University Co-Op - Reliability and Analytics

51063 - Barrie - Temporary 12 Months

Hiring salary range: $2,064.34 - $3,189.88 / bi-weekly

Hydro One is proud to be the largest electricity transmission and distribution provider in Ontario, serving nearly 1.5 million customers. We have a long history in the industry with our roots dating back over 110 years to 1906. Since then, we have worked to grow and evolve to meet the changing needs of our customers and communities across Ontario. Today, we’re focused on providing exceptional customer service and ensuring we are building safe communities where we live, work and play.

It’s an exciting time to join the team at Hydro One!

We are looking for two co-op students to join our Integration, Reliability and Emergency Management (IREM) - Reliability and Analytics group in Toronto and Barrie. Our group is responsible for:

• Carry out periodic and ad hoc performance measurement, analysis and reporting related to the Hydro One Networks business
• Provide timely validation of distribution power outage records for all downstream reporting and analyses
• Perform transmission equipment, delivery point reliability data collection and assessments
• Perform distribution reliability performance analysis
• Perform Asset Analytics related analysis, data maintenance
• Perform reliability and risk assessment studies to identify risk in transmission and/or distribution system reliability
• Prepare transmission and distribution business performance evidence document for the OEB rate filing
• Provide support to Tx and Dx asset management department for asset investment planning to improve transmission and distribution system reliability performance
• Provide the support to the customer relationship for customer reliability performance evaluation and assessment
• Provide the support to the transmission and distribution planning department to identify existing transmission and distribution system performance issues for improvement
• Participate in benchmarking studies to identify the potential to improve the transmission and distribution system reliability performance

Your job duties may include:

• Support analysis and reporting on the transmission and/or distribution system performance metrics
• Support detailed analyses, studies and development undertaken by the department
• Support ad hoc urgent customer outage inquiry investigations as needed
• Support regulatory/market Compliance reporting analysis for the OEB, NPCC/NERC and IESO
• Support performing benchmarking studies (data collection, analysis and presentation, internal and external)
• Maintain performance information databases and associated processes
• Support projects and key initiatives undertaken by the department
• Support the development of performance analysis and reporting processes, tools and systems
• Support change control of existing processes and tools for Master Data Management and Transactional information
• Assist in the enhancement or troubleshooting of existing applications that allow users to update, view or report on enterprise information

This job will provide you with the following professional development:

• Get familiar with transmission and/or distribution business
• Understand transmission and/or distribution reliability performance measures
• Understand transmission and distribution asset data and analysis process
• Apply academic knowledge and skills on real system analyses
• Interact with different Lines of Business within Hydro One

Job Requirements:

• Discipline:
  Engineering, Computer, Statistics, Mathematics, or Business
• Academic Level: Undergraduate in 3rd year or up

The following knowledge is essential in order to perform in this position:

• Computer skills (Microsoft Office – Access, Word, Excel and PowerPoint),
• Excellent oral and written communication skills
• Attention to detail
• Critical thinking
• Data visualization skills (Power BI, various charts, KPIs)
• Adaptable

The following knowledge is desirable in order to perform in this position:

• Database, Statistics
• SAP, Business Object
• Python
• Data visualization software (ex: Power BI, Tableau)
• SQL or other programming language experience

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