Hydropower Ops Electrical Engineer – NY

Brookfield Renewable; New York (NY); On-site; USD 100,000 - 130,000; Full time

Job summary

Brookfield Renewable seeks an Operations Electrical Engineer to plan and direct engineering activities across hydro facilities in New York. Based in Watertown or Fulton, NY, you will lead initiatives updating electrical systems and improving performance up to 115kV.

The role emphasizes coordinating design, cost control, and permitting while ensuring NERC/NPCC compliance and safety practices. Expect collaboration with operations teams and external partners to maintain reliable, compliant power

Qualifications

• Bachelor of Science degree in Electrical Engineering or equivalent.
• Professional Engineer license not required but desirable.

Responsibilities

• Manage the design, cost, construction, and commissioning of capital improvement projects relating to electrical power generation and electrical distribution up to 115KV.
• Prepare tendering documents, reviews and comments on bid packages to ensure design adequacy, electrical code compliance and constructability.
• Assist operations and compliance staff to ensure NERC and NPCC regulatory compliance.
• Provide operations staff with electrical safety training and act as subject matter expert for lock out tag out, arc flash analysis and identifying electrical safe work practices required for compliance with OSHA standards.
• Provide engineering support to operational staff to improve reliability and performance. Support will involve troubleshooting of equipment and determination of failures.
• Manage internal and external engineering resources to develop documents needed for construction and permitting.
• Work with the interconnecting utility to determine root cause for system faults or disturbances.
• Provide field inspection of all work in place to ensure that work performed is in accordance with the contract drawings, specifications, regulatory requirements, and applicable codes.
• Recommends corrective courses of action to management as issues arise.
• Apply the Brookfield Health, Safety, Security and Environmental policies and procedures to all projects. Manage contracted work within the requirements.
• Provide cost control and monthly spending forecasts on assigned projects.
• Ensure engineering records are accurate, properly updated and stored for future reference.
• Review and analyzepreventative maintenance reports and test results to plan and prioritize budgeted work for implementation. Provide input in capital and operation expense budgeting.

Skills

Power generation equipment

Transformers

Generators

AC control systems

DC control systems

Relay protection

Power distribution

Electrical safety

Education

Bachelor of Science in Electrical Engineering

Professional Engineer license desirable

Tools

Microsoft Office Suite

Job description

Brookfield Renewable seeks an Operations Electrical Engineer to plan and direct engineering activities across hydro facilities in New York. Based in Watertown or Fulton, NY, you will lead initiatives updating electrical systems and improving performance up to 115kV.

The role emphasizes coordinating design, cost control, and permitting while ensuring NERC/NPCC compliance and safety practices. Expect collaboration with operations teams and external partners to maintain reliable, compliant power