Engineer I

About the role

Join a role where your work directly supports system reliability, customer experience, and continuous improvement. In this position, you'll combine analytics, reporting, and cross-functional collaboration to identify reliability challenges, support strategic priorities, and help strengthen the electric distribution system.

What You'll Do

• Maintain reliability records, templates, annual files, documentation, databases, and reporting tools for Minnesota Power and Superior Water, Light and Power programs.
• Coordinate annual reliability data updates, including customer counts, feeder mileage and density, storm exclusions, and REM database updates.
• Perform outage data entry and review outage events for accuracy, completeness, eligibility, storm exclusion status, and metric impacts.
• Prepare quarterly reliability reports, benchmarking submissions, and other performance reporting materials, including metrics, outage narratives, goals, trends, and supporting documentation.
• Identify and document large outage events, PUC-reportable outages, and other significant reliability events in accordance with company and regulatory requirements.
• Analyze outage trends, feeder performance, recurring issues, regional results, crew feedback, and system data to identify improvement opportunities and support reliability best practices, design standards, and related initiatives.
• Coordinate cross-functional reliability improvement projects and communicate findings, recommendations, meeting outcomes, and project priorities to leadership and project teams.

What You'll Bring

• Bachelor's degree in Engineering, Engineering Technology, or a related technical field; equivalent utility experience.
• Ability to analyze and interpret data, identify trends, validate results, and develop practical recommendations.
• Strong problem-solving and critical-thinking skills with attention to detail and data accuracy.
• Effective written and verbal communication skills, including the ability to prepare technical reports, summarize findings, and present recommendations to a variety of audiences.
• Ability to collaborate across teams, build working relationships with field and office personnel, and manage multiple priorities and recurring deadlines.
• Proficiency with Microsoft Office applications; experience with Power BI, data visualization, or reporting tools is preferred.
• Ability to travel occasionally, as required to support position responsibilities.
• Valid driver's license.

How To Stand Out

• Utility engineering internship experience.
• Knowledge of electric distribution systems, outage management processes, reliability metrics, and utility operations.
• Experience working with engineering, operational, GIS, outage management, or other utility-related data systems preferred.
• Professional Engineer license.

Pay

The expected annual compensation range for this position is $67,000 - $84,000. Compensation offered to the selected candidate will vary depending on relevant knowledge, skills, training, and experience.

Benefits

• Incentive Programs
• Retirement Benefits
• Medical, Dental & Vision Plans
• Health Savings Account
• Flexible Spending Accounts
• Life Insurance
• Disability
• Tuition Reimbursement
• Voluntary Benefits
• Paid Absences, and more.

Schedule

In Person reporting to one of the following Minnesota locations: Duluth, Eveleth, Coleraine, or Cloquet.