Senior Engineer - Power System Transmission

Responsibilities

Basic Purpose

Provides a wide variety of power engineering services and technical support encompassing outage data analysis, assessing system reliability, recommends of system upgrade, developing tender document, system studies, cost estimation, technical discovery and project management, Ensures collaboration across various groups.

Essential Duties and Responsibilities

Supports corporate initiatives such as Grid Resiliency, reliability (SAIDI/SAFI) improvement plans. Helps develop cost effective plans to improve transmission and substation reliability. Supports Capital projects as assigned.

Assists with the preparation of maintenance plans and capital improvement plans for the Transmission System.

Provides technical knowledge on electrical system outages or incidents. Investigates outage root causes, finds patterns in data, and recommends cost effective solutions to improve customer reliability.

Assists with Investigations of power quality complaints, customer complaints and reliability issues.

Analyzes data, prepares reports and presentations.

Provides assistance as required to the Substation and Transmission design groups; e.g. cable ampacity studies, grounding studies, other specialized calculations.

Provides technical knowledge for system upgrades or modifications to operational systems for transmission and distribution system.

Provides scientific programming and statistical analysis and handles power system software tool for running simulation work.

Assists in engagement and management of external consultants to perform specialist tasks. Acts as technical lead in cross functional projects.

Maintains and improves the technical standards and company procedures.

Performs and handles power system software tool for running simulation work.

Assists in the implementation of the application of utility Energy Management Systems (EMS),

Supervisory Control and Data Acquisition (SCADA), and Distribution Management System (DMS) software platforms and operations.

Ensures all compliance aspects of position are known and followed; understands and complies with all policies, codes and regulations applicable to position and company.

Performs related duties as assigned.

Requirements

Essential Education, Skills, and Environment

Education and Work Experience

Engineering degree, 5 years industry experience as a practicing engineer, and must be a licensed PE. If no PE license then must have 8+ years as a practicing engineer.

Specialized Knowledge and Skills

Demonstrated knowledge of:

Skills such as:

Equipment and Applications

PCs, word processing, spreadsheet and database software.

Work Environment and Physical Demands

General office environment. No special physical demands required.

Compensation

Annual Salary: $103,800 (Min) to $122,000 (Mid); Up to 15% Short Term Incentive Plan target opportunity at the discretion of the company. This is a non-represented position.

Benefits

We offer the following benefits for non-represented employees. For represented employees, we offer many similar benefits plans and programs with specific terms negotiated in the collective bargaining agreement.

EOE/Veteran/Disability

At NV Energy, we celebrate diversity, equity and inclusion. NV Energy is proud to be an equal opportunity employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion or religious creed, age, national origin, ancestry, citizenship status (except as required by law), gender (including gender identity and expression), sex (including pregnancy), sexual orientation, genetic information, physical or mental disability, veteran or military status, familial or parental status, marital status or any other category protected by applicable local, state or U.S. federal law.

If you have a disability under the Americans with Disabilities Act or similar law, and you wish to discuss potential accommodations related to applying for employment at our company, please contact Human Resources via email at HumanResources@nvenergy.com or call our HR Help Desk at (702) 402-5500 and select '0' or Fax your request at (702) 402-0031. TTY Sensory Impaired - 711

Note

Depending on qualifications of applicants, this position may be filled at a lower level than that which is posted such as Engineer II- Power System Transmission or Engineer I - Power System Transmission.

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