Power Systems Operations Engineer I

Lower Colorado River Authority; Austin, Northern (TX, KY); Hybrid; USD 70,000 - 90,000; Full time

Job summary

Lower Colorado River Authority seeks an Operations Engineering Associate to support outage coordination, power flow analyses, and dashboard development for grid reliability in Texas.

The role involves learning transmission operations under senior engineers, building tools, and assisting with resilience studies for extreme weather. A Bachelor’s degree in engineering and a driver’s license are required.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in an engineering-related field.
• Driver's license is required.
• Coursework or experience in power systems is a plus.

Responsibilities

• Conduct power system analysis to support outage evaluations for projects and maintenance.
• Support development and validation of power flow cases for studies (load scaling, weather models, voltage set points).
• Review outage metrics and build dashboards for real-time ops performance.
• Assist with outage scheduler administration and basic troubleshooting.
• Contribute to resilience studies for storms and extreme weather planning.
• Improve study models and automate tasks; develop new grid operation tools.

Skills

Power systems

Python

SQL

Education

Bachelor's degree in engineering or related field

Driver's license

Tools

PSSE

PowerWorld

TARA

Job description

Lower Colorado River Authority seeks an Operations Engineering Associate to support outage coordination, power flow analyses, and dashboard development for grid reliability in Texas.

The role involves learning transmission operations under senior engineers, building tools, and assisting with resilience studies for extreme weather. A Bachelor’s degree in engineering and a driver’s license are required.