Senior Engineer, Distribution System Planning

Current ENMAX employees are encouraged to apply through their internal Workday access.

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The Senior Engineer, Distribution System Planning plays a critical role in shaping the future of ENMAX’s electrical distribution system as it transitions from traditional planning to advanced, technology enabled approaches. This is a rewarding opportunity for a seasoned planning engineer who thrives in leading complex initiatives, mentoring others, and turning ideas into reality. In this role, you will take the lead on advanced planning initiatives that inform the system roadmap, assess short and long term impacts of load growth, new customer connections, and emerging technologies, and develop projects that maintain system capacity and reliability.

Working closely with cross-functional partners, you will blend deep technical expertise with sound business judgment to steward programs from concept through completion, seeing the real world results of your work while directly enabling the energy transition.

• Lead Advanced Planning Tactic Initiatives and champion complex Distribution Planning Projects
• Make technical decisions within distribution planning and provide technical leadership to others
• Develop new and maintain existing planning processes, tools and standards
• Develop innovative ideas to improve core Distribution System Planning tasks and address new responsibilities related to electrification and advanced planning
• Lead the annual load forecast and system assessment of DSP with improvement in forecasting accuracy, efficiency and capability
• Accountable for the identification and development of substation capacity upgrades and new substation projects
• Evaluate complex customer connections and determine system changes required to allow the customer service connection. Issue out capital work for identified system changes
• Provide technical support to key customers regarding the system requirements related to their connection service
• Ensure system investment in customer projects align with EPC investment practices
• Identify and estimate customer loading trends to support load forecasting, system assessment and general system development incorporating the latest technologies
• Assist in regulatory undertakings as required (AUC, AESO, etc.)

• Bachelor’s Degree in Engineering, preferably in Energy or Electrical Engineering
• P.Eng. status with The Association of Professionals in Engineering and Geoscientists in Alberta (APEGA).

• 10+ years of relevant experience with a combination of the following knowledge and skills:
  • Strong knowledge of the operations of a utility distribution system, its equipment, and general processes
  • Experience developing system demand forecasts
  • Experience collaborating, influencing, and aligning cross functional teams
  • Experience in distribution system planning
• Experience in data science is preferred
• Working experience with CYME is preferred
• Experience writing Business cases and Need Identification documents to justify solutions
• Basic knowledge of the Alberta regulatory environment

• Organized and disciplined; able to set their priorities
• Ability to make decisions in an uncertain and rapidly changing environment
• An achiever that takes initiative, executes, and makes decisions
• Embodies change and can pivot quickly
• Engages and thrives working in a team environment
• Ability to hold people accountable
• Enjoys project ideation and definition

Safety, Integrity, Accountability, Service, Teamwork, Agility, Innovation

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