GE eTerra

Job Description:

• Role Overview
• This role requires a senior utility professional with extensive experience in electric transmission and distribution operations and deep familiarity with GE ETERRA GMS and EMS platforms used in live control center environments
• The position focuses on helping utilities overcome fragmented operational visibility by aligning control room realities operational data and emerging AI capabilities
• The successful candidate understands how operators actually run the grid under normal conditions and during high stress events and can translate those needs into practical data integration and analytics strategies that support better operational decisions

Key Responsibilities:

• Key Responsibilities
• Grid Operations Control Center Expertise
• Act as a trusted subject matter expert for transmission and distribution operations including real time grid monitoring switching activities outage coordination restoration planning and control room procedures
• Provide practical insight into how operators manage voltage conditions equipment loading alarms contingencies and coordination with neighboring utilities and market operators
• Operational Systems Data Assessment
• Evaluate operational and enterprise systems across EMS GMS SCADA DMS ADMS OMS historians asset platforms market systems and field technologies
• Identify where system boundaries data latency or organizational handoffs limit operational awareness or delay effective decision making
• AI Advanced Analytics Use Case Development
• Identify operational scenarios where AI and advanced analytics can support grid operations including
• o Alarm prioritization and reduction of nuisance alarms
• o Detection of abnormal grid behavior
• o Correlation of events across transmission distribution and field systems
• o Improved awareness during outages restorations and abnormal operating conditions
• o Visibility into emerging asset and reliability risks
• Architecture Data Strategy Collaboration
• Work with operations OT IT and data teams to define secure and reliable data sharing patterns that support near real time operational insight without disrupting control system integrity
• Translate operational requirements into analytics and AI needs including data quality expectations contextual tagging event streams model inputs operator review points and explainability considerations
• GE ETERRA GMS EMS Advisory
• Provide guidance on how GE ETERRA GMS and EMS are typically configured and used within utility control centers
• Advise on integration touchpoints operational workflows and data considerations relevant to reliability monitoring visualization analysis and control functions
• Roadmap Compliance Alignment
• Contribute to long term planning for control center and situational awareness modernization
• Ensure all recommended approaches align with established utility operating practices and applicable reliability and regulatory expectations including NERC and FERC standards

Technical Requirements:

• Required Qualifications
• Bachelor s degree in Electrical Engineering Power Systems Computer Engineering or a related discipline
• 10 years of experience supporting electric utility operations control centers or grid technology programs
• Strong understanding of transmission and distribution operations including switching outage response restoration equipment loading and voltage management
• Hands on experience with GE ETERRA GMS and or EMS in production utility environments
• Experience working across OT and IT systems such as EMS SCADA DMS ADMS OMS GIS AMI asset management historians DER platforms or market systems
• Ability to communicate effectively with operators engineers IT OT teams and leadership stakeholders

Additional Responsibilities:

• Preferred Qualifications
• Experience supporting grid modernization or control center transformation initiatives
• Familiarity with renewable integration challenges contingency analysis state estimation or grid reliability analysis
• Exposure to AI platforms advanced analytics edge computing or digital grid initiatives within utility environments
• Knowledge of utility cybersecurity and secure operational data sharing practices

Preferred Skills:

Technology->Industrial IOT Embedded Software->Control Systems & Acquisition Systems->SCADA