Sr. Electrical Engineer (Hybrid)
Our client, a leading Pacific Northwest utility provider committed to public service and environmental preservation, is looking for a Sr. Electrical Engineer for their Vancouver, Washington location. This position will provide expertise and high-level technical engineering assistance to the Energy Management Systems organization. This group provides life-cycle support for Energy Management Systems used in support of control centers. This includes engineering, design, operations, maintenance, and technical leadership for systems such as Supervisory Control and Data Acquisition (SCADA), Automatic Generation Control (AGC), on-line power flow and state estimation systems, and the dispatcher training environments which simulate the power grid. This position will provide support for the operations and maintenance of Dispatch Training Facility systems, including the training simulator and interconnected EMS clone systems. This position will perform EMS Habitat system database updates, provide customer coordination, modify and execute management approved vendor and custom software, maintain quality documentation, and provide recommendations and technical input to enable the organization to meet federal, regional and cyber security compliance requirements. The work of this position will also include applicable cyber security functions and supplemental project support.
This Hybrid position is a one-year renewable contract that includes employee benefits! If this opportunity is well-aligned with your experience and goals, we would love to hear from you!

Key Responsibilities for Sr. Electrical Engineer:

• Provide a high level of professional engineering expertise in the integration, customization, maintenance and operation of the Dispatch Training Simulator (DTS) software and interconnected systems used in Dispatch Training Facility (DTF).
• Review proposed changes and enhancements to the DTF systems, making critical analyses and evaluation of the capability of the systems and the costs required to implement changes and make recommendations to the manager or Team Lead on whether changes should be implemented.
• Create / draft event-based scenarios for testing and training.
• Collaborate with engineers and internal customers to provide technical expertise in discussions on existing or potential engineering projects and products.
• Perform troubleshooting and provide technical support to internal craft/customer personnel in regards to DTF systems and training simulators
• Attend project scoping and requirement meetings or design reviews, recommend changes to specification diagrams based on technical and operational issues.
• Facilitate knowledge transfer to staff on continued operations and maintenance of DTF systems.
• Operate the DTF systems in coordination with the operation of multiple other computer and database systems and in a manner that is compliant with regulatory standards.
• Follow Transmission Services established software control standards and procedures and maintain quality documentation.
• Study existing failures and electronic problem reports, including those of hardware interfaces, to determine the cause of the problems.
• As requested, work with hardware staff, dispatchers and other relevant parties to develop / draft and recommend solutions.
• Draft and make recommendations to the manager and assist in the implementation of management approved software solutions and procedures to recover from malfunctions in order to minimize downtime.
• Monitor and analyze computer/system performance; design and install management approved software changes; may recommend other process solutions, such as hardware changes, as necessary to improve performance.
• Draft DTF operational procedures for Dispatch Trainers and Trainees, as requested
• Provide technical, documentation and modeling assistance in the data modeling environments (currently Stepmodel, ETS, and PSST) as needed for DTF training sessions and testing.
• Provide technical and documentation assistance in the NEMO (New Ems Modeling Options) projects as requested by the manager or Project Manager. Some TDF required databases are expected to be created in ETS in future releases of the NEMO products.
• Provide technical assistance and training to internal DTF and Network Systems Operations Center (NSOC) Hardware and Software staff as requested.

Requirements/Qualifications for Sr. Electrical Engineer:

• Bachelor degree in Engineering, preferable Electrical Engineering is required
• 10 years of experience in power system engineering, design and project scoping is required
• Knowledge of Alstom e-terraHabitat (version 5.8) and e-terraPlatform (EMP) (version 2.5, 2.6) software sufficient to develop, test and integrate application software in those environments.
• Ability to use high level programming languages such as FORTRAN and C++, and script sufficiently to create, modify and maintain applications written in these languages.

**We are unable to accommodate corp. to corp. candidates**

About Motus Recruiting and Staffing, Inc:
Founded in 2006, Motus is an award-winning recruiting and staffing firm in the Pacific Northwest, specializing in professional services and technology solutions. We are a group of people who not only recognize the importance of representation, but actively fight for diversity, equity, and inclusion in the recruitment process. Our goal is to educate organizations on the importance of DEI when hiring, promoting, and supporting diverse employees. We are calling organizations to demonstrate their commitment to DEI by being intentional about who they hire.

All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, citizenship, disability or protected veteran status.

ED/BH 14165
Job ID: 14165

Pay: $104.00 per hour

Benefits:

• 401(k)
• Dental insurance
• Health insurance
• Paid time off
• Vision insurance

Work Location: In person