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Automation and Control Strategies Group, INC. dba ACS Professional Staffing System Administrator in Spokane, Washington
- Location: Spokane, Washington
- Type: Contract
- Job #8024 Overview: ACS Professional Staffing is looking for an employee to work on-site with our client. This System Administrator 2 position will provide full life-cycle support for critical Energy Management Systems (EMS), such as SCADA, AGC, power flow, and state estimation systems. Duties include system operations, maintenance, and technical support for control centers. Additionally, this role will provide technical support for projects related to real-time operational data and dispatcher training simulations. This position interacts cooperatively with personnel from different organizations, requiring 24/7 availability and reliability. This full-time position is located in Vancouver, WA. Pay range: $35.37 - $50.53 Benefits:
- Paid holidays: 11
- PTO: Starting at 10 days
- Sick Leave: Up to 56 hours per year (prorated based on start date)
- EAP: Employee Assistance Program
- Benefit Options Available: Medical, Dental, Vision, FSA, DCA, LPFSA, HSA, Group Life/AD&D, Voluntary Life/AD&D, Voluntary Short-Term Disability, Voluntary Long-Term Disability, Voluntary Critical Illness, Voluntary Accident, 401k (immediately eligible for employee and employer contributions - employer match up to 4%)
- Other benefits include the following: Calm App, Access Perks Responsibilities:
- Provide professional technical system administration, support, and assist to plan and implement software projects critical to Transmission Services.
- Assist with and provide recommendations on the interpretation of design specifications.
- Provide recommendations for and assist with approved complex, EMS technical designs.
- Draft, write, and recommend code and test plans for software that addresses business needs and complies with project documentation requirements. Follow approved test plans and established deployment procedures to perform testing and deployment activities.
- Facilitate, collaborate, and work with an internal development team reviewing the viability and optimum use of various development methodologies.
- As requested, code, test, configure, stage, migrate, maintain, and document various vendor and in-house applications to provide solutions that support business requirements.
- May provide technical evaluation, including weighted recommendations, as a non-voting advisor to a decision-making panel on potential technology solutions as requested.
- Support the biweekly deployment of updated EMS databases and displays to the operational systems, coordinating closely with Dispatchers at both Dittmer Control Center (DCC) and Munro Control Center (MCC).
- Design, develop, and recommend software changes to improve performance for approval; install and implement organization-approved changes.
- Serve as a subject matter technical resource and primary point of contact for real-time Energy Management System software for Control Centers (CCs), Dittmer and Munro. This work includes administer, install, maintain, and modify above systems, including:
- Recommend system / software modifications as need arises; implement approved changes.
- Run utility programs to compile, test, debug, and install software.
- Provide general application maintenance support including timely response to customer trouble reports, troubleshoot and analyze problems, develop and coordinate corrective actions, modify, test, and integrate code fixes.
- Provide application administration and development support including functional analysis, reviewing functional requirements, technical system analysis and design, develop, test, integrate and document application software, and associated displays and databases.
- Recommend software solutions and procedures to recover from malfunctions to keep downtime to To view the full job description,