Senior Distribution Engineer: Grid Reliability & Planning

Tri-County Electric Cooperative, Inc.; Azle (TX); On-site; USD 110,000 - 140,000; Full time

Job summary

Tri-County Electric Cooperative, Inc. seeks a Senior Distribution Engineer to enhance the safety, reliability, and operability of its distribution network.

You will provide practical engineering guidance during normal, abnormal, and emergency conditions, and work with System Operations and other teams to ensure accurate, actionable recommendations. The role emphasizes building repeatable engineering standards, validating field inputs, and translating analyses into operating guidance for capital

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in Electrical Engineering preferred; other engineering disciplines considered with relevant distribution experience.
• Experience in electric distribution system modeling, analysis, and planning desired.
• PE license preferred; valid driver's license required.

Responsibilities

• Own and maintain distribution models; verify data accuracy and usability.
• Develop feeder backfeed options with operating constraints for outages.
• Support outages with options, risks, and recommended paths.
• Perform load flow, voltage, fault-current, and protection studies; set device settings.
• Identify overloaded assets using AMI, SCADA, GIS data; correct data issues.

Skills

Electrical engineering

Power systems modeling

Milsoft

Excel

GIS data

Education

Bachelor's in Electrical Engineering

Tools

Milsoft

Excel

GIS

Job description

Tri-County Electric Cooperative, Inc. seeks a Senior Distribution Engineer to enhance the safety, reliability, and operability of its distribution network.

You will provide practical engineering guidance during normal, abnormal, and emergency conditions, and work with System Operations and other teams to ensure accurate, actionable recommendations. The role emphasizes building repeatable engineering standards, validating field inputs, and translating analyses into operating guidance for capital