Power Systems Engineer - LS Power Development, LLC

About us:

Founded in 1990, LS Power is a premier development, investment, and operating company focused on the North American power and energy infrastructure sector, with leading platforms across generation, transmission and energy transition solutions. Since inception, LS Power has developed or acquired over 47,000 MW of power generation, including utility-scale solar, wind, hydro, battery energy storage, and natural gas-fired facilities. Through LS Power Grid, the Firm has built and operates approximately 780 miles of high-voltage transmission and has another 350+ miles and multiple grid infrastructure projects currently under construction or development. Across its efforts, LS Power actively invests in and scales businesses that are accelerating the energy transition, including electric vehicle charging, demand response, microgrids, renewable fuels and waste-to-energy platforms. Over the years, LS Power has raised $54 billion in debt and equity capital to support North American infrastructure.

Our Purpose, Mission, & Values:

Our Purpose is to solve complex energy problems that improve the world

Our Mission is to make lives better by developing a cleaner and more reliable energy ecosystem

Our Values are the willingness to participate in and help strengthen our culture of integrity, Innovation, Teamwork, and Taking Ownership

Our People create value and are our Most Valuable asset.  We take our values of Integrity, Innovation, Teamwork and Taking Ownership seriously and ask candidates to think about how they can help us further enhance our culture with their specific skillsets, capabilities and experiences.

Benefits

We provide our team the opportunity to share their unique perspectives, solve new challenges, and continue in their career growth. We are committed to supporting employees’ happiness, healthiness, and overall well-being by providing comprehensive benefits that include 100% employer paid premium healthcare, paid parental leave and more.

About our Role

We currently have an opportunity for a Systems Engineer to support the regulated electric transmission business of LS Power. This position will be part of the Systems Engineering group and will be reporting to the VP of Operations and Maintenance.  You will primarily support engineering reviews of compliance evidence and collaborate with technical team members to gather, organize and assess technical datasets.  Work will also include collaborating on design standards development, project design reviews and support for field operations personnel during station commissioning, testing and maintenance activities.   Work performed must comply with both LSP corporate and regional affiliate cybersecurity policies and procedures. This position will operate in a cross-functional capacity working closely with system protection, operations engineering, SCADA engineering, field operations, EMS and project development groups. 

What you will do:

• Develop and maintain maintenance and configuration procedures, schedules and related evidentiary documentation
• Store and maintain appropriate documentation to ensure compliance with regulatory compliance standards
• Assist with all regulatory reporting and support audits by NERC and regional entities as required
• Develop compliance tasks and methods to mitigate risks identified by Compliance department
• Develop/update/manage drawing management process and project drawings
• Review protection and SCADA system design and drawings, using CAD, Visio, Bluebeam, and other tools
• Coordinate and support evidence collection and technical reviews of engineering submittals, test records, SCADA configurations and other technical data sets
• Consults frequently with technicians, operators, and engineers to manage operational and technical requirements for NERC compliance program
• Support protection engineering and field operations for performing reviews of system event records including sequence of events (SER) and digital fault recordings (DFR)
• Assist with remote and occasionally local commissioning and service work on all SCADA-related systems including equipment monitoring devices, fault recorders, weather stations and network equipment
• Support onsite relaying and SCADA system commissioning for factory and site acceptance testing as required
• Provide project support for protection engineering and SCADA designs including specification and proposal reviews, vendor selections and drawing reviews
• Assist technical staff with developing and maintaining RSAWs as required by the NERC compliance program

We want you on our team because you…

• Have a Bachelors/Masters engineering degree
• Have three plus years of electric utility engineering experience
• Have experience with system protection standards such as IEC 61850
• Are self-motivated, disciplined and possess effective skills necessary for job
• Possess good communication skills
• Are a critical thinker with strong knowledge of modern software applications

Ideally you also have...

• Testing and commissioning experience for relaying and SCADA systems
• Experience supporting NERC compliance in the electric utility business
• Understanding of electric utility business principles, compliance programs

This position is available in either Austin TX or St. Louis MO.   LS Power offers highly competitive compensation and benefits packages and is committed to the career development of its employees.