Sr Eng - Power System Transmis

Responsibilities

• Supports corporate initiatives such as Grid Resiliency, reliability (SAIDI/SAFI) improvement plans.
• Helps develop cost effective plans to improve transmission and substation reliability.
• Supports Capital projects as assigned.
• Aids in the preparation of maintenance plans and capital improvement plans for the Transmission System.
• Provides technical knowledge on electrical system outages or incidents.
• Investigates outage root causes, finds patterns in data, and recommends cost effective solutions to improve customer reliability.
• Affords assistance in investigations of power quality complaints, customer complaints and reliability issues.
• Analyzes data, prepares reports and presentations.
• Provides assistance as required to the Substation and Transmission design groups; e.g. cable ampacity studies, grounding studies, other specialized calculations.
• Provides technical knowledge for system upgrades or modifications to operational systems for transmission and distribution system.
• Provides scientific programming and statistical analysis and handles power system software tool for running simulation work.
• Affords assistance in engagement and management of external consultants to perform specialist tasks.
• Acts as technical lead in cross functional projects.
• Maintains and improves the technical standards and company procedures.
• Performs and handles power system software tool for running simulation work.
• Affords assistance in the implementation of the application of utility Energy Management Systems (EMS), Supervisory Control and Data Acquisition (SCADA), and Distribution Management System (DMS) software platforms and operations.
• Ensures all compliance aspects of position are known and followed; understands and complies with all policies, codes and regulations applicable to position and company.

Qualifications

• Engineering degree, 5 years industry experience as a practicing engineer, and must be a licensed PE.
• If no PE license then must have 8+ years as a practicing engineer.
• Demonstrated knowledge of: Electric power system design and operations, Protective relaying system, Distribution automation and substation networking.
• Skills Such As Organizational, analytical, writing, verbal communication and documentation.
• Working with a variety of personnel level and business-oriented.
• Writing technical reports.