Power Coordinator I - Miami

Power Coordinator I - Miami

Date : Feb 20, 2025

Location(s) : Miami, FL, US, 33134

Company : NextEra Energy

Requisition ID : 85855

is the largest electric utility in the U.S., delivering clean, affordable, and dependable electricity to over 12 million Floridians. With one of the nation’s cleanest power generation fleets and top-tier reliability, we are setting new standards in the energy industry. Ready to make an impact? Join our exceptional team today and help shape the future of energy!

Position Specific Description

Our Systems Operations Department in the Power Delivery Business Unit is seeking a Power Coordinator 1 to join their team based in Miami, FL. This role serves as the Balancing and Interchange Operator for FPL Balancing Authority, which is responsible for scheduling and dispatching resources to economically balance load and generation in order to meet real-time system conditions. Experience with control center operations, power plant operations or protection and controls of high voltage systems are highly preferred. Electrical Engineering Degree is highly preferred.

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

Preferred Qualifications

NextEra Energy offers a wide range of benefits to support our employees and their eligible family members. Clickto learn more.

Employee Group : Exempt

Employee Type : Full Time

Job Category : Operations

Organization : Florida Power & Light Company

Relocation Provided : No

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