NY STATE ELECTRIC & GAS CORP is looking for a Principal Electrical Engineer to lead teams and projects that solve unique and complex problems with a broad impact on the business, contributing to departmental or divisional strategy and implementation. The role involves developing expertise in distributed generation and other disciplines, mentoring employees, and representing the company in industry associations.
Requirements
- Theoretical Engineering knowledge - Planning, Operations and Engineering Design, Analytic, modeling & Calculation, 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 and Engineering Design, Construction, (e.g., field experience, standardization "Perform economic analyses of engineering alternatives, develop business cases and defend in front of stakeholders.")
- Engineering documentation – Ability to adequately document and interpret engineering documentation
- Ability to review and approve engineering work done by others - to ensure compliance with company standards, specifications, and contract requirements
- Knowledge of Regulatory and Compliance Environment – Local, State and Federal Regulatory Standards and requirements
- Physical Substation Design - Expert
- Project Scoping and Estimating - Expert
Responsibilities
- Proactively identify and perform special projects and studies that innovatively solve unique & complex problems with broad impact to the business. Develop alternate methods or design concepts to resolve unique problems or to improve processes/services.
- Solves unique and complex Distributed Generation (DG) Interconnection problems. Utilizes a broad perspective to identify innovative solutions. (e.g., Customer generators, photovoltaic systems, fuel cells).
- Approve, maintain, & understand drawings (e.g., schematics, one-line diagrams). Assemble documents & other requirements for assignments of complex level of difficulty using depth & breadth of expertise in own discipline.
- Lead teams and acts as a facilitator and experienced mentor. Develops innovative services, technologies, & make recommendations with respect to current and future stakeholders needs. May be required to make presentations to regulatory/public entities.
- Facilitate DG Interconnection project teams to complete assigned tasks and projects. Experienced mentor to engineers for DG interconnections in design and engineering development. Manages and provides direction for resources outside of the department.
- Design systems to resolve overly complex problems in non-standard situations & develop creative solutions that achieve division results. Independently apply design standards, industry codes, design criteria, guidelines & UI polices/procedures.
- Provide technical leadership in most complex projects that have a wide impact on the business
Other
- The engineer will lead teams/projects that solve unique and complex problems with a broad impact on the business.
- These efforts will contribute to the development of Departmental or Divisional strategy and implementation.
- Participates and represents UI on industry associations.
- Mentor's other employees.
- Has developed depth and breadth of expertise in distributed generation and broad knowledge of other disciplines.
