Grid Reliability Operator — 12-Hour Rotating Shifts

AES Corporation; Kentucky; On-site; USD 85,000 - 100,000; Full time

Job summary

AES Ohio is seeking a Distribution Operator to control and operate the company’s distribution resources, including circuit breakers, switches, and voltage regulation equipment. You will ensure compliance with PUCO regulations and AES safety standards while coordinating switching operations on the mainline distribution system.

Under limited direction, you will implement real-time actions, mentor trainees, and support outage scheduling, system modeling, and contingency analysis to maintain

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in engineering or similar technical field preferred; associate degree accepted with math/electrical aptitude.
• Ability to understand complex instructions and electrical theory, and to work with little supervision.

Responsibilities

• Implements real-time actions, including shedding firm load under the transmission System Operator.
• Directs safety and reliability actions for the distribution grid and coordinates field crews.
• Oversees switching and tagging to achieve LOTO isolation on mainline equipment during outages.
• Responds to disturbances to ensure continuous electricity supply to customers.
• Communicates system status to colleagues and management during abnormal conditions.
• Monitors reactive reserves to maintain system reliability.
• Mentors Operator Trainees in the operator training program.
• Reviews and updates departmental operating procedures annually.
• Uses the system model to simulate removals and review contingencies.
• Transfers operations knowledge to Back-up Control Center when needed.
• Assists outage scheduling, writes switch orders, and analyzes load flow for outages.
• Develops and maintains tools for model updates, contingency analysis, EMS/ADMS tasks, and data quality.
• Maintains knowledge of substations, distribution/transmission systems, and safety requirements.

Skills

Communication

Electrical theory

Analytical thinking

Decision making

Grid operations

Data interpretation

Education

Bachelor’s degree in engineering

Associate degree in math/electrical theory

Tools

Grid operations systems

Databases/Spreadsheets/Word processing

Job description

AES Ohio is seeking a Distribution Operator to control and operate the company’s distribution resources, including circuit breakers, switches, and voltage regulation equipment. You will ensure compliance with PUCO regulations and AES safety standards while coordinating switching operations on the mainline distribution system.

Under limited direction, you will implement real-time actions, mentor trainees, and support outage scheduling, system modeling, and contingency analysis to maintain