Transmission Planning Senior Engineer

About the role

This role is within the Integrated Planning Delivery team and will be focused on understanding the current state of planning processes and driving toward integration through tools and automation. The engineer will collaboratively set assumptions and perform integrated technical analysis as a transmission planning subject matter expert to develop new insights, recommendations, and reports to support business decisions and major initiatives. In this role, the engineer will be expected to communicate technical concepts effectively, using appropriate data visualization.

Essential Responsibilities

• Power systems studies engineer: Leads and performs modeling and analysis activities for steady state and stability simulations
• Transmission planning engineer: Develops scopes for studies to guide long-range transmission system plans and coordinates with other Integrated System Planning departments to ensure assumptions align across subdisciplines
• Effectively communicates the results of studies and department endeavors to a wide range of audiences through written and verbal means
• Improves Integrated System Planning procedures and techniques through largely self-directed work. Resolves difficult technical and business problems
• Implements, without substantial direction, NERC and FERC compliance activities as an SME. Activities are coordinated through the Integrated System Planning department and with external entities
• Assigns tasks to lower-level engineers, interns and technicians. Mentors and provides training materials for less experienced engineers to ensure group development

Minimum Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree in Engineering and/or Physics from ABET accredited curriculum (or recognized equivalency)
• 5+ years with nationally recognized certification, 7+ years without certification
• Experience with multiple power system transmission analysis tools such as PSSE, TARA, EMS, ASPEN, CAPE, PROMOD, PLEXOS, PowerWorld, PSCAD or other similar analysis software

Preferred Requirements

• EIT/FE (Engineer in Training/Fundamentals of Engineering and/or PE (Professional Engineer) registration
• Graduate degree in fields above