Senior GMS Power System Engineer

Aspen Technology•Medina, MN

17d

About The Position

The driving force behind our success has always been the people of AspenTech. What drives us, is our aspiration, our desire and ambition to keep pushing the envelope, overcoming any hurdle, challenging the status quo to continually find a better way. You will experience these qualities of passion, pride and aspiration in many ways — from a rich set of career development programs to support of community service projects to social events that foster fun and relationship building across our global community. The Role We are currently seeking a full-time, highly professional, career-oriented Senior level Power Systems Engineer to support project delivery as part of our Generation Management System (GMS) Team. Candidates must possess deep knowledge of power systems analysis and computer programming. Knowledge of electric utility generation operation, unit controls, and optimization is required. In this role, you will play a critical part in the design, implementation, and support of advanced generation control applications for utility clients. You will work directly with customer engineering teams to fine-tune, deploy AGC solutions and optimize generation dispatch logic, frequency control, tie-line bias, and reserve management.

Requirements

BS degree from an accredited institution in Electrical Engineering including completion of one or more Power Systems courses.
Minimum 5 years of related experience.
Excellent oral and written communication skills.
Superior organizational, interpersonal and leadership skills.
Excellent analytical and problem-solving skills.
Ability to multi-task on several projects in parallel in a fast-paced environment.
Ability and flexibility to travel to domestic and international customer sites.
Strong commitment to providing superior customer service.

Nice To Haves

Master’s degree from an accredited institution in Electrical Engineering preferred.

Responsibilities

Design, integrate, test, and commission advanced control systems for electric utilities.
Evaluate contract specifications and define project requirements.
Communicate detailed requirements to internal departments as needed.
Work directly with customers to understand requirements and communicate project plans.
Perform customer training and consult on power system modeling to ensure the effective use and maintenance of a customer’s power system applications.
Assist in creating project and product documentation as needed.
Perform unit testing and tuning to ensure power system applications will meet customer and industry requirements.
Support live customer systems using knowledge of power systems and AspenTech Digital Grid Management (DGM) application functionality with clear, logical thought processes
Stay up to date with the latest industry standards and trends.
Fine tune and configure Generation Management System (GMS) applications to meet customer needs and requirements
Propose and implement processes to improve Generation Management System (GMS) project delivery efficiency.