Distribution Operator

Distribution Operator

Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree in engineering or other technical discipline is desired.
• Associates degree showing an aptitude for math and electrical theory, to include previous work experience demonstrating basic electrical utility knowledge, or equivalent combination of education and/or experience related to the discipline.
• Company level training completion required.
• Ability to read and comprehend complex instructions, correspondence, and memos.
• Strong oral and written communication skills.
• Ability to apply concepts of algebra and geometry, and basic electrical theory.
• Working knowledge of various database, spreadsheet, and word processing software.
• Ability to use various computer systems.
• Gathers and analyzes many complex variables to recommend decisions on complex issues under rapid and severe time constraints.

Responsibilities

• Implements real-time actions, up to and including shedding firm load under direction of the transmission System Operator.
• Directs all actions for safety and reliability of the distribution electric grid, including field crews, electrical equipment, and customers in matters that affect distribution grid reliability.
• Directs all switching and tagging activities to achieve LOTO isolation on mainline distribution equipment for both scheduled and outage situations.
• Responds to distribution disturbances within established regulatory, industry, and company standards to assure a continuous supply of electricity to customers.
• On point to communicate to co-workers and management the status of abnormal system conditions.
• Monitors and utilizes reactive reserves to ensure system reliability.
• Mentor Distribution Operator Trainees thru the Operator training game plan.
• Annually review and update department Standard Operating Procedures.
• Utilize the system model to simulate removing distribution elements from service and review resulting contingency analysis to prevent any real time violations which may occur.
• Responsible for being knowledgeable of the procedures to transfer operations to the Back-up Control Center and implementing if necessary.
• Assist with outage scheduling – writing switch orders, coordinating resources, customer and, running load flow studies to evaluate outages and contingencies, planning projects and looking for conflicting outages, develop mitigation strategies for reliability concerns.
• Assist with developing and maintaining department tools – support model updates, state estimator and contingency analysis troubleshooting, monitor and resolve solution cost or high iteration alarms, solve bad data problems, PI situational awareness displays, work with EMS staff on ADMS updates and model pushes.

Preferred Qualifications

No preferred qualifications provided.