Sr Engineer-Smart Grid Emerging Technology

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The Senior Engineer in the Emerging Technologies – Smart Grid team leads the identification, evaluation, and deployment of innovative technologies by owning end-to-end problem definition, impact quantification, and cost-benefit justification. This role drives initiatives from ideation through execution, ensuring emerging technologies deliver measurable grid, customer, and societal value while supporting Com Ed’s strategic, regulatory, and modernization objectives. The senior engineer focuses on integrating distributed energy resources (DERs), electric vehicles (EVs), managed charging, microgrids, battery energy storage systems (BESS), and advanced analytics using diverse data streams.

The position requires close collaboration with cross-functional teams across engineering, IT, OT, and cybersecurity to support grid modernization and strategic technology roadmaps. The Senior Engineer will contribute to pilot project design, industry engagement, and mentoring, while staying at the forefront of regulatory and technological trends shaping the future of the electric grid.

• Lead smart grid and emerging technology initiatives from ideation through execution, including defining grid problems, quantifying impacts, and establishing economic justification.
• Own and approve cost-benefit analyses for emerging technologies, ensuring methodologies, assumptions, and results support investment decisions and regulatory defensibility.
• Quantify grid, customer, and societal impacts of technologies such as DERs, EVs, managed charging, V2G, microgrids, BESS, grid-forming inverters, and advanced analytics.
• Lead pilot project design and evaluation by defining success criteria, benefit metrics, and pathways to scale based on quantified results.
• Collaborate cross-functionally with engineering, IT, OT, cybersecurity, and business teams to align technical solutions with operational, financial, and strategic outcomes.
• Apply advanced analytics and modeling to synthesize diverse data streams into actionable insights and quantified value propositions.
• Inform strategic technology roadmaps by translating technical outcomes and economic analysis into clear recommendations for leadership.
• Represent Com Ed in industry forums, pilots, and working groups, influencing standards and best practices related to valuation and impact assessment.
• Provide technical leadership, mentorship, and peer review, enhancing organizational capability in impact quantification and benefit-driven engineering decisions.
• Lead assignments in specialized areas requiring extensive engineering expertise and maintain state-of-the-art credentials when applicable.
• Lead engineering tasks and projects with significant financial and operational impact, including field testing, troubleshooting, and peer review.
• Evaluate, develop, implement, and lead projects with substantial impact; plan, document, and execute commissioning and related activities.
• Participate in department planning, field/site walkdowns, meetings, budget recommendations, and performance monitoring to achieve results.
• Perform assignments autonomously and may lead multi-discipline teams or oversee contractors.
• Serve as an expert in a specialized area and provide expert testimony or opinions as required.
• Provide recommendations to management and implement action plans to improve performance and cost effectiveness.
• Provide detailed technical training, mentorship, and guidance to others; participate in technical and industry societies to enhance knowledge of new technologies.

• Influences project decisions with significant impact on the company.
• Applies technical knowledge to promote safety and enhance customer satisfaction.

• Bachelor of Science degree in Engineering or Licensed Professional Engineer; knowledge of engineering designs, principles, and practices.
• Ability to analyze and interpret complex electrical and mechanical systems.
• Knowledge and ability to apply problem solving approaches and engineering theory.
• Detailed knowledge of applicable standards, codes, methods, and practices in areas of expertise.
• 7+ years of professional engineering experience; thorough knowledge in specialized areas of engineering.
• Ability to apply advanced…