Transmission Planning Engineer (Remote)

Transmission Planning Engineer

The position falls within the Transmission Department of the organization. The Planning Engineer will be working with the customer planning team to run analysis on the grid system. They will be working in collaboration with the customer to get all their studies approved and will be teaming up with an engineer at the customer to sign off on their work. They will be conducting load flow studies, voltage drops, and inter-connectabilities.

Primary Duties and Responsibilities

•Conduct feasibility studies

•Identify possible points of interconnection (i.e: 765, 500, 345, 138, and 69 kV stations)

•Conduct initial load flow analysis using PSSE 32 to determine if system upgrades will be needed (i.e: line re-conductoring, sag studies, and transformer upgrades) and conduct analysis

•Conduct initial short circuit analysis using CAPE one-liner to determine if any circuit breakers are over duty and perform analysis independently

•Complete submittal forms and generate reports/ estimates for each possible connection option

•Utilize PSSE MUST to conduct studies

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