Distribution Planning Engineer

ENTRUST • Cincinnati, OH

12d • Remote

About The Position

Are you passionate about enhancing power distribution systems and shaping the future of energy? Join our Distribution Planning team, where you'll play a pivotal role in upgrading, maintaining, and automating power distribution systems. Collaborate with diverse teams and bring your expertise to solve complex challenges in the energy sector. This position offers remote, hybrid, and in-office options depending on location. As a Distribution Planning Engineer, you'll be at the forefront of upgrading, expanding, improving, maintaining, and automating power distribution systems. You'll perform essential protection and coordination studies, identify and solve issues involving substations and multiple feeders, and conduct scenario-based planning studies to recommend effective solutions. Developing medium- and long-range distribution plans focusing on load relief, capacity, and reliability will be a key part of your role. You'll create and maintain computer models and their underlying databases for electric distribution systems, and conduct load forecasts, including DER, energy storage, and emerging electrification-related loads. You'll collaborate closely with internal teams, such as transmission, substation, and distribution design teams as well as the SCADA Automation team, to ensure seamless integration and efficiency. Lastly, you'll work independently while also coaching and mentoring less experienced engineers, fostering a culture of continuous learning and development. ENTRUST Solutions Group, an ENR Top 100 company, is a community of people, 3,000+ strong, who are committed to our clients and each other. We provide comprehensive and dependable engineering, consulting, and automation services to gas and electric utilities, telecommunication service providers, pipeline operators, and industrial companies. This role is designated as remote, giving you the flexibility to primarily work from home while staying actively connected to your team and projects. We value collaboration and responsiveness, so we ask our remote team members to be available when in-office presence is needed—such as for client meetings, team events, or training sessions. Our approach blends freedom with shared accountability, making ENTRUST an exciting and supportive environment for professionals who thrive in remote work settings with clear, respectful expectations.

Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree in Electrical Engineering or a related field
• 2+ years of experience in electric utility planning
• Proficiency in at least one of the following: CYME Dist , CYMTCC, Synergi, or ASPEN One-Liner
• Experience with grid modernization challenges including FLISR, DER, system impact studies, energy storage, electrification, protection & control, sectionalizing and/or fire mitigation studies
• Ability to travel up to 5% as required to support clients and projects

Nice To Haves

• EIT/FE highly preferred
• Master’s degree in Electrical Engineering
• Knowledge of software automation and scripting
• Experience creating protective device settings files
• Understanding of 8760 simulations in LoadSEER or a similar software

Responsibilities

• Upgrading, expanding, improving, maintaining, and automating power distribution systems
• Performing essential protection and coordination studies
• Identifying and solving issues involving substations and multiple feeders
• Conducting scenario-based planning studies to recommend effective solutions
• Developing medium- and long-range distribution plans focusing on load relief, capacity, and reliability
• Creating and maintaining computer models and their underlying databases for electric distribution systems
• Conducting load forecasts, including DER, energy storage, and emerging electrification-related loads
• Collaborating closely with internal teams, such as transmission, substation, and distribution design teams as well as the SCADA Automation team, to ensure seamless integration and efficiency
• Working independently while also coaching and mentoring less experienced engineers, fostering a culture of continuous learning and development

Benefits

• A supportive and inclusive work environment that values diversity and encourages innovation
• Opportunities for professional growth and career development
• Competitive salary and comprehensive benefits package, including generous paid time off, 401(k) with company match, tuition reimbursement, and flexible work schedules
• Generous paid time off and benefits
• 401(k) retirement program with a company match
• Career development programs
• Tuition reimbursement
• Flexible work schedule

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Mid Level
• Number of Employees: 1,001-5,000 employees