Supervisor, Operations Systems - EMS Advanced Applications (EMS)

Location: Rocklin, California, US; must live within PG&E’s service territory and work in the office at least two days per week, sometimes four depending on business needs.

Base salary range in California: $140,000–$238,000 annually, with a midpoint of $189,000.

Company

hirify.global operates energy delivery infrastructure, including a large and complex transmission grid.

What you will do

• Supervise and provide technical leadership to the EMS Advanced Applications team in a 24x7 operational environment.
• Oversee support, analysis, development, programming, maintenance, quality, and availability of EMS applications used by grid-control and operations teams.
• Resolve complex real-time issues involving data quality, state estimation, contingency analysis, and transmission operations.
• Coordinate EMS and operations projects, including budgets, schedules, implementation goals, vendor requirements, documentation, testing, and new technologies.
• Maintain the EMS network model and improve related tools, procedures, and compliance with PG&E, NERC, and WECC standards.
• Coach and develop team members while collaborating with SCADA, EMS integration, displays, operations engineering, and transmission grid operations teams.

Requirements

• At least five years of experience in engineering, IT, or another relevant capacity.
• Bachelor’s degree in a technical or related field, or equivalent experience.

Nice to have

• Seven years of experience using or supporting real-time EMS advanced applications, including modeling, state estimation, contingency analysis, and real-time assessments.
• Knowledge of California and federal regulatory requirements, including FERC, NERC, WECC, CPUC, RC West, and CAISO.
• Experience with electric transmission system operations and strong organizational and leadership skills.
• Extensive knowledge of GEV Grid Solutions EMS, GEV Wide Area Monitoring System, and General Electric Vernova e-terra EMS applications and databases.
• Master’s degree in power systems.
• Twelve or more years of experience in engineering, IT, or another relevant capacity.

Culture & Benefits

• Work in a 24x7x365 operational environment supporting critical transmission-grid systems.
• Participate in EMS team on-call processes and provide backup support as needed.
• Collaborate with internal operations groups, technology vendors, CAISO, RC West, WECC, and other external entities.
• Monitor budgets, control costs, and review expenses for the group.