Control Room Operator

Your Job

DEPCOM is looking for a Control Room Operator.

The Control Room Operator will play a key role in assisting the Operations capability team by pursuing maximum possible revenue deliveries, identifying and initiating appropriate response plans for alarm conditions that may place safety or production at risk, and implementing all applicable regulatory and contractual obligations as they apply to real-time operations fleet wide.

The Control Room Operator will be responsible for coordinating day to day operations activities for a diverse portfolio of generating facilities under the jurisdiction of many balancing authorities, transmission providers, and scheduling entities.

This will be for our second shift.

Second shift hours- 9:00 PM to 07:00 AM.

Our Team

The DEPCOM Power Operations & Maintenance group is a collaborative, safety-oriented team troubleshooting at our project sites

What You Will Do



* Monitor and operate many small and large aggregate PV and Energy Storage generators, familiar with use of multiple monitoring and control platforms.


* Evaluate complicated operating situations against multiple regulatory and contractual obligations: operating contracts (O&M Agreement, Power Purchase Agreement, Interconnect Agreement), business practice manuals, transmission and scheduling entity operating handbooks, operating agreements, and any NERC standards applicable to the generator operator / generator owner.


* For equipment not yet under O&M jurisdiction, provide monitoring to recognize any high priority alarm conditions that may place DEPCOM at risk under applicable operating contracts and regulations.

Provide recommendations to Commissioning for the purpose of mitigating risk, which recommendations from time to time may involve complicated business trade-offs.


* Operate multiple power plant control systems technologies across the fleet, understanding the behavior and capabilities of each technology; predict grid response to any control action; implement voltage schedules according to operating agreements and contracts.


* Initiate and document an appropriate alarm response plan for all trouble indications in accordance with DEPCOM procedure, including documenting low-impact and low-risk trouble indications.

coordinate immediate response for high risk or high impact trouble indications, providing all notifications required by contracts and regulations to the Owner, Transmission Provider, and Scheduling Entity.


* Perform failure analysis using historical data for inverter trips and performance reductions, failures of MV and HV equipment, network equipment, and control systems.

Assigns outage classifications to ensure all monthly reporting obligations are met and provide reliability data for DEPCOM use in future process development and site development.


* Maximize the fleet's overall value through interactions with maintenance teams across the fleet; understand contractual dispatch obligations for eac...