Design Engineer - Dynamic Studies and Modeling

Description

• Stay current with regulatory changes, new grid codes, and evolving ISO/RTO requirements related to grid interconnections.
• Respond quickly to customer design changes, questions and deadlines, and maintain a flexible attitude towards the work.
• Develop PSSE, PSLF, TSAT and PSCAD models of renewable plants
• Stay up to date on new industry guidance and standards for modeling and NERC compliance for relevant technologies
• Support interconnection applications; tasks include preliminary plant design, assemble simple preliminary drawings, and completing application forms with design information
• Work closely with the developer clients to understand their needs, deadlines, changes in design and address feedback from the system operator/transmission owner.
• Conduct voltage and frequency ride through studies, and support model validation for renewable projects to support NERC compliance standards.
• Independently completes assigned tasks required
• Help develop tools to automate and streamline model quality tests and analyses
• Conduct some preliminary system studies, like reactive power studies.
• Understand and stay apprised of updates with various regional requirements for interconnection applications, processes, deadlines and queue schedules.
• Actively manages individual workload, adapts to changing requirements, maintains flexibility
• Perform model quality tests and model benchmarking for various software models.

Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree in Electrical Engineering required, ABET accredited program, or equivalent required
• Must have authorization to work permanently in the U.S
• Demonstrates strong interpersonal skills with the ability to establish and maintain effective working relationships with staff, management, clients and external agencies
• Must be analytical, self-motivated, and possess the ability to work in a fast-paced environment while maintaining a positive, enthusiastic attitude
• A minimum of 2 years of working experience, with at least 1 years of experience directly related to power systems
• Prior experience working with/for transmission system operators/transmission owners (ERCOT, PJM, MISO, CAISO, etc.) is preferred.
• Demonstrates openness to innovation by embracing and applying evolving technology and AI tools to enhance workflows, solve problems, and drive continuous improvement
• Must be a self-starter and willing to identify improvements and implement them, utilizing support from others
• Must be comfortable asking questions to team when learning new skills
• Experience with PSCAD, PSLF and TSAT modeling is preferred.
• Experience with programming in Python preferred
• Excellent presentation and verbal/written communications skills
• Experience with steady-state analysis and/or dynamic analysis utilizing PSS®E and PSCAD
• Understand dynamic model block diagrams and tune parameters to meet regional model performance requirements.

Benefits

• Comprehensive Benefits Package
• Competitive Pay
• Flexible Workplace
• Collaborative Environment

Training + Development

Interview process

Visa Sponsorship

Security clearance