Lead Balancing & Dispatch
About The Position
As our Lead Balancing and Dispatch, you will play an important role in keeping the lights on for 45 million people. Our team takes on the critical and exciting challenge of dispatching and controlling over a thousand generating units of diverse fuel mix and technology to ensure continuous balance between MISO’s load, generation, and interchange and to support the Eastern Interconnection frequency. Our Lead Balancing and Dispatch will lead our operators, ensure they are well-positioned to successfully execute in real-time, and are provided responsive and effective support. Additionally, our Lead Balancing and Dispatch will help maintain and grow MISO’s system balancing and dispatch expertise as well as serve as an advocate and champion for our team inside and outside of the control room. The goal is to ensure reliable, efficient, and compliant execution of MISO’s Dispatch and MISO’s Balancing Authority (BA) functions, as well as positioning the functions to proactively adapt to changing operational and business landscape. You will have the opportunity to help evaluate and implement changes to support operations of the future, operate the grid during normal, abnormal, and emergency conditions, develop and execute strategy to ensure sustainable and robust business operation, and drive incremental and evolutionary changes to processes, practices, and tools.
Requirements
- a Bachelor’s degree or equivalency established with a combination of education, training, certifications, and directly related experience
- demonstrated experience leading and influencing teams
Nice To Haves
- five or more years of electric utility industry or RTO experience
Responsibilities
- Collaborated with Shift Managers and other leaders to develop our operators and ensure they are continuing to be positioned to successfully maintain reliability in all operating conditions
- Collaborated with other Operations leaders to advance implementation of our new structure in a smooth manner
- Collaborated with leadership to identify and drive implementation of enhancements to our processes, practices, and tools
- Collaborated with leadership to develop a stable and sustainable business operations and create an atmosphere built around MISO’s core value
- Deepened your knowledge of our area and driven the growth of system balancing and dispatch expertise at MISO
Benefits
- 401k
- vacation
- sick and safe time
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What This Job Offers
Job Type
Full-time
Career Level
Senior
