Principal Metering Engineer

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Next Era Energy Resources’ Engineering & Construction (E&C) division is seeking a Principal Metering Engineer to provide end to end technical leadership and oversight of revenue metering systems supporting renewable energy development, engineering design, and construction execution. This role is specifically focused on meter programming, configuration, testing, and troubleshooting to ensure metering systems meet all technical, contractual, and commercial requirements.

The Principal Metering Engineer is accountable for ensuring that all metering related activities align with project specifications and commercial agreements throughout the full project lifecycle—from initial concept and engineering design through construction, commissioning, certification, and turnover. This position will work closely with cross functional internal stakeholders—including engineering disciplines, development, business management, project management, and transmission services—and will also coordinate with external utilities, ISOs/RTOs, metering vendors, and EPC partners as needed.

Employees in this role make decisions and recommendations having significant impact on extensive engineering and related activities for the company. This position negotiates critical and controversial issues with top level engineers and officers of other organizations and companies.

• Able to program advanced metering systems and configure meter settings/templates
• Provides engineering, design, and development support
• Tracks and reports on project contractual execution and design progress
• Delivers company standards, policies, and support of organization
• Prepares communications, presentations and provides support at meetings
• Formulates research, and develops improvement measures
• Works with other departments within the organization to establish customer requirements
• Ability to work extended hours
• Performs other job-related duties as assigned
• Demonstrates expertise in programming, configuring, and validating revenue grade meters
• Strong troubleshooting skills for complex metering and substation metering related issues
• Comprehensive understanding of substation design, metering schemes, communications, and advanced metering technologies
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills, along with strong organizational and time management capabilities
• Experience supporting commercial, regulatory, and contractual metering deliverables
• Ability to manage multiple stakeholders and oversee third party engineering service providers

• Bachelor’s – Engineering
• Experience:
  
  3+ years in relevant P&C/Substation/Metering Engineering experience, and Project Management
• A minimum of 3–5 years in metering programming is required. Candidates should read protection and control drawings, understand instrument transformers (CTs, PTs, CVTs), be familiar with various metering technologies—especially Schneider Electric ION-8650 meters—and know meter-to-meter schemes, iron and copper loss compensation for transformers, generator tie line loss compensation, sharing losses, and meter programming or metering template creation.

• Bachelor’s – Electrical Engineering
• PMP Certification
• Experience:
  
  5+ years P&C/Subs/Metering Engineering experience. With 2+yrs of project management experience
• Prior work experience working for an Independent System Operator (ISO) (IE: SPP, MISO, CAISO, etc)
• Reviewing Large Generator Interconnection Agreements (LGIAs) & Reviewing Power Purchase Agreements (PPAs)
• Metering standards
• Metering auxiliary loads
• Bench testing meters
• Communication protocols such as modbus, DNP3, MV90
• SE ION-8650 meters
  • Schneider’s ION Setup & PME…