MidAmerican Energy Company needs a resource manager to operate its portfolio of resources, primarily electric generation, in compliance with MISO criteria and NERC Reliability Standards. The goal is to serve native load, joint dispatch customers, municipal customers, and wholesale sales/purchases while maximizing trading opportunities and ensuring reliable service at the lowest cost.
Requirements
- Knowledge of power system economics, especially economic dispatch and generator efficiency characteristics and energy trading.
- Technical skills and mechanical knowledge related to understanding electric generation and power system operations.
- NERC Balance and Interchange certification or higher certification is required.
- Four years of control center, power plant or trading experience.
- Demonstrated ability to forecast electric system loads, evaluate the best options to serve the forecasted system load, evaluate economic options to serve system forecasted load, perform agency services, determine quotes for trading activities savings through purchases and sales and perform multi-task during very stressful conditions.
- Experience with Generation Management Systems/Supervisory Control and Data Acquisition.
- Respond to transmission loading relief and re-dispatch events through the modification of generation patterns as directed by reliability coordinator at Midwest Independent Systems Operator-St. Paul.
Responsibilities
- Operates MidAmerican Energy Company's portfolio of resources (primarily, but not limited to, electric generation) in accordance with criteria and procedures established by MISO to serve MidAmerican Energy Company's native load, joint dispatch customers, municipal customers and committed wholesale sales and purchases while adhering to Federal Energy Regulatory Commission approved North American Electric Reliability Corporation Reliability Standards.
- Provides key resource portfolio information to manage operational parameters to maximize trading opportunities.
- Reports timely and accurate operational information to the balancing authorities, direct supervision, senior management, and owners.
- Respond to MISO directives.
- Manage plant operational information and issues through communications with generation plant personnel.
- Oversee automatic generation control and work with traders to manage wind production.
- Work to achieve optimum economic resource utilization while considering plant performance, regulatory compliance, and reliability of the interconnected system.
Other
- Associate’s, bachelor's degree in business or engineering-related field or equivalent combination of education and experience specifically related to electric system operation or energy trading.
- One to three years of experience coordinating electric energy resources such as generation; load control, energy trading, supply contracts, and/or electric system operation.
- Demonstrated problem-solving, resourcefulness and analytical skills to forecast and evaluate operational problems, energy production costs scenarios and system reliability concerns to promote continuity of service to customers at the lowest cost while assuring reliability standard and guideline compliance.
- Verbal and written communication skills.
- Effective interpersonal skills and leadership abilities.
