ET_TN01 Job Title: Principal Transmission Planning Engineer
Location: Waltham, MA & Brooklyn, NY (Hybrid)
Duration: 12 months contract
Note: Successful candidate can be located in either Waltham, MA, Boston, MA, or our Brooklyn, NY office. Job Description:
- Hiring a Principal Transmission Planning Engineer Successful candidate can be located in either our Waltham, MA, Boston, MA, or our Brooklyn, NY office.
Job Purpose:
- Looking for a knowledgeable, curious, and driven Principal Transmission Planning Engineer to join our Grid Integration and Planning Team.
- This individual will support our competitive transmission projects by carrying out transmission analyses and managing interconnection processes in MISO.
- They will ensure that work products are generated to provide sufficient decisionmaking information to management and to effectuate the interconnection of projects the transmission system.
- This role will provide support to key initiatives driving NGV s growth and partnerships throughout the US.
Key Accountabilities:
- Perform, lead, or facilitate engineering and transmission assessments and analyses.
- Support and advise on production cost modeling, economic and regional market evaluations to assist in key strategic insights, identify or confirm project opportunities and solutions.
- Apply innovative approaches to simulation and analysis that can help identify or support new initiatives.
- Lead technical analysis as needed to support potential project partnerships.
- Document, present and report findings and justifications. Help prepare executive summaries or investment committee papers.
- Support or lead on siting, permitting and licensing requirements and/or hearings, if required.
- Represent National Grid interests on national, regional, and local levels when necessary.
- Oversee consultants, engineers or other subject matter experts as required to augment or complement the Business Development team.
- Work in a project team and matrix environment interacting with individuals across National Grid functions in the US and UK.
Qualifications:
- Bachelor s in Electrical Engineering, Mathematics or related technical fields. Power systems focus desired.
- Strong experience in transmission system analysis required.
- Demonstrated ability to translate complex model outputs into business insight & articulate the impact of results.
- Broad knowledge of US power industry standards, structures, policies, regulations & market fundamentals is essential.
- Familiarity with recent trends and technologies in electric transmission, onshore and offshore wind, other large-scale renewable generation, energy storage, conventional generation and emerging technologies.
- Strong track record of relevant professional experience in projects, including developing business cases, optioneering, data analysis, estimating and work structure planning.
- Flair for handling & manipulating data to forecast, derive trends and test sensitivities.
- Interest in offshore wind project development and execution.
- Excellent communication skills with proven ability to persuade, challenge and build credibility based on personally derived recommendations.
- Computational literacy including handling large data sets is mandatory.
- Fundamental understanding of the components of electric transmission facilities including key risks and opportunities is required.
- Ability to develop tools and processes to facilitate best practice & knowledge sharing
