Lead Control Room Operator - Solar & BESS

About Novasource

NovaSource Power Services is the service partner for renewables asset owners ready to fuel smart growth. As an O&M-focused company with 20 years of operating experience, NovaSource has the global reach and strategic capabilities to achieve our clients’ renewables goals around the world.  

To serve our clients, we invest into our people. On hire, we assess each employee’s experience and expertise, then mentor them to grow engaging and satisfying careers.  

Our turn-key services optimize each step of our clients’ project lifecycles — from commissioning to decommissioning and everything in between. Our approach delivers creates success for our clients, stability for our teams, and enables us to build a world-class culture of excellence. And that’s how we empower a renewable world.

Basic Job Functions:

The Control Room – Lead I plays a key role in assisting the Control Room – Supervisor by pursuing maximum possible revenue deliverables, identifying, and initiating appropriate response plans for alarm conditions that may place safety or production at risk, and implementing all applicable regulatory and contractual obligations as they apply to real-time operations, fleet wide. The Control Room – Lead I is responsible for coordinating day to day operations activities for a diverse portfolio of generating facilities under the jurisdiction of many balancing authorities, transmission operators, and scheduling entities. The position also provides critical support to The Control Room – Supervisor, assisting with the development of needed reporting tools, Operations Procedures, Training Materials, and executing Testing and Drilling Programs.

• Performs all responsibilities of a Control Room – Operator IV.
• Fill in for a Control Room – Operator IV as necessary.
• Expert at navigating all NS GOP O&M Contracts, PPAs, and Interconnection Agreements.
• Quickly recognizes situations that may cause conflicts to arise related to the operating contracts, and reliably arrives at solid business decisions that prioritize value while minimizing regulatory risk.
• Proficient with all external notification and scheduling mechanisms.
• Technical expert with all powerplant operations equipment; assists the Operation Supervisor in developing training material for the Operator’s Continual Training Program.
• Expert at determining regulatory notification requirements and navigating library of operating agreements, business practice manuals, interconnection handbooks, tariffs, and NERC Standards.
• Develop reports and perform detailed data analysis tasks when needed for contractual purposes.
• Proficiently access Historical Data systems when operator tools do not provide needed data.
• Control Room – Lead I response during equipment or execution failure events, quickly identifying the best coordinated response effort, and drives support groups to resolution through multiple parallel paths when warranted.
• Provides high-value-on-the-job training to junior operators.

Experience:

One of the following:

• 3 – 4 years as a Control Room – Operator (I, II, III, and/or IV)
• 7 – 8 years Power Plant Operations, High Voltage Experience is a plus
• Control Room – Lead I Quals achieved.
• Able to demonstrate proficient technical knowledge of all power plant systems (Electrical, SCADA, safety, etc.)
• Experience making high-value business decisions in complicated technical environments at scale.

 Office Physical Requirements:

All positions, when in our offices, require interaction with people and technology while either standing or sitting. In order to best service our customers, internal and external, all such personnel must be able to communicate face-to-face and on the phone with or without reasonable accommodation. NovaSource is committed to compliance with its obligations under all applicable state and federal laws prohibiting employment discrimination. In keeping with this commitment, it attempts to reasonably accommodate applicants and employees in accordance with the requirements of the disability discrimination laws. It also invites individuals with disabilities to participate in a good faith, interactive process to identify reasonable accommodations that can be made without imposing an undue hardship.

Potential candidates will meet the education and experience requirements provided on the above job description and excel in completing the listed responsibilities for this role. All candidates receiving an offer of employment must successfully complete a background check and any other tests that may be required, in compliance with all federal laws and the state in which the candidate resides.

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It is NovaSource’s policy to provide equal employment opportunities to all applicants and employees. NovaSource disapproves of, and will not tolerate, unlawful discrimination against any applicant or employee because of race, color, national origin or ancestry, gender (including pregnancy, childbirth, or related medical conditions), gender identity, age, religion, disability, family care status, veteran status, marital status, sexual orientation, or any other basis protected by local, state or federal laws.