Job Description:
Job Title: Engineer - T&D
Office Location: Orange CT
Work type:Office
AWESOME BENEFITS + RELOCATION + SIGN ON BONUS
SALARY : The base salary range for this position is dependent upon experience and location, ranging from: $83804 - $104,756
Job Summary:
The engineer will review, analyze, and coordinate moderate to complex planned construction projects, maintenance requirements and responses to system disturbances related to the operation of the Transmission & Distribution (T&D) System. Approve planned outages and clearance requests. Coordinate work with other departments within UI and other outside system operators (e.g., ISO, CONVEX, NUSCO). Work is to be completed with minimal guidance. The incumbent must be available for on-call, as necessary.
Responsibilities
- Perform moderately complex system analyses, design and calculations using std methodology & principles & other viable approaches.
- Develop alternate methods or design concepts to resolve problems or to improve processes/services.
- Solves moderately complex system operating problems. Take a new perspective on established solutions. (e.g., outages, system disturbances, power quality, load flow studies, maintenance recommendations).
- Prepare, maintain, and understand drawings (e.g., schematics, one-line diagrams). Develop and specify equipment, assemble documents and other requirements for assignments of moderate to complex level of difficulty.
- Represent Operate Electric System (OES) on assigned project teams.
- Act as a resource for colleagues with less experience and provide guidance to other team members on OES issues. (e.g., review and evaluate proposals and projects).
- Guide or mentor others. Provides expertise to operators, dispatchers, engineers & consultants.
- Interprets & make recommendations with respect to customer & stakeholder needs.
- Explains difficult issues & works to establish consensus.
- Promotes cross functional teamwork on assigned tasks and projects. Assist in guiding and mentoring engineers in OES.
- Provides direction for resources outside of the department.
- Works independently to address std & non-std system operating situations.
- Apply design stds., industry codes, design criteria, guidelines & UI polices/procedures. (e.g., planned system outage and clearance requests, coordinate system restoration).
- Interprets processes and standards related to OES.
- Recommend solutions and best practices for standard and non- standard situations.
- Represents OES on projects, task forces and studies.
- Develop business cases & manage small projects/processes/initiatives or teams in accordance with applicable UI guidelines.
- Coordinate phases of OES work for assigned portions of a project/program. (e.g., clearance requests)
- Plan, schedule, monitor, control budget/estimates, for assigned tasks and/or projects.
- Possess in-depth experience, knowledge and skills in distribution design and operations, along with related business practices and procedures (e.g., design criteria, standards, NESC).
- Able to explain difficult issues and work to establish consensus.
- Able to work in a cross-functional team and guide or mentor other team members.
Note: The above Key Responsibilities/Duties are not intended to be all inclusive. Employees in this position may be required to perform other related aspects of the job not listed above or listed under Purpose/Major Objectives as assigned by the supervisor. Each employee must accept responsibility for their own safety and health as well as the safety and health of their fellow employees.
Behavioral Competencies
- Develop self & others
- Empower to grow
- Collaborate and share
- Be a role model
- Focus to achieve results
- Be agile
Skills and Requirements
- Technical Skills/Competencies
- Theoretical Engineering knowledge - Planning, Operations and Engineering Design, Analytic, modeling & Calculation, understanding the business model; Global View of the Business (Values cross-functional collaboration, understands importance of growing knowledge and developing relationships and links across the organization)
- Practical engineering experience/application - Planning, Operations and Engineering Design, Construction, (e.g., field experience, standardization "Perform economic analyses of engineering
alternatives, develop business cases and defend in front of stakeholders.")
- Engineering documentation - Ability to adequately document and interpret engineering documentation
- Ability to review and approve engineering work done by others to ensure compliance with company standards, specifications, and contract requirements
- Knowledge of Regulatory and Compliance Environment - Local, State and Federal Regulatory Standards and requirements
Education & Experience Required:
BS/BA Degree Experience: Requires a bachelor's degree in Electrical Engineering from an ABET accredited college/university plus 2-5+ years' experience performing engineering duties or an A.S. Electrical Engineering degree from an ABET accredited university plus 9 years' experience in Engineering with UI Engineering Training Curriculum (e.g., ECNE-PUI) or equivalent is required.
Avangrid employees may be assigned a system emergency role and in the event of a system emergency, may be required to work outside of their regular schedule/job duties.
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Mobility Information
Please note that any applicant who is not a citizen of the country of the vacancy will be subject to compliance with the applicable immigration requirements to legally work in that country
AVANGRID's employment practices and policies are geared to hiring a diverse workforce and sustaining an inclusive culture. At AVANGRID we provide fair and equal employment and advancement opportunities for all employees and candidates regardless of race, color, religion, national origin, gender, sexual orientation, age, marital status, disability, protected veteran status or any other status protected by federal, state, or local law. If you are an individual with a disability or a disabled veteran who is unable to use our online tool to search for or to apply for jobs, you may request a reasonable accommodation by contacting our People and Organization department at careers@avangrid.com
Avangrid employees may be assigned a system emergency role and in the event of a system emergency, may be required to work outside of their regular schedule/job duties. This is applicable to employees that will work in Connecticut, Maine, Massachusetts, and New York within AVANGRD Network and Corporate functions. This does not include those that will work for Avangrid Renewables
Job Posting End Date:
January-28-2025
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