Grid Coordinator

aes; United States; On-site; USD 90,000 - 130,000; Full time

Job summary

The AES Corporation is seeking a Grid Coordinator for the Indianapolis Distribution area. You will provide supervision, leadership and training to field personnel while directing switching operations and ensuring reliable electric service.

You will ensure compliance with NERC/FERC/MISO requirements, forecast budgets and direct contingency plans for emergencies, while coordinating with Control Centers and Customer Operations to restore service efficiently.

Qualifications

• Experience in grid operations and switching in distribution systems.
• Ability to direct and train field personnel.
• Strong budgeting and cost-control experience.

Responsibilities

• Makes complex operating, engineering and economic decisions involving restoration of customer's service after system emergencies.
• Maintains a safe, professional work environment and develops employees' skills.
• Directs contingency plans for natural disasters and other critical situations.
• Directs work schedules and long-range planning with other departments.
• Directs Grid Operations personnel in customer matters during after-hours.
• Forecasts a significant portion of the operation and maintenance budget and controls those expenses.
• Receives, analyzes, schedules and assigns emergency and routine work to maintain continuity of electric service.
• Issues switching orders and directs repair/restoration of service on distribution systems.
• Reads, interprets, analyzes distribution data and corrects issues.

Skills

Supervision

Leadership

Budgeting

Electrical distribution

Compliance (NERC/FERC)

Job description

Are you ready to be part of a company that's not just talking about the future, but actively shaping it? Join The AES Corporation, the largest US-based global power company with a team of 8,300 employees across 12 countries.

AES has been ranked #1 by BloombergNEF in renewable energy sales to corporations in the US and Americas for five consecutive years, providing electricity for millions of people worldwide.

We are proud to foster a strong workplace culture, earning prominent positions in Great Place to Work™ rankings across the markets where we operate. AES was also named one of the World's Most Ethical Companies for the 13th consecutive year in 2026, highlighting our dedication to integrity, transparency, and responsible business practices.

Our spirit of innovation continues to earn industry recognition. AES is the only seven-time winner of the Edison Electric Institute's Edison Awards in the twenty-first century, a distinction honoring global leadership in advancing the electric power industry.

If you're ready to be part of a company that's not just adapting to change, but driving it, AES is the place for you. We're not just building a more sustainable future , we're powering it.

Under general guidance is responsible and accountable for the continuous safe, stable, reliable, economical, environmentally correct operation, and/or maintenance of an assigned functional area of responsibility within Grid Operations for the AES Indianapolis Distribution area. Provides supervision, leadership, and training to others through day-to-day contact. Provides technical advice and counsel for difficult projects. Prioritizes, directs, monitors, and evaluates performance of direct reports within the reporting organization. Prepares, controls, and administers project budgets to achieve maximum business results relating to overall performance, cost efficiency and reliability.

The Grid Coordinator is responsible for complying with NERC, FERC, RFC, IURC and MISO requirements and directing field personnel through switching operations involving the mainline distribution system and the Bulk Electric Transmission System. Will provide assistance to Transmission System Operations during normal and emergency operations as conditions may require.

PRIMARY RESPONSIBILITIES:

• Makes complex operating, engineering and economic decisions involving the restoration of customer's service following system emergencies and coordinates the distribution system effort with the Transmission Control Center and the Distribution Operations Control Center.
• Maintains a work environment that promotes good customer service, striving to economically meet customer requests within the timeframe requested.
• Maintains a safe, professional work environment that offers employees challenging and meaningful work and opportunities to develop their skills and talents
• Directs the preparation and execution of contingency plans for operating the distribution system during natural disasters, civil disturbances and in other critical situations
• Directs, plans, and arranges work schedules to meet both unscheduled and regular work; participates in long-range Company planning with other departments and outside the Customer Operations
• Directs departmental personnel regarding assignments; reviews records, reports and analyses related to the department's work; participants in such work as may be required to meet normal and emergency conditions
• Directs Grid Operations office personnel representing the Company to the customer in all matters regarding Company business and operation of the customer's service during those hours when the main offices are closed
• Works closely with the Customer Service Team during regular working hours
• Forecasts a significant portion of the operation and maintenance budget and subsequent control of those expenses
• Receive, analyze, schedule, route, direct and assign emergency and routine work to maintain continuity of electric service to customers; determine capabilities of substations and circuits so as not to overload conductors, distribution transformers, underground risers, breaker current transformers, substation transformers, voltage regulators and line reclosers, including tabulating connected KVA to be transferred, calculating connected amperes, and applying proper load factors for day and night peak loads;
• Initiates and issues the necessary switching orders and operations to repair and restore electric service continuity on the overhead and underground distribution systems, including customer switchgear and breakers served at distribution voltage levels, and requires knowledge of transformers, voltage regulators, circuit breakers, capacitors, switchgear and reclosers; directs work on underground distribution areas and complexes, the operation of single and three phase underground feeds and pad mounted transformers;
• Reads, interprets, analyzes, and corrects distribution