Engineer I, Engineer II, Engineer III Grid Operations

About the role

This position can be hired as either an Engineer I Grid Operations, Engineer II Grid Operations or an Engineer III Grid Operations depending on experience.

Responsibilities

• Safety, Risk & Compliance: Follows safety rules, identifies basic risks, and supports safe design practices.
  • Foundational: Learns safety rules and identifies basic risks.
  • Intermediate: Identifies and mitigates risks, applies safety standards, and improves safe operations.
  • Advanced: Leads safety practices, addresses complex risks, and recommends standard improvements.
• Customer Focus & Problem Solving: Learns customer needs and supports basic issue identification and solutions.
  • Foundational: Learns customer needs and supports basic issue identification and solutions.
  • Intermediate: Identifies and resolves moderately complex problems aligned to customer needs.
  • Advanced: Anticipates needs and leads resolution of complex system and operational issues.
• Communication & Stakeholder Engagement: Builds relationships and develops technical communication skills.
  • Foundational: Builds relationships and develops technical communication skills.
  • Intermediate: Communicates technical concepts clearly and prepares detailed documentation.
  • Advanced: Leads discussions, influences decisions, and drives cross-functional alignment.
• Technical Application & Standards: Applies engineering standards and solves routine problems with guidance.
  • Foundational: Applies engineering standards and solves routine problems with guidance.
  • Intermediate: Applies standards independently and recommends process improvements.
  • Advanced: Shapes standards, leads technical direction, and drives continuous improvement.
• Planning, Financial & Work Management: Learns planning, cost estimates, and capital vs. O&M fundamentals.
  • Foundational: Learns planning, cost estimates, and capital vs. O&M fundamentals.
  • Intermediate: Supports budgeting and develops moderately complex scopes with cost and sequencing.
  • Advanced: Leads planning efforts, manages complex scopes, and guides investment decisions.
• System Operations & Decision Making: Develops system knowledge and makes low-risk decisions with guidance.
  • Foundational: Develops system knowledge and makes low-risk decisions with guidance.
  • Intermediate: Applies system knowledge and makes low- to medium-risk decisions independently.
  • Advanced: Demonstrates advanced system expertise and makes informed technical decisions.
• System Analysis & Protection Engineering: Supports system studies, relay design, and SCADA work with guidance.
  • Foundational: Supports system studies, relay design, and SCADA work with guidance.
  • Intermediate: Performs system studies, relay coordination, and SCADA programming.
  • Advanced: Leads complex studies, protection design, and technical analysis decisions.
• Reliability & Troubleshooting: Supports outage response and basic troubleshooting with guidance.
  • Foundational: Supports outage response and basic troubleshooting with guidance.
  • Intermediate: Performs root cause analysis and supports corrective actions.
  • Advanced: Leads root cause analysis and drives reliability improvements.

Requirements

• Bachelor's Degree in Engineering program that is accredited through the Engineering Accreditation Commission
• Engineer III Grid Operations: 5 years of related experience
• Engineer II Grid Operations: 2 years of related experience
• Engineer I Grid Operations: Bachelor's Degree in Engineering program that is accredited through the Engineering Accreditation Commission

Preferred Experience

• Project management experience, along with ability to deal with subcontractors and cross-functional teams; may have expertise in a particular area of the discipline.
• Previous technical and/or professional experience.
• An internship or co-op in engineering.

Knowledge, Skills, And Abilities

• Demonstrated effective interpersonal, verbal, and written communication skills.
• Demonstrated ability to use computer software programs (e.g., e-mail, word processing, spreadsheet, and project management).
• Ability to work effectively in a collaborative and inclusive work environment.

Key Skills

• Asset Life Cycle Management
• Continual Improvement
• Process Data Analysis
• Data Quality Management
• Electrical Engineering
• Outage Management
• Power Engineering
• Standards Compliance