Job Title: Senior Engineer - Planning Innov & Development

Department: Innovation Planning & Development

Reports to: Manager of Planning Innovation & Development
Location: In Office, Rochester NY

The base salary range for this position is dependent upon experience and location, ranging from: $83,805 - $104,756

Job Summary

This role is responsible for supporting the development and implementation of the Company's initiatives with respect to grid modernization technologies and clean energy goals that enhance the electric system across the Avangrid Networks operating companies. Support the development and automation of Advanced Planning tools and applications. The ideal candidate will be skilled and motivated, have a technical background in power systems and distribution planning, excellent communication skills, and a passion for driving innovation. This position will coordinate with other departments during the tools development and automation.

Responsibilities

Collaborate with various teams within Avangrid and assist in research related to innovative tools and emerging technologies to assess the relevance and benefit to the Company’s grid modernization and clean energy objectives. Assist on the review and evaluation of new tools and solution alternatives through research and benchmarking. Proactively identify and perform projects & studies that innovatively solve unique & complex problems with a broad impact to the business. Works with other team members and developers to Develop new tools from concept to implementation that enhance existing processes or solves challenges for the Company. Assist in Identifying and implementing best practices and process improvements to enhance the efficiency and quality of the Planning process. Provide technical assistance and consulting to other departments as necessary. Work with vendors, contractors and consultants to develop and automate tools and applications Assists in software product design, providing feedback to developers, performing testing of new features, and providing support to end users. Responsible presenting to Upper Management and Executives when necessary.

Skills and Requirements

Education & Experience Required:

• BS in Electrical Engineering or equivalent

• 3+ years of relevant experience

Required Technical skills:

• Power systems engineering

• Knowledge of Distribution Planning

• Experience with Grid Modernization and Clean Energy concepts including: Beneficial Electrification, DER & Load Forecasting, Distribution Automation, Non-Wires Alternatives, Hosting Capacity, Volt-VAR Optimization

• Capacity planning during normal and contingency system configurations, DER distribution system interconnections, reliability and resiliency concepts

• Excellent verbal and written communication skills, with the ability to effectively communicate technical concepts to non-technical stakeholders.

• Strong analytical and problem-solving skills, with a focus on delivering high-quality solutions.

Desired Technical skills:

• Experience with distribution power flow software and grid model management

• Python Scripting

• SQL

• JIRA project management.

• Experience with Agile software development, Scrum methodology

Competencies

• Develop Self & Others

• Empower to grow

• Collaborate and Share

• Be a role model

• Focus to achieve results

• Be agile

Mobility Information

Please note that any applicant who is not a citizen of the country of the vacancy will be subject to compliance with the applicable immigration requirements to legally work in that country

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Avangrid employees may be assigned a system emergency role and in the event of a system emergency, may be required to work outside of their regular schedule/job duties. This is applicable to employees that will work in Connecticut, Maine, Massachusetts, and New York within AVANGRD Network and Corporate functions. This does not include those that will work for Avangrid Renewables

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