Job Title: Associate Electrical Engineer (Transmission / Substation)

Location: Taylor TX, 76574

Duration: 24 Months

Job Type: Contract

Work Type: Onsite

Pay rate: $40-$40 per hour.

Overview:

TekWissen is a global workforce management provider headquartered in Ann Arbor, Michigan that offers strategic talent solutions to our clients world-wide. Our client is an American organization that operates Texas's electrical grid, the Texas Interconnection, which supplies power to more than 25 million Texas customers and represents 90 percent of the state's electric load. Our client is the first independent system operator (ISO) in the United States and one of nine ISOs in North America. Our client works with the Texas Reliability Entity (TRE), one of eight regional entities within the North American Electric Reliability Corporation (NERC) that coordinate to improve reliability of the bulk power grid. Our client is a membership-based 501(c) nonprofit corporation, and its members include consumers, electric cooperatives, generators, power marketers, retail electric providers, investor-owned electric utilities (transmission and distribution providers), and municipally owned electric utilities.

Job Description:

• Provides backfill support for Network Model Maintenance Modeling on daily business. The position facilitates additional resources for the full-time employees to focus and provide support to the CIM 16 upgrade project.

JOB DUTIES

• Analyses transmission network data including Transmission and Generation element parameters.
• Works closely with the clienSystem Operations, System Operations Support, Market Operating Services Support, Client Services, System Planning and Metering.
• Works with EMS and Transmission Planning power flow, Locational Marginal Pricing (LMP), and other analysis software to provide accurate power system models and associated cases.
• Supports detailed model changes delivered by Network Operations Model Change Requests (NOMCRs) to maintain an accurate Network Operations Model, and other models contained within the the client modeling system.
• Coordinates and works with the NDSWG (Network Data Support Working Group) members on data exchange and transmission network model maintenance via the NOMCR process.
• Creates and utilizes data mining mechanisms and techniques for Protocol and Guide compliance driven reports and to validate the accuracy of the model.
• Reviews, drafts, and implements improvements to the modeling process and implements new technologies to the model.
• Provides training and evaluation of members of the Engineering Development Program (EDP).
• Manage updates and upgrades of the SGEM application to specify and implement desired new functionality.
• Reviews Contingencies, Special Protection Systems, Remedial Action Plans, Mitigation Action Plans, Outages, and other issues that possibly affect models.
• Reviews, drafts, and presents changes to the Protocols, Guides, procedures, training material for Engineer Development Program (EDP) and Market Participants (MPs), and other supporting the client documents associated to modeling.
• Help in developing tools or queries required to maintain data integrity.

EDUCATION

• Bachelor's degree in Electrical Engineering or related field, or a combination of education and experience that provides the applicant with knowledge equivalent to a major in such fields.

EXPERIENCE

• Requires minimum 1 year experience in excess of degree requirements.
• Effective communicator.
• Familiarity in power systems analysis and modeling.
• Familiarity in database querying a must.
• Detail oriented and organized.

TekWissen Group is an equal opportunity employer supporting workforce diversity.