Distribution Operator

1 month ago

Arlington, Virginia, United States AES Corporation Full time

SUMMARY:

AES Ohio. serves approximately 500,000 customers in a 6,000 square-mile service area in Southwest-Central Ohio. This includes 14,800 miles of distribution lines and over 150 substations. Under limited direction, the Distribution Operator controls and operates the Company's distribution resources including circuit breakers, switches, voltage regulating equipment and other devices associated with the system. Also achieves and maintains operating standards in compliance with all existing PUCO regulations, plus company safety and operating standards. Coordinates and directs all switching operations on the mainline distribution system. This position works a 12 hour shifts with the department covering 24x7.

ESSENTIAL DUTIES AND 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.

COMPETENCIES:

  • Develops and maintains knowledge of the Company's substation, distribution and transmission systems, relay protection schemes, safety requirements, electrical theory, field equipment capabilities and associated operating procedures and guidelines
  • Strong sense of ambition, motivation, and confidence.
  • Ability to work in a stressful and fast-paced environment.
  • Ability to make sound judgments and crucial decisions in short amounts of time.
  • Ability to understand and assimilate complex technical information.
  • Ability to build and maintain relationships with teammates.
  • Ability to work with little supervision and only general guidelines at times.

QUALIFICATIONS:

MINIMUM EDUCATION AND/OR EXPERIENCE:

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.

CERTIFICATES, LICENSES REGISTRATIONS:

Company level training completion required.

COMMUNICATION SKILLS:

Ability to read and comprehend complex instructions, correspondence, and memos

Strong oral and written communication skills

MATHEMATICAL SKILLS:

Ability to apply concepts of algebra and geometry, and basic electrical theory

COMPUTER SKILLS:

Working knowledge of various database, spreadsheet, and word processing software

Ability to use various computer systems

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