Job Title
Transmission Operations & Planning Technical Leader II
Location:
EI - UK Home Office
Job Summary And Description
Conducts research in complex, high impact technical or scientific fields.
Key Responsibilities And Requirements
* Works independently on technical activities without direct supervision.
* Regularly demonstrates responsibility for highly specialized technical objectives or problems where the relationships between cause and effect are difficult to establish and little or no precedence exists, and the use of creative and imaginative thinking is required.
* Maintains familiarity with the progress and problems in assigned technical areas.
Additional Requirements
* Has developed relationships with primary advisors to a research area.
* Provides assistance to the EPRI sales staff in Member Services and EPRI International.
* Effectively communicates strategies and results, expressing thoughts clearly and concisely both verbally and in writing, to subject matter experts, program members and advisors through guidelines, reports, meetings, webcasts, workshops and conferences.
* Regularly communicates and coordinates work activities across programs.
* May provide oversight of a project team to assure technical and financial milestones are met.
* Organizes the external and interdepartmental activities ensuring completion of the project/product on schedule and within budget.
* Supports the planning and execution of complex project work within the technical department to meet member/client objectives; prepares and presents research reports.
* Manages small or medium (less complex) projects including budgets and resources without direct people management responsibilities.
* Influences project teams in the engineering aspects of the technical work.
* Increased interactions and coordination of EPRI work with national and international technical networks (e.g, manufacturers, consultants, academia and research organizations)
* Begins to lead proposal efforts and new promotional work.
* Develops research or services opportunities of value to EPRI members that fit EPRI's mission and capabilities. This will include solving customer problems, producing insights and information vital to the members, and delivering information in a manner that members and customers can and will apply.
* Continues to provide guidance and mentorship to junior staff.
Education & Experience
* 8 to 12 years of professional experience
* Masters's Degree in a technical field or equivalent experience required
* PhD in a technical field or equivalent experience preferred
Ideal Candidate
* Experience in modeling of inverter based resources, HVDC, FACTS, loads, synchronous generator technologies
* Experience running transmission planning simulation tools such as PSSE, PowerFactory, PSCAD, EMTP
* Ability to develop research ideas on topics related to transmission planning
* Ability to execute project working with other technical staff, provide technical leadership
* Work closely with members on base research as well as application project
* Effectively communicate results and enable technology transfer of work
* Experience working with vendors of equipment is quite desirable
EPRI is committed to complying with the regulatory framework governing export control, consisting of international treaties, U.S. laws, regulations and trade sanctions, and where applicable, foreign laws governing export control. These include the International Traffic in Arms Regulations (ITAR), Part 810 nuclear export regulations, and the Export Administration Regulations (EAR). It is a critical requirement of this role that the successful candidate will have to work with export-controlled technology / information. As a result, prior to applying for this role, please ensure you satisfy yourself as to your ability to access such export-controlled technology / information without further authorization from government.