Distribution Design Engineer (Hybrid)
$100,490–$111,660 year
HybridEast Hampton, Connecticut, United States
East Hampton, Connecticut, United StatesHybridFull Time$100,490–$111,660 yearEnterprise
Full TimeEnterprise
Job Summary
Identify improvements and major repair needs on the distribution system, assessing cost/benefit alternatives to prioritize circuit changes. Plan system improvements for assigned circuits, analyzing projected deficiencies like voltage and overloads while developing reliability alternatives. Conduct outage, voltage, and power quality investigations; engineer recloser and breaker settings; and provide support for switching and contingency plans. Create work requests in STORMS/AIMS, negotiate easements with customers, and evaluate proposed DG interconnection applications. Participate in emergency restoration efforts, major system reviews, and corrective action committees to prevent recurrence.
Required Qualifications
- A bachelor's degree in engineering
- Must hold a valid motor vehicle operator's license
- Must be able to work in a team environment
- Must be available for weekend shifts
- Must be available for emergency assignments outside of normal responsibilities, work hours and location
- Must be able to lift 50 lbs
Desired Qualifications
- Two (2) to Five (5) years of equivalent experience in Energy Delivery
- Knowledge of distribution systems
- Experience with STORMS/AIMS
- Experience with TD941
- Experience with Recloser and Breaker settings
- Experience with DG interconnection applications
- Experience with EMF communications and/or measurements
- Experience with switching
- Experience with contingency plans
- Experience with yellow tags
- Experience with voltage profiles
- Experience with fault studies
- Experience with reliability studies
- Experience with load growth
- Experience with power quality investigations
- Experience with outage investigations
- Experience with circuit analysis
- Experience with circuit reliability
- Experience with Return on Asset (ROA)
- Experience with equipment replacement
- Experience with repair
- Experience with major restoration efforts
- Experience with Emergency Preparedness
- Experience with customer additions
- Experience with substantial change to the distribution system
- Experience with customer quality of service issues
- Experience with easements
- Experience with budget criteria
- Experience with Operating Company Review Committee (OCRC)
- Experience with System Operation Review Committee (SORC)
- Experience with regulator and capacitor control settings
- Experience with proposed DG interconnection applications
- Experience with annual procedures
- Knowledgeable of various computer applications
- Ability to identify improvements and major repair needs
- Ability to assess the effect of alternative performance improvements on a cost/benefit basis
- Ability to determine priorities
- Ability to provide engineering support to Field Engineering Design
- Ability to plan system improvements
- Ability to engineer circuit changes
- Ability to review daily interruption reports
- Ability to analyze projected circuit deficiencies
- Ability to develop alternatives to improve circuit reliability
- Ability to recommend equipment replacement vs repair
- Ability to maximize Return on Asset (ROA)
- Ability to participate during major restoration efforts
- Ability to create Work Requests
- Ability to operate independently within a team environment
- Ability to report to Lead – Distribution Design Engineer on deviations in construction design guidelines and maintenance specifications
- Ability to become Subject Matter Experts (SME)
- Ability to work with the Real Estate Department and Customer to negotiate easements
- Ability to consider safety in all circuit analysis
- Ability to support Account Executives with customer quality of service issues
- Ability to make direct contact with customer and develop corrective actions
- Ability to have nonexclusive, non-supervisory, storm restoration and emergency assignments
- Ability to support Operations with distribution issues
- Ability to review switching
- Ability to develop contingency plans
- Ability to prioritize work
- Ability to monitor yellow tags
- Ability to provide engineering support to Field Distribution Design
- Ability to provide regulator and capacitor control settings for Electrical Maintenance
- Ability to work with P&CE on developing Recloser and Breaker settings
- Ability to be responsible for outage, voltage, and power quality investigations
- Ability to participate in System Operation Review Committee (SORC) and engineer corrective action to prevent reoccurrence
- Ability to provide reports as required
- Ability to engineer, develop and present distribution projects to Operating Company Review Committee (OCRC) for approval
- Ability to evaluate proposed DG interconnection applications
- Ability to review and implement annual procedures
- Ability to support SOC
- Ability to build trusting relationships
- Ability to manage and develop people
- Ability to foster teamwork and cross-functional collaboration
- Ability to lead change
- Ability to communicate strategic vision
- Ability to create an engaged workforce
- Ability to focus on the customer
- Ability to take ownership & accountability
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