Engineer​/Senior Engineer

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.

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.

At this time, Dominion Energy cannot transfer or sponsor a work visa or employment authorization for this.

This position will be filled as an Engineer or Senior Engineer based on the qualifications of the successful candidate. Complexity of assignments, expectations, and responsibilities increase based on level.

This role provides Electric Distribution Engineering support for the integration of Distributed Energy Resources (DERs), including but not limited to DER Interconnection Feasibility Studies, Direct Transfer Trip (DTT) alternatives, Energy Storage Systems and modernizing deployed technologies within the Dominion Energy service territory. The position supports projects from conceptual development through commissioning
, with a strong emphasis on control systems, communication networks, and Operational and Informational Technology (OT and IT) that enable safe, reliable, and controllable DER asset operation.

Engineers in this role perform work that ranges from moderately complex to highly complex, requiring thorough knowledge of the subject matter, sound engineering judgment, and increasing levels of independence. The candidate will interface with various internal Dominion project teams and will provide technical leadership and serve as a subject matter expert (SME) supporting internal stakeholders, customers, and external entities.

• Design, evaluate, and support end-to-end control system communication architecture for DER telemetry and operational control.
• Define requirements for DER monitoring, control, and asset management, ensuring visibility of network health and device dispatchability.
• Provide subject matter expertise in inverter‑based resources, control strategies, and integration using DNP3, Modbus, IEC 61850, IEEE 2030.5, and other communication protocols.
• Support the design and execution of a Distribution‑owned lab with Hardware-in-the-Loop (HIL) testing for DER control equipment and communication gateways prior to field deployment.
• Validate interoperability between field‑deployed DER control systems, protection relays, and SCADA systems (ADMS/DERMS).

• Design and develop control system platforms for Microgrids.
• Support Factory Acceptance Testing (FAT), Site Acceptance Testing (SAT), and commissioning activities.
• Serve as a SME for technical troubleshooting, root cause analysis, and remediation of performance and operational issues.

• Engineer: 3+ years of relevant engineering experience
• Senior Engineer: 5+ years of relevant engineering experience
• PLC and control hardware programming experience.
• Experience with Human Machine Interface (HMI) graphic control platforms.
• Knowledge of industry standard network communication protocols (DNP3, Modbus, IEC
  61850 GOOSE/MMS).
• Ability to think analytically and solve complex problems.
• Strong planning, organizational, and project management skills.
• Strong leadership skills with proven ability to serve as team project lead.
• Strong oral and written communication skills (including technical writing).
• Equally effective working independently or in a team environment.
• Ability to design, comprehend, and develop complex technical systems.
• Ability to process information quickly and effectively manage multiple tasks.

• Demonstrated knowledge working with inverter‑based systems and specific knowledge on controlling inverter‑based resources using SEL‑RTACs.
• Prior work experience in an electric utility.
• Knowledge of energy storage systems, electric power distribution equipment,…