Electric Distribution Engineer – Associate

Role Overview

• Submits long term and short-term reconstruction, capacity and reliability plan recommendations; manages projects within their local area of $100,000 or less; and reviews and recommends job estimates within DPA for capacity and reliability.
• Monitors area substation and circuit capabilities and track corresponding loads.
• Prepares proposals, including justification, for appropriate corrective actions to address deficiencies found.
• Performs planning studies to correctly model the electric distribution system and works with Mapping to ensure discrepancies are corrected in associated records system.
• Analyzes historical loads and project future growth.
• Prepares long-term and short-term plans to identify and correct area deficiencies.
• Prepares draft Preliminary Planning Reviews (PPR’s).
• Identifies alternatives to address deficiencies for Project Analysis (PA’s).
• Reviews and analyzes area distribution systems and takes appropriate actions to maintain power factor and primary voltage within established standards.
• Determines circuit and associated equipment capabilities within the assigned DPA.
• Prepares and initiate switching plans to alleviate normal and minimize emergency deficiencies.
• Prepares necessary documentation about distribution needs for estimating to complete job packages.
• Prepares settings for load tap changers and other line equipment.
• Reviews requests for new large customer load additions or increases in voltage and recommend actions to correct any deficiencies.
• Provides direction and reviews primary designs proposed by estimating to ensure adequate capacity and reliability.
• Prepares settings for distribution protective devices.
• Performs circuit protection reviews and makes recommendations for corrections.
• Determines protection requirements for rule 20, WRO projects and other major distribution projects which could impact the existing protective scheme.
• Prepares settings for Distribution Automation (DA) devices affecting distribution protection, voltage or emergency switching.
• Initiates service dependability solutions and actively participates in local reliability / root cause meetings.
• Works closely with construction to prioritize outage prevention work within DPA, addresses customer complaints (Help Tickets) for recurring outages as assigned.
• Prepares initial responses for CPUC complaints for recurring outages.
• Supports local DO’s, DEC, construction, or storm room in emergency restoration efforts as required.
• Provide technical, address’ customer voltage complaints caused by primary voltage problems.
• When requested, address’ customer EMF requests involving distribution facilities as assigned, assist E&M and OM&C personnel to address customer voltage complaints caused by secondary voltage problems.
• Supports estimating, construction, and other departments as required.
• Reviews, modifies, and recommends switching clearances for feeders, banks and stations as requested by DO’s.
• Address’ customer EMF requests involving distribution facilities as assigned.
• Reviews switching arrangements, equipment settings, voltage levels, power factor needs, etc. to ensure the distribution system is operated in the most efficient manner.
• Prepare EASOP (economic analysis) for projects in DPA.
• Prepare other engineering analysis as assigned.
• Provide supervisor on-call support as required; maintain equipment records as assigned.

Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree in Electrical Engineering (power systems) from a college/university program accredited by Accreditation Board of Engineering and Technology (ABET)
• Power systems
• Basic electrical engineering principles and theory
• CYME experience
• Python Scripting experience

Tech Stack

• Python
• Switching