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Responsible for 24X7 operations activities, operational planning activities and system support activities of JEA’s bulk power system including balancing operations, transmission and substation operations, distribution operations and market coordination operations all within applicable NERC, FRCC and JEA standards, policies and procedures.   Refer to PMP technical factors for additional position accountabilities.

Duties and Responsibilities Include:

•          Responsible for bulk power reliability and area balancing including compliance
•          Responsible for maintenance scheduling and coordination
•          Responsible for daily load forecasting, coordination and scheduling of JEA’s generating resources and coordination of fuel use including environmental compliance
•          Responsible for market coordination with The Energy Authority within JEA’s Standard of Conduct
•          Responsible for the administration of JEA’s open access transmission service tariff
•          Responsible for distribution reliability including load and outage management including performance tracking
•          Responsible for the 24X7 control room operations including safety tagging, etc
•          Responsible for the design, implementation, and delivery of an operator qualification training program meeting NERC and FRCC requirements
•          Responsible for the design, implementation and delivery of an continued operator training program meeting NERC and FRCC requirements
•          Responsible for the technical support of electric SCADA and other related processes.
•          Ensures effective coordination occurs within process family and with other process owners
•          Coaches and develops process teams in the process family
•          Develops, maintains effective and efficient workflow and ongoing operations including process modifications, as needed; communicates changes to other process owners and/or those impacted
•          Identifies trends and sees that implementation of corrective action is complete, as necessary; informs others Provides leadership in meeting JEA’s safety goals
•          Drawing on knowledge of process formulates or assists in formulating policies which are applicable to bargaining Unit employees
•          Assists in the strategy, development, and preparation for the conduct of collective bargaining negotiations on behalf of the JEA
•          Administers collective bargaining agreements, identifying and reporting implementation successes and deficiencies as they relate to process.
•          Makes significant contribution in personnel administration, employee relations and preparation of, or administration of budgets relative to process responsibilities.

 Required:

Bachelor’s degree in electrical engineering or related field

AND

  Five or more years of experience with an electric utility.

  Five or more years of successful experience that include grid operations control room, operations planning or SCADA operations is preferred.

A valid driver’s license may be required prior to employment and must be maintained during employment in this class.

Professional Engineer registration in the State of Florida Preferred

NERC Certified Operator Preferred

About JEA

Why JEA? JEA is one of the best places to work in Jacksonville. As one of the largest community-owned utilities in the nation, we offer our team members well-paying, professionally rewarding career opportunities. We invest a lot of training time on our Skilled trades. JEA has developed state certified training programs to develop individuals into a lifetime career in the utilities industry. Learn about the many Career Tracks at JEA JEA Named Best-in-Class Employer JEA was recognized as an organization that provides innovative solutions for creating organizational structures, workplace policies and total rewards, which inclusively engage and motivates its employees. Learn what it means to be Best-in-Class

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