EMPREGO

Operational Reporting Associate

EDP Energias de Portugal-Porto, Portugal

Country/Region:
City: Porto

Business Unit:
The EDP Renewables, company of EDP Group, aim to be a long-term market leader in the renewable energy sector, pursuing credibility through safety, value creation, social responsibility, innovation, and respect for the environment. To support us, we intend to recruit for the OPERATIONAL REPORTING ASSOCIATE.
This position is integrated in an organizational structure based in Portugal working directly with the North American Platform in the execution of the business goals.

General Description and Main Responsibilities:
Support the management, continuous improvement and dynamization of the Operational Reporting team. Ensure the activities of Operational Reporting for EDPR NA, Report Tools management and the Operational Data Governance.

Main Accountabilities:

  • Operational Reporting system/OPMS Management Support in NA:

  • Support the management of the Operational Reporting System, Manual Editions System and Big Data and Analytics solution, as the single integrated corporate source of operational data and support the specification and the improvements of future technical and functional upgrades.

  • Support the coordination and overview from an operational reporting and data perspective, all initiatives regarding reporting, big data and analytics platforms.
  • Participate in “service desk” function to solve technical incidents and questions raised by the clients of Operational Reporting system, Manual Editions System and Big Data and Analytics solution, and identify and ensure the training actions for potential user areas/departments.
  • Participate in the implementation of a new Operational Reporting system, impacted by the new Big Data and Analytics solution.

  • Operational Reporting NA:

  • Gather, prepare and distribute EDPR operational information and KPIs (energy production, availability, NCF, operational incidents, etc.) and raw data.

  • Support the technical analysis, energy assessment and performance analysis of the wind power plants, through the availability of operational data.
  • Collaborate with Planning and Control and Asset Management areas in activities associated with tracking energy sales and progress towards established objectives and justify budget deviations.

  • Data Governance:

  • Participation in the EDPR Data Governance process.

  • Participation in the creation and update of Data Governance Policies & Standards related with Operational Reports.
  • Participation in the implementation of Data Strategy and Analytics - Big Data solution, according to the role defined in the process.

  • Data Quality Support:

  • Support data quality management (reliability monitoring of the whole data acquisition and storage chain).

  • Validate, harmonize and recover technical, economical and energy management information to ensure Operational Reporting system data inputs quality, considering the different information systems in EDPR (WPP/SCADA, interfaces with Maintenance Management System, local energy metering systems, local wind power production forecasting systems, OEM historical databases).
  • Ensure the follow-up and support to Operations area (namely, site managers/admins) in manual user inputs to the Operational Reporting system, including changing status indicators related to downtime allocation, when necessary.
  • Collaborate with RODC-TS / ROCC-Scada Team to detect incidents, namely those related to the local OEM SCADAs, and relate them with the data quality issues resulting from the usage of Operational Reporting system, especially those related to alarms and events.
  • Identify and analyze the most important data quality problems.
  • Participate in the permanent working groups that manage REMS global signal lists, by supporting the evaluation of needs of both ROCCs (EU and NA) and Operational Reporting system and determining the impacts on REMS system updates.

  • Interaction with EDPR departments:

  • Tracking and monitoring of operational processes with Operational Reporting stakeholders, including the assessment of the potential added value of the usage/outputs of Operational Reporting by EDPR employees.

  • Collaboration on the identification and support of the definition of new operational business needs.

Looking for people with the following requirements:

  • Recommended a minimum of 3 to 5 year-experience in a power production company related to operations, energy evaluation and performance analysis Languages: English (require); Spanish and/or Portuguese(desirable).
  • Mathematical and Computer Sciences degree, Engineering degree, Business Analytics or Big Data Master.
  • Desirable a good knowledge of Operational reporting preparation and analysis.
  • Good communication skills to interact with all parties
  • Good analytical skills.

  • Computer skills such as:

  • Proficiency in Scada Systems.

  • Strong knowledge of PowerBI, Tableau or other related data analysis and visualization tools.
  • Proficiency in MS Office tools (Word, advanced Excel, Project, Po