Principal Transmission Planning Engineer

PLEASE NOTE: WE ARE NOT ACCEPTING ANY 3RD PARTY SOLICITATIONS. ANY SUCH INQUIRIES WILL NOT BE CONSIDERED OR RECEIVE A RESPONSE. WE CAN ONLY WORK WITH DIRECT APPLICANTS WHO ARE AUTHORIZED TO WORK IN THE US WITHOUT SPONSORSHIP. THIS IS AN ON-SITE ROLE FOR LOCAL CANDIDATES ONLY.

SOFT's client located in Arkansas, Illinois, Ohio, and Indiana is looking for a Principal Transmission Planning Engineer for a long term contract assignment.

Key Accountabilities  
•  Perform, lead, or facilitate engineering and transmission assessments and analyses.  
•  Support and advise on production cost modeling, economic and regional market evaluations to assist in key strategic insights, identify or confirm project opportunities and solutions.  
•  Apply innovative approaches to simulation and analysis that can help identify or support new initiatives.  
•  Lead technical analysis as needed to support potential project partnerships.  
•  Document, present and report findings and justifications. Help prepare executive summaries or investment committee papers.  
•  Support or lead on siting, permitting and licensing requirements and/or hearings, if required.  
•  Represent client interests on national, regional, and local levels when necessary.  

•  Oversee consultants, engineers or other subject matter experts as required to augment or complement the Business Development team. 

• Work in a project team and matrix environment interacting with individuals across client functions in the US and UK.  

  
Qualifications  
• Bachelor’s in Electrical Engineering, Mathematics or related technical fields. Power systems focus desired.  
• Strong experience in transmission system analysis required.  
• Demonstrated ability to translate complex model outputs into business insight & articulate the impact of results.  
• Broad knowledge of US power industry standards, structures, policies, regulations & market fundamentals is essential.  
  
  
• Familiarity with recent trends and technologies in electric transmission, onshore and offshore wind, other large-scale renewable generation, energy storage, conventional generation and emerging technologies.  
•  Strong track record of relevant professional experience in projects, including developing business cases, optioneering, data analysis, estimating and work structure planning.  
•  Flair for handling & manipulating data to forecast, derive trends and test sensitivities.  
•  Interest in offshore wind project development and execution.  
•  Excellent communication skills with proven ability to persuade, challenge and build credibility based on personally derived recommendations.  
•  Computational literacy including handling large data sets is mandatory.  
•  Fundamental understanding of the components of electric transmission facilities including key risks and opportunities is required.  
•  Ability to develop tools and processes to facilitate best practice & knowledge sharing.