Electrical Engineer 3 (11553)
Vancouver, Washington - Added Jan 17th, 2025
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Senior Electrical Engineer (Hybrid)
Our client, a leading Pacific Northwest utility provider committed to public service and environmental preservation, is looking for a Senior Electrical Engineer for their Vancouver, Washington location. In this role you will provide broad technical and policy knowledge to effectively perform and facilitate agency research. You will investigate and recommend options to reduce unnecessary risks by minimizing the time necessary to establish situational awareness for Operations engineers and management, coordinating priority project efforts across organizations. Also, you will conduct analysis into high profile issues impacting operations, develop reports, and encourage data driven decision making.
This position is a one-year renewable contract that includes employee benefits! If you think you’d be a good fit, we want to hear from you!
Key Responsibilities for Senior Electrical Engineer:
Requirements/Qualification for Senior Electrical Engineer:
**We are unable to accommodate corp. to corp. candidates**
About Motus Recruiting and Staffing, Inc:
Founded in 2006, Motus is an award-winning recruiting and staffing firm in the Pacific Northwest, specializing in professional services and technology solutions. We are a group of people who not only recognize the importance of representation, but actively fight for diversity, equity, and inclusion in the recruitment process. Our goal is to educate organizations on the importance of DEI when hiring, promoting, and supporting diverse employees. We are calling organizations to demonstrate their commitment to DEI by being intentional about who they hire.
All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, citizenship, disability or protected veteran status.
AG/BH13162
Our client, a leading Pacific Northwest utility provider committed to public service and environmental preservation, is looking for a Senior Electrical Engineer for their Vancouver, Washington location. In this role you will provide broad technical and policy knowledge to effectively perform and facilitate agency research. You will investigate and recommend options to reduce unnecessary risks by minimizing the time necessary to establish situational awareness for Operations engineers and management, coordinating priority project efforts across organizations. Also, you will conduct analysis into high profile issues impacting operations, develop reports, and encourage data driven decision making.
This position is a one-year renewable contract that includes employee benefits! If you think you’d be a good fit, we want to hear from you!
Key Responsibilities for Senior Electrical Engineer:
- Development and application of novel methods to solve problems.
- Develop Visualization tools and techniques that improve understanding of the current power system state and the interpretation of contingency results for presentation to manager / team lead.
- Develop / draft processes and tools to speed up the process of performing studies.
- Research and recommend optimization techniques to power flow reliability studies; implement application of management approved techniques.
- Provide guidance to Transmission Operations Management and Subject Matter Experts (SMEs) on project details, impacts, and challenges.
- Act as the liaison between Transmission Operations and Transmission Planning in the project development process.
- Confer with engineers, internal customers, and others to discuss existing or potential engineering projects and products.
- Create, document, and maintain a database of Public Safety Power Shutoff (PSPS) impacted customers and instruct management during PSPS events as to the impacts of various PSPS switching options.
- Research Road-mapping and Technology Transfer, which may include:
- Explore gaps in current Operations study processes that could contribute to increased reliability risks, operational costs, or inefficiencies, and recommend future projects to address these gaps.
- Develop / draft formal Technology Innovation project proposals as requested and guided by subject matter experts and authorized by management.
- Contribute to presentations prepared for Technology Innovation (TI) Council.
- Provide training and knowledge transfer to staff to validate that project results are utilized and benefits obtained.
- Work collaboratively with Planning, Transmission Technology, and IT departments on assigned projects.
- Continuity of Operations Coordination, including:
- Work with other departments to develop scenarios for and participate in various National, Regional, and company-centric disaster exercises.
- Train others in in emergency preparedness, business continuity, and COOP planning.
- Mark documents and maintain filing system(s), files, emails, and records in accordance with compliance requirements.
Requirements/Qualification for Senior Electrical Engineer:
- Bachelor’s degree in electrical engineering (from an ABET accredited school) required.
- 10 years of Electrical Engineering experience is required.
- Knowledge of engineering concepts, principals, and practices applicable to components and facilities found on regional transmission systems is required.
- 5+ years of experience in power and transmission utility work required.
- MS Office proficiency (Word, Excel, PowerPoint, and Outlook) required.
- Expert knowledge of stability modeling tools and processes such as thermal, voltage and transient stability tools, State Estimation, Remedial Action Schemes (RAS) as they apply to offline, real-time analysis, and disturbance analysis required.
- Expert knowledge of stability modeling tools and processes such as thermal, voltage and transient stability tools as they apply to offline and real time analysis required.
**We are unable to accommodate corp. to corp. candidates**
About Motus Recruiting and Staffing, Inc:
Founded in 2006, Motus is an award-winning recruiting and staffing firm in the Pacific Northwest, specializing in professional services and technology solutions. We are a group of people who not only recognize the importance of representation, but actively fight for diversity, equity, and inclusion in the recruitment process. Our goal is to educate organizations on the importance of DEI when hiring, promoting, and supporting diverse employees. We are calling organizations to demonstrate their commitment to DEI by being intentional about who they hire.
All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, citizenship, disability or protected veteran status.
AG/BH13162
Job ID: 13162