DEV Immersive Career Experience - Electric Transmission Engineer and Sr. Engineer

 

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 E3-E5, W1-W2, or O1-O3, plus appropriate equivalent combination of education and years of experience as outlined below will be considered for this opportunity. 



 

 

Job Summary

This job posting is a part of the DEVICE program (Dominion Energy Virginia Immersive Career Experience) - a three-day, in-person job shadowing experience in Richmond, VA starting August 12, 2025, through August 14, 2025 (Tuesday - Thursday).

 

Note: Lodging, food, and travel (if applicable) will be provided to the chosen participants.

 

The Difference You Will Make:

Dominion Energy Virginia’s Electric Transmission (ET) departments are seeking motivated, engaged engineers to fill several vacancies within the organization. Electric Transmission is the organization responsible for the long-term planning, engineering, construction, and operations of the high voltage electric grid system operated from 69kV to 500kV. The grid is accountable for transmitting electricity from state of the art solar and wind facilities, integrating those technologies into the energy portfolio, and delivering the power to our many 2.7 million customers including the world's largest cluster of internet data centers. This is an exciting time to join our team as we are involved in industry-leading projects and initiatives such as interconnecting 5000 MW of solar generation in the next 5 years, the first utility-owned offshore wind project in United States federal waters off the Atlantic coast, virtual digital protection conversions, and the largest data center load growth in the world all as part of our plan to achieve net zero carbon emission goal by 2050.

 

Electric Transmission is hiring, with the departments participating in the shadowing experience to include, but not limited to:

 

A Typical Day as an Electric Transmission Engineer:

 

Engineering Analytics & Modeling: Bridge the gap between real-world system data and provide consumable business intelligence to help steer the future of how DEV monitors and manages the grid. Our team is responsible for the capture, utilization, and application of time-series data, including Synchrophasors and SCADA. Our work is to steward this data and ensure its analysis and outputs influence our business and the industry to adapt and meet the demands of shifting energy landscape. 

 

Special Studies: Provide domain expertise and engineering root cause analysis for operational challenges across Dominion Energy. Leverage industry groups, academia, and internal Dominion resources to cultivate and develop the necessary knowledge base and simulation capabilities to address them.  The Special Studies team uses tools such as PSS/E, PSCAD, EMTP, ASPEN, RTDS, Opal-RT and Ansys Maxwell 3D.

 

ET Planning & Strategic Initiatives (IRP): Responsible for identifying strategic initiatives that will enable Electric Transmission (ET) to deliver safe, reliable, resilient, and affordable electric service to all customers.   Strategic initiatives include: extending ET’s planning horizon to identify and act upon growth opportunities; supporting the development of the Integrated Resource Plan (IRP); evaluating large interregional projects with our neighboring utilities; assisting in the development and application of new technologies; and leveraging our operational data, data analytics capabilities, and core understanding of power systems

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System Protection Automation & Analysis (SPAA): Ensures electric grid reliability by analyzing system events 24/7 using a combination of technical skills including data processing, software development, and engineering principles. Our strategically deployed monitoring equipment and in-house diagnostic tools enable teams across Dominion Energy to expedite restoration of service, direct fact-finding investigations, and facilitate NERC compliance activities. 

 

Demand Side Operations: Researches, assesses, analyzes, calculates, and provides technical specifications needed for the Demand Response and Load Curtailment Programs including Data Center load, Distributed Energy Resources