
Description
Essential Duties and Responsibilities:
- Work 12-hour rotating shifts, including days, nights, weekends, and holidays, with potential emergency operations from converter stations.
- Support on-call duties on non-scheduled days (based on availability) by covering absences due to sickness, injury, or emergencies.
- Monitor the HVDC transmission system, ensuring system availability during standby/idle operations, calculating ramp rates, performing remote switching, managing alarms, and dispatching Operations & Maintenance personnel.
- Communicate with the Independent System Operator in both New York and New England, as well as internal CSC personnel and management.
- Maintain operating logs, disturbance and outage reports, equipment failure records, and significant event documentation.
- Assist with maintenance, fault-finding, and repair at converter stations during scheduled and forced outages.
- Provide technical support to Project Engineering for operations and maintenance tasks, including researching equipment design, reviewing specifications, and procuring materials.
Qualifications:
- Bachelor’s or Associate’s degree in Electrical Engineering, Engineering Technology, or a related field.
- Ability to work a non-traditional schedule, including weekends and off-hours as required.
- Strong commitment to workplace safety, with knowledge of OSHA and NESC standards.
- Basic understanding of electric utilities and high-voltage transmission systems.
- Familiarity with federal, state, and local regulations governing electric transmission.
- Willingness to complete an extensive training program and obtain NERC or ISO equivalent certification, maintaining required qualifications.
- Must be eligible to work in the U.S. (Permanent Resident status required).