DCC Operator I

Position Summary

Join a team at the heart of grid reliability and customer impact, where your decisions help restore power and keep communities running. In this critical, fast-paced role, you will play a key part in restoring power and supporting grid reliability by monitoring, analyzing, and managing outage events across Duke Energy’s distribution system.

Responsibilities

• Direct outage dispatching for feeder level outages and below and assist with substation outages.
• Review outage information and dispatch appropriate field resources to restore power, troubleshoots and analyzes problems to provide possible fault locations and direct restoration efforts.
• Review, update and ensure correct outage information is modeled in the Outage Management System (OMS) and Distribution Management System (DMS).
• Authorize, record and model in the OMS and DMS: Hot Line Tags (HLT), Clearance tags, Do Not Operate (DNO) tags, and Information tags.
• Under supervision and direction of Supervisor or Sr DCC Operator directs and models switching activities in order to maintain an accurate distribution model of the system for the best optimization for MWs from DMS.
• Periodically review tags in the system to ensure tags are removed promptly and that the system model and data are accurate.
• Monitor DSCADA and DMS systems including remotely opening and closing Feeder Circuit Breakers, Reclosers, and Regulators under normal and emergency situations.
• Install and remove HLTs remotely.
• Monitor alarms from DSCADA and DMS and assist with determining appropriate response (e.g. low/high voltages, transformer load/temperature alarms, abnormal feeder lockouts, etc.) and provide notification/reports to others.
• Assist in directing restoration efforts associated with large outages (e.g. feeder lockouts, substation outages, transmission line interruptions, etc.) and ensure that the OMS and DMS models are kept accurate for distribution system optimization to achieve MW reductions if called for on the Distribution System.
• Assist in developing and calling out emergency switching orders to isolate faults and restore power associated with these large outages. Provide possible fault locations, and if not provided automatically, perform the analysis to determine a predicted fault location.

Required/Basic Qualifications

• A high-school Diploma/GED
• Previous Operator experience
• Knowledge of distribution systems, equipment, and operations

Additional Preferred Qualifications

• Good written and verbal communications skills
• Ability to deal with a variety of individuals from various socio-economic, cultural, and ethnic backgrounds
• Demonstrated computer and technical aptitude

Working Conditions

• Office environment
• Ability to work in a 24 X 7 rotating shift schedule
• Onsite Mobility Classification – Work will be performed at a designated company facility

Specific Requirements

• Must earn a passing score on the System Operator/Power Dispatching test to be considered as a qualified candidate.
• Starting minimum pay is in mid $70,000 range

Travel Requirements

• Not required

Relocation Assistance Provided (as applicable)

• No

Vacancy Information

• This is not a Visa Sponsored Position.
• This role requires the ability to work lawfully in the U.S. without employment-based immigration sponsorship, now or in the future.

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