Electrical Engineer

This position is located with Bonneville Power Administration, in Transmission Services, Transmission Planning (TPP), Reliability Planning/Service Planning/Infrastructure Development Planning/CapabilitiesPlanning (TPP/A/B/C/D) A successful candidate in the Electrical Engineer position will be a senior engineer and technical specialist responsible for a variety of activities involved in planning BPA's transmission system and providing guidance for asset investment strategy. PRINCIPALES MISSIONS : As an Electrical Engineer, you will: Serves as a senior engineer and technical specialist responsible for a variety of activities involved in planning BPA's transmission system, including meeting reliability requirements for load interconnection, generation interconnection, and transmission transfer capability expansion. Provides guidance, advice as well as performs power system simulations that include power flow, voltage stability and transient stability studies on large-scale power system including analyzing and interpreting study results to identify problems and potential solutions. Develops, validates and implements power system models in transmission system studies, including computer models for loads, generators, the Pacific Direct Current Intertie (PDCI), energy storage devices, dynamic voltage control devices, and other control devices. As a subject matter expert works with interconnected utilities in developing cost effective joint transmission reinforcement plans to solve regional problems. Serves as a consultant and expert advisor on the technical aspect of the transmission planning reports and expansion plans proposed by the neighboring and regional utilities. Provide mentoring and guidance to less experienced junior engineers conducting studies of a similar nature. QUALIFICATIONS REQUISES : BASIC REQUIREMENT: A. Degree: Engineering. To be acceptable, the program must: (1) lead to a bachelor's degree in a school of engineering with at least one program accredited by ABET; or (2) include differential and integral calculus and courses (more advanced than first-year physics and chemistry) in five of the following seven areas of engineering science or physics: (a) statics, dynamics; (b) strength of materials (stress-strain relationships); (c) fluid mechanics, hydraulics; (d) thermodynamics; (e) electrical fields and circuits; (f) nature and properties of materials (relating particle and aggregate structure to properties); and (g) any other comparable area of fundamental engineering science or physics, such as optics, heat transfer, soil mechanics, or electronics. -OR- B. Combination of Education and Experience -- college-level education, training, and/or technical experience that furnished (1) a thorough knowledge of the physical and mathematical sciences underlying engineering, and (2) a good understanding, both theoretical and practical, of the engineering sciences and techniques and their applications to one of the branches of engineering. The adequacy of such background must be demonstrated by one of the following: Professional Registration or Licensure -- Current registration as an Engineer Intern (EI), Engineer in Training (EIT), or licensure as a Professional Engineer (PE) by any State, the District of Columbia, Guam, or Puerto Rico. -OR- Written Test -- Evidence of having successfully passed the Fundamentals of Engineering (FE) examination or any other written test required for professional registration by an engineering licensure board in the various States, the District of Columbia, Guam, and Puerto Rico. -OR- Specified Academic Courses -- Successful completion of at least 60 semester hours of courses in the physical, mathematical, and engineering sciences and that included the courses specified in the basic requirements under paragraph A. The courses must be fully acceptable toward meeting the requirements of an engineering program as described in paragraph A. -OR- Related Curriculum -- Successful completion of a

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