Lead Control Room Operator - Solar & BESS

NovaSource Power•Chandler, AZ

10d•Onsite

About The Position

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.

Requirements

3 – 4 years as a Control Room – Operator (I, II, III, and/or IV)
7 – 8 years Power Plant Operations
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.
Expert at navigating all NS GOP O&M Contracts, PPAs, and Interconnection Agreements.
Proficient with all external notification and scheduling mechanisms.
Expert at determining regulatory notification requirements and navigating library of operating agreements, business practice manuals, interconnection handbooks, tariffs, and NERC Standards.

Nice To Haves

High Voltage Experience is a plus

Responsibilities

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.
Implementing all applicable regulatory and contractual obligations as they apply to real-time operations, fleet wide.
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.
Providing 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.
Performing all responsibilities of a Control Room – Operator IV.
Filling in for a Control Room – Operator IV as necessary.
Quickly recognizing situations that may cause conflicts to arise related to the operating contracts, and reliably arriving at solid business decisions that prioritize value while minimizing regulatory risk.
Assisting the Operation Supervisor in developing training material for the Operator’s Continual Training Program.
Developing reports and performing detailed data analysis tasks when needed for contractual purposes.
Accessing Historical Data systems when operator tools do not provide needed data.
Responding during equipment or execution failure events, quickly identifying the best coordinated response effort, and driving support groups to resolution through multiple parallel paths when warranted.
Providing high-value-on-the-job training to junior operators.