Senior Power System Engineer

This position serves a vital role within the Engineering team, ensuring the development, safety, and reliability of the Association’s distribution power system. This position is responsible for leading the planning, design, and analysis that enhances system performance and meets members’ needs efficiently. The position leads long- and short-term system planning, conducts system impact studies, and manages key projects including substations, distribution automation, distributed energy projects and other critical infrastructure.

Essential Job Functions

Assigned with or without reasonable accommodation.

Job Qualifications

Education and/or formal training needed: Bachelor of Science in Electrical Engineering from an ABET accredited curriculum is required, emphasis in Power Systems preferred; a PE (Professional Engineer) license is required with the ability to acquire a Colorado PE through reciprocity.

Experience needed: Requires a minimum of seven (7) years of electric utility engineering planning and/or design experience typically consisting of distribution planning, transmission planning, distribution design, substation design, and/or system protection and controls. The Senior Power System Engineer level is for professionals with demonstrated experience in independently managing complex projects, solving technical challenges, and mentoring lower-level engineering staff.

Knowledge, skill and abilities needed: Must have knowledge of electric systems and the operation; must be familiar with SCADA and communications systems, system design and analysis systems, control systems and computers; must be versed in National Electrical Safety Code (NESC) and the National Electric Code (NEC). An understanding about creating, issuing, and managing engineering proposals. Must be knowledgeable in rules, regulations, and policies of the Association.

Drug/Alcohol: A drug/alcohol test is administered to all job offer recipients, as well as a background check.

Driving: Must possess a valid Colorado Driver’s License and operate a company non-DOT vehicle.

Mental Demands: : This employee must be able to work well with the public, Association members, and other Association employees. This employee needs to be able to remember what was done and schedule and prioritize future work, stay alert even when the work is repetitious, and be detail oriented. Must be able to learn new procedures and equipment and demonstrate flexibility in all areas. The job may occasionally require ingenuity, problem solving, analytic ability, auditory discrimination, writing ability and imagination. This job can be stressful at times; however, composure must be maintained at all times with members and co-workers.

Physical Demands: Must be capable of performing the Essential Job Functions of the position with or without reasonable accommodation.

MATERIALS AND EQUIPMENT USED

General office equipment, including but not limited to, personal/networked computers, printers, two-way radios, all manner of small hand tools, electrical and electronic test equipment and various drawing and system planning and analysis software.

WORKING CONDITIONS

The work environment will vary from general office conditions to outside job site conditions. This employee must be able to tolerate severe weather conditions and noise levels in the 50-90 decibel range.

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NOTE: This job description is not intended to be an exhaustive list of all duties, responsibilities, or qualifications associated with the job.

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