Senior Planning Engineer: Grid Reliability & 18–24 Mo Strategy

Midcontinent Independent System Operator (MISO); Little Rock (AR); On-site; USD 127,000 - 152,000; Full time

Job summary

At MISO, a Senior Engineer - Intermediate Planning helps bridge long-term transmission planning with real-time operations. The role focuses on the 18-24 month horizon, developing transmission and reliability strategies to support large-load step-up services and readiness milestones.

You’ll collaborate across Planning, Markets, Operations, Resource Adequacy, Generator Interconnection, and Load Integration to translate complex studies into practical, coordinated solutions and improve data

Qualifications

• 6 years of related power system planning or operations experience.
• Experience with PSS/E power flow and TARA applications.
• Strong understanding of power system analysis and transmission reliability concepts.
• Ability to analyze complex scenarios, identify problems, evaluate data, and develop technically sound recommendations.

Responsibilities

• Perform Intermediate Planning studies across the 18-24-month horizon, including Firm Service Step-Up analyses and staged firm-service recommendations tied to system upgrades and readiness milestones.
• Conduct power system studies using tools such as PSS/E and TARA, including power flow modeling, contingency analysis, transfer analysis, transient and voltage stability, and other reliability assessments.
• Develop near-term strategies that maximize the capabilities of the existing transmission system while maintaining reliable grid performance.
• Coordinate study scope, assumptions, inputs, and results across Expansion Planning, Generator Interconnection, Load Integration, Markets, Forward Operations, Operations, and Resource Adequacy.
• Improve the flow of data and information between teams, creating greater transparency and supporting timely, well-informed decisions.

Skills

Power system analysis

Transmission reliability

Data analysis

Problem solving

Education

Electronics & Computer Engineering Technology

Electrical and Electronic Engineering

Electrical & Computer Engineering

Electrical Engineering Technology

Computer Engineering

Electrical Engineering

Tools

PSS/E

TARA

DSA tools

Job description

At MISO, a Senior Engineer - Intermediate Planning helps bridge long-term transmission planning with real-time operations. The role focuses on the 18-24 month horizon, developing transmission and reliability strategies to support large-load step-up services and readiness milestones.

You’ll collaborate across Planning, Markets, Operations, Resource Adequacy, Generator Interconnection, and Load Integration to translate complex studies into practical, coordinated solutions and improve data