Outage Planner

This role is a crucial part of facilitating functional outage planning reservations for transmission substation and transmission line project components. The Outage Planner will collaborate with transmission planning, project management, transmission operations, and transmission field services to determine the feasibility of specific outage plans and optimize them with other impacted projects. Outage reservations are developed between transmission planning PLMP gates 0.5 through 1.0.

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 proposed outage plans and reservations with various transmission groups.
• Manage multiple outage planning reservation scenarios simultaneously.
• Assist in securing future outage reservations for upcoming projects.
• Assist in prioritizing outage reservations to optimize reliability and earnings benefits.
• Coordinate and collaborate with Transmission Operations in evaluating 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.

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

The pay range for this position is $33.00 - $57.69 per hour.

Benefits

Eligibility requirements apply to some benefits and may depend on your job classification and length of employment. Benefits are subject to change and may include:

• Medical, dental, and vision insurance
• Critical Illness, Accident, and Hospital coverage
• 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 permanent, fully onsite position based in New Albany, OH.