Electrical Engineer - T&D Planning

Position Overview

Be a part of the energy that is transforming the power industry of northern and eastern Maine. Versant Power continues to provide efficient, safe, and reliable delivery of electricity to customers in northern and eastern Maine, while never losing sight of safety, quality, accountability, integrity, and innovation, for over 100 years. We are committed to our dedicated people, who inspire us every day, to deliver something more powerful than power alone. Under the general direction of the T&D System Planning Program Manager this position encompasses electrical engineering duties under a variety of focus areas, including transmission and distribution planning, substation planning, design, specifications, procurement, and commissioning.

General Responsibilities:

• Understand one-lines, three-lines, schematic diagrams, wiring and connection diagrams for area of Engineering focus.
• Project management responsibilities, where applicable, including fiscal control, reporting and closing of projects.
• Understand the use of technical test equipment and oversight of the associated data and results.
• Interact with area field personnel, providing Engineering oversight and technical assistance as needed.
• Understanding of applicable standards and regulations per specific focus area of Electrical Engineering.
• Ability to develop solutions per system needs.
• Ability to work collaboratively with other Engineers and other departments.
• Understanding basic electrical theory and the application to a Power Utility.

Focus Areas:

• Work closely with others in the department and those necessary in other areas of the Company to facilitate the development of short-term and long-term distribution and transmission capital project plans based on system or equipment reliability, safety, risk assessment, condition, loading and other factors. This will include project development, scope, justification, priority setting and forecasting.
• Work closely with the Company’s Substation Engineering, Power System Technical, System Operations, and other departments to ensure compliance with enforceable NERC O&P Reliability Standards applicable to the Company.
• Some project management responsibilities, including planning, environmental, material management, financial support, and coordination of all involved parties. Responsibility for technical support of projects from conception to completion.
• Supervision of subcontractors and/or consultants doing work similar to or involved with normal engineering duties.
• Develop and maintain a thorough understanding of existing and emerging NERC Operation and Planning (O&P) Reliability Standards.
• Compilation of electrical system data, statistical reports, and specific data requests.
• Prepare or coordinate the preparation of periodic data submittals and reports as mandated by FERC, NERC, ISO-NE, MPUC and other outside entities as deemed necessary.
• Performs analysis in support of the Company strategy regarding grid modernization, system reliability, safety, or other business objectives.
• Study the distribution system to identify current and future needs for capital planning. This would involve system modeling using CYME software and understanding the company’s Distribution modeling criteria.
• Build and update the Distribution System model using CYME software ensuring it is up to date and accurate. Continuously integrate system changes into the model.
• Work closely with System Operations to determine system capabilities in case of maintenance, field work, and emergency situations.
• Support of Distributed Generation and utilize CYME software, GIS software and other Engineering tools to perform System Impact Studies associated with new or existing solar sites and for Distribution Project screening.
• Review solar developer documents for completeness and updated documents for changes.
• Pre-liminary Engineering design and creation of project estimates that are formulated based on the study results and review project estimates and scope documents with Solar developers. Maintain project documents throughout the study process.
• Work with various consulting firms to initiate and review DG project studies that are required for interconnection.