Associate​/Engineer​/Senior Engineer - Electric Transmission Planning Modeling

Education Requirements

Dominion Energy is committed to providing reliable, affordable, and increasingly clean energy that powers our customers every day. If you want to work for a purpose-driven company that values safety and collaboration, we’re looking for you. You won’t just find a job here; you’ll find your career. Review the position below and apply today .

We offer a hybrid 3-2 work schedule (three days in the office, two days of teleworking) to accommodate the need for flexibility.

Military service members and veterans with ranks from E5-E9, W1-CW5, or O3-O6, plus appropriate equivalent combination of education and years of experience as outlined below will be considered for this opportunity.

Dominion Energy’s Power Delivery Group is seeking a motivated Associate/Engineer/Senior engineer to be part of the Electric Transmission Planning Modeling Team. The successful candidate will be responsible for developing and managing the power system models used by the Dominion Energy Electric Transmission Planning Team and PJM. Primary responsibilities include but are not limited to:

• Manage the development of the PSS/E power flow cases for PJM’s Regional Transmission Expansion Planning Process (RTEPP), the Multiregional Modeling Working Group (MMWG), and the internal Dominion Energy base cases
• Provide model updates for ASPEN short circuit models and PSS/E power flow models throughout the year. Examples include Model on Demand (MOD) project files, contingency file updates, facility rating updates, and facility impedance updates
• Work collaboratively with the Dominion Energy ET Planning Team and PJM to develop additional power system models for reliability analyses, extreme event analyses, distributed generation sensitivity analysis, resiliency analysis, and the generator interconnection queue studies
• Work collaboratively with many internal Dominion ET departments (the SOC, system protection engineering, substation engineering lines engineering, etc.), PJM, SERC, and other external groups to develop and maintain accurate short circuit models using ASPEN One-Liner
• Perform breaker duty analysis as needed for the annual RTEPP and generator interconnection requests
• Maintain the bus impedance reports to be used by both internal and external customers
• Automate the work processes to collect load information at the winter and summer system peaks, and work with the Dominion forecasting group to update the loads in the cases using the PJM Load Forecast Report
• Assist in the development, maintenance, and enhancement of computer based tools for the Electric Transmission Planning Team
• Possesses a comfort and familiarity with creating, maintaining, and using databases
• Carry out data mining and data analytics on historical data to validate power system models
• Perform other duties as requested or assigned

Associate Engineer: 0-2+ years of experience.

Engineer: 3+ years of significant directly related experience

Senior Engineer: 5+ years of significant directly related experience

Required:

Bachelor’s degree in Engineering

• This role is considering upcoming graduates for PhD engineering programs completed and graduated by December 31st, 2026 with engineering research or work experience on directly related projects for the electric utility industry
• Electrical Engineering Degree or Computer Engineering Degree is preferred
• Electrical Engineering Degree with Power Systems focus is strongly preferred

• For placement of a candidate in the Engineer job series, the following criteria must be met:
• Possess a 4-year engineering degree from an ABET accredited engineering program based on the year that the engineering program was accredited by ABET, or
• Possess a 4-year engineering degree from an institution outside of the U.S. which is accredited through the country’s own engineering accrediting body under the Washington Accord as a full signatory, and is a degree that was recognized by the country’s accrediting body on or after the date that full signatory status was achieved, or
• Possess a 4-year engineering degree from a non-ABET accredited program and a post-graduate…