Electric Transmission Associate Engineer

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At this time, Dominion Energy cannot transfer or sponsor a work visa or employment authorization for this position.

Job Summary

Dominion Energy Virginia’s Electric Transmission (ET) department is seeking motivated, engaged engineers to fill multiple vacancies. All internships are on-site and will be located at one of the following office locations: Innsbrook in Glen Allen, VA, Magnolia System Operations Center in Richmond, VA, or Lincoln Park in Herndon, VA.

Electric Transmission is responsible for the long-term planning, engineering, construction, and operations of the high voltage electric grid system operated from 69kV to 500kV. The grid is accountable for transmitting electricity from state of the art solar and wind facilities, integrating those technologies into the energy portfolio, and delivering the power to our many 2.7 million customers including the world's largest cluster of internet data centers.

System Protection – Responsible for the design, modeling, and development of protective relay applications.

Substation Protection & Control Design: You will help create and modify protection and control design documents for substation projects including relay functional drawings, diagrams (logic/wiring), and bills of materials.

Substation Data Communications: You will support substation upgrade projects, operational assistance to in-service substation data communication equipment, and evaluation of emerging technologies including Data Concentrators, I/O processors, and protocol converters.

System Protection Standards: You will help develop, maintain, and support system-wide standards for protection, communications, metering, and control application. This team also tests and recommends new ways to improve safety, reliability, and efficiency.

System Protection Engineering: You will be involved in developing settings for protective relays that detect and isolate electrical faults within the power system.

ET Planning – Responsible for short-term and long-term strategic planning initiatives.

Area Planning: You will assist with ensuring system adequacy in the next 5 years, as well as monitoring conditions developing within the next 15 years. You will learn how to run power flow studies and find solutions to reliability concerns.

System Modeling: You will carry out data mining and analytics on historical data to validate power system models and load forecasts. You should be comfortable with creating, maintaining, and using data/databases.

Strategic Studies: You will learn to perform stability, sensitivity analysis and power flow studies to ensure reliable operation and evaluate future load growth, generation retirements, and integration of renewable energy resources.

Planning & Strategic Initiatives: You will work within the PJM queue process, performing power flow and dynamic analysis to reliably inject new generation into our system. This team works closely with the CVOW and DER projects.

Operational Engineering Support – Responsible for ensuring compliance and maximizing reliability, and for providing operational support during planned and emergent activities.

Operational Support & Reliability: You will help to ensure asset management activities meet the requirements for maximization of reliability.

System Protection Automation & Analysis – You will help to ensure electric grid reliability by analyzing system events 24/7 using a combination of technical skills including data processing, software development, and engineering principles.

Required Knowledge, Skills, Abilities & Experience Engineer I : 0-2+ years of engineering experience (Note: A partial year of related work experience of 6 months or greater will be considered one year towards the qualifications; A an advanced degree can count as one year experience)

Required Skills

- Strong time management skills with the ability to independently plan and organize work assignments.

- Basic understanding of AC/DC fundamentals

- Strong oral and written communication skills, including technical writing.

- Equally effective with working independently or in a team environment.

- Ability to think analytically and solve complex problems.

- Ability to interpret codes, regulations, and practices.

Preferred Skills

- Exposure to ASPEN or CYME preferred.

- Knowledge of automation tools, databases, and software development is preferred.

- Programming skills for automation of system studies (e.g., Python, .NET, C#, etc.) is a plus.

- Experience with PSEE, PSCAD and/or RTDS modeling software is a plus.

- Understanding of 3 phase power systems is a strong plus.

- Understanding of the principles of transmission and/or distribution applications is strongly preferred.

Education Requirements

Education Level:

Bachelor's degree in Engineering

Preferred Disciplines:

Electrical Engineering, Mechanical Engineering

Note: Upcoming engineering graduates with a projected graduation date of no later than August 31, 2025, who also meet the engineering criteria will be considered. Required Engineering Criteria

For placement of a candidate in the Engineer job series, the following criteria must be met:

- Possess a 4-year Engineering degree from an ABET accredited Engineering program based on the year that the Engineering program was accredited by ABET, or

- Possess a 4-year Engineering degree from an institution outside of the U.S. which is accredited through the country's own Engineering accrediting body under the Washington Accord as a full signatory, and is a degree that was recognized by the country's accrediting body on or after the date that full signatory status was achieved, or

- Possess a 4-year degree in Engineering (non-ABET accredited), Physics, Chemistry, Math or Engineering Technology and a post-graduate Engineering degree from an institution where the undergraduate degree in the same Engineering discipline is ABET-accredited based on the year the Engineering program was accredited by ABET, or

- Holds or has previously held a valid U.S. Professional Engineer license.

Licenses, Certifications, or Quals Description

Working Conditions

Cold Up to 25%

Dust / Grease / Oil Up to 25%

Dust / Grease / Oil 76-100%

Energized Wires Up to 25%

Fumes Up to 25%

Heat Up to 25%

Loud Noise Up to 25%

Office Work Environment 76 -100%

Outdoors Up to 25%

Pressurized Lines & Valves Up to 25%

Radiation Up to 25%

Travel Up to 25%

Other Working Conditions Test Description

Candidates working in the System Operations department will be required to complete and certify in the NERC Reliability Coordinator Role within 6 months of employment and PJM certification within 8 months of employment.

Export Control

Certain positions at Dominion Energy may involve access to information and technology subject to export controls under U.S. law. Compliance with these export controls may result in Dominion Energy limiting its consideration of certain applicants.

Other Information

We offer excellent plans and programs for employees. Employees are rewarded with a competitive salary and comprehensive benefits package which may include: health benefits with coverage for families and domestic partners, vacation, retirement plans, paid holidays, tuition reimbursement, and much more. To learn more about our benefits, click here dombenefits.com.

Dominion Energy is an equal opportunity employer. Qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, national origin and/or status as a protected veteran or individual with a disability.

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