Power Systems Engineering Associate II (Hybrid)

LCRA; Austin (TX); Hybrid; USD 80,900 - 98,800; Full time

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Medical insurance

Dental insurance

Vision insurance

401(k) match

Paid time off

Job summary

A leading utilities company is seeking a Power Systems Engineering Associate II (Hybrid) in Austin, Texas. This role involves providing software support for real-time control environments, managing system configurations, and ensuring compliance with industry standards. Candidates should have a Bachelor’s degree in engineering, knowledge of EMS/SCADA applications, and SQL proficiency. Competitive salary and benefits offered.

Qualifications

• Bachelors degree in engineering or related field plus one year of engineering experience.
• Driver's license required.
• Knowledge of substation field devices.

Responsibilities

• Submit model changes to ERCOT and update EMS.
• Run state estimator and contingency analysis.
• Provide technical support on EMS/SCADA application features.

Skills

Knowledge of EMS/SCADA applications

Experience in State Estimation

SQL query writing

Programming in Java, C, C++, Python

Education

Bachelor's degree in engineering or related field

Tools

SQL

UNIX shell scripting

Job description

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Base pay range

$80,900.00/yr - $98,800.00/yr

We are seeking a Power System Engineer who provides software support for LCRA TSC’s real-time controls environments including the Energy Management Systems (EMS) and Substation Wide Area Network (SUBWAN), associated ancillary systems and servers in areas such as design, development, user administration, configuration, deployment, installation, tuning, monitoring, maintenance and updating the systems. You will participate in handling incidents, problems and anomalies including recognition, analysis and resolution. Our team works in a NERC, FERC and ERCOT Reliability standards environment including Critical Infrastructure Protection Standards. All our processes used in this team are very well detailed, maintained and referred to during training and on job responsibilities.

Competitive pay range: $80,900 - $98,800 per year.

This pay range represents a general target and is not reflective of the full pay range. Offers to selected candidates are contingent upon various factors such as skills, experience and education.

You will be trusted to:

- Submit model changes to ERCOT in a timely manner and update our EMS with the same model by studying Initial One line, focusing on outages and the execution of these multi million dollar capital projects.

- Capable to run state estimator, studies and contingency analysis on various outages, and take an informative decision to avoid violations on the electrical grid.

- Provide technical expertise and support on EMS/SCADA application features and functionality. We work very closely with Software, SCADA, Operation Engineers, Operator Instructors to tackle and resolve operational issues. We do have to work with different vendors for upgrades and routine maintenance.

- Manage PMU configuration and maintenance.

- Configure and set up limits, ratings, and calculated points in EMS consistent with Transmission Engineering and Transmission Operations and EMS Technical Support's methodologies.

- Provide data from EMS database by writing basic SQL queries. Develop custom scripts to help with administration and maintenance of EMS applications and servers.

You qualify with:

- Bachelors degree in engineering, engineering technology, engineering physics, biosystems engineering, mathematical science, physical science or related science plus one or more years of post-Bachelors engineering experience relating to the area of engineering specialization required to perform the job.

- Driver's license

You are a great fit with:

- Knowledge of EMS/Supervisory Control and Data Acquisition (SCADA) applications or prior work experience in a critical or controls environment. Experience working in State Estimation, Contingency Analysis, and Power Flow Studies.

- A degree in Electrical Engineering focusing on Power Systems.

- Experience updating databases and writing SQL queries to extract data

- Knowledge of substation field devices (RTUs), electrical equipment at substations (e.g. breakers, bus, switch, line, etc.), standard software application development methods and relational databases, Web services and Service Oriented Architectures, UNIX shell scripting, shell and/or Windows-based programming.

- Skill in debugging programs, interpreting users’ needs and developing solutions to solve users’ problems, programming using Java, C, C++, Python and PL/SQL programming

- Hands-on knowledge of firewalls, switches and routers

- Fundamental understanding of TCP/IP and associated routing and switching protocols

- Competitive salary & medical, dental, vision and legal insurance

- Paid time off, including time for vacation, sick and family care leave

- 401(k) match up to 8% that includes a student loan 401(k) contribution program option

- Life and disability insurance

- Wellness program including wellness incentive

And more - all to create a compelling and rewarding work environment.

Equal Opportunity Employer

LCRA provides equal employment opportunities and a work environment free of discrimination and harassment. All employment decisions at LCRA are based on business need, job requirement and individual qualifications, without regard to race, color, religion, gender identity, national origin, age, disability, sexual orientation, genetic information, or veteran status in accordance with applicable federal and state legal requirements governing nondiscrimination in employment.

LCRA is committed to working with and providing reasonable accommodations to job applicants with physical or mental disabilities. Applicants with a disability who require a reasonable accommodation for any part of the application or hiring process can contact LCRA Human Resources [phone] or email [e-mail]. Reasonable accommodations will be determined on a case-by-case basis.

Seniority level

• Seniority level

  Not Applicable

Employment type

• Employment type

  Full-time

Job function

• Industries

  Utilities

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