2027 Spring Co-op - System Planning Engineer

MISO•Carmel, IN

23h•Onsite

About The Position

As a System Planning Engineering Co-op, you will support efforts to improve how new energy resources and large electrical loads connect to the grid. You will collaborate with the team to improve interconnection and transmission service processes, develop tools, automate workflows, and find better ways to manage data. Your work will support a grid undergoing major change, with older generating resources retiring, new resources connecting, and large new loads creating additional demand on the transmission system. You will help a team working to ensure those changes happen while maintaining grid reliability. You will gain hands-on experience with Python scripting and automation, power system modeling tools such as PSS®E, PowerWorld, and TARA, CRM Dynamics and data management platforms, generation interconnection and transmission service processes, and real-world grid transformation, large-load integration, and reliability challenges.

Requirements

Foundational Electrical Engineering coursework
Exposure to power systems concepts such as power flow and electrical machines

Nice To Haves

Programming experience with Python
Familiarity with tools such as PSS®E, PowerWorld, or TARA
Experience working with data or automation projects

Responsibilities

Collaborate with engineers to improve how resources connect to and use the transmission system.
Write new scripts to automate manual processes.
Develop better ways to organize and manage data.
Build tools that give engineers greater visibility into an interconnection or transmission service request.
Evaluate the retirement of existing power plants.
Support the addition of new resources.
Determine transmission needs for reliably serving growing electrical demand.
Determine whether resources remain deliverable as grid conditions change.
Support interim solutions for resources coming online before planned transmission facilities are complete.