T&D Planning Engineer: Grid Reliability & Clean Energy

Orange and Rockland Utilities, Inc.; Village of Spring Valley (NY); On-site; USD 85,000 - 120,000; Full time

Job summary

Orange and Rockland Utilities, Inc. is seeking an Engineer to support Engineering Planning for the distribution and transmission systems, ensuring safe and reliable power delivery in the NY/NJ region.

The role emphasizes load forecasting, contingency analysis, and evaluating NWA options, developing substations and grid improvements, and coordinating with NYISO, PJM, and DER teams to meet clean energy goals.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in engineering and 3 years of engineering work experience.
• Strong analytical, technical, and interpersonal skills.
• Excellent oral and written communication; able to interact with customers and management.
• Ability to manage multiple assignments and deadlines.

Responsibilities

• Conduct annual load forecasting, contingency analysis, and NWA evaluations to identify system needs.
• Collaborate with the Utility of the Future team to support NY/NJ clean energy goals and long‑term corporate strategies, including the LRP, Climate Resiliency, NWAs, EV projects, and EAMs.
• Identify and justify capital projects for the ten‑year electric delivery system plan, supporting system reliability and clean energy goals.
• Develop conceptual designs and documentation for T&D system improvements, including white papers, cost/benefit analyses, and project justifications.
• Perform distribution system modeling and analysis, including voltage profiles, loss studies, contingency switching, and circuit reconfigurations.
• Provide operational support such as fuse coordination, motor start calculations, voltage regulation settings, transformer tap settings, and voltage issue investigations.
• Review interconnection studies, develop estimates, attend DER meetings, and support DER planning.
• Conduct steady‑state power flow, voltage stability, and transfer analyses to ensure compliance with planning criteria and NERC/FERC standards.
• Participate in transmission system planning studies and regional planning efforts with NYISO, PJM, NPCC, and RFC.
• Prepare engineering procedure guides, reports, and presentations to document technical analysis.

Skills

Analytical skills

Written communication

Interpersonal skills

Presentations

MS Office

Education

Bachelor's Degree in Engineering

Bachelor's Degree Electrical Engineering

Tools

Microsoft Office

Job description

Orange and Rockland Utilities, Inc. is seeking an Engineer to support Engineering Planning for the distribution and transmission systems, ensuring safe and reliable power delivery in the NY/NJ region.

The role emphasizes load forecasting, contingency analysis, and evaluating NWA options, developing substations and grid improvements, and coordinating with NYISO, PJM, and DER teams to meet clean energy goals.