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Market evidence report — electrical-transmission-system-operator
Source: 31 real job ads (JSearch API, countries: us 31), extracted into the MSSQL evidence store; as of 2026-07-11. This report contains extracted, aggregated facts only — no ad text is reproduced (copyright / platform terms).
Seniority distribution
| Seniority | Ads | Share |
|---|---|---|
| mid | 21 | 68 % |
| junior | 7 | 23 % |
| lead | 1 | 3 % |
| n/a | 1 | 3 % |
| senior | 1 | 3 % |
Tools — full market ranking
| # | Item | Ads | Share |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Microsoft Excel | 5 | 16 % |
| 2 | Microsoft Word | 5 | 16 % |
| 3 | Microsoft Office | 3 | 10 % |
Hard skills — full market ranking
| # | Item | Ads | Share |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | transmission system operation | 12 | 39 % |
| 2 | load shedding | 4 | 13 % |
| 3 | system control | 4 | 13 % |
| 4 | system monitoring | 4 | 13 % |
| 5 | load forecasting | 3 | 10 % |
| 6 | outage management | 3 | 10 % |
| 7 | power system operation | 3 | 10 % |
| 8 | real-time operations | 3 | 10 % |
| 9 | system analysis | 3 | 10 % |
| 10 | system operation | 3 | 10 % |
Methods — full market ranking
| # | Item | Ads | Share |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | NERC certification | 3 | 10 % |
Responsibilities — full market ranking
| # | Item | Ads | Share |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | transmission system operation | 4 | 13 % |
| 2 | emergency condition execution | 3 | 10 % |
| 3 | log maintenance | 3 | 10 % |
| 4 | system monitoring | 3 | 10 % |
| 5 | system operation | 3 | 10 % |
| 6 | system operation direction | 3 | 10 % |
| 7 | system restoration | 3 | 10 % |
Regional breakdown
Corpus note: 31 relevant ads in total — below the 100-ad target for a fully reliable ranking. Percentages above should be read as indicative.
US (us)
31 ads.
Top hard skills:
- transmission system operation — 39 % (12 ads)
- load shedding — 13 % (4 ads)
- system control — 13 % (4 ads)
- system monitoring — 13 % (4 ads)
- load forecasting — 10 % (3 ads)
- outage management — 10 % (3 ads)
- power system operation — 10 % (3 ads)
- real-time operations — 10 % (3 ads)
- system analysis — 10 % (3 ads)
- system operation — 10 % (3 ads)
Top tools:
- Microsoft Excel — 16 % (5 ads)
- Microsoft Word — 16 % (5 ads)
- Microsoft Office — 10 % (3 ads)
- energy management system (EMS) — 6 % (2 ads)
- SCADA — 6 % (2 ads)
- Supervisory Control and Data Acquisition (SCADA) System — 6 % (2 ads)
- Transmission Management System (TMS) — 6 % (2 ads)
Seniority: mid 68 % · junior 23 % · lead 3 % · n/a 3 % · senior 3 %
UK (gb)
Insufficient evidence — 0 ads (minimum for a regional ranking: 30). No ranking is reported for this region.
EU/DACH (de, at, ch, nl)
Insufficient evidence — 0 ads (minimum for a regional ranking: 30). No ranking is reported for this region.
Job title variants in the market
| Title | Ads |
|---|---|
| Senior Transmission Operations Lead | 2 |
| Transmission Operator Trainee — Grid & EMS | 2 |
| Transmission System Operations Supervisor | 2 |
| Transmission System Operator | 2 |
| Transmission Systems Operator Trainee, Bulk Power Systems | 2 |
| Assistant System Operator | 1 |
| Electric Transmission System Operator Rotating Shifts | 1 |
| Eng Del System Operator Assc | 1 |
| Flex Operator - Immediate Hire | 1 |
| Grid Transmission Operator | 1 |
| HVDC Operator | 1 |
| Power System Operator | 1 |
| Section Operator | 1 |
| Section Operator: Electric & Gas Transmission | 1 |
| Sr System Operator - O&R, Energy Control Center | 1 |
| Station Operator Technician — High-Voltage & SCADA Expert | 1 |
| Stringing Specialist High Voltage Power Transmission Line | 1 |
| System Operator | 1 |
| Transmission Operator Trainee — Real-Time Grid & EMS | 1 |
| Transmission System Operator – V+ (Shift | 1 |
| Transmission System Operator (Richmond) | 1 |
| Transmission System Operator I: Power Grid Reliability | 1 |
| Transmission System Operator I-NC | 1 |
| Transmission System Operator Intern | 1 |
| Transmission System Operator -NC | 1 |
Methodology: entities extracted per ad ({hard_skills, tools, methods, responsibilities, seniority}), normalized, counted as DISTINCT ads per entity; report threshold ≥ 3 ads. Headline sections in skills.md/tools.md use the stricter ≥ 20 % threshold.