Job description
POSITION DESCRIPTION:
Title: Generation Dispatcher
Reports to: Manager, Real Time Operations
Purpose: Manage the real-time operations of Company’s 3rd-Party Energy Management portfolio, including dispatching generation based upon economic conditions and operational constraints.
Location: Boston, MA, US
Employer is a wholly-owned subsidiary of a global integrated business enterprise that develops and operates businesses across virtually every industry. Employer provides asset management & optimization services to owners of generation and energy storage in North America, and wholesale energy to retail power & gas suppliers. Our proprietary traders cover competitive power markets including New England, Midwest and Western markets. Employer has been optimizing our customers’ generation assets for over 15 years.
Title: Generation Dispatcher
Reports to: Manager, Real Time Operations
Purpose: Manage the real-time operations of Company’s 3rd-Party Energy Management portfolio, including dispatching generation based upon economic conditions and operational constraints.
Location: Boston, MA, US
Employer is a wholly-owned subsidiary of a global integrated business enterprise that develops and operates businesses across virtually every industry. Employer provides asset management & optimization services to owners of generation and energy storage in North America, and wholesale energy to retail power & gas suppliers. Our proprietary traders cover competitive power markets including New England, Midwest and Western markets. Employer has been optimizing our customers’ generation assets for over 15 years.
Role Summary:
Employer is looking for a Generation Dispatcher to assist in managing real-time operations of Company’s generation assets and execute real-time dispatching strategies to optimize real-time energy positions.
Responsibilities:
- Coordinate unit availability, outage schedules, unit startup and shutdown times, and communicate all necessary information to plant personnel, ISOs, and day-ahead traders
- Take or direct timely and appropriate real-time actions in accordance with ISO procedures
- Actively communicate with Asset Management group to maximize value and minimize risk for energy management clients
- Maintain thorough understating of ISO tariffs, manuals, policies and procedures governing generator dispatch
- Comply with applicable NERC Reliability Standards
- Monitor and analyze available market information to identify dispatching opportunities
- Analyze and evaluate energy transactions to ensure that all relevant aspects including energy price, transmission, counter party, and contractual terms are compliant with Company’s Risk Management Policy
- Complete and maintain necessary PJM Generation Operator certification and continuing education requirements
Qualifications:
Bachelor’s degree in economics, business, finance, or other relevant degree/experience
- At least 1 year of real-time generation dispatching experience
- Potential to hire candidate with limited experience as an entry level dispatcher
- Competence with mathematics and technical concepts
- Strong analytical and problem-solving skills
- Proven ability to take appropriate action within time constraints
- Proficient with Microsoft Excel
- Excellent verbal and written communication skills
- Motivated self-starter with ability to work independently and as part of a team
- Generation Dispatchers must be able to work a 12-hour shift schedule as part of a 24 hour, 7 days a week operation
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