Senior Engineer, Electrical Planning and Design

About us

National Grid is hiring a NY Telecom Engineering - Senior Engineer, Electric Planning and Design -  Position based out of Syracuse, NY

Every day we deliver safe and secure energy to homes, communities, and businesses. We are there when people need us the most. We connect people to the energy they need for the lives they live. The pace of change in society and our industry is accelerating and our expertise and track record puts us in an unparalleled position to shape the sustainable future of our industry.

To be successful we must anticipate the needs of our customers, reducing the cost of energy delivery today and pioneering the flexible energy systems of tomorrow.  This requires us to deliver on our promises and always look for new opportunities to grow, both ourselves and our business.

Job Purpose

Primarily responsible for engineering design, implementation, integration, and troubleshooting support for telecommunications and data network systems involving electric transmission, distribution, sub-transmission, metering and other grid technologies. The NY T&D Telecom Engineering Department is focused on telecommunications technology development for National Grid’s U.S. business.  Our team culture is self-directed and empowered. Team members work on a wide range of projects; taking innovative concepts/ visions and making them a reality. We are hiring engineers for projects in our NY jurisdiction.

 

 

As a Senior Engineer in the department your duties will include evaluation of emerging technologies; participation in equipment specification and selection; and performing end-to-end solution design including validation and testing of advanced communications systems. 

 

You will work closely with our Substation Engineering, Protection Engineering, Distribution Control & Instrumentation Engineering, Meter Engineering, and other departments to provide communications solutions for projects assigned to those groups.  In addition, you will be responsible for the development of long-term strategies for telecom networks supporting substations, distribution system controls, meters and other fixed and mobile devices.

Key Accountabilities

 

• Support the Capital Delivery Construction process involving new and existing substation projects.
• Support Company initiatives for innovation and modernization of our energy delivery infrastructure.
• Create and obtain approval for special projects, engineering design, analysis and investigations, and training to deploy new technologies and work practices.
• Support development and ongoing maintenance of all transmission and distribution communications technologies.
• Support Company Automated Meter Infrastructure (AMI) initiatives in the NY jurisdiction including the design and deployment of Field Area Networks (FAN) and their monitoring and control systems. 
• Actively engage our IT and external communications partners in the development of end to end communications solutions for substation SCADA, metering, Volt Var Optimization (VVO) and other active and future projects.
• Be part of the team that will upgrade our SONET fiber core network to a new system and expand the network to reach more substations and company facilities.
• Build and nurture relationships with industry peers and other external industry influencers to keep abreast of technical innovations and their potential benefits.
• Support storm restoration efforts in addition to normal job duties.

 

Supervisory/Interpersonal- Experience Required

• Able to lead and supervise a project team or virtual teams to achieve business objectives.

Qualifications

 

• Bachelor's degree in Electrical Engineering, Electrical Engineering Technology, Telecommunications/Network Engineering or associated disciplines from an accredited engineering school with at least 6 years of related experience in a number of technical roles.
• Experience creating new ways to plan and operate communication systems using advanced analytics and emerging technologies and industry trends