Senior Engineer

Senior Engineer

Requirements

• Bachelors degree in Engineering
• 6 years related work experience
• Must have obtained Bachelor of Science in Engineering from an ABET accredited program or PE
• Minimum of 6 years of engineering experience or 5 years of engineering experience with state registration as a Professional Engineer.
• A Master’s degree in Engineering will be considered in lieu of the B.S. Engineering degree.

Responsibilities

• Performs detailed analytical review of historical vegetation reliability performance (SAIDI, SAIFI, CAIDI, CEMI) to determine trends and opportunities for improvements customized by jurisdiction.
• Analyze trends to validate and/or recommend changes in strategies, specifications, impacts of SCADA technology installed on the distribution system and the utilization of remote sensing technology.
• Serves as VM Subject Matter Expert for technical expertise related to jurisdictional reliability questions and provides technical perspective on the impacts of VM to reliability at a corporate or industry level in their field of expertise.
• Participate in Outage Follow-Up (OFU) calls as needed with a focus on vegetation related outages that meet the outage follow-up criteria of Vegetation related outages >= 500 customers interrupted or Vegetation CEMI 4 outages.
• Review vegetation specific outage details and clean up coding as appropriate and perform cross jurisdictional comparisons to identify best practices and areas of opportunities
• Work closely with the Cross Functional Data Analytics organization to apply data analytics as part of developing annual trim plans with a long-term vision of reliability improvement
• Develop vegetation reliability performance trend analysis and forecast improvements
• Provides engineering/technical expertise and guidance in the identification, analysis and resolution of problems of increasing scope and complexity in both inside as well as outside the scope of typical responsibility.
• Ensures accomplishment of business goals and objectives through effective planning, organizing, estimating, scheduling and monitoring of work activities; decisions may affect the operations or results of the work group and may have some impact on major projects or department results.
• Prepares thorough and accurate technical reports, correspondence, documentation, calculations and sketches related to defined problems and analysis of increasing scope and complexity.
• Conducts engineering and related studies; completes non-routine engineering projects with minimal oversight with the ability to independently manage project schedules and interfaces; competent to design, operate and maintain systems with moderate impact on existing systems.
• Possesses and applies the fundamental concepts, practices and procedures; proficient in technical and analytical competencies necessary to handle assignments of increasing complexity.
• Develops positive working relationships to effectively coordinate work activities. Demonstrates effective oral and written communication skills. Maintains accurate records and files.
• Supports the company’s goals and represents the company positively and professionally.

Preferred Qualifications

• In addition to desired degree, 5 years related work experience
• Professional Engineer
• Proficient in engineering theories and principles
• Proficient in practices of researching engineering and design issues, evaluating alternatives, making sound recommendations, and preparing and presenting recommendations
• Demonstrated effective verbal and written communication skills
• Proficient in principles of project management
• Registered Professional Engineer (PE)
• Experience in the utility industry