Outage Planner

About the role

The Outage Planner will play a crucial role in facilitating functional outage planning reservations applicable to transmission substation and transmission line project components. This position requires collaboration with transmission planning, project management, transmission operations, and transmission field services.

Responsibilities

• Engage and work directly with Transmission Planning and Transmission Operations personnel to develop facility outage reservations to enhance future project schedules.
• Facilitate resolution of outage reservation coordination conflicts and identify and implement alternative solutions.
• Utilize existing tools and processes to communicate with various transmission groups proposed outage plans and reservations.
• Manage multiple outage planning reservation scenarios simultaneously.
• Assist in securing future outage reservations for upcoming projects.
• Assist in prioritizing outage reservations to optimize the benefit both in reliability and earnings.
• Coordinate and collaborate with Transmission Operations in the evaluation of system conditions before submitting an outage reservation.
• Actively review abnormal system conditions to aid in planning and coordinating outage reservations for upcoming projects.
• Perform other duties as assigned.

Essential Skills

• Project Management
• Construction
• Project Life Cycles
• Commercial
• Capital Projects
• Turn-Key
• Engineering
• Construction Management

Work Environment

The work environment is an engineering office setting that is quiet in nature. The dress code is business casual, and teamwork is highly encouraged and frequently practiced.

Pay and Benefits

The pay range for this position is $33.00 - $57.69/hr. Eligibility requirements apply to some benefits and may depend on your job classification and length of employment. Benefits are subject to change and may be subject to specific elections, plan, or program terms. If eligible, the benefits available for this role may include the following:

• Medical, dental & vision
• Critical Illness, Accident, and Hospital
• 401(k) Retirement Plan – Pre-tax and Roth post-tax contributions available
• Life Insurance (Voluntary Life & AD&D for the employee and dependents)
• Short and long-term disability
• Health Spending Account (HSA)
• Transportation benefits
• Employee Assistance Program
• Time Off/Leave (PTO, Vacation or Sick Leave)

Schedule

This is a fully onsite position in Roanoke, VA.