Job Title: Utility Work Planner/Outage Coordinator
Location: Oak Brook Terrace, IL
Job Type and Duration: Contract 1 year +
Job Description: A Work Planner is responsible for planning and coordinating the daily work activities of a team or department. Their primary duties include:
Creating work schedules and assignments for employees based on priorities and deadlines.
Coordinating with internal departments and external contractors to schedule work activities.
Monitoring work progress and adjusting schedules as needed to meet deadlines.
Assigning resources, such as personnel, equipment, and materials, to tasks.
Ensuring that work is completed on time and within budget.
Communicating work schedules and assignments to team members and stakeholders.
Identifying and resolving scheduling conflicts or issues.
Providing guidance and support to team members to ensure work is completed efficiently and effectively.
Keeping abreast of industry trends and best practices in work planning and coordination.
Ensuring compliance with regulatory requirements and company policies.
Work Planners should have strong organizational, communication, and problem-solving skills. They should also be able to work well in a team environment and have the ability to prioritize tasks and manage time effectively. Experience with work planning software and tools is often required.
Planning, scheduling, and coordinating transmission and substation outages required to support large capital projects and programs. Serving as the primary point of contact between Project Management, Transmission System Operations (TSO), and Distribution System Operations (DSO) this position leads outage coordination efforts to ensure work is completed safely, efficiently, and in compliance with Company and PJM requirements. The Outage Coordinator owns the development and management of outage schedules; identification of required outages and outage boundaries; submission, tracking, and rescheduling of outage requests; coordination of lockout/tagout (LOTO) requirements and clearance sequencing; facilitation of outage planning meetings; communication of outage impacts and schedule changes to stakeholders; participation in daily, weekly, monthly, and long-range outage planning
KEY RESPONSIBILITIES
Supports the outage coordination teams. 2 internal folks that work with internal PMs to plan and execute outage requests. PMs ID what equipment is needed and work with outage coordinators to create an outage request within the outage system, this role manages that. This role is going to coordinate with PMs on these outage requests
REQUIRED QUALIFICATIONS
Transmission systems or distribution systems operation experience.
Outage planner or coordinator. Work planner or coordinator. Transmission planning or capacity planning. Transmission or substation engineering
Needs to understand how power flows through a grid. Needs to know isolation points or boundaries.
Can work cross functionally with other groups.
5+ years of experience
NERC or FERC certs would be encouraged
ESPO Corporationwww.espocorp.com630-789-2525View all open jobs at www.espocorp.com/jobsLeaders in Technical Recruiting & Staffing since 1965ESPO has a comprehensive benefits package which includes PTO, Group Health and Dental Insurance, and 401k after you have satisfied the necessary waiting periods.
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