Sr Eng - Power System Transmis

Berkshire Hathaway•Reno, NV

15d

About The Position

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 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: Electric power system design and operations. Protective relaying system. Distribution automation and substation networking. Skills such as: Organizational, analytical, writing, verbal communication and documentation. Working with a variety of personnel level and business-oriented. Writing technical reports. Equipment and Applications PCs, word processing, spreadsheet and database software. Work Environment and Physical Demands General office environment. No special physical demands required. NOTE: THE COMPANY MAY FILL THE POSITION(S) AT A LOWER LEVEL DEPENDING ON QUALIFICATIONS OF CANDIDATES 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

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.
Demonstrated knowledge of: Electric power system design and operations.
Protective relaying system.
Distribution automation and substation networking.
Skills such as: Organizational, analytical, writing, verbal communication and documentation.
Working with a variety of personnel level and business-oriented.
Writing technical reports.
PCs, word processing, spreadsheet and database software.

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.