DERMS Senior or Staff Engineer (Richmond, Hybrid)

 

Dominion Energy is committed to providing reliable, affordable, and increasingly clean energy that powers our customers every day. If you want to work for a purpose-driven company that values safety and collaboration, we’re looking for you. You won’t just find a job here; you’ll find your career. Review the position below and apply today.

 

We offer a hybrid 3-2 work schedule (three days in the office, two days of teleworking) to accommodate the need for flexibility.

Military service members and veterans with ranks from E5-E9, W1-CW5, or O3-O6, plus appropriate equivalent combination of education and years of experience as outlined below will be considered for this opportunity. 



 

 

Job Summary

This position will be hired at either a Senior or Staff level Engineer.

The staff level role is the top progression level position in the Engineer series. Includes senior to technical expert engineers, able to perform highly difficult and very complex work requiring extensive knowledge of the subject matter and significant experience within functional assignment area. Plans and conducts complex work requiring independent judgment in the evaluation, selection, adaptation and modification of standard techniques, procedures, and criteria. Devises new and innovative approaches to previously undefined problems encountered and develops innovative and original industry-wide engineering criteria ensuring compliance with design criteria and standards. Possesses and applies advanced engineering knowledge and skills to provide technical expertise, guidance to all levels of engineers and/or team leadership. Possesses and applies advanced knowledge and technical skills to solve complex engineering problems, or to plan and coordinate medium to large scale engineering projects or varied assignments requiring diverse knowledge of engineering principles and practices. Serves as a resource to management on more complex engineering problems and issues. Perform research to find innovative and cost-effective engineering solutions to operational problems within assigned area. Serve as a technical expert on engineering related legal and regulatory issues to outside entities.

This role will be responsible for the implementation of efforts related to deploying a Distributed Energy Resource Management System (DERMS). This role will also support demonstration of grid operations with high levels of distributed energy resources (DERs) as part of the GRid Integration & Demonstration of Flexible Energy Resources (GRID-FLEXER) project. This role will focus on engineering support for successful implementation of GRID-FLEXER project, design and development of new grid control paradigms that leverage the DERMS capability, and development of new capabilities in the distribution control centers for leveraging customer load flexibility.  Activities will focus on engagement with internal and external stakeholders, gathering and shaping business requirements, and establishing a roadmap for implementation and seeing projects through to successful completion.

This position will support operationalizing Dominion Energy’s Distributed Energy Resource Management System (DERMS) platform thereby enabling DERMS to support distribution grid operations for improved reliability and flexibility. During the operationalization phase, this role will work closely with the distribution grid operators at the Regional Operations Centers (ROCs) to embed DERMS functionalities within their work processes. This role would also require grid analysis of different DERMS control strategies, configure parameters for virtual power plants (VPPs), and identify and implement novel DER grid integration techniques. During the deployment phase, this role will focus on developing, implementing, and testing interfaces for integrating DERMS with systems like the Advanced Distribution Management System (ADMS), Geographical Information System (GIS), etc.

Required Knowledge, Skills, Abilities & Experience

The knowledge, skills, abilities, and experience that are required for entry into this job include the following:

Senior Level: 6 + years of relevant engineering experience

Staff Level:    8+ years of relevant engineering experience (An Engineering PhD can be substituted for up to 5 years’ experience based on research engineering work on related projects approved by executive leadership.)

 

Additional Skills:

• Demonstrated experience with implementing, operating, managing and/or supporting an advanced distribution management system (ADMS), distributed energy re