Electric Distribution Engineer

Responsibilities

• Synthesizes long-term and short-term reconstruction, capacity, and reliability plan recommendations.
• Manages projects within their local area of $100,000 or less.
• Reviews and recommends job estimates within DPA for capacity and reliability.
• Maintains oversight of area substation and circuit capabilities and tracks corresponding loads.
• Prepares proposals, including justifications, for appropriate corrective actions to address deficiencies.
• Performs planning studies to accurately model the electric distribution system and collaborates with Mapping to correct discrepancies in associated records systems.
• Analyzes historical loads and forecasts future growth to prepare long-term and short-term plans.
• Prepares draft Preliminary Planning Reviews (PPR’s).
• Identifies alternatives to address deficiencies for Project Analysis (PA’s).
• Reviews and analyzes area distribution systems and implements necessary actions to maintain power factor and primary voltage within established standards.
• Determines circuit and equipment capabilities within the assigned DPA.
• Prepares and initiates switching plans to alleviate normal and minimize emergency deficiencies.
• Prepares necessary documentation about distribution needs for estimating to complete job packages.
• Prepares settings for load tap changers and other line equipment.
• Reviews requests for new large customer load additions or voltage increases and recommends actions to correct any deficiencies.
• Provides direction and reviews primary designs proposed by estimating to ensure adequate capacity and reliability.
• Prepares settings for distribution protective devices.
• Performs circuit protection reviews and makes recommendations for corrections.
• Determines protection requirements for Rule 20, WRO projects, and other major distribution projects impacting the existing protective scheme.
• Prepares settings for Distribution Automation (DA) devices affecting distribution protection, voltage, or emergency switching.
• Initiates service dependability solutions and actively participates in local reliability/root cause meetings.
• Works closely with construction to prioritize outage prevention work within DPA, addresses customer complaints (Help Tickets) for recurring outages as assigned.
• Prepares initial responses for CPUC complaints for recurring outages.
• Supports local DO’s, DEC, construction, or storm rooms in emergency restoration efforts as required.
• Addresses customer voltage complaints caused by primary voltage problems.
• Assists E&M and OM&C personnel in addressing customer voltage complaints caused by secondary voltage problems.
• Supports estimating, construction, and other departments as required.
• Reviews, modifies, and recommends switching clearances for feeders, banks, and stations as requested by DO’s.
• Addresses customer EMF requests involving distribution facilities as assigned.
• Reviews switching arrangements, equipment settings, voltage levels, power factor needs, etc., to ensure the distribution system operates efficiently.
• Prepares Economic Analysis Statements of Projects (EASOP) for projects in DPA.
• Prepares other engineering analyses as assigned.
• Provides supervisor on-call support as required; maintains equipment records as assigned.

Qualifications

• Holds a degree in Bachelor of Science Electrical Engineering from a college/university accredited by ABET.
• Desired: Studied power systems, 3 years of experience in engineering, professional engineering registration, Basic Microsoft Office skills, CYME experience, Python Scripting experience.