Senior Consultant - Interconnection and Delivery

Main Responsibilities

• Serve as a primary or secondary contact for GDS clients and provide consultancy and advisory services relative to transmission planning efforts, standards and requirements.
• Serve as the technical supervisor to Associate, Engineer, Lead, Project Lead, Senior Project Leads and Project Managers with supervision of new-hires.
• Provide expertise related to Transmission Planning requirements associated with planning, rating, and modeling of transmission and generation facilities.
• Cook up coordination with Consultants from other GDS departments relative to providing transmission planning expertise for RFP evaluation, Integrated Resource Planning, Rate and Transmission filings at State Commissions and FERC.
• Cook up coordination and provide expertise for transmission system studies using industry-accepted software tools to assess system performance, compliance with transmission planning standards, including generator interconnection, deliverability studies, and transmission system impact studies.
• Review results of transmission system studies, propose mitigations, coordinate and draft quantitative and qualitative reports and advise GDS clients relative to transmission impacts and cost/benefit strategies.
• Develop strategies and processes to identify and evaluate potential transmission expansion opportunities to improve strategic goals such as reducing transmission losses, reducing system congestion and improving operation.
• Cook up coordination and provide expertise for representation throughout the entire planning process associated with the interconnection of transmission, load and generation facilities.
• Serve as a technical liaison with the RTO/ISO by supporting asset registration and qualification, facilities performance review, power flow modeling support and other activities as needed.
• Provide representation at RTO/ISO transmission and generation stakeholder workgroups.

Requirements

• Bachelor of Science degree in Electrical Engineering, or Power Engineering.
• Preferred Bachelor of Science degree from an ABET (Accreditation for Engineering and Technology) certified school.
• Minimum eight (8) years of relevant transmission planning, or generation/transmission modeling work experience.
• Relevant working experience with power system modeling software tools such as PSS/E, PSLF, PowerWorld, PSS/MUST, TARA.
• Familiarity with production cost software such as PROMOD, Aurora and GE MAPS.
• Experience with managing transmission planning projects.
• Interpersonal skills and experience with managing staff of at least two people.
• Transmission planning experience on bulk power systems.
• Familiarity with design, planning or operation of distribution and/or transmission facilities.
• Familiarity with RTO or non-RTO interconnection and planning requirements.
• Familiarity with NERC reliability standards requirements associated with planning, rating, and modeling of transmission and generation facilities.
• Ability to read and interpret electrical distribution and/or transmission one-lines and associated equipment specifications.
• Ability to perform, provide oversight and interpret results of steady-state power-flow and short-circuit studies and/or transient stability studies.
• Ability to interpret findings and share consolidated steady-state or transient-state study results.