Senior Energy Strategy and Policy Modelling Consultant

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Senior Energy Strategy and Policy Modelling Consultant

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Senior Energy Strategy and Policy Modelling Consultant

Location: Manchester (Hybrid)

Salary: between £55,000 and £70,000 depending on experience and capability

We are looking for experienced consultants with a background in energy system modelling and energy market advisory services to join our diverse and growing Strategic Modelling Team.

If you enjoy using your analysis or systems thinking skills to help optimise the future of the energy system, then this is a great opportunity to join an exciting business addressing some of society’s greatest challenges.

Job Description

At Frazer-Nash we do things that matter for the future of society - helping to make lives safe, secure, sustainable, and affordable. You will work in a team of high performing data scientists and subject matter experts to build bespoke models and analysis tools to develop insights and advice for our clients most important challenges.

Our strategic modelling team supports clients with the following services:

• Energy system transition modelling
• Strategy and policy development
• Scenario planning and strategy / policy simulations
• Complex business case analysis
• Cost, risk and benefits modelling
• Decision optimisation under uncertainty
• Developing AI decision making systems
• Decision science and decision support tools
  
  

• Helping NESO to improve the Least Worst Regret decision making process for the Centralised Strategic Network Plan (CSNP). We worked with a team of academics to build a new decision-making framework that incorporates Bayesian statistics into investment decision making.
• Supporting Citizens Advice by building a probabilistic modelling tool for understanding the future of domestic gas bills during different energy transition scenarios. This project was nominated for a 2025 British Data Award.
• Building a BESS dispatch prediction tool to understand how future BESS will likely play in the Balancing Mechanism and Frequency Response markets, helping NESO to consider market stacking behaviour in their construction planning assumptions.
• Developing a resilience modelling capability to understand the impact to electricity and gas consumers during shock events. Working with UK government, system operator and DNOs to build decision support tools for future investments to build system resilience.
• Using electricity system simulation tools, such as PyPSA, to develop Fractal Flow, technology to improve visibility between operators at different scales of the GB electricity system, helping to optimise control of distributed resources.
• Building AI tools to automatically extract data and quantitative insights from local area energy plans, regional energy strategies and national strategies. Using uncertain data to build statistical forecasting tools for future demand and system change
  
  

• Have an excellent understanding of the energy system and markets in Great Britain.
• Have experience delivering energy system modelling, data science, operational research or statistical analysis for solving complex challenges. Candidates should be adept at applying a range of other creative problem-solving techniques to deliver successful outcomes for clients.
• Are confident communicating complex ideas and advice to senior stakeholders, both in writing and in person, with a track record of effective influence.
• Are confident leading projects, managing teams and taking responsibility for the success of modelling projects.
• Are effective collaborators with experience of working as part of a dynamic team.
• Are experienced at developing winning proposals and delivering high-quality services to clients.
• Drive continuous improvement, actively contributing to the development of others through mentoring, knowledge sharing and thought leadership.
  
  

• Happy To Talk Flexible Working
• Attractive salary
• 25 days' holiday entitlement
• Holiday purchase scheme
• Company pension scheme
• Targeted professional development
• Life assurance
• Private healthcare membership
• Bonus scheme linked into company performance
• Paid membership fees to a professional institution
• Support in attaining professional membership
• Cycle to work scheme
• Season rail ticket loan

Seniority level

• Seniority level

  Mid-Senior level

Employment type

• Employment type

  Full-time

Job function

• Job function

  Other

• Industries

  Business Consulting and Services

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