Power Coordinator I

Florida Power & Light Company is America’s largest electric company, providing clean, affordable, and reliable electricity to more than 12 million people in Florida. We operate one of the cleanest power generation fleets in the U.S. and our reliability is among the best in the nation. Our goal is to achieve Real Zero carbon emissions from our operations by 2045 by expanding our solar capacity, increasing battery storage and bringing new renewable energy opportunities to Florida, while improving customer affordability and reliability. Are you interested in becoming a game-changer in the energy industry? Join our world-class team today!

Position Specific Description

Our System Operations Department is looking for a Power Coordinator 1 to join their team in Miami, FL. Engineering Degree is strongly preferred.

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Job Overview

This job is responsible for scheduling and dispatching resources to economically balance load and generation in order to meet real-time system conditions and to comply with applicable regulatory requirements and NERC reliability standards. Employees in this role evaluate and approve OASIS requests and Tags for performing energy accounting functions. This position performs next-day generation planning function and certain system operator functions whenever the on-shift System Operator is away from desk.

Job Duties & Responsibilities

• Performs load forecast in order to optimize the generation dispatch mix
• Projects dispatch needs for the hours-ahead and update the Dispatch Plan to ensure sufficient generation resources are available to meet generation requirements while minimizing production costs
• Runs Economy A program to provide EMT with generation and cost projections to be used for economy purchases and sales
• Dispatches economically the generation resources in real-time to minimize cost and maintain load-generation balance in the balancing area
• Coordinates committing, decommitting and outages of power plants with System Operators and PGBU
• Ensures rapid recovery from loss of generation to comply with NERC requirements
• Verifies all purchases, sales and wheeling schedules in the interchange transaction system
• Performs hourly and on-peak/off-peak energy accounting functions with adjacent balancing authorities
• Determines, develops, provides, and submits/modifies monthly Tags for dynamic schedules
• Ability to meet attendance and storm duty requirements
• Ability to work extended hours
• Ability to work a varied schedule/rotating shift/evening/weekends/holidays as required
• Performs other job-related duties as assigned

Required Qualifications

• High School Grad / GED
• Associate’s or Equivalent Experience
• Experience:3+ years

Preferred Qualifications

• Bachelor’s – Engineering
• Bachelor’s Degree

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Employee Group: Exempt

Employee Type: Full Time

Job Category: Operations

Organization: Florida Power & Light Company

Relocation Provided: No

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