Transmission Planning Engineer

Overview

About us:

Founded in 1990, LS Power is a premier development, investment, and operating company focused on the North American power and energy infrastructure sector, with leading platforms across generation, transmission and energy transition solutions. Since inception, LS Power has developed or acquired over 50,000 MW of power generation, including utility-scale solar, wind, hydro, battery energy storage, and natural gas-fired facilities. Through LS Power Grid, the Firm has built and operates approximately 780 miles of high-voltage transmission with another 350+ miles and multiple grid infrastructure projects currently under construction or development. Across its efforts, LS Power actively invests in and scales businesses that are accelerating the energy transition, including electric vehicle charging, demand response, microgrids, renewable fuels and waste-to-energy platforms. Over the years, LS Power has raised $65 billion in debt and equity capital to support North American infrastructure.

Our Purpose, Mission, & Values:

Our Purpose is to solve complex energy problems that improve the world

Our Mission is to make lives better by developing a cleaner and more reliable energy ecosystem

Our Values are the willingness to participate in and help strengthen our culture of integrity, Innovation, Teamwork, and Taking Ownership

Our People create value and are our Most Valuable asset.  We take our values of Integrity, Innovation, Teamwork and Taking Ownership seriously and ask candidates to think about how they can help us further enhance our culture with their specific skillsets, capabilities and experiences.

Benefits

We provide our team the opportunity to share their unique perspectives, solve new challenges, and continue in their career growth. We are committed to supporting employees’ happiness, healthiness, and overall well-being by providing comprehensive benefits that include 100% employer paid premium healthcare, paid parental leave and more.

About the Role:

LS Power is seeking a transmission planning engineer to conduct power system studies, participate in the development of long-term transmission plans, and perform a range of reliability and compliance assessments and reporting to support new project development and existing utility operations across the United States.

Responsibilities

What you will do:

• Perform power system modeling and simulations including electrical load flow, short circuit, transient stability and electromagnetic transient studies as needed. Perform power system economic modeling including production cost simulation studies.
• Identify transmission system needs/opportunities and provide solutions for reliability and economic enhancements to the transmission system to further company’s transmission development initiatives utilizing transmission reliability and production cost modeling software.
• Coordinate, review, and interpret interconnection and transmission studies (short circuit, transient stability, and load flow) performed by utilities and outside consultants.
• Support transmission asset operations and regulatory compliance related activities.
• Support interconnection process and related activities for the resources proposing to interconnect to the company transmission system within the various ISO/RTO regions
• Provide technical support for project development and acquisition activities in the evaluation of transmission system issues within the various NERC regions.
• Represent company’s interests on appropriate regional and national policy making committees, work groups, or task forces.
• Keep abreast of FERC regulations regarding transmission policies, Open Access Transmission Tariffs, and the evolution of ISO and RTO transmission and interconnection strategies.

Qualifications

We want you on our team because you…

• Have Bachelor of Science in Electrical Engineering with solid understanding of the fundamentals of power system analysis.
• Can effectively manage multiple assignments under time constraints.
• Have excellent time management and organizational skills.
• Have excellent written and verbal communication skills.
• Possess strong problem-solving and teamwork skills developed during your studies or extracurricular activities.
• Have a proactive attitude and willingness to tackle challenges head-on.

Ideally, you also have

• Advance degree in Electrical Engineering with power system concentration
• Familiarity with PSSE, TARA, PowerWorld, and/or GE PSLF through coursework, projects, or internships is a plus.
• We’re looking for enthusiastic team players eager to learn and apply their skills.