Josh Goutermont

Vice President MP Grid Operations @ Minnesota Power

Country

United States

City

Greater Duluth Area

Industry

Utilities

Skill

Energy, Power Generation, Power Systems, Process Improvement, Power Plants, Electric Power, Electricians, Smart Grid, Renewable Energy, Power Distribution, Transmission, Relays, Instrumentation, Commissioning, Substation, Project Management, Transformer, Switchgear, Electricity, DCS

Experience

Vice President MP Grid Operations

Minnesota Power

2025-1 - Present · 1 yr 9 mos

Duluth, Minnesota, United States

Director, Grid Operations T&D

Minnesota Power

2021-5 - Present · 5 yrs 5 mos

Duluth, Minnesota, United States

Manager- Employee/Labor Relations

ALLETE

2017-9 - 2021-5 · 3 yrs 9 mos

Duluth, Minnesota

Manager-Electric Operations, Facilities, Fleet

SWL&P

2016-10 - 2017-9 · 1 yr

Superior, WI

Supervisor, Electric Operations

SWL&P

2015-11 - 2017-9 · 1 yr 11 mos

Superior, Wisconsin

Supervisor - Relay and Operational Compliance

Minnesota Power

2011-12 - 2015-11 · 4 yrs

Oversee and direct activities related to NERC compliance. Direct relay technician and compliance technician support for capital project work, maintenance and call out work. Create and manage strong working relationships with external and internal customers.Currently supervise 13 Relay Technicians and Compliance Techs whom are located across multiple regions of Minnesota. We install and maintain assets in Minnesota and North Dakota. Provide support to all operational branches of the electric utility. Generation, Transmission, HVDC and Distribution operations including large power customer support.

Relay Technician

Minnesota Power

2008-2 - 2011-12 · 3 yrs 11 mos

Protective relay testing. Installation and Commissioning of protective relay systems on new substations. Large power transformer testing. Powerline carrier tuning and commissioning. Medium and low voltage switchgear commissioning and testing. Generator protection commissioning and testing. Cable testing, generator testing, Doble testing of various HV equipment.

Instrumentation Lab Technician

Minnesota Power

2005-10 - 2008-2 · 2 yrs 5 mos

Air emissions monitoring equipment and emissions reporting. Planning, installing and commissioning team for unit environmental retrofit/overhauls. DCS support,Allen Bradley ControlLogix programming. HART protocol, Foundation Feildbus protocol.

Substation Technician - Electrical

Minnesota Power

2003-7 - 2005-10 · 2 yrs 4 mos

Duluth, Minnesota Area

Protection panel construction and installation. Breaker installation, PT/CT installation, CCVT installation, Battery testing, Transformer maintenance, Switch maintenance, HV Breaker maintenance, network vault maintenance, HVDC operations support and maintenance.