About Organisation:

Uganda Electricity Transmission Company Limited (UETCL) is a Public Limited Company wholly owned by the Government of the Republic of Uganda, and holds the following operational licenses. System Operator, Operation of the High Voltage Transmission Grid, Bulk Power Supply, Import and Export of Power and; Public Infrastructure Provider (for ownership and operation of the Optic Fibre). Our Vision is: “Electricity Transmission for sustainability for sustainability Development.”

Job Summary: To engage all generation plants to provide generation declarations, plan and schedule power production in an optimal way in order to meet the system demand, prepare trade bids and submit into the trade platform, issue dispatch instructions to all generators and schedule cleared interchanges in the Automatic Generation Control (AGC) server and carry out generation – demand forecasts.

Key Duties and Responsibilities:

• Generation Planning and generator scheduling (day-ahead, week)
• Daily engagement with power plants, eligible generators and eligible consumers for availability and consumption declarations
• Assess and determine Available Transmission Capacity (ATC) inputs for power trading
• Preparation of Day-Ahead Market bids for power trading
• Schedule DAM exchange volumes in the AGC server,
• Issue dispatch instructions to Generation Plants and confirm available capacity to eligible consumers.

Generation Reporting

• Forward physical market planning
• Power System analysis to support system operation decisions.

Qualifications, Skills and Experience:

• Must have a Bachelors in Electrical engineering
• Minimum of 2 years’ experience in power system operations.
• Experience in Generation Planning is an added advantage
• Leadership and supervisory skills
• Possess good communication skills
• Analytical skills