Lead Engineer - T&S Project Dev

TITLE: Lead Engineer - T&S Project Dev  

We offer AWESOME BENEFITS + SIGN ON BONUS + RELOCATION

LOCATION: Maine, Portland

Work-Type: OFFICE

SALARY RANGE: The base salary range for this position is dependent upon experience and location, ranging from $101,400 to $129,924

Job Summary

This position is responsible for executing on comprehensive needs and solutions assessments to address a wide range of T&S reliability and infrastructure needs. This position is expected to develop internal staff, collaborate across organizations, and lead external (consulting) resources across a wide range of utility disciplines (P&C, Engineering, etc.) in the pursuit of project development.

Key Responsibilities

• Responsible for the development of the majority of new T&S capital projects to a Conceptual design level (IP2) ready for financial approval and eventual handoff for project Execution (i.e. detailed design, procurement, and construction).

• Responsible for ensuring that all proposed T&S projects meet stakeholder and internal Investment Plan requirements by ensuring proper justification and supporting documentation is available.

• Lead member and contributor role at the Transmission System review Group (TSRG) responsible for vetting and approving new projects prior to delivering them for execution. Includes thorough review and feedback of submitted TSRG stakeholder materials. May take on role of chair or vicechair of TSRG for AVANGRID.

• Responsible for technical, investment oversight and decision making for all T&S capital projects from inception through construction.

• Supports all aspects of AVANGRID’s Long Term Outlook of the T&S CAPEX investment portfolio including rate case preparations, regulatory funding commitments, ISO reporting, etc.

• Regular collaboration with Operations, Maintenance, and Planning personnel to identify and mitigate T&S system issues.

• Investigates reports of T&S system needs requiring comprehensive intervention assessments in a prioritized manner to ensure that issues are appropriately addressed in AVANGRID’s long term investment plan (e.g. operations, maintenance, field surveys, etc.).

• Establishes the acceptable level of documentation required for projects based on the cost, complexity, and regulatory requirements associated with each project.

• Extensive presentation and report preparation (and or review/editing) skills are essential including the ability to concisely articulate decision making. This includes both executive and comprehensive level explanations of system needs ranging in complexity along with mapping to recommended solutions (or planned projects).

• Ability to present compelling messages to internal and external stakeholders including executives, regulators, and ISO’s.

• Ability to develop and build collaborative and constructive relationships across internal business areas and teams and/or external stakeholders including regulators and ISO’s.

• For Lead Engineers:

  • Utilize knowledge to influence and guide department engineers.

  • Provide technical leadership in complex projects that have a wide impact on the department

  • Mentor, develop and support team in technical skills

  • Ability to collaborate across departments

  • Liaison/direct contractors on company policy, standards and best practices

  • Work independently with little supervision

Required Qualifications

• Education & Experience Required:

  • Bachelor's degree in Electrical, Civil, or Structural Engineering.

  • An advanced education such as an MBA and/or a Professional Engineering License is a plus.

  • 7+ years of practical experience and working knowledge across a broad range of T&D Power Systems including Planning, Engineering, Construction, or Operations.

  • 5+ Years of Transmission Line Routing and Design Experience utilizing PLS-CADD

• Technical Skills/Competencies

  • Theoretical Engineering knowledge: Planning, Operations and Engineering Design, Analytics, Modeling & Calculation (e.g. sym. Components, per unit, etc.), understanding the business model; Global View of the Business (Values cross-functional collaboration, understands importance of growing knowledge and developing relationships and links across the organization)

  • Practical Engineering Experience/Application: Planning, Operations