Associate Engineer

Job Summary

The position is a growth series (Grade Level 25 – 27) typically posted at the lowest level.  The title, grade level and incentive target assigned to the successful candidate will be determined based upon the skills and relevant experience of the candidate learned through the interview process. Provide engineering and/or operational support for PSE&G’s Outage Planning and Scheduling Group, part of Projects & Construction (P&C) in support of capital projects, i.e., major transmission expansions, transmission life cycle, 69kV, and Energy Strong. The successful candidate will be primarily responsible for developing, submitting and managing planned outages on the transmission and distribution levels for capital projects and may be assigned to work in one of PSE&G’s locations, i.e., Hadley Road, South Plainfield; Palisades Division – Secaucus; Metropolitan Division – Clifton; or Southern Division – Lawrenceville; Central Division - Somerset.

Job Responsibilities

Responsibilities include coordinating with multiple project teams and operating divisions to ensure successful execution of capital projects while maintaining reliability and limiting risk to the bulk electric system and distribution customers. Develop and maintain outage logs to track outages, submit local and transmission outages to meet submission requirements, coordinate with other outage planners, ESOC, and Divisions to avoid conflicting outages, and work with project teams to provide one line updates and other required information to ESOC and Divisions in a timely manner. Schedule and conduct meetings as needed to support project execution. Develop contingency plans to support outages as needed to meet the requirements of the operating divisions. Work with project teams to identify need for mobiles to support outages and work with mobile coordinator to schedule mobiles.

Job Specific Qualifications

Required:

• Bachelor of Science Degree in Engineering 
• 0 to 2 years of industry and engineering experience 
• Strong computer skills in Microsoft Office applications
• Must be willing to work OT as required and perform on-call/emergency support as needed
• Clear and concise wring and verbal communication skills 
• Must have effective problem-solving and decision-making skills; strong planning and organizing skills; must be adaptable, results-oriented and customer/client-focused
• Because the job requires driving to company locations and off-site assignments and events, must possess a valid U.S. driver’s license with a safe and satisfactory driver history 

Desired: 

• Advanced technical training
• Advanced technical or engineering degree / MBA
• Electrical utility experience
• Familiarity with substation equipment and operations. 
• Able to read/understand electrical one lines Experience with outage planning 
• Experience with contingency planning
• Working knowledge of protective relay schemes and applications
   

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