Associate Engineer/ Engineer

Job Summary

There is one position which will be filled at the level commensurate with the successful candidates education, experience, knowledge, skills and abilities

Dominion’s Electric Transmission System Control Computer Support department was established to provide engineering support for reliable control and operation of the Dominion’s Transmission System. The team’s responsibilities encompass many applications used by operations personnel to make real time and offline decisions that affect the Bulk Electric System such as: SCADA applications, alarm management applications, various displays and visualization tools and network applications. The primary responsibilities for this role include:

• Perform the modeling of Dominion’s Transmission system such as SCADA modeling and configurations, network topology, equipment ratings and parameter impedances as well as the maintenance of various operator displays.
• Coordinate with and provide technical assistance to various engineering, operations, and field teams to fully maintain the Energy Management Systems (EMS).
• Support the development of tools to improve situational awareness in the operations control room.
• Participate in various company teams and industry-level organizations to enhance Electric Transmission’s system operations performance.
• Applies leadership and technical expertise and/or support during day-to-day operational activities associated with maintaining high performance and reliability of Real-Time the Energy Management System (EMS) and associated applications.
• Provide technical expertise and demonstrate leadership supporting high quality delivery and high availability operational support of components of the EMS. Test EMS system performance and all associated applications.
• Use strong communications skills to inform team of changes and maintenance activities on One-line displays, ICCP Communications with digital and analog data sets, while ensuring compliance with NERC/CIP guidelines and requirements.
• Develop and review technical documents in support of internal compliance processes. 
• Demonstrated proficiency in developing technical documentation and maintaining knowledge base and information repository to be shared with peers via SharePoint.
• Learn how to build, test and establish ICCP associations with neighboring utilities ensuring data transfer is accurate and reliable.
• Establish good communications with neighboring utility ICCP representatives for exchange of data and configuration parameters.
• Coordinate with and provide technical assistance to team members and operations personnel to answer questions and resolve emerging issues that may occur with EMS system during daily operations.
• Perform other duties, as requested, or assigned.

Required Knowledge, Skills, Abilities & Experience

Minimum Requirements (Note: A partial year of related work experience of 6 months or greater will be considered one year towards the qualifications):

Associate Engineer

• 0-2+ years of engineering experience is required (Electrical Engineering preferred)
• Basic knowledge of engineering concepts, fundamentals and theory.
• Oral and written communication skills (includes technical writing).
• Effective decision making skills.
• Computer skills and application of software programs.
• Analytical and abstract thinking skills.
• Problem solving skills.
• Ability to learn to apply engineering theories and concepts to complex problems.
• Ability to interpret codes, regulations and practices.
• Ability to develop effective planning, project and organization skills.
• Ability to develop project management skills and to handle multiple tasks.
• Ability to work within a team environment. 

Engineer

• 3 or more years of relevant engineering experience is required (Electrical Engineering preferred). 
• Proficient knowledge and application of engineering theories and principles, concepts, and fundamentals.  
• Requires experience in a professional engineering position.
• Competency in applying engineering principles, fundamental concepts, practices and procedures requiring some evaluation, originality and/or ingenuity to achieve project objectives.  
• Understands and can apply knowledge of configuration management.  
• Ability to perform engineering calculations using applicable software programs (e.g. Matlab, Excel, etc.).  
• Planning, organizational and project management skills.
•  Ability to develop and exercise leadership skills. 
•  Effective decision-making skills.  
• Effective oral and written communication skills (includes technical writing). 
• Ability to think analytically and solve complex problems.  
• Ability to interpret codes, regulations and practices.  
• Equally effective working independently or in a team environment.
• Ability to process information quickly and effectively manage multiple tasks

Education Requirements

Required: Bachelor's degree in Engineering from an ABET accredited Engineering Program from a recognized college or university. (Electrical, Mechanical or Computer preferred)

• Possess a 4-year engineering degree from an ABET accredited engineering program based on the year that the engineering program was accredited by ABET, or 
• Possess a 4-year engineering degree from an institution outside of the U.S. which is accredited through the country's own engineering accrediting body under the Washington Accord as a full signatory, and is a degree that was recognized by the country's accrediting body on or after the date that full signatory status was achieved, or 
• Possess a 4-year engineering degree from a non-ABET accredited program and a postgraduate engineering degree from an institution where the undergraduate degree in the same engineering discipline is ABET accredited based on the year the engineering program was accredited by ABET, or
• Possess a 4-year degree in Physics, Chemistry, Math or Engineering Technology and a post-graduate engineering degree from an institution where the undergraduate degree in the same engineering discipline is ABET accredited based on the year the engineering program was accredited by ABET, or 
• Holds or has previously held a valid U.S. Professional Engineer license.

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Test Description

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