Senior Engineer - Transmission and Asset Integration

About the role

Puget Sound Energy is seeking a Senior Engineer - Transmission and Asset Integration to support the Energy Supply Merchant team. This position involves providing engineering, technical, and analytical support for merchant transmission portfolio management, asset integration, transmission service strategy, contract administration, capacity optimization, and regional transmission activities.

Responsibilities

• Supports PSE’s Energy Supply Merchant organization by providing engineering, technical, and analytical support for merchant transmission portfolio management, asset integration, transmission service strategy, contract administration, capacity optimization, and regional transmission activities.
• Develops and implements merchant transmission strategies needed to deliver portfolio resources in a reliable and cost-effective manner.
• Evaluates transmission availability, deliverability, curtailment risk, congestion exposure, outage and derate impacts, contract rights, service options, and transmission constraints to support portfolio planning, resource acquisition, trading, and scheduling.
• Provides subject matter expertise on FERC Open Access Transmission Tariff, transmission provider business practices, BPA and regional transmission processes, generator interconnection including LGIP/LGIA requirements, and applicable commercial transmission rules.
• Develops, submits, and tracks transmission service requests, generator interconnection requests, renewals, redirects, modifications, and related transmission provider processes from studies to award.
• Supports asset integration for new generation resources, PPAs, tolling agreements, battery storage resources, and other contracted or owned resources, including transmission service implementation, LGIP/LGIA requirements, source/sink setup, adjacencies, pseudo-tie requirements, scheduling readiness, and operational handoffs.
• Supports resource acquisition and self-build project development by evaluating transmission and interconnection service requirements, delivery assumptions, transmission cost and risk considerations, and potential constraints associated with proposed resources.
• Collaborates with internal stakeholders and external transmission providers to support transmission-related decisions, documentation, implementation, and issue resolution.
• Maintains analytical tools, datasets, reports, and documentation to support merchant transmission strategy, portfolio tracking, scenario analysis, procurement decisions, asset integration, and operational readiness.
• Participates in external meetings, stakeholder processes, and transmission provider discussions as assigned, and communicates implications to internal stakeholders.
• May lead or coordinate the work of junior engineers, engineering assistants, field technicians, and others who assist on specific projects (this includes contractor/consultants).

Qualifications

• Bachelor of Science degree or Professional Engineering (PE) license in electrical, mechanical, civil or other appropriate engineering field. A PE license may qualify in lieu of a degree.
• Substantial experience in planning, design, specification preparation, technical field work, project cost estimating and scheduling (typically achieved after eight (8) or more years practice as a degreed engineer).
• Demonstrated organization, documentation, prioritization, and project management skills.
• Strong interpersonal and communication skills.