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As a wholly owned subsidiary of Canadian Solar Inc., we are a leading global developer, owner, operator, and asset manager of utility-scale solar and energy storage projects.\nThrough Recurrent Energy Power Services, we provide operations, maintenance, monitoring, engineering, and asset management services that support renewable energy facilities across North America. \nWith a proven track record spanning six continents, Recurrent Energy brings together experts across every stage of the renewable energy lifecycle, from project origination, development, financing, and construction to operations, maintenance, and long-term asset management. Our work is helping shape a cleaner, more resilient energy future worldwide.\nBacked by the innovation, strength, and global reach of Canadian Solar, we are helping accelerate the transition to a sustainable energy future while creating meaningful opportunities for our employees to grow, innovate, and make a lasting impact. Guided by our values of Trust, Collaboration, Accountability, Excellence, and Inclusiveness, we are building a cleaner world for generations to come. \nIf you're passionate about renewable energy and driven to make a difference, join Recurrent Energy to power the world with clean energy and create a better, cleaner future for generations to come.\nThe Control Room Operator is responsible for the safe, reliable, and compliant real-time monitoring and operation of photovoltaic (PV) and battery energy storage system (BESS) facilities. This includes managing assets located across multiple countries and regions, each with its own market rules, regulatory requirements, and operating environments. The Operator ensures that grid, regulatory, and contractual obligations are met through adherence to NERC Reliability Standards and ISO 9001 quality management principles, while coordinating with global stakeholders across different time zones.\nPosition Title: Control Room Operator\nDepartment: Operations & Maintenance\nReports To: Operations Control Centre Supervisor\nDescription:\nThe Control Room Operator is responsible for the safe, reliable, and compliant real-time monitoring and operation of photovoltaic (PV) and battery energy storage system (BESS) facilities. This includes managing assets located across multiple countries and regions, each with its own market rules, regulatory requirements, and operating environments. The Operator ensures that grid, regulatory, and contractual obligations are met through adherence to NERC Reliability Standards and ISO 9001 quality management principles, while coordinating with global stakeholders across different time zones.\nResponsibilities:\nThe successful applicant will be responsible for the following initiatives:\nMonitor and control multiple PV and BESS facilities in real-time through SCADA and EMS platforms, spanning different countries and grid operators worldwide. This includes but not limited to station instruments (Switches, breakers, inverters trackers, sensors, meters, and generated alarms to ensure voltage and power levels (among other metrics) are within acceptable limits.\nExecute switching orders, dispatch instructions, and plant commands in coordination with Transmission Operators (TOs), Balancing Authorities (BAs), and Scheduling Coordinators (SCs).\nNavigate and comply with market-specific requirements (e.g., CAISO, ERCOT, MISO, National Grid, European TSOs) while ensuring consistent operational standards globally.\nIdentify, analyze, and respond to operational events such as curtailments, outages, and derates across diverse regulatory environments.\nCoordinate with international site teams and local field technicians during maintenance, outages, and emergencies.\nPerform duties in compliance with NERC Reliability Standards (CIP, COM, PER, PRC, TOP, and others as applicable) for North American facilities.\nSupport compliance with international standards and local market operator rules for facilities outside of North America.\nMaintain situational awareness to support the reliability of the Bulk Electric System (BES) and equivalent systems worldwide.\nProtect Critical Cyber Assets (CCAs) and follow cyber and physical security protocols under CIP standards, ensuring global applicability of best practices.\nParticipate in NERC and equivalent international training, drills, and evidence gathering for audits.\nAdhere to established operational procedures, work instructions, and ISO 9001 quality management standards across all global facilities.\nContribute to continuous improvement by reporting process nonconformities, identifying root causes, and suggesting corrective/preventive actions applicable worldwide.\nMaintain accurate documentation, event logs, and evidence trails to support ISO 9001 audits and quality reviews across multiple regulatory jurisdictions.\nSupport OCC initiatives in developing standardized global operating procedures, ensuring consistency while respecting local regulations.\nRecord and report real-time events, incidents, and performance metrics in accordance with internal and external requirements, tailored to regional regulatory obligations and within our internal CMMS.\nInterface with international stakeholders, including field technicians, grid operators, plant managers, and Scheduling Coordinators across multiple time zones.\nComplete and submit availability and outage reports to global market operators, scheduling coordinators, and regulators in their required formats.\nFollow all health, safety, and environmental (HSE) standards in daily activities.\nContribute to maintaining a culture of reliability, operational discipline, and compliance excellence, regardless of geographic region.\nAssist in root cause analysis of system disturbances, outages, etc. across global operations.\nConduct other duties as assigned.\nQualifications and Experience:\nA post-secondary diploma in Electrical Engineering.\nExperience in a customer/supplier service environment.\nStrong work ethic, positive team attitude and able to work in a fast-paced environment.\nStrong situational awareness and decision-making under pressure.\nUnderstanding of PV/BESS operations would be an asset.\nExcellent written and verbal communication skills.\nAvailable to work on a rotating schedule with 12-hour shifts, including weekends.\nJob Type: PermanentFull-Time\nNumber of Positions: 1\nGrade: T1\nSalary Range: $32.00 - 33.50 per hour\nHours: 40\nNote:\nWe embrace diversity and are committed to creating an inclusive workplace, welcoming applications from all qualified persons. We encourage Black, Indigenous, People of Colour, 2SLGBTQIA+ individuals, gender diverse people, people with diverse abilities, members of ethnic minorities and faith groups, foreign-born residents, and veterans to apply. Applicants will not be discriminated against based on race, colour, creed, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, age, religion, national origin, citizenship status, ability, ancestry, marital status, veteran status, medical condition or any protected group.\nStudies have shown that women and people of diverse backgrounds are less likely to apply to jobs unless they meet every single qualification in the posting. We are committed to creating an\nenvironment where we eliminate barriers and promote inclusion of equity groups. We strongly encourage applications even if you don’t believe you meet all the requirements outlined. We will do\nour best to respond.\nThe company reserves the right to change the duties and responsibilities of this position at its own discretion.\nUpon individual request, Canadian Solar will endeavor to remove any barrier to the hiring process to accommodate those candidates with disabilities.\nInterviews will be conducted only with qualified applicants.\nUse of Artificial Intelligence in the Hiring Process\nRecurrent Energy may use artificial intelligence (AI) - enabled tools to support efficiency in certain stages of the recruitment process. All applications are also reviewed by a member of our Talent Acquisition team to ensure a fair, consistent, and thorough evaluation. AI tools do not make final hiring decisions.\nPlease note: Candidates will be provided an update on their application.We encourage you to periodically check your spam or junk folders, as some candidates - particularly those using Gmail or Hotmail - have reported our emails being filtered there.","description_format":"text","description_chars":8512,"description_truncated":false,"requirements":{"experience_years_min":null,"management_years_min":null,"team_size_min":null,"manages_managers":false,"education":null,"security_clearance":false,"languages":[]},"benefits":["Equity"],"hiring_locations":[],"hiring_excludes":[],"relocation_offered":false,"industries":["Energy & Utilities","Energy Storage"],"lifecycle":[{"event":"open","at":"2026-10-20T00:10:18Z"}],"visa":[],"liveness":{"score":86,"band":"hot","label":"Hiring now","p_open":1,"p_active":0.86,"p_room":1,"age_days":3,"expected_fill_days":25,"reasons":["conf:10","win:early"],"computed_at":"2026-10-22T06:10:10Z"},"pay":{"stated_usd_annual":46000,"is_top_pay":false},"html_url":"https://alion.io/job/recurrent-energy-control-room-operator","json_url":"https://alion.io/job/recurrent-energy-control-room-operator.json","meta":{"generated_at":"2026-10-22T09:00:04Z","cache_seconds":300,"methodology":"https://alion.io/methodology","terms":"https://alion.io/terms","contact":"https://alion.io/contact","api":"https://alion.io/developers","about":"Alion is a live layer of people, companies and AI agents: who they are, whether they are real and active right now, what they do and how to work with them, readable by people and by agents and paid per call.","catalog":"https://alion.io/catalog.json","usage":{"tier":"crawler_verified","counted_by":"address","units_charged":1,"used_today":5449,"day_limit":null,"remaining_today":null,"minute_limit":300,"resets_at":"2026-10-23T00:00:00Z"}},"offers":[{"id":"company.slices","title":"One company in depth, by slice","status":"live","price":{"credits":0.02,"usd":0.002,"plus_per_slice":{"credits":0.05,"usd":0.005}},"unit":"per company, plus each slice with data","note":"the employer in depth","call":{"mcp_tool":"get_company","arguments":{"id":2075735},"rest":"https://alion.io/mcp/rest/get_company?id=2075735"},"human":"https://alion.io/catalog?offer=company.slices&for=job%2Frecurrent-energy-control-room-operator"},{"id":"market.stats","title":"A market slice: pay, demand and time to fill","status":"live","price":{"credits":1,"usd":0.1},"unit":"per slice","note":"pay, demand and time to fill for this role and place","call":{"mcp_tool":"market_stats"},"human":"https://alion.io/catalog?offer=market.stats&for=job%2Frecurrent-energy-control-room-operator"},{"id":"job.search","title":"Open jobs by role, technology, place, pay and visa","status":"live","price":{"credits":0.02,"usd":0.002},"unit":"per posting in a list","note":"similar open postings","call":{"mcp_tool":"search_jobs"},"human":"https://alion.io/catalog?offer=job.search&for=job%2Frecurrent-energy-control-room-operator"},{"id":"company.verify","title":"Is this company real and active right now","status":"pilot","price":null,"unit":"per company","request":{"url":"https://alion.io/catalog/request","method":"POST","body":"{\"offer\": \"company.verify\", \"for\": \"job/recurrent-energy-control-room-operator\", \"note\": \"what you need it for\"}"},"human":"https://alion.io/catalog?offer=company.verify&for=job%2Frecurrent-energy-control-room-operator"}]}