Control Room Operator
Pubblicato il 25-08-2026 - Samuel Knight International in Roma
Control Room Operator
Location: Rome EUR, Italy
Reports to: Director of Remote Operations
Role Overview
The Control Room Operator plays a key role in supporting the Operations Supervisor to ensure safe, efficient, and reliable operations across a diverse portfolio of power facilities. This role is responsible for maximizing revenue delivery, coordinating real-time responses to alarm conditions, and ensuring compliance with all regulatory and contractual obligations.
Key Responsibilities
- Monitor and operate a wide range of large and small generating assets using multiple monitoring and control platforms.
- Evaluate complex operating conditions against regulatory and contractual requirements, including operating contracts, O&M; agreements, transmission and scheduling guidelines, and business practice manuals.
- Support O&M; compliance during equipment changes by enforcing change management policies and safeguarding Generator Owner interests.
- Monitor equipment not yet under O&M; jurisdiction, identify high-priority alarms,
and provide risk mitigation recommendations to commissioning teams.
- Operate multiple power plant control systems, understand the behavior and capabilities of each technology, and predict grid responses to control actions.
- Implement voltage schedules in line with operating agreements and contracts.
- Initiate and document alarm response plans, ensuring timely communication of all required notifications to owners, transmission providers, and scheduling entities.
- Perform root-cause and failure analysis using historical data (e.g., inverter trips, MV equipment failures, control system faults), ensuring accurate outage classification and reporting.
- Collaborate with maintenance teams to balance contractual obligations, outage impacts, and revenue optimization, always maximizing fleet value.
- Maintain the operator log to track outages, alarms, control actions, contractual changes, and interactions with regulatory bodies.
- Provide contractuall