just getting started. Join us and help design the future of resource management.
Itron is the industry-leading provider of electric and gas forecasting consulting services, training, and software. Our clients include gas and electric utilities, Independent System Operators, transmission companies, and retail energy providers. We provide software and forecasting support to companies in North America, Europe, Australia, and South Asia. Our forecast work includes everything from 5-minute real time forecast systems for electric grid operation to forecasts that extend as far as 30-year out to support long-term electric load capacity planning. Working with a team of energy forecasting experts, you will help us with providing data analysis, predictive analytics/statistical modelling, training, and presentations to support a global client base.
As part of the forecast team, you will help support our real-time grid-operation forecasting applications and are other forecasting products. You will also help develop long-term sales, revenue, and demand forecasts to support our clients' financial and resource planning requirements. This work will involve developing statistical models, analyzing historical sales trends, addressing the electric and gas impact of economic activity, energy efficiency, climate change, and market penetration of new technologies such as roof-top solar generation and electric vehicles. In this position you will directly interact with our clients to address their modeling and software issues, and ultimately present forecast results to our clients and through forecasting workshops and conferences.
Duties & Responsibilities
As a Forecast Consultant you will:
Develop business leads and project proposals.
Manage and work on forecasting projects.
Develop forecast model specifications using Itron’s time-series modeling software.
Present forecasts and related analysis and training to customers and
stakeholders.
Contribute to Itron thought leadership through blogs and webinars
Required Skills & Experience
Strong communication skills (both verbal and written), including
professional presentation creation and delivery.
Significant experience completing financial forecasts for annual operating
plans, experience completing long-term forecasts for resource planning,
and/or experience with modeling and monitoring of short-term forecasts for
daily operations.
Significant experience with Itron modeling tools (MetrixND, MetrixLT).
Experience using other statistical modeling tools is a plus (MatLab, R,
Python, SAS, etc.).
Experience presenting forecasts to utility management, public utility
commissions, and other stakeholders.
Education:
Bachelor’s degree in economics, Statistics, or related technical field
Travel: 1-10%
Preferred Skills & Experience
Advanced degree in economics or related technical field, or equivalent job
experience.
Knowledge of econometrics, statistics, calculus, and data science modeling
methods.
Programming skills and knowledge of R&D processes is a plus.
The successful candidate's starting salary will be determined based on permissible, non-discriminatory factors such as skills and experience.
Itron is proud to be an Equal Opportunity, Affirmative Action Employer. If you require an accommodation to apply, please contact a recruiting representative at 1-800-635-5461 or email Accessibility@itron.com.
Itron enables utilities and cities to safely, securely and reliably deliver critical infrastructure solutions. We provide smart networks, software, services, meters, and sensors to better manage electricity, gas, water and city services. We are dedicated to creating a more resourceful world.
