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Southern California Edison Energy Operations Specialist - Realtime Operator [ON-SITE] in Rosemead, California
Job Description
Join the Clean Energy Revolution
Become an Energy Operations Specialist – Realtime Operator at Southern California Edison (SCE) and build a better tomorrow. In this role, you’ll join our Southern California Edison Generation Operation Center (GOC) within the Energy Procurement & Management (EP&M) team. The GOC ensures that our customers have enough electricity to meet their needs, through the output of SCE-owned generation plants and purchase of electricity from independent generators. The GOC is responsible for leading SCE’s diverse fleet of renewable & conventional generation, intertie, energy storage, and demand side resources. In this role you will communicate with power plant operators, and the California Independent System Operator (CAISO) operators to ensure compliance in a dynamic, 24 x 7 operational environment.
As the Energy Operations Specialist – Realtime Operator, you will work rotating 12 hour shifts and perform all scheduling coordinator functions in the California Independent System Operator’s (CAISO) wholesale power market and the CAISO regional Energy Imbalance Market (EIM). You will also be responsible for purchasing and selling energy and transmission as needed to serve our customer’s energy needs.
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Monitor SCE’s portfolio of generation, load, intertie, energy storage, and demand response resources and take action to ensure reliable operations.
Receive and communicate dispatch instructions and verify that they are followed.
Receive, approve, submit, and handle outages and derates throughout their entire lifecycle.
Purchase and sell energy and transmission to meet company objectives.
Craft, adjust, and monitor e-tags as necessary for intertie transactions.
Respond to CAISO directives and requests for information. Submit bids and schedules as needed.
Define and implement process improvements.
Produce transaction reports ensuring compliance with all regulatory rules and internal risk requirements.
Provide accurate, written record of daily events.
A material job duty of all positions within the Company is ensuring the protection of all its physical, financial and cybersecurity assets, and properly accessing and managing private customer data, proprietary information, confidential medical records, and other types of highly sensitive information and data with the highest standards of conduct and integrity.
The Essentials
Three (3) or more years of experience in functions related to energy markets, power plant operations, commodity trading, financial analysis, modeling, and/or data analytics.
Ability to work 12-hour rotating shift schedule including weekends, nights, holidays, and overtime when necessary.
Experience working collaboratively with internal and external partners (e.g. plant personnel, CAISO operators, etc.)
Experience making decisions or recommendations guided by compliance requirements, company policies, procedures, rules, or management oversights.
The Preferred
Bachelor’s degree
Knowledge with WECC (The Western Electricity Coordinating Council).
Experience with generation dispatching, energy scheduling, energy trading, transmission purchasing, and e-tags via software, telephone, radio, computer and internet-based systems.
Experience with control system software such as SCADA, EMS, or GMS.
Experience with real time trading
NERC System Operator Certification
Experience acting as a Scheduling Coordinator in CAISO or other balancing area with ability to follow standardized instructions and procedures such as tariffs, business process manuals, NERC operating procedures, and internal operating processes while applying the full suite of BA software applications such as ADS, SIBR, CMRI, BSAP, OMS, and CIDI.
You should know
This position’s work mode is on-site. The employee will report to an SCE facility or in the field location. Further details of this work mode will be discussed at the interview stage.
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Relocation does not apply to this position.
Qualified applications with arrest or conviction records will be considered for employment in accordance with the Los Angeles County Fair Chance Ordinance for Employers and the California Fair Chance Act.
About Southern California Edison
The people at SCE don't just keep the lights on. Our mission is so much bigger. We’re fueling the kind of innovation that’s changing an entire industry, and quite possibly the planet. Join us and create a future with cleaner energy, while providing our customers with the safety and reliability they demand. At SCE, you’ll have a chance to grow personally and professionally, making a real impact in Southern California and around the world.
At SCE, we celebrate our differences. We are a proud Equal Opportunity Employer and will not discriminate based on race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, age, disability, protected veteran status or any other protected status.
We are committed to ensuring that individuals with disabilities are provided reasonable accommodation to participate in the job application or interview process, to perform essential job functions, and to receive other benefits and privileges of employment. Please contact us to request accommodations at (833) 343-0727.
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