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About the Role
ERM’s Energy Markets team is seeking a Senior Consultant to build a specialist capability in physical energy markets and grid connections, supporting renewable energy, battery storage, flexible demand, and electrification projects. You will provide technical and commercial advice on connection pathways, network constraints, market operations, and revenue management to a diverse client base.
Responsibilities
- Assess grid connection opportunities, network limitations, and curtailment risk for various energy projects.
- Advise on connection agreements, technical requirements, performance standards, and network access risk under the National Electricity Rules.
- Advise on how dispatch, bidding, ancillary services, marginal loss factors, and network constraints affect operating strategy and revenue.
- Analyze asset performance and operational risk, including contract provisions.
- Conduct technical due diligence for M&A transactions involving energy assets.
- Assess demand response, flexible load, and distributed energy resource (DER) opportunities.
- Quantify the commercial implications of network constraints, congestion, curtailment, and system strength issues.
- Support clients through project development, investment decision-making, and transaction processes.
- Lead project workstreams and contribute to complex client engagements.
- Manage project scope, timelines, budgets, and quality.
- Build trusted client relationships and contribute to business development.
- Prepare high-quality technical reports, presentations, and client recommendations.
- Coordinate multidisciplinary teams across energy markets, decarbonisation, and transaction advisory services.
- Support proposal preparation and the development of new service offerings.
- Mentor junior consultants and contribute to ERM’s technical capability development.
- Work across teams to deliver integrated client solutions.
Requirements
- A degree in electrical engineering, power systems engineering, or a related discipline.
- Approximately 3 to 4 years of relevant industry experience.
- Experience in one or more of: network connection and planning, market operations, scheduling or trading, asset operation or performance, energy market analysis, or technical advisory.
- Experience working with network service providers, AEMO or market bodies, generators, retailers or traders, large energy users, engineering or advisory consultancies, or renewable energy and storage developers.
- Familiarity with the NEM, including dispatch, constraints, loss factors, and ancillary services.
- Strong communication and stakeholder management skills.
Skills
- Physical energy markets
- Grid connections
- National Electricity Market (NEM)
- Network constraints
- Curtailment
- Dispatch
- Bidding
- Loss factors
- Asset performance
- Technical and commercial advice
- Connection agreements
- Market operations
- Revenue management
- Behind-the-meter energy solutions
- Renewable energy
- Battery storage
- Flexible demand
- Electrification
- M&A transactions
- Technical due diligence
- Demand response
- Distributed energy resource (DER)
- Market modelling
- Strategy
- Decarbonisation
- Project development
- Investment decision-making
- Transaction processes
- Project management
- Business development
- Report writing
- Presentation skills
- Client relationship management
- Team coordination
- Proposal preparation
- Mentoring
- Stakeholder management
Experience Level
- Senior
Education Level
- Degree in electrical engineering, power systems engineering, or a related discipline
About the Company
- ERM is the world’s leading sustainability consulting firm, uniquely positioned to contribute to the environment and society through the expertise and energy of its employees worldwide.
- Sustainability is at the heart of ERM's service offerings and business operations.
- ERM's vision is to attract, inspire, develop, and reward people to work with the best clients and on the biggest challenges, creating valuable careers.
- ERM's beliefs include Together we Challenge, Expertise is our Superpower, and Impact Ignites us.