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Supervisory Power System Dispatcher
Western Area Power Administration · Posted 78 days ago
Hybrid Watertown, SD $156K – $190K Apply by Jul 27, 2026 Miscellaneous Clerk And Assistant ISFJISTJ Transportation
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This position is part of the WAPA-UGP-Upper Great Plains. As a Supervisory Power System Dispatcher, you will provide technical support to a power system dispatch function and to provide program direction and supervision.
What You'll Do
- →As a Supervisory Power System Dispatcher, you will: Assure the effective and efficient control and operation of the system for the generation and delivery of capacity and energy to customers in coordination with interconnected utilities.
- →Maintain strict compliance with FERC standards of conduct, NERC Standards, Western Electricity Coordinating Council (WECC) Standards and Operating Reliability Criteria.
- →Monitor and execute real-time power system studies utilizing state estimation and advanced application tools to ensure system reliability is in a secure state.
- →Ensure dispatchers have the knowledge and ability to accurately post available transfer capability on the applicable OASIS.
- →Ensure appropriate business practices are equitably applied.
- →Represent WAPA at policy and decisional meetings with Bulk Electric System utilities, industry oversight agencies such as WECC, Midwest Reliability Organization (MRO), NERC, and FERC, etc., generator operators, load serving entities, customers, etc.
- →Collaborate with Managers, Transmission Business Unit staff, Operations Engineering, and Planning units, to ensure dispatchers accurately post available transfer capability on the applicable OASIS.
- →Plan work to be accomplished by subordinates, set, and adjust short-term priorities, prepare schedules for completion of work, and assign work based on priorities, consideration of difficulty and requirements of assignments and the capabilities of the employee.
- →Provide advice, counsel, or instruction to employees on both work and administrative matters.
Requirements
- ✓Must be a U.S.
- ✓Citizen or National.
- ✓This employer participates in the e-Verify program.
- ✓Males born after 12/31/1959 must be registered for Selective Service.
- ✓Suitable for Federal employment, as determined by a background investigation.
- ✓May be required to successfully complete a probationary/trial period.
- ✓Employees serving on a probationary or trial period may be terminated at any time during the probationary or trial period for performance, conduct, or business-related reasons in the interest of Federal service.
- ✓Limit your resume to no more than two (2) pages.
- ✓If more than two pages are submitted, only the first two pages will be reviewed to determine your eligibility and qualifications.
- ✓In accordance with Executive Order 14170, applicants are encouraged to respond to the four short, free-response, essay questions in the questionnaire.
- ✓Answers to these questions are not scored or rated.
- ✓Your answers will be reviewed by the hiring manager and agency leadership if you are referred for selection consideration.
- ✓Must possess and maintain a North American Electric Reliability Corporation (NERC) certification of at least a "Balancing, Interchange and Transmission Operator" at the time of application.
- ✓The incumbent must become qualified to work a desk in the operations control room within eleven (11) months of appointment to this position, exceptions to this must be approved by the Operations Manager.
Personality Fit
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