Job Responsibilities
- Continues to learn and develop knowledge and skills in departmental design guides, standards, systems, applicable engineering codes, and Commonwealth Associates policies and procedures. Applies this knowledge to assigned tasks.
- Provides guidance and direction on departmental standards, policies and procedures.
- Communicates client interests and drivers to project team and develops approaches to meet these interests and drivers throughout the work on less complex projects.
- Support Business Development by providing technical information for sales proposals, or by pursuing other related activates as assigned by department managers.
- Supports internal project teams and clients, regularly interacts with client's technical lead for data requests, site visits, clarification of project execution and review of comments.
- Communicates directly with other disciplines to identify and coordinate details of work for assigned tasks, or at project level for smaller-scale projects.
- Coordinates tasks and proper sequencing of tasks with internal staff, project managers and clients.
- Collects, assimilates, and manages data for engineering work.
- Performs complex research and develops recommendations for equipment and/or materials selection.
- Prepares a variety of engineering deliverables such as contract documents, project documents, and studies with little to no supervision.
- Prepares complex engineering calculations following standard methods and principles.
- Recognizes, defines, and seeks to resolve problems within assigned area or project.
- Understands and adheres to budget, schedule, and quality requirements. Demonstrates understanding of project phases, schedules and schedule recovery as it pertains to engineering production and deliverables.
- Provides input during planning of project resources and assists managers in resource planning activities.
- Assists with contract administration or project management administrative duties in connection with project work as needed.
- Assists in the development and production of project scope of work packages (scope, schedule & budget) for assigned discipline.
Qualifications:
Minimum bachelor’s degree - Masters degree preferred in electrical power discipline.
Experience with the following software:
- PSS/E, PSS/E TS, TARA, PSLF, Milsoft
- PSCAD, EMTP-RV
Experience with the following studies:
- Dynamic Stability Analysis, ISO model building in PSS/E and PSCAD, Power flow analysis, contingency analysis, Power Quality Analysis (PQ)
- Transient Recovery Voltage (TRV) , Temporary Over Voltage (TOV), Transient Over Voltage (TOV), Harmonics, Effective Grounding, Black start
- Industry publications
- Industry organization involvement (IEEE, CIGRE, etc)
- Supervisory experience
- Experience in power system protection, relay settings development a plus.
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