Bulk Power Operations Support Engineer

Southern Company•Birmingham, AL

5d•Onsite

About The Position

This position performs transmission studies on the Southern Company bulk power system, provides engineering support for the months, weeks and days leading up to real time conditions, and ensures compliance readiness for the Bulk Power Operations team. Operational studies could range from analyzing the impacts of planned transmission and generator maintenance outages to transmission service requests and assessing Southern Company’s transfer capability (interface analysis) to support requirements under the Open Access Transmission Tariff. Studies often include a high degree of coordination within Southern Company and with neighboring utilities. The BPO Operations Support engineer is expected to analyze issues, develop solutions and work with the necessary individuals (internal and external) to create favorable system conditions for the real-time operators of the Southern Company bulk power system to reliably operate the system 24 hours a day, 7 days a week.

Requirements

Engineering degree
Experience in transmission studies
Experience in providing engineering support for real-time operations
Experience in ensuring compliance readiness
Experience in analyzing impacts of planned transmission and generator maintenance outages
Experience in analyzing transmission service requests
Experience in assessing transfer capability (interface analysis)
Experience in coordinating with internal and external utilities

Responsibilities

Performs transmission studies on the Southern Company bulk power system.
Provides engineering support for the months, weeks and days leading up to real time conditions.
Ensures compliance readiness for the Bulk Power Operations team.
Analyzes the impacts of planned transmission and generator maintenance outages.
Analyzes transmission service requests.
Assesses Southern Company’s transfer capability (interface analysis) to support requirements under the Open Access Transmission Tariff.
Analyzes issues, develops solutions and works with necessary individuals to create favorable system conditions for real-time operators.
Reliably operates the system 24 hours a day, 7 days a week.