Engineer - System Engineering

Company Summary Statement

Louisville Gas and Electric Company and Kentucky Utilities Company, part of the PPL Corporation (NYSE: PPL) family of companies, are regulated utilities that serve more than 1.3 million customers and have consistently ranked among the best companies for customer service in the United States. LG&E serves 334,000 natural gas and 433,000 electric customers in Louisville and 16 surrounding counties. KU serves 569,000 customers in 77 Kentucky counties and five counties in Virginia.

LG&E and KU are major employers and active supporters of the communities they serve. They empower employees, community members and initiatives across their service territory through volunteerism and investments in organizations that support education, sustainability and wellbeing.

Overview

This position is responsible for supporting procedures, programs, standards, compliance requirements, and projects designed to optimize LG&E and KU substation maintenance and capital asset replacement and upgrade investment programs, review to be installed substation asset test reports and approve for in service, perform analytics of historical maintenance and performance data and use these analytics tools to drive prioritization of capital upgrade and replacement projects, investment programs, and maintenance procedures to maintain or exceed substation reliability goals, support field maintenance personnel in solving non routine technical and reliability issues, complete incident investigation reports and follow up assignments, inspect and review non routine work of contract field crews, complete safety observations, support routine and emergency after hours call in operations and other work as requested by the Manager Engineering, System Engineering.

This position is located in Louisville or Lexington, KY.

The position will be filled based on the candidate's experience level:
Engineer I, II, III or Principal.

Responsibilities

* Develop and maintain an expertise and a thorough level of understanding of major substation equipment, including testing interpretation, replacement recommendations, and equipment issue resolution support which includes transformer oil dissolved gas analysis (DGA), Doble power factor and timing test result analysis, and other routine and complex asset test interpretations.

* Identify and implements substation asset maintenance and capital replacement and spare strategies including development of guidelines and procedures, including utilization of software tools, including PowerBI, to enhance and complete analysis of record data.

* Perform root cause analysis and incident investigations for significant substation and failure events and make follow-up recommendations. This includes field visits as required.

* Support or leads renewal and asset optimization strategies for substation assets. Analyzes and makes recommendations for capital replacement strategies and capital budgets to address equipment with high failure rates or that are near end of life.

* Supports best practices and consistent utilization of the Cascade Maintenance Management and Asset Database software within the Transmission organization, with focus on substation assets and maintenance procedures and asset histories.

* Coordinate both within System Engineering and in coordination with Central Engineering to complete substation asset specification, procurement and order management and commissioning support; including substation transformers, transformer rewinds and remanufactures, Load Tap Changers, free standing power circuit breakers, instrument transformers, bushings, voltage regulators and LTC controls.

* Provide Engineering support for and technical leadership in maintaining NERC and SERC compliance requirements, documents, records and procedures related to PRC-006, PRC-006-SEC-001, PRC-005, and FAC-008 and related field walkdowns.

* Provides overall project and construction management of assigned repair the network related capital projects, ensures projects are completed safely and efficiently, and ensures adherence to safety policies and standards requirements. Updates asset databases including Cascade and Powerbase.

* Research and provides data and support for PSC, AEGIS, SERC, FERC Form 1, and related audits.

* Participate in and contribute to industry conferences/forums, including Doble, SEE, and DNV-GL.

* Provides customer inquiry support for key and major accounts served directly from KU and LG&E Substations.

* Serves as a subject matter expert for substation asset online monitoring technologies, including field engineering support and evaluation of new products.

* Safety Core Team Support and other safety duties as assigned.

* NATF RESTORE and EEI STEP transformer spare program support and participation.

* Contribute to SF-6 gas quarterly and annual reporting process

* Support or lead monthly D-Sub reliability update and track D-Sub SAIDI/SAIFI trends and use data to drive capital prioritizations.

* Regular attendance and group participation…