Manager, Remote Operations Center

What The Role Is

This position reports to the Director, Renewable Control Center and will be located in our Scottsdale, AZ office. The Manager, Real-Time Operations oversees the remote control and monitoring of power generation assets across the operating fleet. This position has a primary responsibility to provide direct oversight too the Operations Specialists and ensure that established processes and procedures are consistently implemented and followed. Operating out of the Clearway Energy Group Remote Operations Center the Remote Operations team monitors and controls ~10 GW of utility scale renewable energy plants, to include wind, solar and energy storage.

If you don’t meet 100% of the below qualifications but see yourself contributing, please submit your resume.

What You'll Be Doing

• Provide direction and supervision to the on-shift Operations team in day-to-day job activities and responsibilities
• Oversee and drive continuous improvement in an effort and desire to reduce and eliminate operational issues
• Assist in proactively monitoring real-time activity, performance, and operational status of all wind and solar assets to include dispatching of generation, complying with transmission directives and outage coordination/management
• Assist the operators in understanding and identification of abnormal operations or alarm conditions that arise during shift and appropriately troubleshoot in a timely fashion
• Perform periodic operator log reviews for accuracy and compliance
• Perform acceptance testing on RPMC tools and applications used by the on-shift Operations team
• Support commissioning activities of new projects
• Assist in developing, guiding, and supporting with the onboarding process and training requirements of operations personnel, to include professional development and regulatory obligations.
• Implementation of processes and procedures to ensure compliance with internal controls, regulatory requirements, and offtaker agreements.
• Report to Senior management on operational incidents
• Work in close coordination with Energy Management to execute internal processes and programs
• Develop processes and procedures to comply with various ISO, TSO and other grid regulatory entities
• Assists and facilitates fleet performance reporting
• Work in close coordination with teams outside of the RPMC, such as Site Operations, Operations Performance Analytics, Engineering, IT support teams, and Regulatory

What You'll Bring

• Bachelor’s degree in engineering or related discipline. Relevant experience in electrical & power generation would be considered in lieu of education.
• Minimum of 2 years experience in Renewable Control Center Operations
• Previous Control Center/Dispatch experience preferred
• PJM GO Certification required within 6 months of employment
• NERC Certification required within 12 months of employment
• Able to demonstrate technical knowledge of plant and system processes and experience in operating electrical or SCADA systems
• Able to interpret NERC, ERCOT, WECC, CAISO, PJM, and SPP regulations and requirements
• Available for 24-hour on-call duty to meet obligations to the Operations Team as issues arise
• Knowledge of functional system interactions and must be able to pay attention to critical elements in a complex and regulated environment
• Ability to make financial judgements based off real-time power plant equipment analysis and contract related cost weighting risk versus reward
• Ability to coordinate multiple activities and ensure safety, quality and schedule adherence
• Ability to take direction, identify problems, develop solutions, conduct analysis unsupervised and in collaboration with others
• Ability to work in difficult customer situations
• Ability to work well in a fast-paced, team-oriented, collaborative environment that emphasizes attention to detail, meeting deadlines and working together to achieve company-wide goals
• Demonstrated self-starter with a positive “can do” attitude and a passion for excellence in embracing company goals and initiatives
• Strong interpersonal, analytical, and problem-solving skills
• Proficiency with Microsoft Office products including Excel, PowerPoint and Word

Clearway will not sponsor non-immigrant visas for this position (H-1B, TN, E-3, etc.).