Engineer II-V - Distribution Planning

Closing Date to Apply: Open Until Filled 

Salary: $70,096.00 to $173,929.60

Typically, selected candidates are hired at a salary rate between the minimum and midpoint of the range.

Benefits: This link below will provide you with Grant PUD’s benefit that may be available if hired, different employee types are eligible for different benefits.

Grant PUD — Unified Insurance Program (uip-wa.org)

Grant County PUD will be administering a background check as part of the hiring process, if selected for this position.

Position Summary

The Distribution Planning Engineer II-V, exercising functional ownership with moderate to minimal supervision, is responsible for the future direction, reliable performance, and satisfactory compliance of the District’s distribution system. This engineer analyzes system performance using software simulation tools, creates short-term and long-term planning solutions for the distribution system, and develops settings and placement of voltage regulation devices. Additionally, this engineer provides engineering services in a technically sound, safe timely, and cost-effective manner to enable the District to realize its goals and objectives.

Essential Functions

Essential Functions:  Essential functions, as defined under the Americans with Disabilities Act, may include any of the following representative duties, knowledge, and skills. This is not a comprehensive listing of all functions and duties performed by incumbents of this class; employees may be assigned duties which are not listed below; reasonable accommodations will be made as required. The job description does not constitute an employment agreement and is subject to change at any time by the employer. Essential duties and responsibilities may include, but are not limited to, the following:

• Actively participate in all aspects of our safety program, including but not limited to:
  • Following all safety policies and procedures.
  • Alerting supervisors and coworkers to unsafe or hazardous working conditions.
  • Reporting any safety incidents or close calls within 24 hours to your supervisor.
  • Accepting feedback from supervisors and coworkers regarding your own safety performance.
• Act as Subject Matter Expert (SME) for on the planning and engineering of the distribution system for growth, aging infrastructure, power quality, and reliability.
• Analyze performance of the District’s distribution system.
• Review and validate results of power flow analysis, and initiate planning projects based on analysis outcomes.
• Provide settings for voltage regulation devices, specify size, location, and operation of reactive power sources, regulator banks, and fuses.
• Perform flicker, power quality, and motor starting analysis.
• Review Customer Engineering work orders and perform system impact studies.
• Support Customer Load Growth: provides necessary technical assistance to support large industrial customer growth. This includes performing system impact and feasibility studies to determine customer infrastructure costs required for them to receive service as well as District infrastructure improvements required to support the new load.
• Perform planned outage studies and develop associated mitigation plans to ensure the electric system can be operated safely and reliably during the outage. Provide outage coordination support, assist with facilitation and planning for complex outages, and provide information to aid Dispatch in operating the system.
• Manage documentation of critical process documents related to distribution planning.
• Refresh the Distribution Planning Guidelines, updating the document for changing requirements as needed.
• Record distribution outages and track reliability indices. Develop projects to ensure the district meets strategic goals relevant to reliability.
• Work with field crews to troubleshoot, upload, and download settings to and from distribution devices.

Education and Experience

• Bachelor's Degree in Electrical Engineering.

• 1-10 years in discipline. 

License and Certification

Required 

• A valid State driver's license with no restrictions.

Physical Requirements

• Position may be eligible for hybrid work arrangement: ☐Yes ☒No
• Per Grant County PUD policy all employees are required to work at their designated headquarters at least two days per week.
• Majority of work is performed in a standard office setting.
• Some field work that may require operations of a vehicle. 
• Typical shift of employees in this position: ☒8 hours ☐9 hours  ☐10 hours  ☐12 hours

*For a full list of requirements, the applicant/incumbent should refer to the Physical Capacity Evaluation (PCE).

The statements contained herein reflect general details as necessary to describe the principal functions for this job, the level of knowledge and skill typically required, and the scope of responsibility, but should not be considered an all-inclusive listing of work requirements.  Individuals may perform other duties as assigned, including work in other functional areas.