AMERICAN MUNICIPAL POWER, INC.
JOB DESCRIPTION
Position is located at the AMP Headquarters building in Columbus, Ohio, but remote candidates within the AMP membership footprint will be considered. Preference will be given to candidates who live in the Columbus area. This job is eligible for a hybrid work schedule (3 days in office and 2 days working from home).
Position Title: Senior Director, Transmission Planning
Reports To: Senior Vice President, Transmission Planning and Development
FLSA Status: Exempt
The Senior Director, Transmission Planning provides oversight and strategic direction for Transmission Planning activities and will lead, coach, and develop a team of Transmission Planning Engineers that conduct detailed technical modeling and analysis of AMP’s transmissions system. The Sr. Director must have extensive experience with modeling and planning of the bulk electric power system and exhibit strong technical skills necessary to support the economic development activities and enact reliability and resiliency enhancements for AMP Members. The Sr. Director will lead studies in adherence to criteria from AMP Transmission, PJM Interconnection LLC (PJM), Midcontinent Independent System Operator, Inc. (MISO), ReliabilityFirst Corporation, and the North American Electric Reliability Corporation (NERC). The Sr. Director assures compliance with all relevant FERC and PJM tariffs, rules, and regulations.
Essential Functions:
1. Oversees staff to align Transmission Planning with AMP Transmission, LLC (AMPT) goals and objectives.
2. Directs and oversees the transmission planning and project development for AMPT projects. Works closely with the Sr. Director, Transmission Member Services in the scoping of AMPT Projects to support AMP’s Members
3. Directs and oversees Transmission Planning Staff.
4. Conducts and oversees power flow, short circuit, and dynamic simulations using commercially available computer software such as PSS/E, TARA, and ASPEN.
5. Develops and oversees solutions to mitigate reliability issues based on AMPT Transmission Planning Criteria as well as PJM, MISO, and adjacent Transmission Owners’ (TO) Planning Criteria.
6. Develops and maintains strong working business knowledge/acumen of applicable RTO planning rules/processes, as well as regional and local transmission systems.
7. Develops and oversees AMPT PJM Regional Transmission Expansion Plan (RTEP) and Multiregional Modeling Working Group (MMWG) activities by establishing, maintaining, and ensuring an accurate representation of AMPT’s transmission system for various electric system models. The models involved include power flow, dynamic, and short circuit.
8. Works closely with the Sr. Director, Transmission Member Services to identify, develop, and oversee AMPT transmission opportunities for the purchase of existing and/or planning for future transmission facilities. Assists with asset valuations, presenting opportunities to AMP Members, creating conceptual plans and coordinating purchase/planning activities with AMP Members, AMPT personnel, and consultants.
9. Oversees, develops, and maintains AMPT planning information including TO transmission project costs, maps, AMPT facility data, and AMP member transmission facilities.
10. Coordinates with AMPT Engineering and Operations and AMP Members to develop scope of work for engineering and construction. Participate in project field/site walkdowns, attend meetings/conference calls as needed. Build and maintain excellent relationships with AMP Members, RTO staff, stakeholder representatives, and individual TO representatives.
11. Demonstrates self-sufficiency and supports AMP Transmission team through accountability, consistency, and cooperation with all departments.
12. Ensures all work activities are performed in accordance with the policies, practices, standards, and rules of the company and complies with the regulations and procedures required by external agencies.
13. Oversees the work of consultants as required.
14. Performs other duties as assigned.
Knowledge, Skills, & Qualifications:
1. Minimum 15 years of experience in Electric Utility Engineering including Transmission Planning, Transmission Operations, Transmission Relay Engineering, and/or Substation engineering is required. Minimum of 5 years of management experience.
2. Must have a four-year ABET accredited Bachelor of Science degree in Electrical Engineering (BSEE) or other applicable engineering discipline.
3. Licenses & Certifications: Professional Engineer (PE) certification preferred.
4. Minimum 5 years of experience in RTO regional and local transmission planning processes. Knowledge of NERC and individual transmission owner planning criteria and guidelines.
5. Minimum ten years of experience with commercially available power system software such as PSSE, TARA, ASPEN, and CAPE.
6. Working knowledge of creating and/or maintaining transmission planning models. Must demonstrate a high degree of expertise in conducting power flow, short-circuit and dynamic studies.
7. Working knowledge of applicable North American Electric Reliability Corporation (NERC) Reliability Standards and Regional Reliability Organization (RRO) Reliability Standards.
8. Must possess excellent communication, presentation, diplomacy, active listening, and facilitation skills to effectively work in small or large group forums ranging from technical to non-technical audiences at all levels of the corporate hierarchy.
9. Must be willing to travel as needed.
10. Position is located at the AMP Headquarters building in Columbus, Ohio but remote candidates may be considered. Preference will be given to candidates who currently live in the Columbus area or are willing to relocate. This job is eligible for a hybrid work schedule (3 days in office and 2 days working from home).
11. Candidates who are located remotely from Columbus, Ohio, but within the AMP membership footprint, may be considered for this position. If the selected candidate is remote, they will be expected to travel to project sites based on project needs and to AMP Headquarters on a periodic basis.
Founded in 1971, American Municipal Power, Inc. (AMP) is the nonprofit wholesale power supplier and services provider serving 135 members, who include 134 member municipal electric systems in Ohio, Pennsylvania, Michigan, Kentucky, Virginia, West Virginia, Indiana and Maryland, as well as the Delaware Municipal Electric Corporation, a joint action agency with nine members headquartered in Smyrna, Delaware. Combined, AMP’s member utilities serve more than 650,000 customers.
AMP is headquartered in Columbus, Ohio, with more than 160 employees at headquarters and generating facilities. The organization is governed by a 21-member Board of Trustees consisting of 20 member communities and one representative of DEMEC.
AMP’s mission is to provide its members with the benefits of scale and expertise in providing and managing energy services. AMP offers a wide variety of services on a cooperative, nonprofit basis for the mutual benefit of all member communities. These include power supply, environmental, finance, technical, legislative, regulatory and legal services, and lineworker and safety training. AMP’s vision is to be public power’s leader in wholesale energy supply and value-added member services.
The organization develops, manages and supplies diverse, competitively priced, reliable wholesale energy to public power members. That diversified resource mix includes wholesale power purchases through AMP and on the open market, plus energy produced from a variety of baseload, intermediate and distributed generation assets using natural gas, advanced coal, hydro, wind, landfill gas, diesel and solar.