Associate Planning Engineer

Description

Leidos offers its knowledge and expertise over a wide area of cutting‑edge energy technologies and independent oversight, combined with proven business acumen. Building our work for publicly and privately owned utilities, financial institutions, and local governments, we provide our clients with business insight into all sectors of the infrastructure industry.

We are seeking an Associate Planning Engineer to join our dynamic Energy & Systems Solutions team. In this role, you will provide transmission planning consulting services as an entry‑level engineer, working under the supervision of senior staff on projects for Municipal Utilities, Investor‑Owned Utilities, and Regional Planning organizations (ISOs/RTOs). This position offers a foundational opportunity to develop technical expertise within the Leidos Planning practice.

You will work on day‑to‑day objectives with limited impact beyond the scope of your assigned project team.

Duties include:

• Technical Support: Solve simple, routine technical problems following established procedures and policies.
• Systems Analysis: Apply basic principles, theories, and concepts of electrical engineering to support transmission system planning and power system analysis.
• Tool Utilization: Utilize and develop proficiency in industry‑standard analytical tools such as ETAP, SKM, CYME, Synergi, Wind Mil, PSS/E, PSLF, Power
  
  GEM TARA, or ASPEN.
• Documentation: Assist in the technical writing of project findings and contribute to the preparation of basic analysis for project reports.
• Communication: Communicate with peers to explain facts, basic analysis, and engineering processes related to your work area.
• Professional Development: Learn to apply NERC reliability standards FERC regulatory policies, or IEEE standards to real‑world infrastructure projects.

• Education: Bachelor of Science degree in Electrical Engineering (BSEE).
• Experience: Less than 1 year of prior relevant experience.
• Knowledge: Basic knowledge of and ability to apply principles, theories, and concepts of the electrical engineering domain (e.g., load flow, short circuit, and basic circuitry).
• Analytical
  
  Skills:
  
  Ability to solve routine technical problems in a team environment.
• Communication: Demonstrates solid oral and written communication skills for peer‑to‑peer collaboration.
• Travel: Willingness to travel to project and/or client sites as required for data collection or team meetings.

For U.S. Positions:
While subject to change based on business needs, Leidos reasonably anticipates that this job requisition will remain open for at least 3 days with an anticipated close date of no earlier than 3 days after the original posting date as listed above.

Pay Range $57,850.00 - $

The Leidos pay range for this job level is a general guideline only and not a guarantee of compensation or salary. Additional factors considered in extending an offer include (but are not limited to) responsibilities of the job, education, experience, knowledge, skills, and abilities, as well as internal equity, alignment with market data, applicable bargaining agreement (if any), or other law.

Leidos is an industry and technology leader serving government and commercial customers with smarter, more efficient digital and mission innovations. Headquartered in Reston, Virginia, with 47,000 global employees, Leidos reported annual revenues of approximately $16.7 billion for the fiscal year ended January 3, 2025. For more information, visit

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