Associate System Operator

Location: Manchester, NH; travel between Massachusetts, Connecticut, and New Hampshire is required as necessary

Starting rate of pay: $63.02 per hour

Company

hirify.global operates electric generation, transmission, and distribution facilities serving customers in the northeastern United States.

What you will do

• Plan, schedule, and coordinate the safe, reliable, and economic minute-to-minute operation of generation, transmission, and distribution facilities.
• Monitor real-time system status and implement system changes through SCADA under normal and abnormal conditions.
• Prepare switching, grounding, and tagging orders while enforcing personnel and equipment safety procedures.
• Perform online and offline security analysis, load-flow studies, and contingency analysis to identify and address reliability risks.
• Coordinate outages, emergency procedures, fault isolation, load restoration, and repairs with ISO-NE and neighboring control centers.
• Maintain voltage profiles and report malfunctions affecting telecommunications, protective relaying, EMS, and SCADA systems.

Requirements

• Associate degree in Electrical Engineering Technology, two years of formal military or technical training beyond high school, or equivalent experience.
• Five years of related dispatching or electric operations experience, including distribution dispatching, generation station operations, electrical maintenance, or power system protection and control.
• Knowledge of generation, transmission, and distribution system operations, protective relay schemes, and generating unit characteristics.
• Ability to perform and analyze load-flow and contingency studies using online and offline programs.
• Knowledge of NERC Reliability Standards, NPCC criteria, ISO-NE operating procedures, and control center procedures.
• Ability to obtain NERC certification within the first year and successfully pass all required pre-employment assessments.

Culture & Benefits

• Regular employee position with responsibility for safe and reliable electric system operations.
• Emergency storm assignments and emergency restoration duties may occur outside normal responsibilities, work hours, and locations.
• Work includes coordination with internal personnel, ISO-NE, local control centers, participant companies, and non-utility generators.
• Compliance with FERC, NERC, NPCC, ISO-NE, and state regulatory requirements is required.