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This position entails front line Business Development activities for smart grid related efforts including market analysis, potential sales contacts, sales presentations and demonstrations, and customer consultation. This position requires significant travel and a minimum of 5 years of experience and Knowledge of the electric utility industry especially distribution operations. Knowledge of Smart Grid and the current activities in this field is a plus.
This position entails technical and consulting services related to Smart Grid including utility systems, data communication systems, AMI, Demand Response, Distributed and Renewable Energy Resources, distributed generation, transmission and distribution systems; electric utility processes, technologies, design, and software deployment efforts. The position requires a minimum of 10 years experience in the utility industry and significant travel.
OATI has been the leading provider of innovative web base software solutions to the Energy Industry in North America for over 14 years. Our employee team is rapidly expanding to meet the changing and growing needs of our customer base. OATI assists clients to adapt to this changing environment by developing solutions to efficiently and effectively manage workload and work processes.
OATI consulting professionals evaluate existing customer work processes regarding Open Access Transmission Tariff administration, Open Access Same-Time Information System (OASIS) requirements and use, e-Tag processing, energy and transmission scheduling, and provide solutions for utility clients responsible for managing electrical grid system operations. OATI professionals lead client and vendor teams responsible for the development and delivery of OATI OASIS and transmission scheduling solutions, as well as consulting on integration, business process and internal controls improvement, grid operations and procedures, and other technical matters. Bachelor's degree required, however adequate industry work experience in system operations will be considered.
- Develops, evaluates and benchmarks business processes and controls based upon best practices as observed in the industry
- Leads projects, develops requirements and testing methodologies and defined reports in support of OATI OASIS and energy/transmission scheduling solution implementation projects
- Manages the progress and efforts of the project team and reviews the work of team members for quality
- Works jointly with client's business process and IT teams during technology implementations to communicate additions and changes to critical processes, operational and financial controls
- Communicates and trains clients on new and existing Regulatory requirements
- Reviews and recommends improvements to energy and transmission scheduling, OASIS and e-Tagging related policies and procedures
- Ensures client leadership involvement and accountability for project outcomes and recommendations
Job Requirement Essential
- Work experience in energy industry is required
- Working knowledge of FERC, NERC, and NAESB regulations and standards
- Experience with ISO/RTO markets in North America preferred
- Strong knowledge of Tariff Administration and e-Tagging processes and energy/transmission scheduling operations
- Strong analytical and technical skills and ability to acquire new skills
- Excellent communication skills (written and verbal)
- Ability to interact with various levels of client management
- Ability to lead small teams and provide client facing responsibilities
- Experience with implementing OASIS, e-Tagging, and energy/transmission scheduling solutions
- Travel required
Offering competitive salary and benefits including 401(k) plan with company match, paid time off and excellent health and dental insurance programs.
OATI has an immediate FT opening for a System Administrator. Qualifications: 1-3/yrs exp with Dell/HP server HW support and Windows Server SW support. Must have working knowledge of IP, Win Server 2003, IIS, AD. MCSE, knowledge of SQL Server, and large Data Center experience a huge plus.
OATI has an immediate FT opening for a Software Developer. The right candidate will have proven experience in Microsoft .NET technology, servers and tools to design and develop prototypes as part of a targeted evaluation of the capabilities and performance of the Microsoft platform as a basis for application development. This position is part of a small group which will include domain experts and application architects to create a new suite of advanced apps for the planning and ops of the electric power grid.
Qualifications: BS or MS in Computer Science or Equivalent. Strong knowledge of object oriented design, common design patterns, and MVC modeling. 3 - 5 years of comprehensive experience in web application development, 3+ years of ASP.NET and PHP or PERL or other frameworks used to develop dynamic web pages, proven experience in writing clean, modular, extensible code Strong .NET development experience.
Preferred Experience and Skills: Experience with Microsoft technologies for web-based multi-tier architectures, knowledge of SQL Server, SharePoint, BizTalk server, experience with Agile development methodologies, short development iterations, test-driven development, and factoring
Open Access Technology Int. is looking for Junior Software Developers for its openings at Mpls, MN. The positions requires a Bachelor’s degree in computer science, computer information systems, management information systems, computer programming or related field and knowledge of JAVA, SQL Server, Object Oriented Design, Java Script, HTML, Dynamic HTML, and C++ . Duties include implementing specific OATI product-community related content using community specific Graphical User Interfaces (GUI) and/ or systems.