Power Systems Engineer I

Company Description

Electric Power Engineers, LLC (EPE) partners with power and energy clients across the globe to address complex engineering and grid modeling challenges. We have partnered with power and energy clients across the globe for over 50 years. With locations in Texas and Illinois in the United States, Panama, and Lebanon, we serve clients internationally. Our executive team has more than 160 years of experience in the industry working with hundreds of generating facilities and dozens of energy storage installations.

We serve the needs of key client groups such as investor-owned utilities (IOUs), municipal-owned utilities (MOUs), cooperative utilities, independent system operators (ISOs), project developers, owners, and independent power producers, as well as other grid stakeholders. We provide our clients solutions for generation interconnection, reliability planning, long-term strategy development, economic planning, and load interconnection. Our highly experienced team of detail-oriented consultants are passionate about helping clients.

We entered the renewables industry early and have seen significant growth in power engineering consulting services, establishing a unique and well-respected position in the power industry as a leading expert in power grid and energy integration. Our goal is to continue this growth three-fold over the next five years and enhance the services we currently provide. We are at the forefront of progressing the electric power/energy industry forward by creating a “grid of the future”!

Job Description

• Develop collector systems and substations one-line diagrams, steady-state, short circuit and dynamic plant models as well as generation interconnection applications for solar, wind and battery energy storage projects
• Conduct transmission & distribution planning studies and energy market analyses

• Provide technical support to generation/load interconnection processes with the transmission grid from the initial filing of the interconnection application all the way through commercial operations
• Conduct electrical system design studies for wind, solar and battery energy storage projects and provide recommendations to meet the applicable codes and standards as well as the transmission and distribution service provider’s requirements 

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in Electric Engineering; Master’s degree is a plus
• 0-2 years of experience
• Have high standards in producing quality reports and products that he/she shall own with pride
• Strong organizational and communication skills, both written and verbal, particularly with respect to explaining technical matters
• Good problem solving and analytical skills
• Have good technical skills
• Ability to meet work deadlines
• Attention to detail skills

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