Electrical Engineer III or SR Delivery Services

ELECTRICAL ENGINEER III or SR.

- DELIVERY SERVICES

This position is located at our Headquarters location in Bismarck, ND. This position is open to varying levels of experience.

This position is responsible to perform detail duties relating to long-term contractual transmission delivery and ancillary services, member load and generator interconnections, Western co-supply power deliveries and North American Electric Reliability Corporation (NERC) compliance reporting. This position reviews and maintains Basin Electric Power Cooperative’s (BEPC) portfolio of generation and load metering for the various Basin Electric metering arrangements with RTOs, transmission providers’ tariff, bilateral agreements, and the membership agreements.

The incumbent provide solutions in accurately measuring Basin Electric’s loads and generation across a multiple transmission providers and regions. This position performs services agreements, engineering and economic analysis, inventory, maintenance planning, reporting, specifications and standards in multiple RTO markets and Balancing Areas. This position applies standard practices and principles to specific situations; evaluates, selects, and applies standard engineering techniques, procedures, and criteria using judgement in making minor adaptations and modifications.

• Responsible for implementing, maintaining and accurately reporting the long-term transmission delivery services and ancillary service arrangements of BEPC's member power requirement needs. Implements the acquisition of long-term power transmission/wheeling/ancillary service resources through active interaction with transmission providers' transmission tariffs and transmission Open Access Same-Time Information System (OASIS). Determine the optimum long term Cooperative's transmission/ancillary service portfolio for maximizing the Cooperative's ability to serve load obligations, assessing availability and cost of transmission utilized in power supply planning and understanding/interpreting the rules promulgated by MRO, WECC, NERC, NAESB, MISO, SPP, RMR and FERC regarding accreditation issues and transmission access.
  
  Effectively maintain, report, and submit BEPC's NERC and RTO compliance activities related to long-term transmission delivery services and ancillary services.
• Responsible to implement and communicate the BEPC Member's load interconnection process associated with Member's interconnections with SPP, MISO or other transmission providers as necessary for BEPC and Member's new load interconnections. Implement and maintain the BEPC loads by delivery point and provide accurate load data to transmission service providers and long-term planning models. Accurately implements and maintains the BEPC/Western co-supplied Membership load Pnode/EPnode loads split percentage to the SPP and MISO network models.
• Responsible for maintaining a successful BEPC facility credit process as developed with the applicable Member's transmission facilities. Effectively work and communicate with Member's, SPP, MISO and other transmission providers in understanding and implementing procedures and processes.
• Assist with supporting the development of strategies in the furtherance of the cooperatives near and long-term business objectives and for providing a centralized enterprise-wide view to address and develop strategies for the future success of the business to benefit the Cooperative and its member/owners.
• Develop and maintain the Basin Electric’s Meter policy, including requirements and specifications, and economically budgeting and performing cost allocation reporting of the installation, operating and maintenance of meter inventory.
• Maintain and calculate meter electrical attributes, including transformer and transmission line loss compensation calculations and other electrical engineering calculations, of load and generation meters.
• Develop and maintain Basin Electric’s Metering Services Agreements with Members, RTOs and other industry counterparts as required.
• Economically coordinate and maintain with Engineering and Transmission System Maintenance on meter attributes programming, installation and annual…