Senior Energy Control Systems Engineer

This position is a member of the Energy Control Systems Department. This position leverages expertise in system administration, database administration, application support, and application development to maintain systems and applications critical to GSOC's system operations function. This position is responsible for the application and system administration of the Energy Control Systems (ECS), including Supervisory Control and Data Acquisition (SCADA) and other associated applications. This position ensures the security and operational readiness of technology to support GSOC's real-time System Control Center, Energy Control Center, and Operational Technology Control Center Operators. This position is also responsible for application administration and support for other GSOC operational applications. Among others, these include applications used for Scheduling Member support, load forecasting, interchange scheduling, and generation dispatch.

This position responds to any and all problems that affect or may affect the ECS regardless of the time-of-day or the day-of-the-week. This position is responsible for supporting all matters related to the performance, backup, and maintainability of the ECS, the Scheduling Member System, and other crucial subsystems of the ECS to which they are assigned.

This position is required to maintain awareness of NERC Reliability standards including Critical Infrastructure Protection Standards. This position is responsible for compliance with all applicable laws, regulations, industry standards, corporate policies, guidelines, and procedures, including but not limited to, RUS, OSHA, NERC, FERC and ITS requirements. Promotes an environment of security, compliance, and continuous improvement to meet the Corporation's goals and objectives.

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Required Qualifications:

Education

: Bachelor's degree in Engineering, Computer Science, or related field.

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Specialized Skills

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Due to the critical nature and continuous operation of the Control Center, this position will be subject to calls and occasionally may be placed on call. This position is required to assist with the resolution of problems whenever contacted. The on-call support staff is responsible for correcting the problem, implementing a work around, or devising a work around.