Project Manager

Coalesce Management Consulting; Town of Florida (NY); On-site; USD 110,000 - 170,000; Full time

Job summary

Coalesce Management Consulting seeks a Transmission Planning Engineer to perform planning studies assessing reliability, performance, and future grid needs. You will conduct power flow, stability, contingency, short-circuit, and transfer capability analyses to guide expansion plans for load growth, renewables, and system reliability.

You will collaborate with multiple engineering teams and prepare reports for leadership and regulators, ensuring compliance with NERC, FERC, and regional

Qualifications

• Experience with power-flow and transient stability analyses.
• Familiarity with NERC standards such as MOD, TPL, CIP, FAC, PRC.
• Understanding of FERC Open Access Transmission Tariff.

Responsibilities

• Perform transmission system planning studies to evaluate reliability and future needs of the electric grid.
• Develop transmission expansion plans to support load growth, renewable integration, and system reliability.
• Evaluate new transmission lines, substations, transformers, and reactive power devices.
• Prepare technical reports and planning recommendations for utility leadership and regulatory agencies.
• Ensure studies comply with NERC, FERC, regional reliability organizations (ERCOT, PJM, MISO, CAISO, SPP, ISO-NE, NYISO).
• Collaborate with System Operations, Protection & Controls, Substation Engineering, Distribution Planning, and Generation Planning teams.

Skills

Power flow analysis

Transient stability analysis

NERC standards

FERC OATT familiarity

WECC familiarity

Tools

GE PSLF

PowerWorld

PSSE

TARA

Job description

Perform transmission system planning studies to evaluate the reliability, performance, and

future needs of the electric grid.

Conduct power flow, contingency, stability, short circuit, and transfer capability studies.

Analyze system performance under normal and contingency operating conditions.

Develop transmission expansion plans to support load growth, renewable integration, and

system reliability.

Evaluate new transmission lines, substations, transformers, and reactive power devices.

Perform generator interconnection and load interconnection studies in accordance with

ISO/RTO and utility requirements.

Assess system impacts related to renewable energy projects, battery energy storage

systems (BESS), and large industrial loads.

Collaborate with System Operations, Protection & Controls, Substation Engineering,

Distribution Planning, and Generation Planning teams.

Prepare technical reports and planning recommendations for utility leadership and

regulatory agencies.

Ensure planning studies comply with NERC, FERC, regional reliability organizations

(ERCOT, PJM, MISO, CAISO, SPP, ISO-NE, NYISO), and utility planning criteria.

Support long-range transmission planning, capital planning, and grid modernization

initiative

SKILLS, KNOWLEDGE, QUALIFICATIONS

• Knowledgeable in power flow and transient stability studies (GE PSLF, TARA,
• PowerWorld, PSSE)
• Experienced with NERC Standards including: MOD, TPL, CIP, FAC, PRC
• Familiarity with the FERC pro forma Open Access Transmission Tariff
• Familiarity with the southwestern and WECC transmission system