Specialist Operational Assessments Mti

**Specialist Operational Assessments MTI**:
**Date**:Jan 15, 2025

**Location**: CA

**Company**:Independent Electricity System Operator

**INDEPENDENT ELECTRICITY SYSTEM OPERATOR (IESO)**

**Requisition ID**:

- 20200

**Location**:

- Mississauga

**Status**:

- Temporary up to 18 months

**Business Unit**:

- Markets & Reliability

**Why join us?**

You’ve got great skills. And you want to use them in an organization where you know what you do every day matters. We get that.
We also know that ensuring Ontarians have access to affordable and reliable power doesn’t happen by accident. So we give you the tools, flexibility and support you need to achieve your goals, and development opportunities to help you grow. You’ll thrive in a collaborative, team-based environment that values your unique skills and experiences - and recognizes that when you do better, we become even better too.

**Who we are**

The Independent Electricity System Operator (IESO) works at the centre of the province’s power system, ensuring Ontarians have access to reliable and cost-effective electricity when and where they need it. We operate the province’s electricity grid 24/7, design, run and oversee the wholesale electricity markets, and plan and prepare to meet Ontario’s electricity needs - now and into the future.

**The opportunity**
- Develop appropriate processes and tools, including end user computing (EUC) tools, to support Operations activities.
- Produce business process documentation, including procedural or operating instructions for Operations activities. Ensure that the documentation is consistent with NERC standards, NPCC criteria, the market rules, and other relevant government regulations and industry standards.
- Conduct operational assessments to identify operating and ancillary services’ needs to mitigate any reliability and operability risks.
- Ensure timely execution of IESO forward markets and proper coordination of integration of emerging technologies/new market design into IESO operations
- Provide a consultative service to other departments and/business units on matters related to reliability support and system and market operations
- Perform compliance assessment on operational events against NERC standards, NPCC criteria, the market rules, and complete appropriate reporting.

**What you'll do**
- Develop appropriate processes to support Operations activities. Identify the objectives of business processes, assess the risk of not meeting those objectives and identify process controls to mitigate risk as appropriate. Document process objectives, tasks, risks and controls in summary documentation (e.g. risk-control matrices).
- On an on-going basis, assist process owners/stewards in reviewing the effectiveness of existing Operations processes. Recommend, develop and implement effectiveness and efficiency improvements, as necessary.
- Work with SMEs within and outside Operations as necessary to integrate new technology/market design into IESO Operations by:

- Determining different stakeholders impacted and coordinate development of appropriate processes, tools and procedures to enable seamless integration
- Managing risks by developing proper controls and monitoring to ensure that processes/tools are functioning as designed
- Liaise with Operations staff to understand issues with the performance of existing operational tools, and follow-up with relevant groups including Information Technology (IT) to facilitate their resolution.
- Develop end user computing tools as necessary to support Operations tasks, including operation of the IESO controlled grid and operation of the IESO administered markets.
- Maintain a current knowledge of Operations processes (including but not limited to day-ahead scheduling, control room procedures, real-time scheduling) for the purposes of interpreting and assessing the priority of issues regarding Operations tools and processes.
- 8. Execute forward market functions in a timely manner and track their performance by
- Coordinating with different business units within operations to conduct assessment of forward market participation requests, preparation of required inputs for forward market execution, and reporting of results
- Developing proper monitoring including tools to assess validity of results against the market objectives
- Contribute to, lead and manage internal and external working groups and provide Operations perspective by participating in various stakeholder engagements that impact the operation of the IESO administered markets.
- Assess the effectiveness of new programs and potential solutions to address operational and market inefficiencies in coordination with SMEs from other business units.
- Conduct assessment of operational events for their compliance with legislation, regulations and standards including the market rules and market manuals, NERC standards and NPCC criteria Where needed, conduct root cause analysis to develop appropriate mitigation plans to conta