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Salary $91,000 - $140,000 a year job type full-time
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Job description:
Transmission planning engineer
Fully remote/100% telework
Leidos offers its knowledge and expertise over a wide area of cutting-edge energy technologies and independent oversight, combined with proven business acumenBuilding our work for publicly and privately-owned utilities, financial institutions and local governments, we are able to provide our clients with business insight into all sectors of the infrastructure industry.
We are seeking a transmission planning engineer who will work as a member of a dynamic team within our energy & systems solutions, and who will provide transmission planning consulting services as both an engineer and as a project manager as client needs dictateThis position will contribute to the expansion of an established and well respected transmission planning consulting practice.
Transmission planning engineer job responsibilities:
Perform complex transmission planning studies both independently and as a team member
Mentor more junior team members who are involved with similar studies for a variety of clients such as: municipal utilities, investor owned utilities, and regional planning organizations such as iso’s and rto’s, as well as providing transmission consulting services for developer and independent power producer clients
Serve as subject matter expert for selected nerc reliability standards in support of leidos’ nerc compliance practice
Responsible for providing consulting services transmission planning and in-depth analysis
Participate in business development activities: both building and maintaining client relationships, as well as assist with expanding the current client baseThis position has a significant growth and career development potential
Transmission planning engineer qualifications:
Bachelors of science electrical engineering (bsee) is required and 8 – 12 years of prior relevant experience or masters with 6 – 10 years of prior relevant experience
The candidate should possess solid understanding of power system analysis concepts, including: load flow, stability, short circuit and electromagnetic transients, including knowledge of various power system theories and limitations
Experience with common industry accepted analytical tools such as pss/e, pslf, aspen, cape, emtp and pscad are highly desirableThe candidate must be experienced and capable of functioning both as a team member and at times in a project leadership role in transmission studies.
Knowledge of transmission policy and regulatory issues is desired examples include: experience with ferc open access transmission tariff, nerc reliability standards, generator interconnection procedures (lgip and sgip) and associated study practices
Professional engineering license preferred
Demonstrates excellent oral and written communications skills
Detail oriented
Remarkable problem solver in both team and independent environments
Willingness to travel to project and/or client sites
Leidos engineering is a trusted and future-focused solutions providerUtilities consistently come to leidos for reliable power expertise, as reflected through our work with more than 50 investor-owned utilities and more than 160 municipals/cooperatives across the country as well as a growing number of local utility providers and private developersOur project portfolio includes large energy projects for electric utilities, power generation owners, and industrial clientsIn addition, leidos works with an established group of industry-leading construction partners delivering meaningful energy delivery solutionsOur recognition as an industry leader is confirmed by the latest national rankings by engineering news-record (enr) ranking leidos within: the top 10 t&d firms, top 10 program management firms, and top 20 power firms
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Pay range:
Pay range $91,000.00 - $140,000.00 - $189,000.00
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