Engineer II/III Engineering Technical Spec II/III (Electric Transmission) - SHPE National Convention - Dominion Energy Services Inc.

Engineer II/III Engineering Technical Spec II/III (Electric Transmission) - SHPE National Convention

Date: Oct 2, 2024

Location: GLEN ALLEN, VA, US, 23060RICHMOND, VA, US, 23227

Company: Dominion Energy

Dominion Energy is committed to providing reliable, affordable, and increasingly clean energy that powers our customers every day. If you want to work for a purpose-driven company that values safety and collaboration, we’re looking for you. You won’t just find a job here; you’ll find your career. Review the position below and apply today.

Military service members and veterans with ranks from E5-E9, W1-CW5, or O3-O6, plus appropriate equivalent combination of education and years of experience as outlined below will be considered for this opportunity.

Job Summary

At Dominion Energy we love our jobs. That’s right. Love. Every day we go to work filled with passion to be excellent, to creatively problem solve and to innovate. These are exciting days for energy companies, and Dominion Energy aims to shape the future of energy in America. We are looking at all of our work with fresh eyes, retooling everything we do, in every part of the company, to operate more sustainably and to deliver energy more reliably than ever. We are looking for interesting, independent thinkers and doers who can help shape the culture of a forward-looking company that’s proud of its rich legacy. Are you a change agent? Do you think differently? Do you want to fall in love with your job? If you answered “yes,” then read on!

Many of our positions advertised offer a hybrid 3-2 work schedule (three days in the office, two days of teleworking) to accommodate the need for flexibility.

Military service members and veterans with ranks from E3-E5, W1-W2, or O1-O3, plus appropriate equivalent combination of education and years of experience as outlined below will be considered for this opportunity.

Dominion Energy will sponsor a work visa or employment authorization for this position.

Job Summary

This job posting is a part of the SHPE (Society of Hispanic Professional Engineers) National Convention. Interviews will be conducted in-person at the conference in Anaheim, CA starting October 31st – November 2nd.

The Difference You Will Make:

Dominion Energy Virginia’s Electric Transmission (ET) departments are seeking motivated, engaged engineers to fill several vacancies within the organization. Electric Transmission is the organization responsible for the long-term planning, engineering, construction, and operations of the high voltage electric grid system operated from 69kV to 500kV. The grid is accountable for transmitting electricity from state of the art solar and wind facilities, integrating those technologies into the energy portfolio, and delivering the power to our many 2.7 million customers including the world's largest cluster of internet data centers. This is an exciting time to join our team as we are involved in industry-leading projects and initiatives such as interconnecting 5000 MW of solar generation in the next 5 years, the first utility-owned offshore wind project in United States federal waters off the Atlantic coast, virtual digital protection conversions, and the largest data center load growth in the world all as part of our plan to achieve net zero carbon emission goal by 2050.

Electric Transmission is hiring, with the departments participating in the shadowing experience to include, but not limited to the following groups:

Job Summary Cont.

Transmission Engineer Positions:

Engineering Analytics & Modeling : Bridge the gap between real-world system data and provide consumable business intelligence to help steer the future of how DEV monitors and manages the grid. This team focuses on addressing a broad spectrum of transformational and innovative projects with a focus on solving problems through real measurements, data analytics, forecasting, and statistical modeling capabilities. A successful candidate will be able to: 

• Identify viable forecasting opportunities based on need, data availability, and time constraints posed by the length of the internship 
• Navigate and interrogate an array of available data sources to create transparent, explainable, and presentable models to the organization that can help further our views of future growth around load, solar, wind, and otherwise 
• Explore short and long-term electric load forecasts using verifiable econometrics, time-series analysis, statistical analysis, and other known methodologies. 
• Analyze and compare forecast performance with actual results, explains variances and suggests changes for future forecasting exercises.

 

Strategic Studies Engineering: Perform stability, sensitivity analysis and power flow studies to ensure reliable operation of generation plants and to evaluate future load growth, future generation retirements, and future integration of renewable energy resources.

ET Planning & Strategic Initiatives (PJM): Responsible for power flow simulations and developing solutions related to new generation being added to our system. This involves working within the PJM queue process and performing all necessary power flow and dynamic analysis to reliably inject this new generation onto our system. This team works closely with the CVOW project and DER projects as our generation portfolio changes to meet the net zero goals and to ensure during this change our system has the infrastructure to reliably serve our customers.

Operations Planning Engineering: Responsible for running transmission reliability studies within a 10-day window, performing N-1 contingency analysis, working on near and long-term outage coordination, and supporting real-time operations. This team also performs long-term planning studies up to 6 months ahead. 

SOC Services/Operations Support: Responsible for supporting operations with various tasks including providing initial and continuing training to System Operators, maintenance of the map board training simulator, ensuring NERC compliance, procedure development, and development of the System Restoration Plan in the event of an eastern interconnect blackout. 

Operational Engineering Support & Reliability: Ensure asset management activities for Transmission & Substation Equipment meet requirements for maximization of reliability. This team also provides operational technical support during planned and emergent activities for the Electric Transmission. 

System Protection Field Operations: Perform maintenance, installation, and corrective action activities on system protection devices, control circuits, metering, and communication equipment within Dominion's Transmission, Distribution, and Generation substations. The majority of work assignments are outside the office.

Job Summary Cont.

System Protection Automation & Analysis (SPAA): Ensures electric grid reliability by analyzing system events 24/7 using a combination of technical skills including data processing, software development, and engineering principles. Our strategically deployed monitoring equipment and in-house diagnostic tools enable teams across Dominion Energy to expedite restoration of service, direct fact-finding investigations, and facilitate NERC compliance activities. 

System Protection  – Responsible for the design, modeling, and development of protective relay applications.   

• System Protection Engineering: Responsible for the design, modeling, and development of protective relay applications for the grid and substations. If a problem occurs on a transmission line our engineers design protective elements to automatically sectionalize this line and only this line in less than 50 milli-seconds. 
• Substation Protection & Control Design : Develop protection and control design engineering packages for ET and Electric Distribution Substations. Create and modify protection and control design documents and drawings for substation projects including relay functional drawings, logic diagrams, elementary diagrams, wiring diagrams, communications diagrams, relay panel arrangement drawings, and bill of material. 
• Substation Data Communications: Provide support to Substation upgrade projects, operational support to in service substation data communication equipment, and evaluation of emerging substation data communications technologies and equipment including Data Concentrators, I/O processors, and protocol converters. Provides SCADA programming. 

Conceptual Design (Substation Protection & Control, and Physical Design):   Develop project scope of work, conceptual protection and control design and estimates for ET and Electric Distribution Substations. Create and modify protection and control design documents and drawings for substation projects including relay functional drawings, logic diagrams, elementary diagrams, wiring diagrams, communications diagrams, relay panel arrangement drawings. Develop project estimates and make necessary updates to estimating database to improve accuracy and consistency. Facilitate smooth transition of the conceptual design to detail engineering/implementation team and represent the company at the state and county commissions applications/hearings and community open houses. 

Substation Physical Design: Develop physical design engineering packages for Dominion’s ET and Electric Distribution Substations. Performs and/or reviews engineering calculations, analysis, research, to complete the physical design of electrical substations for new construction and upgrades. This includes preparing and reviewing substation drawings to be issued for construction, typically including: one-line diagrams, substation general arrangements, elevations and details, conduit and foundation plans, cable schedules, ground grid plans, and bill of materials. 

ET Quality Assurance : Responsible for evaluating the design and physical installation of substation and transmission line related equipment installed on the Bulk Electric System (BES). This team reviews design documentation and field inspector provided evidence to ensure accurate and proper ratings of equipment in appropriate databases and documentation. This directly translates to the safety, reliability, and accurate reporting of what our Bulk Electric System (BES) is capable of.

Job Summary Cont.

Field Operations – Responsible for protecting the flow of power and the equipment that drives it.

• Field Engineering: This is a hands-on role located in the field.

o System Protection Field Operations: Perform maintenance, installation, and corrective action activities on system protection devices, control circuits, metering, and communication equipment within Dominion's Transmission, Distribution, and Generation substations. The majority of work assignments are outside the office.

o Electrical Equipment Field Operations: Commissions new equipment during construction, maintains existing equipment, and supports operational issues.

Required Knowledge, Skills, Abilities & Experience

The knowledge, skills, abilities and experience required for entry into this job include the following:

Engineer II: 3+ years of relevant engineering experience or demonstrated equivalent.

(Note: A partial year of related work experience of 6 months or greater will be considered one year towards the qualifications; A an advanced degree can count as one year experience)

Engineer III: 5+ years of significant directly related experience (or 5+ years of research engineering work experience on directly related projects for the electric utility industry. Work on such projects may be accomplished as part of an Engineering PhD program [ completed and graduating by May 31, 2025 ] on its own or in combination with additional research engineering work experience on directly related projects for the electric utility industry)

Engineering Technical Specialist II: 3+ years of relevant engineering experience.

Engineering Technical Specialist III: 5+ years of significant directly related experience.

• Full knowledge of electric T&D engineering theories, standards and principles with focus on electric distribution and substation
• Skilled in use of advanced techniques and modification and extension of theories, precepts and practices of the field and related sciences and disciplines
• Strong leadership skills with proven ability to serve as team project lead Proven decision-making skills.
• Ability to process information quickly and effectively manage multiple tasks Strong planning, organizational and project management skills.

REQUIRED ENGINEERING CRITERIA:

For placement of a candidate in the Engineer job series, the following criteria must be met:

• Possess a 4-year Engineering degree from an ABET accredited Engineering program based on the year that the Engineering program was accredited by ABET, or
• Possess a 4-year Engineering degree from an institution outside of the U.S. which is accredited through the country's own Engineering accrediting body under the Washington Accord as a full signatory, and is a degree that was recognized by the country's accrediting body on or after the date that full signatory status was achieved, or
• Possess a 4-year degree in Engineering (non-ABET accredited), Physics, Chemistry, Math or Engineering Technologyand a post-graduate Engineering degree from an institution where the undergraduate degree in the same Engineering discipline is ABET-accredited based on the year the Engineering program was accredited by ABET, or
• Holds or has previously held a valid U.S. Professional Engineer license.

For placement of a candidate in the Engineering Technical Specialist job series, the following criteria must be met:

• 4-year Engineering Technology degree or 4-year degree in Engineering (not ABET-accredited); or
• 4-year degree in Physics, Math, Chemistry, Biology, Computer Engineering or other technical related discipline; or
• 4-year non-technical degree and post-graduate degree in Engineering Technology or Engineering (not ABET-accredited); or
• Equivalent combination of education and relevant experience may be accepted in lieu of preferred degree

Education Requirements

Required degree (equivalency not accepted in lieu of required degree):

Required Education: Bachelor of Science in Engineering

Preferred: Master's of Science in Engineering, Doctor of Science in Engineering

Required discipline(s): Electrical or Computer Engineering preferred. Mechanical Engineering considered pending experience.

Note: Upcoming engineering graduates with a projected graduation date of no later than May, 2025, who also meet the engineering criteria will be considered.

Licenses, Certifications, or Quals Description

For SOC Services/Operations Support Positions: Candidates must be able to obtain both PJM Transmission Operator and NERC Reliability Coordinator Certifications after beginning employment.

Working Conditions

Cold Up to 25%

Energized Wires Up to 25%

Heat Up to 25%

Loud Noise Up to 25%

Office Work Environment 76 -100%

Operating Machinery Up to 25%

Outdoors Up to 25%

Radiation Up to 25%

Travel Up to 25%

Other Working Conditions

Test Description

No Testing Required

Export Control

Certain positions at Dominion Energy may involve access to information and technology subject to export controls under U.S. law. Compliance with these export controls may result in Dominion Energy limiting its consideration of certain applicants.

Other Information

We offer excellent plans and programs for employees. Employees are rewarded with a competitive salary and comprehensive benefits package which may include: health benefits with coverage for families and domestic partners, vacation, retirement plans, paid holidays, tuition reimbursement, and much more. To learn more about our benefits, click here

Dominion Energy is an equal opportunity employer and is committed to a diverse workforce. Qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to their protected veteran or disabled status.

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