Transmission Scheduler (OH & WV)

FirstEnergy

About the Opportunity

This is an open position with FirstEnergy Service Co., a subsidiary of FirstEnergy Corp. 

The selected candidate may be offered a position within the same job family, at a level that is lower than what was posted. This will be determined based upon the results of the interview process which considers the candidate's skills, work history, experience level, and other relevant qualifications.

Transmission Schedulers are responsible for maintaining the reliability of the Bulk Electric System during planned and unplanned outages. Employees at the entry level of this job family apply acquired education and experience to work situations and exercise independent judgment on basic projects and assignments. They provide support to management and higher level professionals.

Location: Akron OH or Fairmont WV

Responsibilities include:

• Processing switching requests submitted by regions or project teams

• Analyzing outage requests for contingencies, reliability impacts, overloads, or switching limitations

• Maintaining compliance with PJM outage coordination requirements

• Coordinating outages with internal and external sources

• Modeling scheduled outages in EMS/RTS to identify contingencies and/or overloads. Providing solutions to scheduling concerns

• Writing procedures for taking equipment out of service, restoring service and test energizing

• Provide support to Operators regarding switching controls

• Provide technical support to control centers

• Administration of databases used