EPSE, Transmission Planning

Position Description

Seattle City Light is filling a role in Transmission Planning. This opportunity is for professionally licensed electrical engineers, from any state. If you're bringing your PE from another state, you will have a year to obtain your Washington State PE by exam or committee.

In this position, you will perform regional Transmission planning, interconnection and operational work. In addition, you will support and sustain Seattle City Light as a high performing organization by contributing to excellent organizational performance and customer service. You will contribute to the vision, mission and values of SCL through responsible and effective work performance. This position reports to the Transmission Planning Supervisor.

Seattle City Light, a department of the City of Seattle, is one of the nation's largest municipally owned utilities in terms of the number of customers served. Over the years we have worked very hard to keep Seattle's electricity affordable, reliable, and environmentally sound. Today, City Light is a recognized national leader in energy efficiency and environmental stewardship.

• Responsible for system planning and operation to meet transmission capacity, security and reliability needs
• Work on the planning and design of electrical transmission systems to meet future needs
• Perform NERC Compliance duties and develop internal controls to demonstrate compliance regarding transmission planning, system modeling, interconnection studies and data submittals.
• Review and make recommendations on utility-wide and industry-wide transmission issues and strategies.
• Develop planning, operation, and protection studies for the City Light Transmission system for internal/external customers.
• Perform transmission and substation analysis and investigate system losses and power quality.
• Responsible for evaluating innovative system design solutions to deploy more reliable and cost-effective equipment within our service territory.
• Represent Seattle City Light and coordinate with neighboring utilities, cities, WPP, WECC, Northern Grid on regional transmission planning issues and NERC compliance.
• Perform power flow, under-voltage, under-frequency, voltage stability and transient stability studies.
• Assist or conduct development of spatial load forecast to identify areas of the system with higher load growth.
• Provide technical advice and serve as technical expert to the department on City Light's electrical power system.
• Create procedures, guidelines, and remedial action for the utility's power system plan.
• Review equipment specifications and contract agreements.
• Perform Program management functions.
• Prepare and review applicable Federal, Regional, State and City orders, rules regulation, codes, standards for SCL to meet compliance with regulations.

In addition to the skills and experience mentioned below, a successful applicant will have experience that reflects a commitment to creating fair and equitable outcomes and has:

Requires six years of progressively responsible, difficult and highly complex or visible electrical power systems engineering experience and a Bachelor of Science degree in Electrical Engineering or other combinations of education and/or experience which provides preparation to do professional electrical engineering work on major electrical power systems.

• May be required to work nights, evenings, weekends, and/or holidays. Overnight travel may be required.

• Current Washington State driver's license or evidence of equivalent mobility.
• Professional Engineer state licensure within the United States and up to 12 months after appointment to attain State of Washington registration.

You will be successful if you have the following experience, skills, and abilities:

• Utility transmission planning experience and experience with managing projects related to electric utility transmission engineering design and construction.
• Familiarity with NERC Reliability Compliance, NESC and State regulations.
• Ability to prepare annual, seasonal transmission system assessments and interconnection studies.
• Familiarity with industry standard planning study software such as Power World, GE PSLF, and/or Siemens PSSE.
• Computer skills such as Auto Cad, Word, Excel, Access, MS Project and Windows.
• Ability to write clear, understandable, and professional letters, memos and reports.
• Ability to give presentations to professional staff, management and government agencies, good verbal communications skills.
• Ability to adapt to shifting and multiple priorities.
• Ability to work as a team member in a diverse workforce.
• Knowledge of SCL infrastructure, construction specification and work practices.

Please note this job advertisement is not designed to cover or contain a comprehensive listing of activities, duties or responsibilities that are required of the…