Electrical Engineer III

ESSENTIAL FUNCTIONS AND RESPONSIBILITIES

• Safety: Maintain safety awareness and comply with all safety policies, practices, and procedures to assure a safe working environment. Properly wear and care for applicable safety gear and equipment. Identify and communicate unsafe conditions to supervisor, coworkers, and the Safety functional area and correct or assist in resolving safety concerns and issues. Must understand and comply with the Clearance Procedure as applicable. 
• Culture: Demonstrate a commitment to Tri-State’s culture embodied in the Cooperative principles and spirit and core values of technical competency, respect and dignity, accountability, integrity, trustworthiness, and servant leadership to empower or otherwise enable others to optimally perform their job responsibilities. Demonstrate and promote ethics and behaviors consistent with Tri-State’s culture, Board policies, and business practices. Understand and fulfill the role and responsibility for all compliance programs within the company.
• Because Tri-State is an electric utility with continuous service obligations to its customers, regular, reliable, and predictable performance of the essential functions and responsibilities is an essential function of the job.

• Provide technical engineering support to Craig Station functional areas as assigned.

• Provide technical direction to other Tri-State groups and individuals as assigned.

• Perform/coordinate engineering analyses for numerous and diverse plant electrical systems.

• Provide unit outage technical support to include scope of work, inspections, development of technical specifications and providing direction/oversight to contractors and/or station personnel in performing maintenance, new system and/or retrofitting work.

• Provide technical assistance including troubleshooting of Operations and Maintenance (electrical, instrumentation, controls) issues.

• Assist in development of Operations and Maintenance (O and M) budgets and capital projects.

• Assist with development, administration, reporting and implementation of capital projects including contract development, technical specifications and drawing bid packages.

• Participate in the evaluation and selection of consulting firms and contractors, to include coordination and monitoring of work.

• Assist in the performance testing of plant equipment and other specialized tests as requested.

• Assist with operational and maintenance procedures and creating and updating equipment maintenance and repair history.

• Complete special projects and reports as assigned.

• Ensure adherence to company policies, programs and procedures as well as Critical Infrastructure Protection (CIP), Western Electricity Coordinating Council (WECC), Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC), North American Electric Corporation (NERC), and Midwest Reliability Organization (MRO) standards and Equal Employment Opportunity (EEO) laws and regulations.

OTHER DUTIES/RESPONSIBILITES

• Perform other related duties as assigned

SUCCESS FACTORS/JOB COMPETENCIES: 

• A willingness to work above and beyond the standard 40-hour workweek when emergencies arise and it is deemed necessary.

• Planning:  ability to think ahead and plan within timelines and resources; develop scopes; plan and schedule work; set priorities and goals; anticipate and adjust for problems; evaluate workloads; measure and evaluate performance against established goals.
• Ensure that all decisions and actions are predicated on ethics, honesty and integrity.
• Time management: ability to successfully plan and implement objectives within established timelines and work schedules.
• Ability to analyze problems and develop effective solutions at both strategic and functional levels.
• Commitment to company values.
• Excellent interpersonal and communication skills.
• Strong team player: accomplishes tasks by working with others and being a good team player.  Recognizes how his/her decisions may impact others; seeks input from others.
• Computer proficiency in operating a personal computer and standard business office applications including CAD, Microsoft Office suite, databases, and other related applications.
• Ability to work independently, with minimal direction as a highly motivated self-starter.