STORM DUTY REQUIREMENTS

Tampa Electric and its sister companies serve a role in providing critical services to our community during an emergency. Team members are required to participate in the response/recovery activities related to emergencies/disasters to maintain service to our Tampa Electric customers. Team members are required to work in their normal job duties or other assigned activities. Proper compensation will be made in accordance with the company’s rules and procedures.
Responding to storms will be considered a condition of employment.
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Title: Engineer - Grid Operations Next Day Operations (Varies)
Company: Tampa Electric Company
State and City: Florida - Tampa
Shift: 8 Hr. X 5 Days

EDUCATION

Required: Bachelor’s Degree in Engineering from an ABET accredited college/university program.
Preferred: Bachelor’s Degree in Electrical Engineering from an ABET accredited college/university program.

RELATED EXPERIENCE

Required: No prior, or related, experience is required.
Preferred: Previous work experience in Substation, Transmission, Grid Operations or Planning and familiarity with TEC and the surrounding FRCC interconnected Bulk Electric System (BES) is preferred. Additional experience and training as a NERC certified ESO is also preferred

EDUCATION

Required: Bachelor’s Degree in Engineering from an ABET accredited college/university program.
Preferred: Bachelor’s Degree in Electrical Engineering from an ABET accredited college/university program.

RELATED EXPERIENCE

Required: 18 months of related Engineering work experience is required. Or, 12 months of related Engineering experience with the FE(Fundamentals of Engineering) designation.
Related work experience consists of transmission construction project planning, conducting system outage studies in either PSSE Load Flow or STNET in EMS environments, and preparing switching and tagging instructions.
Preferred: Previous work experience in Substation, Transmission, Grid Operations or Planning and familiarity with TEC and the surrounding FRCC interconnected Bulk Electric System (BES) is preferred. Additional experience and training as a NERC certified ESO is also preferred

EDUCATION

Required: Bachelor’s Degree in Engineering from an ABET accredited college/university program.
Preferred: Bachelor’s Degree in Electrical Engineering from an ABET accredited college/university program.

RELATED EXPERIENCE

Required: 4 years of related Engineering work experience.
Related work experience consists of transmission construction project planning, conducting system outage studies in either PSSE Load Flow or STNET in EMS environments, and preparing switching and tagging instructions.
Preferred: Previous work experience in Substation, Transmission, Grid Operations or Planning and familiarity with TEC and the surrounding FRCC interconnected Bulk Electric System (BES) is preferred. Additional experience and training as a NERC certified ESO is also preferred

EDUCATION

Required: Bachelor’s Degree in Engineering from an ABET accredited college/university program.
Preferred: Bachelor’s Degree in Electrical Engineering from an ABET accredited college/university program.

RELATED EXPERIENCE

Required: 8 years of related Engineering work experience.
Related work experience consists of transmission construction project planning, conducting system outage studies in either PSSE Load Flow or STNET in EMS environments, and preparing switching and tagging instructions.
Preferred: Previous work experience in Substation, Transmission, Grid Operations or Planning and familiarity with TEC and the surrounding FRCC interconnected Bulk Electric System (BES) is preferred. Additional experience and training as a NERC certified ESO is also preferred

KNOWLEDGE/SKILLS/ABILITIES (FOR ALL LEVELS)

Required: Must have sound knowledge of functional area of work and advanced engineering concepts.
Ability to direct others.
Ability to establish and implement efficient work procedures and practices.
Preferred: Knowledge of NERC Reliability Standards. EMS, FTMS, OATI, iTOA, PSSE experience.

• Conduct Operations Planning (power flow and STNET using EMS) studies for planned and unplanned outage requests for use by the ESO. Coordinate outage requests with various departments including Transmission, Substation, Telecommunication, Energy Supply, Project Management and EMS and SCADA modelers. Update Florida Transmission Management System (FTMS) software with planned outages in accordance with NERC requirements and document all study activities and outage requests for compliance purposes. Provide operations support for Grid Operations as needed. (30%)
• Perform daily required posting(s) of TEC’s Next Day (ND) Dispatch file to the Florida Reliability Coordinating Council’s (FRCC’s) ND Reliability Coordinator’s (RC’s) site and TEC’s ND GenMan file to the FRCC’s Balancing Authority’s (BA’s) posting site. Also develop and document mitigation plans for the RC’s ND Operational Planning Analysis (OPA). Ensures all planned outages are correctly entered in iTOA with all necessary details and information. May also assist with forced outages as needed. (30%)
• Coordinate Bulk Electric System (BES) protection system, transmission, substation and generation outages with neighboring utilities and the FRCC RC in accordance with the applicable NERC Reliability Standards. Coordinate all new projects to be included in the short-term planning horizon including updating FRCC Operational casers, iTOA equipment library, EMS & SCADA 1-line review to accommodate future clearances for new equipment (15%)
• Interfaces with load-serving entities, generation entities, regulatory agencies, regional reliability councils (FRCC), and other transmission providers to obtain necessary inputs into the planning process. Represents TEC on FRCC groups including Operations Planning Coordinator (OPC), Operating Planning Working Group (OPWG), and other ad hoc study groups as needed. Support NERC activities for TOP, BAL, GO standards impacted by the next-day planning efforts (including analysis of CPS trends) (15%)
• Conduct and assist in studies to determine TEC’s transmission systems interchange abilities, import/export restrictions, off-peak limits, and many other operational and planning related requests. Identify and document recurring system operation conditions and trends (e.g. low voltage, unusual flows) requiring planning attention (10%)Support NERC activities for TOP, BAL standards including the analysis of CPS trends as needed. (10%)