• Sr Eng - Power System Transmis

    Berkshire Hathaway Energy (Reno, NV)


    JOB DESCRIPTION

    Basic Purpose

     

    Provides a wide variety of power engineering services and technical support encompassing outage data analysis, assessing system reliability, recommends of system upgrade, developing tender document, system studies, cost estimation, technical discovery and project management, Ensures collaboration across various groups.

    RESPONSIBILITIES

    Essential Duties and Responsibilities

     

    Supports corporate initiatives such as Grid Resiliency, reliability (SAIDI/SAFI) improvement plans. Helps develop cost effective plans to improve transmission and substation reliability. Supports Capital projects as assigned.

     

    Assists with the preparation of maintenance plans and capital improvement plans for the Transmission System.

     

    Provides technical knowledge on electrical system outages or incidents. Investigates outage root causes, finds patterns in data, and recommends cost effective solutions to improve customer reliability.

     

    Assists with Investigations of power quality complaints, customer complaints and reliability issues.

     

    Analyzes data, prepares reports and presentations.

     

    Provides assistance as required to the Substation and Transmission design groups; e.g. cable ampacity studies, grounding studies, other specialized calculations.

     

    Provides technical knowledge for system upgrades or modifications to operational systems for transmission and distribution system.

     

    Provides scientific programming and statistical analysis and handles power system software tool for running simulation work.

     

    Assists in engagement and management of external consultants to perform specialist tasks. Acts as technical lead in cross functional projects.

     

    Maintains and improves the technical standards and company procedures. Performs and handles power system software tool for running simulation work.

     

    Assists in the implementation of the application of utility Energy Management Systems (EMS), Supervisory Control and Data Acquisition (SCADA), and Distribution Management System (DMS) software platforms and operations.

     

    Ensures all compliance aspects of position are known and followed; understands and complies with all policies, codes and regulations applicable to position and company.

     

    Performs related duties as assigned.

    QUALIFICATIONS

    Essential Education, Skills, and Environment

     

    Education and Work Experience

     

    Engineering degree, 5 years industry experience as a practicing engineer, and must be a licensed PE. If no PE license then must have 8+ years as a practicing engineer.

     

    Specialized Knowledge and Skills

    Demonstrated knowledge of:

    + Electric power system design and operations.

    + Protective relaying system.

    + Distribution automation and substation networking.

    Skills such as:

    + Organizational, analytical, writing, verbal communication and documentation.

    + Working with a variety of personnel level and business-oriented.

    + Writing technical reports.

     

    Equipment and Applications

     

    PCs, word processing, spreadsheet and database software.

     

    Work Environment and Physical Demands

     

    General office environment. No special physical demands required.

    NOTE: THE COMPANY MAY FILL THE POSITION(S) AT A LOWER LEVEL DEPENDING ON QUALIFICATIONS OF CANDIDATES

    ABOUT US

    NV Energy is looking for qualified people to join us in one of the premier energy companies in the West. Located in the fastest growing state in the United States, NV Energy provides electricity to 1.3 million customers throughout Nevada as well as a state tourist population exceeding 40 million annually. Among the many communities we serve are Las Vegas, Reno-Sparks, Henderson, Elko and South Lake Tahoe. We also provide natural gas to more than 155,000 citizens in the Reno-Sparks area.

    ABOUT THE TEAM

    At NV Energy, we celebrate diversity, equity and inclusion. NV Energy is proud to be an equal opportunity employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion or religious creed, age, national origin, ancestry, citizenship status (except as required by law), gender (including gender identity and expression), sex (including pregnancy), sexual orientation, genetic information, physical or mental disability, medical condition, veteran or military status, familial or parental status, marital status or any other category protected by applicable local, state or U.S. federal law.

    JOB INFO

    Job Identification: 10003798

     

    Job Category: Electric Operations

     

    Job Schedule: Full time

    Job Shift: Day

    Pay Range: $103,800.00-$122,000.00

     

    Business: NV Energy