Supervisor, Operations Systems - EMS Advanced Applications

Responsibilities

• Supervise and provide technical leadership to the EMS Advanced Applications Team in 24x7 operational environment to provide system support, analysis, development, programming, and maintenance for the EMS advanced applications utilized by the Grid Control Center (GCC), Operations Engineering (OE) and other PG&E departments.
• Cook up with project leads to meet EMS and Operations project objectives, including project completion metrics (budget, schedule), operational improvement goals, and implementation of new technologies.
• Analyze and resolve complex real-time issues such as data quality issues, State Estimator quality issues, Real-time Contingency Analysis quality issues, and other issues that impact PG&E Transmission Operations.
• Champion the PG&E EMS Network Model support and maintenance processes, including making internal process improvements through improved modeling tools and procedures.
• Work closely with the EMS vendor and other technology vendors to provide project requirements, support technical documentation, lead software testing, and generally facilitate the software implementation process.
• Interact effectively with external entities (CAISO, RC West, WECC, etc.) by supporting industry initiatives and providing subject matter expertise to these entities or their committees.
• Coach, develop, and lead the EMS Advanced Applications team to achieve the department goals and the individual team member goals and development objectives.
• Provide technical expertise for the design, procurement and implementation of Energy Management System applications and development of interfaces to external systems, databases, and applications.
• Implement new technologies needed to support an evolving grid, including but not limited to voltage stability, transient stability, oscillation detection, and transmission voltage optimization.
• Responsible for overall quality of EMS Advanced Applications and their continued high availability. Support EMS team on-call processes and be a backup to team members as needed.
• Contributes to group financial performance by monitoring budget, controlling costs, and reviewing expenses.
• Work as a strong team member and collaborator with other Operations teams (SCADA, EMS Integration, EMS Displays, Operations Engineering, Transmission Grid Operations, etc).

Qualifications

• Five years in an engineering, IT, or other relevant capacity.
• Bachelor’s Degree in a technical or related field or equivalent experience.
• Seven years experience as a user or in support roles for real-time EMS advanced applications including modeling, state estimator, contingency analysis, and real-time assessments.
• Knowledge of California and Federal regulatory requirements such as Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC), NERC, WECC, California Public Utilities Commission (CPUC), RC West, and CAISO.
• Excellent organizational and leadership skills
• Experience with Electric Transmission System Operations
• Extensive knowledge of the GEV Grid Solutions EMS
• Experience with GEV Wide Area Monitoring System (WAMS)
• Master’s Degree in Power system
• Twelve+ years experience in engineering, IT, or other relevant capacity.
• Working knowledge of General Electric Vernova (GEV) e-terra EMS applications and databases.