Hydro Optimizer

**About US (GEMS)**:
ENGIE Global Energy Management & Sales (GEMS) provides energy supply solutions and risk management services to support its clients through their decarbonization journey, while optimizing ENGIE’s assets and contributing to value creation.

ENGIE is a global reference in low-carbon energy and services with a leading energy management business, piloted by its entity "Global Energy Management & Sales" who built its savoir-faire managing the Group’s large and diverse asset portfolio over 20+ years.

3,300 employees around the world develop our solutions, through +20 international business platforms. We cover the full energy mix: renewable and thermal power, natural gas & LNG, biomass, environmental products. Our experts provide tailor made solutions based on a wide range of savoir-faire in energy management with a strong focus on decarbonation and decentralization.

Our +120,000 clients span the entire value chain: producers, asset developers, financial players, utilities, distributors and industrials. Our global reach and strong local presence enable us to offer these diverse clients tailor-made services and respond to rapid changes in mature or emerging markets alike.

Our 4 expertise:

- Asset management
- Energy transition services
- Energy supply & global commodities
- Risk management & market access

At GEMS we encourage breakthrough results, team spirit, curiosity and innovation while preserving the right work/life balance for you.

**Organization**:
The Hydro Team** **is part of the Business Platform Short term Power As A Service (SPAAS) within the Business Unit GEMS.

**YOUR contribution**:
**Context**

Amongst the assets managed, the Hydro team currently optimizes and manages the hydro assets of ENGIE in the Pyrenees (SHEM : 750 MW in 9 valleys), virtual hydro plants in Switzerland and supports the development of other hydro activities of the Group.
- In this scope, we are currently looking for a Hydro Optimizer in Brussels. The mission of the hydro optimizer will be a rich mix of operational activities performed in shift (accounting for half of the workload : forecast, optimize and hedge the hydro asset production on different markets) and projects shared between the different team members (such as automation/improvement of tools and processes, methodological improvements, support to valuation/pricing of new contracts/acquisitions).

**Role**

As Hydro Optimizer your role will be to manage hydro assets across all maturities (50%), i.e.:

- Have a deep understanding of the hydro assets and their specificities; make sure they are properly modelled ;
- Perform short to medium term optimization (from day ahead to 3 years ahead) ;
- Send production plans to the physical dispatch teams (a.o. the SHEM team based in France) ;
- Ensure continuous communication to and from physical dispatch teams ;
- Define the bidding strategies on the power exchanges to make an optimal day ahead planning ensuring a physical balance ;
- Define, propose and have validate the risk management mandate for the assets ;
- Within this mandate, define hedging strategies in collaboration with Trading and execute optimization strategies in collaboration with Trading, Origination and Dispatch ;
- Ensure at all times to capture the positions, understanding of P&L and appropriate reporting ;
- Respect contractual, regulatory and compliance framework in order to avoid any penalties ;
- Beside power, the team manages attributes like GoO and capacity certificates.

On top of these activities, you will contribute for around 50% to projects around:

- The design and development of innovative solutions for hydro management (optimization tools, stochastic modelling, bidding strategies definition, hydro and inflow modelling, risk management through options, etc.) ;
- Support to revision planning or other hydro valuations ;
- Participate to projects related to development of hydro activities, internal to Engie or external, including commercial or business development ;
- The harmonization, convergence, automation of activities in GEMS (Short Term Power, Origination, etc.) ;
- Contribute to the development and maintenance of the hydro optimization framework ;
- The training/coaching of trainees or junior optimizers as well as physical dispatchers in SHEM.

**Key missions**
**We offer**
- Intellectually challenging job ;
- A diversified mix of operational and development activities ;
- Autonomy and possibility to take responsibilities ;
- A great, dynamic, innovative and diversified team ;
- A one-shop to learn about portfolio and risk management, operations on all maturities, contractual complexities, direct customer relationship, pricing for third partiesall within a small team with an end-to-end view of the activity.

**Travels**
Being based in Brussels

**About YOU**:
**Hard skills**
- A structured and analytical personality with a hands-on and positive attitude ;
- Good understanding of energy markets ;
- Proficiency wit