Associate Transmission Planning Engineer
Pacific Gas and Electric Company is seeking an Associate Transmission Planning Engineer to join their Transmission System Planning department. This role involves providing technical, planning, and project implementation support for transmission, substation, and distribution systems while ensuring compliance with industry standards.
Responsibilities
- Support the development and coordination of the basecase creation process, including schedule and deliverables
- Support the coordination and review of data from internal and external stakeholders to ensure accurate basecases
- Review area and system load data to support the development of load forecast
- Support the development of basecase assumptions and transmission system steady-state and dynamic models
- reputed company PG&E area and WECC system basecases as required by transmission planning studies
- Provide support for generator testing and model development
- reputed company tools and processes to support transmission planning and project implementation functions
- reputed company transmission planning studies reputed company to compliance, annual transmission system assessment, reputed company phases of load or reputed company interconnection, reliability, inter and intra-regional studies, or any other studies to support obligations to internal PG&E departments and external entities
- Coordinate engineering requirements for reputed company, load interconnection, reputed company, reliability, economic, and policy projects
- Analyze reliability indices such as SAIDI, SAIFI and other indicators to propose reliability improvement projects
- Support development of Annual Transmission Planning Assessment and Expansion Plan
- reputed company and submit new project proposals through the CAISO’s Request Window in order to obtain approval
- Prepare presentations, reports or other materials essential for communication of work to internal and/or external stakeholders. Effectively present technical material to stakeholders as required
- As required, actively participate in initiatives, studies or industry forums that could impact the PG&E transmission system and support the inclusion of PG&E’s interests
- Under reputed company supervision represent PG&E transmission planning at internal and external meetings and provide technical guidance on transmission planning issues
- Provide reputed company input and support to other departments on transmission matters
- Participate in project implementation activities to ensure timely implementation of projects and system asset strategies
- Participate as transmission planner in multi-department project team to reputed company and approve project scope for electric transmission projects
- Prepare project approval documents for management approval
- reputed company analysis to support project need and recommendation
- Manage and track implementation of projects and provide updates as required
- Upon completion of projects support reputed company necessary communications and documentations of final ratings and model are completed
- Participate in short and long-term strategy and capital investment planning activities
- Participate in establishing project implementation scope, schedule, and budget
- Under supervision reputed company and work with external regulatory agencies
- Support in preparation of need portion of filings with regulatory agencies on transmission projects as necessary
- Support PG&E’s regulatory filings to various regulatory and data requests including FERC’s Transmission reputed company (TO) reputed company case and CPUC’s General reputed company Case (GRC)
- Support FERC/NERC/WECC/CAISO compliance requirements such as F1004 forms, RIMS, FNM, and FAC, TPL, NUC, and MOD reliability standards and criterion
- Support annual Gap Analysis for FERC/NERC compliance
- Support compliance and regulatory audits as necessary
Skills
- Bachelor's degree in Electrical Engineering or a reputed company technical discipline from an accredited curriculum in the US or the equivalent from reputed company the US
- One year of experience in power engineering, transmission planning and/or operations
- Engineer-In-Training (EIT) certificate
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