Electrical Engineer EMS​/DTF Power System Modeling

Position: Electrical Engineer 3 - - EMS / DTF Power System Modeling
Job Title:
Electrical Engineer 3 - EMS / DTF Power System Modeling
Job Number: 11987
Location:
Vancouver, WA
Hybrid: on site - 2 days per Week
Travel:
Up to 5% meetings/trainings
Length: 5 years

MUST be US Citizen to be eligible to apply for Federal Background Check

Requires Real  or Valid Passport to interview

SUMMARY

This contract Electrical Engineer 3 position will provide expertise and high-level technical engineering assistance to the Energy Management Systems (EMS) organization. This division provides life-cycle support for Energy Management Systems (EMS) used in support of corporate control centers. This includes engineering, design, operations, maintenance, and technical leadership for systems such as Supervisory Control and Data Acquisition (SCADA), Automatic Generation Control (AGC), on-line power flow and state estimation systems, and the dispatcher training environments which simulate the power grid.

This position will provide support for the operations and maintenance of the corporate Dispatch Training Facility (DTF) systems, including the training simulator and interconnected EMS clone systems. This position will perform EMS Habitat system database updates, provide customer coordination, modify and execute corporate management approved vendor and custom software, maintain quality documentation, and provide recommendations and technical input to enable the client and the organization to meet federal, regional and corporate cyber security compliance requirements.

The work of this position will also include applicable cyber security functions and supplemental project support as listed in Position Responsibilities below

POSITION RESPONSIBILITIES

• Provide a high level of professional engineering expertise in the integration, customization, maintenance and operation of the Dispatch Training Simulator (DTS) software and interconnected systems used in the corporate Dispatch Training Facility (DTF).
• Review proposed changes and enhancements to the DTF systems, making critical analyses and evaluation of the capability of the systems and the costs required to implement changes and make recommendations to the corporate manager or Team Lead on whether changes should be implemented.
• Create / draft event-based scenarios for testing and training.
• Collaborate with engineers and internal customers to provide technical expertise in discussions on existing or potential engineering projects and products.
• Perform troubleshooting and provide technical support to internal craft/customer personnel in regards to DTF systems and training simulators
• Attend project scoping and requirement meetings or design reviews, recommend changes to specification diagrams based on technical and operational issues.
• Facilitate knowledge transfer to corporate staff on continued operations and maintenance of DTF systems.
• Operate the DTF systems in coordination with the operation of multiple other computer and database systems and in a manner that is compliant with regulatory standards.
• Follow Transmission Services established software control standards and procedures, and maintain quality documentation.
• Study existing failures and electronic problem reports, including those of hardware interfaces, to determine the cause of the problems.
• As requested, work with hardware staff, dispatchers and other relevant parties to develop / draft and recommend solutions.
• Draft and make recommendations to the corporate manager and assist in the implementation of corporate management approved software solutions and procedures to recover from malfunctions in order to minimize downtime.
• Monitor and analyze computer/system performance; design and install corporate management approved software changes; may recommend other process solutions, such as hardware changes, as necessary to improve performance.
• Draft DTF operational procedures for Dispatch Trainers and Trainees, as requested
• Provide technical, documentation and modeling assistance in the corporate data modeling environments (currently Stepmodel, ETS, and PSST) as needed for DTF training sessions and testing.
• Provide technical and documentation assistance in the NEMO (New Ems Modeling Options) projects as requested by the corporate manager or Project Manager. Some TDF required databases are expected to be created in ETS in future releases of the NEMO products.
• Provide technical assistance and training to corporate internal DTF and Network Systems Operations Center (NSOC) Hardware and Software staff as requested

Education & Experience

• Bachelor degree in Engineering, preferable Electrical Engineering is required
• 10 years experience in power system engineering, design and project scoping is required

Required Skills & Experience

• Knowledge of Alstom e-terra
  
  Habitat (version 5.8) and e-terra
  
  Platform (EMP) (version 2.5, 2.6) software sufficient to develop, test and integrate application software in those environments.
• Ability to use high level programming languages such as FORTRAN and C++, and script sufficiently to create, modify and…