Transmission Planning Engineer, Manager, Principal, Senior

Manager

Duties and Responsibilities:

- Leads, manages, and holds their team members accountable

- Manages a medium team’s budget

- Balances team’s growth goals with utilization metrics

- Plays an active role with Business Development (BD) to grow the team’s revenue and client base

- Leads relationship with existing clients and perspective clients as assigned

- Performs calculations and analysis of utility scale electric systems with some oversight

- Reads, interprets, and classifies technical documents and utility records with minimal direction

- Maintains proficient understanding and use of applicable software, tools, workflows, and procedures

- Identifies opportunities and potential solutions to improve established workflows and procedures

- Clearly articulates technical concepts to ask questions and discuss current assignments with engineers, project managers, and supervisors

- Plays an active role in the management of projects

- Applies technical knowledge to assignments and ensures projects meet specifications

- Understands project risks and communicates challenges about scope, cost, schedule and quality

- Leads the preparation of routine analysis or small portions of larger projects, including calculations and models

- Interacts with clients

- Understands and applies appropriate industry codes, standards, and regulations

- Conducts communications in a professional and clear manner; communications are timely and in an appropriate format for the topics

- Identifies information to be communicated to the client and project stakeholders.

- Self-checks work assignments prior to submitting for review, completes work with minimal errors

- QAQCs others’ work

- Mentors young engineers, technicians, and interns in established workflows, procedures, and standards as well as help them to develop technical understanding within distribution planning.

- Leads and supports proposal activities

- Performs all other duties as assigned

Qualifications:

- Bachelor’s degree in engineering from an ABET accredited university

- 8 years of related experience is required. Required experience may be reduced to 6 years for well qualified individuals with a Professional Engineering (PE) License

- Professional Engineering (PE) License preferred

- Knowledge of an engineering analysis software package such as

PSSE, PSLF, PSCAD, ASPEN, ETAP, TARA

- Proficiency of Enterprise Management Systems, such as Vantagepoint, and reporting systems, such as Power BI, is required

- Experience with programming languages such as C, C+, Python required

- Strong work ethic with desire to work in an environment where discretionary engineering decisions are made

- Able to travel up to 10% of the time to support client and sales initiatives

Principal Engineer

Duties and Responsibilities:

- Maintains expertise in relevant areas of distribution planning

- Performs and directs others through highly complex calculations and analysis independently

- Comprehensive understanding and capability to direct others in the use of applicable software, tools, workflows, and procedures

- Guides and informs improvement to established workflows, procedures, and cross-functional process improvements

- Champions the development of new processes, policies, and standards

- Clearly articulates technical concepts to ask questions and discuss current assignments with leaders at all levels

- Plans, defines, and manages large size, cross-functional, highly complex projects

- Applies comprehensive technical knowledge to assignments and ensures projects meet specifications

- Understands project risks, communicates challenges, and implements mitigations.

- Leads the preparation of analysis for large size, cross-functional, highly complex projects, including calculations and models

- Mains point of contact with clients

- Understands, applies, and adapts appropriate industry codes, standards, and regulations

- Conducts communications in a professional and clear manner; communications are timely and in an appropriate format for the topic

- Identifies and communicates information to the client and project stakeholders

- Leads QAQC of others’ work

- Mentor engineers, technicians, and interns in established workflows, procedures, and standards as well as help them to develop technical understanding within distribution planning.

- Develops documentation to assist in knowledge transfer

- Supports large proposals, leads small proposals, and understands proposal activities, rate development, and related negotiations

- Participates in industry committees and work groups

- Completes conference presentations, panel sessions, and technical white papers

- Performs all other duties as assigned

Qualifications:

- Bachelor’s degree in engineering from an ABET accredited university required

- An advanced degree preferred

- 15 years of related experience is required. Required experience may be reduced to 12 years for well qualified individuals with a Professional Engineering (PE) License

- Professional Engineering (PE) License required

- Knowledge of multiple engineering analysis software packages such as

PSSE, PSLF, PSCAD, ASPEN, ETAP, TARA

required

- Experience with programming languages such as C, C+, Python required

- Strong work ethic with desire to work in an environment where discretionary engineering decisions are made

Senior Engineer

Duties and Responsibilities:

- Maintains competency in relevant areas of transmission planning.

- Performs complex calculations and analysis independently.

- Has proficient understanding and capability to direct others in the use of applicable software, tools, workflows, and procedures.

- Proposes and leads solutions to improve established workflows, procedures, and cross-functional process improvements.

- Maintains involvement in the development of new processes, policies, and standards.

- Clearly articulates technical concepts to ask questions and discuss current assignments with engineers, project managers, and supervisors.

- Plans, defines, and manages medium to large size projects including resource, schedule, quality, and cost.

- Applies technical knowledge to assignments and ensures projects meet specifications

- Understands project risks, communicates challenges, and implements mitigations about scope, cost, schedule and quality.

- Leads the preparation of analysis for medium to large size projects, including calculations and models

- Interacts with clients

- Understands, applies, and adapts FERC, NERC and RTO/ISO standards and regulations

- Conducts communications in a professional and clear manner; communications are timely and in an appropriate format for the topic.

- Identifies information to be communicated to the client and project stakeholders.

- Self-checks work assignments prior to submitting for review, completes work with minimal errors.

- Leads QAQC of others’ work

- Mentors young engineers, technicians, and interns in established workflows, procedures, and standards as well as help them to develop technical understanding within distribution planning.

- Develops documentation to assist in knowledge transfer

- Supports large proposals, leads small proposals, and understands proposal activities, rate development, and related negotiations

- Performs all other duties as assigned.

Qualifications:

- Bachelor’s degree in engineering from an ABET accredited university required

- An advanced degree preferred

- 10 years of related experience is required. Required experience may be reduced to 8 years for well qualified individuals with a Professional Engineering (PE) License

- Professional Engineering (PE) License strongly preferred

- Knowledge of multiple engineering analysis software packages such as PSSE, PSLF, PSCAD, ASPEN, ETAP, TARA is required

- Experience with programming languages such as C, C+, Python required

- Strong work ethic with desire to work in an environment where discretionary engineering decisions are made