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Under the general direction of the Power Engineer, the Substation Control Technician will be tasked to perform journey-level electrical work in the operation, construction, maintenance, and repair of high voltage electric substations, and other related electrical and mechanical equipment associated with high voltage electric substations. The responsibilities also include operation of the Electric Control Room and the System Control and Data Acquisition (SCADA) system, and participation in the substation/control room standby and after-hours call-out duty rotation. Key requirements - The successful candidate must hold a valid C1 EPRA License along with KETRACO or KPLC authorization classes.\nKey Responsibilities\nPrepares written documents, such as substation maintenance reports and substation logbooks, to record maintenance procedures and troubleshoot results.\nContinually observes the functioning of station equipment in substations, principally as revealed by various meters and gauges. Observes switchboard instruments for unusual operating conditions and performs the function necessary to restore the equipment to normal or remove it from service as required.\nSwitches and maintains substation equipment for proper operation.\nPrepares the equipment for operation and starts, stops and controls the units, adjusting the load and voltage and accessory regulating equipment as required.\nPerforms switching operations in accordance with standard operating procedures.\nMaintains daily operating log on all operations, both routine and emergency, and reports on line outages and weather conditions. Records hourly readings of indicating and integrating meters, and changes, marks and checks charts of recording instruments.\nActs independently during an emergency by performing duties in rapid succession involving switching, adjusting load and/or voltage, or extinguishing fires.\nIssues protective tags through established safe clearance procedures for all equipment in the plant and substation.\nNotes changes in load and makes routine adjustments to meet such changes without immediate supervision. Reports unusual situations to supervision.\nPeriodically inspects station both inside and outside to determine proper operation of facilities and maintain security. Makes minor adjustments and repairs.\nMaintains proper lubrication and cooling of the generating units, transformers, pumps, motor generator sets and other rotating machinery.\nAnalyzes problems to determine type of repair necessary and informs proper personnel.\nPerforms incidental or related duties such as watering storage batteries, cleaning up and general housekeeping and receiving telephone complaints from the public.\nConducts public tours of station as required.\nPerforms sub-dispatching as required.\nAssists in training apprentices.\nMay perform duties of Utilityman as required.\nPerforms other duties as assigned. Job duties are subject to change as directed by management.\nRequirements\nSkills and Experience\nDiploma/ Higher diploma in Electrical Engineering (power option). \nMust be authorized to operate high-voltage equipment by a licensed regulatory operator (e.g., KPLC, KETRACO, EPRA).\nThey must hold a valid C1 EPRA License along with KETRACO or KPLC authorization classes.\nMinimum of 5 years’ PLUS experience LV desig ns, experience in plant operators for substations, generation plants.\nExperience in operation and maintenance of 11/33/66kV electricity network.\nExperience in electrical plant matters, repair and maintenance of indoor 11kV boards and breakers. \nExperience in substation testing, annual maintenance and primary and secondary injections. \nEnhanced skills in locating and quickly repairing defects in electrical systems, installing load break breakers, high voltage terminating.","description_format":"text","description_chars":3849,"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":[],"hiring_locations":[],"hiring_excludes":[],"relocation_offered":false,"industries":["Power Grid","Property Development","Commercial Real Estate"],"lifecycle":[{"event":"open","at":"2026-09-06T00:34:19Z"}],"visa":[],"liveness":{"score":59,"band":"ok","label":"Likely open","p_open":1,"p_active":0.813,"p_room":0.72,"age_days":181,"expected_fill_days":335,"reasons":["conf:3","win:mid","crowd:"],"computed_at":"2026-10-20T05:45:00Z"},"pay":null,"html_url":"https://alion.io/job/tatucity-substation-control-technician","json_url":"https://alion.io/job/tatucity-substation-control-technician.json","meta":{"generated_at":"2026-10-21T04:41:15Z","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":6820,"day_limit":null,"remaining_today":null,"minute_limit":300,"resets_at":"2026-10-22T00:00:00Z"}},"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":8749},"rest":"https://alion.io/mcp/rest/get_company?id=8749"},"human":"https://alion.io/catalog?offer=company.slices&for=job%2Ftatucity-substation-control-technician"},{"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%2Ftatucity-substation-control-technician"},{"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%2Ftatucity-substation-control-technician"},{"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/tatucity-substation-control-technician\", \"note\": \"what you need it for\"}"},"human":"https://alion.io/catalog?offer=company.verify&for=job%2Ftatucity-substation-control-technician"}]}