Engineer Sr

Pay Grade

17

* Qualifications may warrant placement at a different job level

The Engineer Sr position holds the responsibility for the safe, reliable, and economic round‑the‑clock operation of the generation, electric transmission, and distribution systems. Duties include Engineering responsibilities for the design, construction, maintenance, and operation activities of our power plants, transmission lines, substations, distribution system, gas systems, control centers and others. These Engineering duties may include continuous monitoring and balancing of energy flow and responding to system disturbances, along with all generation, distribution, and transmission activities that provide electric and gas services to customers.

This role will also support highly cross‑functional planning and system strategy initiatives in a dynamic and evolving environment. The Engineer will partner across generation, transmission, distribution, gas, forecasting, finance, regulatory, and operations functions to evaluate complex technical information, support long‑range system planning efforts, and help develop practical, data‑informed recommendations that improve reliability, cost effectiveness, and operational readiness. Success in this role requires comfort working through ambiguity, building processes, and helping shape new or evolving programs from the ground up.

• Attends seminars, continuing education opportunities for professional development
• Exhibits the highest level of engineering judgment/technical expertise and may include limited supervisor responsibilities
• Decisions may have significant impact on timeline, cost, safety, or reliability
• Coaches and mentors junior engineers
• Ensures the on‑time, on‑budget quality delivery of projects
• Deals with content that is substantially complex with diverse issues and problems
• Assignments are typically in the form of broad goals or areas of responsibility
• Provides demonstrated ability to train other engineers on technical issues related to the research, design, development, testing and analysis of engineering assignments
• Provides input and/or assists with the review and evaluation of lower level personnel
• May sign and seal own engineering work and engineering work prepared by staff under his/her oversight
• Performs other project and process improvement initiatives as assigned
• Support cross‑functional planning initiatives by partnering with internal stakeholders across generation, transmission, distribution, gas, operations, forecasting, finance, and other business units to evaluate system needs and identify engineering solutions.
• Analyzes technical, operational, and planning data to support long‑range infrastructure strategies, capital investment prioritization, and system performance improvement efforts.
• Helps develop, refine, and document processes, assumptions, methodologies, and recommendations in support of new or evolving engineering and planning programs.
• Provides engineering input into complex, multi‑disciplinary initiatives where requirements, processes, or program structure may be developing in real time.
• Prepares technical analyses, presentations, and recommendations for leadership and cross functional partners to support informed decision making.
• Identifies risks, dependencies, and improvement opportunities across interconnected systems and recommends practical actions to improve reliability, efficiency, and value to customers.

• Ability to effectively oversee design work of employees and contractors
• Technical expert on engineering principles, practices and procedures of varied fields
• Ability to oversee major engineering projects, programs and or initiatives with minimal supervision
• Effective communication skills focused on understanding customer needs and developing resolution
• Strong people skills, with bias for a collaborative working style
• Ability to work call duty and occasional unscheduled work in the evenings, weekends, or holidays after experience level permits
• Ability to travel occasionally, to off‑site work, to seminars, manufacturing plant inspections, etc.
• Proficient in Microsoft Office Package,…