Principal Resource Adequacy Planning Engineer

Are you a highly experienced engineer who is an expert in running LOLE and ELCC studies on SERVM? Are you skilled in relationship management and presenting to diverse audiences?

Put your expertise to work supporting grid reliability across the West.

Western Power Pool is hiring a Principal
Resource Adequacy Planning Engineer to join our remote team in the Western Interconnect!

Pay: $175,325 to $199,225/year DOE

Location: Remote for candidates in the US (unable to provide sponsorship)

Travel: Quarterly travel to HQ in Portland, OR + approximately six additional trips per year

Schedule: Full-time, Monday – Friday, 8am – 5pm PPT preferred; flexibility for other time zones

Benefits: Employer-paid health, dental, vision, and life insurance; PTO; 11 paid holidays; company-funded Health Reimbursement Arrangement (HRA); 401k with 6% match; discretionary profit-sharing contribution, budgeted at 7% of salary; and flexible working schedule

What You’ll Do:You’ll lead the technical work behind WRAP’s resource adequacy studies and serve as a trusted advisor to its participants, committees, WPP leadership, and the board. This highly visible role combines advanced modeling with extensive stakeholder engagement: you’ll explain complex methodologies, navigate diverse perspectives, support member understanding, and help turn analytical results into informed program decisions. Travel is key in engaging in participant and stakeholder meetings, workshops, and industry events.

A typical day may consist of:

Lead complex SERVM studies covering LOLE, ELCC, capacity accreditation, and planning reserve margins

Recommend study assumptions, sensitivities, and methodologies, and work with WRAP participants to build understanding and alignment

Serve as the primary technical liaison for members, committees, vendors, regulators, leadership, and the board

Translate complex analyses into clear reports, presentations, board materials, and defensible recommendations

Build strong member relationships by answering technical questions, addressing concerns, and explaining implications for the WRAP program

Establish QA/QC and model-governance standards and review the team’s modeling work

Mentor engineers and analysts and promote consistent technical and documentation practices

Identify emerging reliability risks and resolve complex or precedent-setting analytical issues

Represent WPP at stakeholder meetings and industry forums

Who You Are: You’re a technical expert in probabilistic resource adequacy modeling who has led complex SERVM studies and stood behind the results. You can make a technical call, defend it before a board or regulator, and explain it in a way that a non-engineer can follow. You understand that your analysis informs significant utility planning and investment decisions, and you build confidence by engaging stakeholders openly, answering tough questions, and making complex findings understandable.

Qualifications include:

Experience: Typically 10+ years of progressively responsible experience in resource adequacy, generation or transmission planning, integrated resource planning, power-system analysis, or electric markets

SERVM: Recent, hands‑on experience leading complex SERVM studies, including LOLE and ELCC, capacity accreditation, and planning reserve margin work

Technical leadership: Experience leading highly complex studies, setting QA/QC and model-governance standards, mentoring others, and resolving novel technical issues

Communication: Strong public speaker and writer with experience presenting technical work to boards, regulators, committees, or executives

Tools: Advanced skills in Python, SQL, R, MATLAB, or Excel

Education: Bachelor's degree in Electrical Engineering, Power Systems Engineering, Energy Systems, Applied…