EMS Analyst

JPC Partners is looking for an

ICCP EMS

Analyst that will maintain and develop three of the primary EMS applications - SCADA, Network Applications, and AGC. These systems form the basis of exchanging real-time data, balancing load to generation, and ensuring the safe operation and dispatch of the grid. This position is primarily targeted towards EMS O&M work, including support of core EMS maintenance responsibilities such as SCADA point mapping and upkeep, equipment ratings updates, and related general maintenance.

RESPONSIBILITIES

Telemetry Support Communicate, plan and work with transmission and generation companies to maintain telemetry for new, retired or updated equipment. Manage incoming and outgoing requests for improvement, additions or corrections. Maintain ICCP tags/Object IDs, data parameters, and mapping to the relevant SCADA, Network Application, or AGC models. Manage ICCP permissions/access for transmission and generation companies to telemetry as needed for new equipment, retired equipment, or other changes. Work with external companies to test data points. Use a staging system to thoroughly verify the accuracy, quality and reliability of the data before progressing to production environments. Engage in the study and analysis of where additional telemetry is needed to improve the observability in and near territory. Formulate findings into requests by order of operational value and individual transmission zone concerns. Using available trending and historian tools to investigate suspicious or inaccurate incoming data. Propose and implement methods or processes to drive higher quality control and increase preventative or predictive maintenance. Monitor control room and EMS user customer requests, concerns, and questions. Follow up with appropriate investigation and resolution. Work with other staff doing modeling to coordinate and help ensure that model changes and additions are correctly and appropriately filled out with measured data/SCADA data. Other EMS Support Activities Update, check and correct equipment thermal ratings. Help create and maintain custom graphical displays (PI and EMS displays) both for in-team use and customer use. Maintain, investigate, and grow the nascent synchrophasor data front end and utilities. Setup new data links to new grid assets, in particular with industry-specific data protocols such as DNP3, and security standards such as SSL/TLS. Potentially grow into more advanced responsibilities, including the operations and maintenance of advanced network applications. Provide support on other projects and initiatives as required

QUALIFICATIONS

Bachelor's degree in Electrical Engineering, Power Engineering, Computer Science, similar engineering degree, or equivalent work experience. Strong verbal and written communication skills to facilitate customer support. Demonstrated attention to detail. Disciplined and mature decision making appropriate for critical operations environments. Ability to both learn and take direction from team leads, and also be self-motivated and determined when interactive guidance is not available. Ability to effectively prioritize and execute tasks with efficiency and agility. Pride in workmanship and willingness to learn to be valuable for the team, even when not seen. Demonstrated ability to both identify and realize opportunities to improve efficiency through process improvement and the use of any relevant technology for automation of manual processes Preferred Functional understanding of basic electric grid equipment, topology and power flow principals. Experience working in a UNIX or Linux or similar computing environment. Basic capabilities in databases and database query languages (SQL). Basic scripting capabilities (Python, etc.) sufficient to eventually automate portions of recurring tasks, where appropriate. Demonstrated knowledge and experience with real-time Energy Management Systems. Experience in the Energy or Utility industry