Description
Transmission Project Development Senior Engineer 1
Summary
The Transmission Project Development Senior Engineer 1 is responsible for sponsoring technical and engineering efforts in support of transmission utility projects. This role involves developing project scope, schedules, and costs while identifying synergies and cross-cutting opportunities to maximize value. The position requires coordinating and performing technical analyses for transmission-level projects and driving multiple aspects during licensing and construction to streamline and optimize resources.
Responsibilities
Oversee engineers performing diagnostics, equipment monitoring, inspections, and grid technology reviews.
Build relationships to facilitate cross-functional knowledge transfer across work groups.
Lead the preparation of technical reports, presentations, and other documentation to communicate project status, findings, and recommendations.
Collaborate with cross-functional teams to ensure effective development, integration, and implementation of technologies and asset management strategies.
Support new equipment installation and startup, leading handover processes to ramp-up and sustaining phases.
Provide guidance to junior engineers in investigating threats to distribution system infrastructure.
Gather and correlate data using engineering studies and procedures, including routine and diagnostic testing of components and systems.
Facilitate training and professional development opportunities for engineering team members.
Ensure compliance with standards of conduct and integrity when handling sensitive, financial, and cybersecurity-related information.
Requirements
Minimum Qualifications
Bachelor’s degree in Engineering or a scientific/technical/math field.
Seven or more years of experience performing engineering work in operations, production, construction, or maintenance environments.
Valid Class C Driver’s License.
Preferred Qualifications
Experience supporting testimony development for regulatory proceedings and environmental licensing.
Engineering experience with modeling and performing power system analyses on transmission systems (50 kV to 500 kV).
Experience with +50 kV substation and transmission line design, with emphasis on transmission lines.
Proficiency in GE PSLF, PowerWorld simulation software, PLS-CADD, and/or SPIDA.
Professional Engineer (PE) license or equivalent certification.
