Highlights
Our client is a membership-based 501(c) nonprofit corporation, and its members include consumers, electric cooperatives, generators, power marketers, retail electric providers, investor-owned electric utilities (transmission and distribution providers), and municipally owned electric utilities. Our client works with the Texas Reliability Entity (TRE), one of eight regional entities within the North American Electric Reliability Corporation (NERC) that coordinate to improve reliability of the bulk power grid.
Numbers & Facts
| Location | Taylor, TX |
| Industry | Computer/IT Services |
| Salary | $48.27–$57.93 |
| Company Size | 100 to 499 employees |
| Year Founded | 2009 |
| Website | http://www.tekwissen.com/ |
Description
Overview:
TekWissen is a global workforce management provider headquartered in Ann Arbor, Michigan that offers strategic talent solutions to our clients world-wide. Our client is an American organization that operates Texas's electrical grid, the Texas Interconnection, which supplies power to more than 25 million Texas customers and represents 90 percent of the state's electric load. Our client is the first independent system operator (ISO) in the United States and one of nine ISOs in North America. Our client works with the Texas Reliability Entity (TRE), one of eight regional entities within the North American Electric Reliability Corporation (NERC) that coordinate to improve reliability of the bulk power grid. Our client is a membership-based 501(c) nonprofit corporation, and its members include consumers, electric cooperatives, generators, power marketers, retail electric providers, investor-owned electric utilities (transmission and distribution providers), and municipally owned electric utilities.
Job Title: Power System Engineer
Location: Taylor, TX, 76574
Duration: 12 Months
Job Type: Temporary Assignment
Work Type: Hybrid
Job Description:
- Provides engineering analysis and technical support to ensure the reliable interconnection of new generators to the client system in compliance with NERC Standards, client Protocols, Planning Guide, and Market Guides.
Job Summary:
- Provides electrical engineering analysis and technical support for the interconnection of new generation resources and future planning of the electric power system.
- Implements appropriate system modeling, develops tools and procedures to perform system studies, analyzes simulated or actual operating results, develop solutions to current or future system issues, and appropriately reports findings and recommendations.
- Analyzes the results of simulated power system studies and may compare to actual operating data to ensure compliance with applicable standards.
- Performs powerflow studies as required to analyze the feasibility of proposed generation interconnections.
- Reviews interconnection applications to ensure compliance with client Planning Guides, Protocols, and technical requirements prior to approval.
- Identifies process improvements for interconnection study workflows, data management, and stakeholder communication.
- Communicates requirements and results to all internal and external stakeholders in the interconnection process.
- Tracks project milestones from study request through commercial operation, maintaining alignment with interconnection queue procedures.
Education:
- Bachelor's degree in Electrical Engineering or related field, or a combination of education and experience that provides the applicant with knowledge equivalent to a major in such fields.
Required Experience:
- For entry level - Less than one year experience (in excess of degree requirements stated above) of progressively responsible experience in electric utility industry.
- For level 2 2 years of progressively responsible experience in electric utility industry.
Nice to Have Work Experience:
- Some experience within the electric utility industry.
- Experience running power system load flow studies in PSSE.
- Experience running transfer analysis systems studies.
- Ability to clearly communicate requirements and other technical information.
- Ability to write technical reports of in-depth analysis completed.
- Experience with Python, VBA, or another programming language.
- Experience creating queries in Access, Oracle, or SQL.
- Experience using TARA
TekWissen Group is an equal opportunity employer supporting workforce diversity.
About Company
WE THE TEKWISSEN PEOPLE
TekWissen offers you a broader portfolio of services, industry-leading solutions, and the meaningful innovations that give you greater flexibility and speed to respond to market dynamics, reduced costs and risk to improve enterprise performance, and increased productivity to enable growth.
To keep pace with global market demands, TekWissen keeps its finger on the pulse of change. Our organized approach to guiding a project from its inception to closure. Managing projects is becoming more and more important as we enter the digital era. To cope with the pace that this transition demands, a method is required to manage projects so they can yield quality work, while incorporating efficient use of time and resources.
Project involves identifying which quality standards are relevant to the project and determining how to satisfy them.
It is important to perform quality planning during the Planning Process and should be done alongside the other project planning processes because changes in the quality will likely require changes in the other planning processes, or the desired product quality may require a detailed risk analysis of an identified problem. It is important to remember that quality should be planned, designed, then built in, not added on after the fact.
Capabilities and accomplishments in one TekWissen business enhance the opportunity for success in the others. Put simply, TekWissen's unique combination of attributes promotes success.