Hourly Wage: $30.00
PURPOSE: The Energy Data Analyst Intern will support strategic decision-making by transforming energy and business data into clear, accurate and useful reports. This position will develop data models, dashboards and visualizations that help DPC understand performance, identify trends and make informed decisions. The position advances DPC’s strategic priorities, particularly financial strength, growth and innovation and our safety culture.
Design, build and maintain interactive dashboards/scorecards for energy, financial and operational analysis. Develop clear, effective data visualizations that help technical and nontechnical users understand trends, performance drivers and business results. Create and maintain Power BI semantic models using STAR schema and dimensional modeling principles. Connect, clean, transform and organize diverse datasets of structured and unstructured data from multiple sources. Develop DAX measures, calculated columns and key performance indicators that accurately reflect business definitions and reporting requirements. Work with staff and other business partners to gather reporting requirements and translate business questions into practical analytical products. Review and validate reports, calculations and source data to ensure accuracy, consistency and reliability. Identify trends, variances and unusual results in energy and business data and clearly communicate relevant findings. Create and maintain documentation for data sources, business definitions, calculations, report logic and user instructions. Present completed dashboards and analytical findings to technical and nontechnical audiences. Perform other duties as assigned.
Education & Experience: Currently pursuing either an undergraduate or graduate degree in data analytics, information systems, business analytics, data science, statistics, or another related field.
Licenses and Certifications: Valid Driver's License
Physical Demands: The physical demands described here are representative of those that must be met by an employee to successfully perform the essential functions of this job. While performing the duties of this job, the employee is regularly required to talk or hear. The employee frequently is required to stand; walk; use hands to finger, handle or feel; and reach with hands and arms.
Environmental Demands: Normal work schedule is indoors.
Other Job Characteristics: Travel required, occasionally overnight. Works with limited supervision in a variably paced, variable pressure setting. Handles multiple priorities.
Providing safe, reliable, sustainable and affordable electricity for its cooperative members is the goal of Dairyland Power Cooperative.
Headquartered in La Crosse, Wis., Dairyland employs about 550 people in the region. As a Touchstone Energy Cooperative, Dairyland operates its business under the guidance of the cooperative principles and holds true to four core values: innovation, accountability, integrity and commitment to community.
Dairyland is a generation and transmission cooperative (G&T) which provides the wholesale electrical requirements and other services for 24 electric distribution cooperatives and 17 municipal utilities in the Upper Midwest. In turn, these cooperatives and municipals deliver the electricity to consumers--meeting the energy needs of more than half a million people.
Dairyland’s generating resources include coal, solar, wind, natural gas, hydro and biogas. Dairyland delivers electricity via nearly 3,200 miles of transmission lines and 300 substations located throughout the system’s 44,500 square mile service area that encompasses 62 counties in four states (Wisconsin, Minnesota, Iowa and Illinois).
Please visit www.dairylandpower.com for more information on Dairyland Power Cooperative and its facilities.
