Senior Transmission Planning Engineer

Responsibilities

• Leads and performs modeling and analysis activities for steady state and stability simulations.
• Develops scopes for studies to guide long‑range transmission system plans and coordinates with other Integrated System Planning departments to ensure assumptions align across subdisciplines.
• Effectively communicates the results of studies and department endeavors to a wide range of audiences through written and verbal means.
• Improves Integrated System Planning procedures and techniques through largely self‑directed work.
• Resolves difficult technical and business problems.
• Implements, without substantial direction, NERC and FERC compliance activities as an SME.
• Assigns tasks to lower‑level engineers, interns and technicians.
• Mentors and provides training materials for less experienced engineers.

• Bachelor’s degree in Engineering and/or Physics from ABET accredited curriculum (or recognized equivalency).
• 5+ years with nationally recognized certification, 7+ years without certification.
• Experience with multiple power system transmission analysis tools such as PSSE, TARA, EMS, ASPEN, CAPE, PROMOD, PLEXOS, Power World, PSCAD or other similar analysis software.
• EIT/FE (Engineer in Training/Fundamentals of Engineering and/or PE (Professional Engineer) registration preferred.
• Graduate degree in fields above preferred.