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Grid Operations Manager
Job Code:2025-05-003
Department:Engineering Services
FT/PT Status:Full Time
  

Summary/Position Overview:

POSITION SCOPE

The Grid Operations Manager is responsible for managing the Grid Operations team within Grid Solutions. They will define, engineer and commission technical solutions including (but not limited to) AMI, GIS, SCADA, Distribution Automation, and other field control systems and be responsible for their safe and effective operation.

They will help lead the business and technology transformation with real-time systems, define business and technology changes through next-generation technology and systems and deliver on strategic objectives. In this role, the Grid Operations Manager will work with areas of the business to define our business and technical models, including new products, services and functional capabilities leveraging new distribution management and system technologies. This is a fast paced, high intensity role that will require a combination of skills and experience to be successful, some of which include: operations subject matter expertise, technology integration, operations technologies and systems, effective writing and speaking skills, attention to detail and quality, and operating as a team player.

Duties and Tasks:

DUTIES AND TASKS ARE TO:

Maintain health, safety and environment standards by:
- Establishing maintenance and safety procedures.
- Ensuring compliance with all safety policies and procedures.
- Ensuring compliance with all environmental and health standards, and
- Completing all required HSE training.
- Developing standard operating procedures for safety and environment policies
Contribute to GBPC’s strategy and goals by:
- Articulating, along with other leaders, a clear strategy for Energy and Customer Operations that aligns with corporate strategy - ensuring that all people, planned work and capital projects are aligned to realize stated objectives.
- Engaging diagnostic processes for the continuous assessment of GBPC’s technical infrastructure to understand challenges and opportunities for improvement, system failures and their consequences, to determine criticalities.
- Establishing projections for maintenance requirements and to identify the lifetime of component parts.

Provide technical leadership by:
Actively participating in leadership meetings and offering recommendations to improve
safety efficiency and reliability, minimizing planned and unplanned outages.
- Developing and implementing innovative engineering solutions which support GBPC’s long
term business strategies and operational objectives.
- Introducing and implementing standards and protocols to improve safety, efficiency and
reliability of GBPC’s Electrical Grid, ensuring ongoing assessments of the electrical system,
evaluating equipment performance and substation load balancing; identifying and approving
recommendations to improve system performance; and overseeing the implementation of
system changes.
- Providing expertise in the area of circuit coordination, Data Analysis, Distribution Automation
(DA), Energy Management, Geographical Information Systems (GIS), Outage Management,
SCADA, relay protection, system losses and post disturbance analysis, etc.
- Work as part of a team to develop and implement a long-term plan for overall reliability
improvement.
- Designing, administering, and managing application and control systems for GBPC’s Grid.
- Designing, administering, and managing new Grid Infrastructure systems such as Advanced
Distribution management System, Advanced Meter Infrastructure (AMI) Head End, Meter
Data Management, , Outage Management System (OMS), and PLS CADD.
- Developing and implement predictive models to output future power demands and provide
alternative solutions.
- Developing AI based programs to analyze, interpret, and visualize mass data injection.
- Maintaining all Customer Operations system standards.
- Maintaining all construction platforms such as AutoCAD, Caisson, PLS-CADD, PLS Grid, PLS
Pole and Tower.
- Management of fast data and protection components to output system vulnerabilities and
grid code violations.
- Overseeing Grid Code platforms and define operating parameter references.
- Supporting the integration of the Volt-Var Optimization (VVO) and Distributed Energy
Resources (DER's) into Customer Operations system both for reliability and economic
purposes.
- Managing overall Grid system performance and analyzing root cause system failures.
- Writing reports detailing findings and recommendations for equipment and process upgrades
for enhanced system performance.
- Controlling operation of the secondary, distribution, and transmission in a safe, reliable, and
efficient manner.
- Determining appropriate operational changes to meet load fluctuations or loss of generation
equipment, substation equipment, or distribution/transmission lines
Performing special operating studies and preparing reports, load flows, and other operating
and dispatching data.
- Creating, revise and review standard operating procedures for response and operation of
GBPC’s Grid Systems.
- Cultivating a culture of workplace safety, personal commitment to industry standards and
willingness to comply with workplace policies, in particular ensuring that T&D Lock Out/Tag
Out procedures are understood and followed.

Academic/Skill/Experience Requirements:

ACADEMIC/SKILL/Experience Requirements:

The Grid Operations Manager will have a Bachelor of Science degree in Electrical Engineering from
an ABET-accredited program or an equivalent qualification. A minimum of five years’ engineering
experience in an industrial setting—preferably within a power utility—is required, demonstrating
the ability to apply engineering solutions to support reliable and efficient power generation,
transmission, and distribution operations.
They will have a comprehensive understanding of electrical codes, procedures, and materials used
in the construction, maintenance, and metering of utility transmission and distribution systems.
Proficiency in industrial Lock Out/Tag Out practices is essential, along with a strong personal
commitment to safety and compliance with utility safety management standards. Success in this
role demands advanced technical knowledge, strong analytical and presentation skills, and proven
competence in general engineering practices and project management. These qualifications are
critical to driving system reliability, operational excellence, and regulatory compliance in a dynamic
utility environment.

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